Chapter 4 Operation
- 4-3. Device Setup
- 4-3-21. BKS-R3240A/R3242A/R3248A
- Some setting items are described in
"4-3-1.
Setting Items Common to All Devices" and
"4-3-15.
Setting Items Common to Control Panels."
Use firmware version 1.03 or higher.

You can make settings on 16 buttons for the BKS-R3240A, and BKS-R3242A,
and on 64 buttons for the BKS-R3248A.
The other functions are the same for all devices.
The setting items are each classified under one of six pages, such as
"Panel."
- Panel page
- Mode:
- Select Stand Alone or Mother as the panel mode.
Daughter cannot be selected.
- Block:
- Select the Block No. for the Mother unit
(enabled only when Mother is specified for the device).
- Entry:
- Select the operation mode.
- Button per Source:
- Source and Destination are switched directly with the buttons.
- Type + Number:
- Source and Destination are specified with Type and Number,
and are switched with TAKE.
- Keypad:
- Description name is specified using the letters and figures
assigned to the buttons, and are switched with TAKE.
- Direct Select:
- The terminal number assigned to the buttons is specified
with the figures, and is switched with TAKE.
- Destination:
- Setting is enabled checking the check box on this item.
See "4-3-14.
Setting Items Common to Control Panels."
- Function page
- Scroll Mode:
- You may specifiy the depth of scrolling for the level display
for the control panel operation.
- Level Mode:
- Select the Level change mode when the TAKE button is pressed.
- Single:
- Single select mode.
- Multiple:
- Multiple select mode.
- Chop Rate:
- Set the Chop Rate selected from the Control Panel for Fast, Medium, and Slow.
The unit is "Frame."
- Display page
- Display Mode:
- Select whether the buttons on the control panel are to be lit to indicate
crosspoint status or whether the pressed buttons are to be lit.
- Status:
- To indicate crosspoint status.
- Prompt:
- To indicate the pressed button.
- Status, Preset:
- Display mode of the display windows on the control panel is selected.
- Type + Number
- Description
- 4 Char. DVS
- 4 Char. Description
- 4 Char. Router
- Direct
- Level
- Illumination Level:
- You may adjust the illumination level in eight steps.
- Protect page
- Protect Mode:
- Select whether the Protect setting is to be ignored or not,
and also whether the Protect setting is canceled or not.
- Normal:
- The Protect setting is NOT ignored, and NOT canceled.
- On Air:
- The Protect setting is ignored, and NOT canceled.
- Flexible:
- The Protect setting is NOT ignored, and canceled.
- Flex OA:
- The Protect setting is ignored, and canceled.
- Phantom Protect:
- Select the behavior of Phantom toward protected Destinations.
- Partial:
- Switching of only signals of Phantom that are not protected
is enabled.
- Full:
- Switching of all signals of Phantom is disabled
if some of them are protected.
- Button Link:
- If the protect button is set to ON,
switching of all signals of Phantom is disabled.
- Linkage page
- Serial Port:
- You may specify the protocol used for the REMOTE 2 connector
on the rear panel.
- Monitor Destination:
- Automatic Source selection corresponding to the Destination set in
"Destination:" on the Panel page is done linking
with the Destination specified here.
- Monitor Source Offset:
- You may specify the offset value of the source number to be switched
to the source number of Monitor Destination within a range of 0 to 1023.
If 0 is specified, the same Source is selected for the
"Monitor Destination:" and "Destination:."
- Tally page
- Tally Groups:
- You may specify the setting for linking with the switcher tally.
For linking with the BKDS-7700, only Group 1, 2, 3 and 4 are enabled.
- Tally Send:
- You may specify the group to which the tally signal is to be received
at the tally connector on the rear panel is to be output.
The BKS-R3240A/R3242A/R3248A has two terminal name setting boxes for each
buttons. The upper box is for Source, and the lower box is for Destination.

- S / T:
- Select either "Speed Entry"
or "Immediate Take."
- Enabled:
- Select whether the button setting operation is enabled or not
on the control panel.