In display mode, the TouchMonitor shows the instruments and their layout defined in the currently loaded preset.
Touching the screen area of an instrument will put this instrument into focus. This is recognized by a colored frame instead of a grey one. The frame color conforms to the identifier set for the group the focused instrument belongs to.
The Control Bar positioned at the lower screen edge contains several keys. It is displayed permanently if the "Control Bar" option in the "General" section of the "System" menu is set to "permanent". Otherwise, it will be displayed temporarily after touching the screen.
The Control Bar has two sections. The left (upper) section shows the specific keys defined for the focused instrument. This makes it very fast to access a specific function of one of the instruments on screen – just touch the instrument and select the desired function.
The SPL Sum instrument is only available after the loudness mode "SPL" was selected for the audio group the instrument is in. It displays the summed SPL level of all channels used in that group and can be referenced to a monitoring level, e. g. 78 dB(A) when the studio monitoring system is calibrated. The parameters used for the SPL measurement are set using the "Loudness" key in the "Audio Group" menu.
For this instrument there are no function keys available.
The right (lower) section of the Control Bar always contains the following four keys: