Using NfRemote
NfRemote is highly customizable and configurable and is able to display an abundance of meters, instrumentation, menus, and controls. This section is designed to provide an overview of the NfRemote window and describe the behavior of various control types, not to provide details on individual controls.
Resizing the NfRemote Window
NfRemote, like any window on the Windows operating system, can be resized to fill whatever portion of the screen you like by grabbing and dragging a corner with your mouse or touchpad. Note that all of the displays, controls, and labels are responsive and automatically resize as the window resizes.
Note: We use screenshots of the user interface throughout this manual to point out the location of various menus and controls.
Because of the responsive nature of NfRemote - that is, it adapts to fill the window in which it is running as you re-size it - the menus and buttons on your screen may differ slightly from the examples you see in this manual.
In addition, available options and capabilities may vary from one version of Omnia Enterprise 9s to another and will also change depending upon which features you choose to enable when setting up your configuration.
Navigation Types
NfRemote offers two ways to view and navigate displays and menus, Tree Navigation and Tabbed Navigation, which are selectable from the Menu button (1A) at the top of the display.
Tree Navigation
Tree Navigation is a graphical representation of a typical menu "path". It divides the screen into two sections:
Displays are located in the top section (1B).
Controls are located in the bottom section (1F).
The navigation bar (1D) in between shows your location within the menus and offers clickable buttons to take you directly back to a menu layer along with navigation arrows (1C) which function as "previous" and "next" buttons.
The resize handle (1E) allows you to make the top and bottom sections smaller or larger in relation to one another
Tree navigation provides a less cluttered look on-screen and is especially suitable for smaller displays. The tradeoff is that more navigation is required since not all available menus and controls are displayed at once.
Tabbed Navigation
Tabbed Navigation displays all available menus, sub-menus, and controls at all times. It divides the screen into three sections:
Displays are located in the top section (2B).
The top-level menu (2C), first sub-menu (2D), and second sub-menu (2E) are situated in the middle section.
Controls are located in the bottom section (2F).
Two resize handles (2G) allow you to adjust the relative size of the top, middle, and bottom sections.
Tree navigation generally makes navigation easier because all controls and menus are displayed at once. It is the style used in screenshots throughout this document. It can, however, be a bit visually overwhelming for some users and, depending upon how many display windows are employed, can result in menus and controls becoming unusably small, particularly on smaller displays.
Display Windows
The top section of the NfRemote screen can be customized to show up to eight individual display windows.
Adding more displays makes each existing window smaller, so depending upon the size of your monitor, having more than three or four active windows at a time may not be practical. However, six Display Presets (3A) are provided and each can be individually configured to display whatever combination of information suits your needs.
Note: The .ini file that holds the information for the display configuration is stored on the PC running NfRemote to allow each user to set up their own personalized displays. When running the app instead of the service, the file is stored on the server itself.
Clicking on the Display Settings button (3-C) will open the display menu in the bottom section for the selected Display Preset.
Clicking within any of the display windows will do the same and outline the active window in yellow. Clicking on one of the Display buttons (3-D) reveals the various options for each window. Options include:
Main Meters
Undo Meters - Show the activity of the multiband expanders and de-clipper.
Processing Meters - Show the activity of the various processing stages.
Loudness Meter
Loudness Meters - Shows the LKFS/LUFS loudness of all available inputs and outputs.
Loudness Graph - Shows a graph of LKFS/LUFS loudness for the selected patch point over time.
Instrumentation
Oscilloscope - Provides a digital 'scope (oversampled if desired) for the selected patch point.
RTA - Shows the frequency spectrum of the selected patch point.
FFT - Shows a spectrum analysis of the selected patch point.
Off - Turns off the selected display.
Note: When any of the Station buttons are highlighted, the display windows will reflect the selected information for that particular station.
Navigating away from the Station buttons to other menus (such as Common > Monitor Output > Patchpoint or Client Audio > Patchpoint) will provide the opportunity to hear audio from different stations and patchpoints throughout the processor, but the displays will still show information from the last selected station.
This has the potential to create a situation where the displays do not correlate to the audio you are hearing. Be sure to look at the label on each display window (see Figure 4 below) to verify the source driving the meters and analysis tools!
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