KLANG:app | menu – CONFIG > CHANNELS

Follow the steps below to get a quick overview on how easy it is to setup several mixes for your band in KLANG:app.

Go to CONFIG > CHANNELS. If you have not worked with your KLANG gear yet, the app will load the default Show File. In case you need to load a default or other Show File, you will find further info here.

In this screen you can directly tweak the following settings for CHANNELS

• Switch a channel ON or OFF
• Select an EQ preset for a channel and open the Root-Intensity EQ window
• Re-order channels and order channel to a different Group
• Stereo link two adjacent channels
• Map channels for external MIDI or OSC control (CONFIG > EXT CTRL)

… and tweak these settings for GROUPS

• Re-order groups
• Switch a group ON or OFF, i.e. apply the same status to all its members
• Create a new group at the end or delete the last group
• Edit the group details

Click on the first channel label (in case you work with a default Show File, this is Channel 1) of the first channel and a new window will guide you through the customisation process.

Channel Icon

In our example, channel 1 is the Kick Drum channel. Select the Kick Drum Icon as shown in the screenshot.

Quick Label & Smart Label

Use the QUICK LABEL “Kick” to automatically rename the channel. QUICK LABEL contains four pre-defined channel labels that are associated with the chosen icon. SMART LABEL contains four labels that KLANG:app has learnt from what you named channel with that chosen icon in the past.

Channel Color

Select a color of your choice.

Quick Labels include 4 pre-defined names per icon. Smart Labels are auto learning channel names for each icon according to your use. These are stored inside each KLANG:app separately.

Assign to Group

In the detailed Channels Setting view you can now assign a channel to one of the six groups. These are shown with their respective color and icon. The channel will be added to the end of the channel list for this particular group.

Quick Orbit

Every time you need to setup a show from scratch, there are many repetitive tasks that are time consuming. Quick Orbit positions help you to speed this up massively by suggesting 3D and stereo positions for different instrument types.

In the same way as the QUICK LABEL and SMART LABEL, the QUICK ORBIT follows the instrument icon. For example click on a guitar / amp icon and it shows you the most common and most practical positions. The icon show the azimuth with a bubble on the orbit and the elevation with a smaller bubble on a vertical line within the orbit. Stereo positions are marked with colored rectangles on a horizontal line. Stereo linked channels have two bubbles/rectangles.

Color Coding

• RED: for your own instruments (very important/strong focus)
• YELLOW: High priority
• PURPLE: Generic or stereo position without any specific priority
• BLUE: Background (not important, not in focus of the mix)

Click the link below to find out more about different zones of attention in the mix and where to place the instruments:

Root Intensity EQ

Especially when no dedicated monitor console is available, you want to equalise your input signals.

In the channels menu (in Admin mode), you can specify a filter (parametric equalizer with presets) for the input channels.

Choose an EQ preset from the drop down list or go to the channel details view:

Fine-tune with Root-Intensity-EQ

Go to the Channel Details and click on the Root-Intensity Icon

This lets you fine tune the EQ preset to your needs and see the frequency response. A purple circle lets you fine tune the tonal characteristics.

The ROOT parameter is 0 by default. When moved to the left, the EQ can be pitched down by 1 octave or pitched up by 1 octave when moved to the right.

The INTENSITY parameter is 100% by default. When you move it upwards, you can further increase the tonal characteristics of the preset. By slowly moving downward, you will reach 0%, resulting in a fairly flat frequency response. By decreasing the intensity further, the tonal characteristics of the preset are inverted up to -150%.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Description	Keyboard Shortcut (Windows)	Keyboard Shortcut (Mac)
Next Channel / Group	CTRL + →	CMD + →
Previous Channel / Group	CTRL + ←	CMD + ←
Close Channel / Group Details	ESC	ESC
Edit Channel / Group Name	SPACE BAR	SPACE BAR

Hide & Protect Channels

Imagine you have channels, e.g. a talkback that should be audible in the musicians mix, but the musicians should not be able to tweak it, or you simply want to clean up the fader list for them.

Go to CONFIG > CHANNELS > Click on a channel to open the Channel Details view. Click on the PROTECTED (eye) icon to hide a channel in Musician and Personal mode make the channel.

In the normal channel view, the icon will be replaced by a red eye, making it obvious that this channel is hidden/protected:

In FADERS view in Admin and Show mode it will still appear but also with a red eye icon:

But it will be hidden in Musician and Personal mode in KLANG:app and of course it will also be hidden in :kontroller.

This makes it easy to strip down the fader list for :konductor, DMI-KLANG and also :fabrik mixes with more than 24 mono/stereo faders to 24 faders to be easily accessible for :kontroller users.

After you finished personalizing all your channels and switched back to the overview window, you can organize your channels in groups. You can switch channels on and off in the channel menu and also in the overview window. Switched off channels won’t be shown in the orbit view. If you have two signals that are related, such as for example the overhead-signals (channel 8 & 9 in the picture below), you can click the link button (the two circles) and the channels will be merged in the app and move together in orbit view.

You can customize your groups in the same way you did with your channels in the previous step. Click on a group name to enter the detailed group view.

Assign Group Color to ALL Group Member Channels

In the detailed group view, you will see Assign Color to Members. This assigns the group color to all member channels.

If you want all users to have the same settings, press Paste THIS to ALL users and the changes you made are copied to every user on your KLANG device. This includes channel naming, order of appearance, position in the orbit (STAGE and height), fader positions, mute, solo. Only the MASTER VOLUME is excluded.

Copy this Mix Settings

Copies ALL settings:

• Channel names, icons, color
• Channel Stereo linking
• Channel Activation
• Channel Order
• Group association
• Group names, icons, color
• Channel fader settings
• Channel position settings (stereo, 3D, i3D, orbit and height)
• Channel Solo/Mute

Does not copy Master Volume.

Paste to this Mix

Switch to another user and paste all the just copied settings for this particular user and proceed.

Clone to ALL Mixes

You can copy ALL settings to ALL mixes with only one click. Optionally, Recall Safe settings are applied to copy only the settings you want.

Clone META to ALL Mixes

Unlike the prior methods, this button allows you to just copy:

• Channel names, icons, color
• Channel Activation
• Channel Stereo linking
• Group names, icons, color

The following settings are not altered:

• Channel Order
• Group assignments
• Channel fader settings
• Channel position settings (stereo, 3D, i3D, orbit and height)
• Channel Solo/Mute