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8.4 INDEPENDENT STATES
3Play stores the Control and Output Delegate states for Channel A and B
independently, along with other important parameters – including the current
CLIP LIST or PLAY LIST selection state, playhead position, and so on.
Consider an example:
• Channel A may be delegated to Clips, and playing a certain clip from the CLIP LIST
• Meanwhile, Channel B might display the same clip in slow motion, or something else
altogether – really any source, in any state of play.
When you newly select a Channel Delegate (A or B), the Replay Desktop display is refreshed to
show the current state for that channel if it is appropriate to do so. This brings us back to the
Link button. You may wonder what effect different controls will have in this special ‘tandem
mode’, and what will be displayed on the Replay Desktop when it’s in use.
8.4.1 LINK
Enabling LINK does not alter the current Channel Delegate. Rather, the LINK button toggles a
special ‘lock-step’ mode.
In broad terms, Link mode causes transport control operations (Play, Stop, etc.) to occur in
tandem. Other operations – such as changing clip selections – are not linked.
For example, when A is lit along with LINK on the Control Surface or Replay Desktop:

The Replay Desktop displays Channel A’s operational state.

Pressing Stop or Play affects playback for CLIP LIST or PLAY LIST sources on both
channels simultaneously.

Selecting a different clip (or CLIP LIST /PLAY LIST page) affects the delegated channel
only (in this example, A).
Figure 95