Playback Controls

ONYX allows flexible playback and is adaptable for many styles of shows. With a variety of different hardware options available, you can bring different ONYX devices together to make your ideal control surface.

In addition to physical hardware, ONYX also features on-screen playback buttons that can be easily triggered with a mouse or touchscreen.

There are 3 different types of playbacks in ONYX - Main Playbacks, Sub Playbacks and Playback Buttons.

These is not to be confused with Cuelist Types - like Override, Chase, Submaster and Timecode!

Playback types are simply a way to keep the various playbacks you may find on your hardware separated and organized, and any cuelist type can be placed upon any playback type.

In general, Main Playbacks offer up to 2 buttons above the fader, the fader itself, and 2 buttons below the fader. Not all hardware will offer all of these buttons on it's Main Playbacks - for example - the NX Touch has 2 buttons above, but only 1 below on it's playback faders.

Sub Playbacks offer up to 1 button, and up to 1 fader. Take for example, the NX4, which features 12 Sub Playback faders on it's left side, with 12 play/bump buttons below and 24 playback buttons at the bottom. All of these are Sub Playbacks.

Playback Buttons are virtual, button based playbacks which you can have as one of your windows inside of ONYX.

All Buttons and Faders are configurable via the Cuelist Options - Function Assignments section.,