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BLACK
BOX
PLAYER
- User Manual v 3.1
Controls and Interfaces
Front Panel
The front panel of the BlackBox Player contains the user controls for the
unit. The buttons are all touch sensitive which prevents them wearing out
through constant use – just place the flat of your finger on the button to
operate.
The left hand side of the unit contains the metering section. On 24 channel
systems, each channel or Track has 3 rows of metering LEDs located above
the Track Present LEDs. The meters are positioned above a two colour LED
that indicates, when green, whether the particular track for the song being
replayed (or preloaded and ready to replay) contains audio for playback. (In
the BlackBox Recorder application this LED turns Red to indicate record
ready.) on 64 channel systems, there are 64 two colour LEDs which indicate
the same information alongside the two vertical meters which indicate the
levels on the PFL bus. There are also indicators for Disk activity and Playback
Lockout (which is only relevant to the BlackBox Recorder application).
To the right of the JoeCo logo is the control wheel which has a number of
functions explained later.
Then we have the main Transport controls [PLAY, STOP, RECORD] with the
four other control buttons above [L-R: BACK, MARK, LOOP, MENU].
Finally, at the right hand side of the front panel is the colour LCD display.
Metering Area
Transport
Controls
Control buttons
Display
Data
Wheel