Do you know the difference between master pages and ranges?
On Cobalt we have 40 built-in master playbacks.
A master playback is the hardware.
In this setup you can see right here, we have masters 1 through 20 on the bottom row
and masters 21 through 40 on the top row.
Each one of these playbacks can play back independently,
so if I turn this preset on from the top and I turn this preset on from the bottom,
those two presets are playing simultaneously on stage.
Whether that looks good or not – that is up to you.
What a master page does – as you can see,
I have master page 99 loaded to the top row and master page 23 loaded to the bottom row
– is simply load 20 master playbacks with content, with stuff.
If I want to, I can load the same page to both sets of masters.
Now, you can see masters 1 through 20 have exactly the same content as masters 21 through 40.
It doesn't make much sense to have the same page loaded to more than one bank of masters,
but you can, and this is simply to illustrate that all it is is 20 faders worth of stuff
and it does not matter which 20 faders we are talking about.
The Cobalt system actually has 80 master fields.
That means that I have a virtual set of playbacks off to the side
that I can also load with information.
I can see what pages are loaded to which masters looking in my master view.
For example, Masters 1 through 20, Page 23.
If I zoom down and look a little bit I can also see the same pages loaded to Masters 21 through 40.
Masters 41 through 60 have page 3, and so on.
I can change these pages interchangeably,
but it is slightly harder to do without having the hardware.
It is not impossible; we use our master soft keys for it, but hardware makes it easier.
This hardware is Motor Faders.
This hardware is Endless Rotary Pots - they have no stop.
I call this "Soft Hardware" because they can match any value at any time.
Our Swap function – I am going to put a different page up at the top so you can see that –
lets us change the assignment of masters and master page from bottom to top.
Pay attention, because here is Master 20 and here is Master 40.
When I swap, now I have Master 40 at the bottom and Master 20 at the top
and the pages have also changed.
What that shows me is that these pieces of hardware can be Masters 1 through 20, or 21 through 40
If I want to get to Masters 41 through 80, I need to change my range setting.
A range setting is like using a very small electronic keyboard to gain access to an entire piano.
I have 80 masters; I can only look at 20 of them at a time.
My range setting allows me to pick which 20
– Masters 1 through 20, the low notes; Masters 61 through 80, the high notes.
Now I've changed. Now I see page four.
I see masters 61 through 80.
I can play these live at the same time,
change my range back to 1 through 20
and now I have access to those physical handles to make changes to my stage look if I want to.
Pages load content into any master.
Ranges reassign the hardware to any master.
That is the difference between the range and a page.