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9 – Grouping—Grouping layers
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ing the SEL key to turn the channel into a slave chan-
nel brings up a warning message ( Re-assign fader
grouping? ), and pressing ENTER reassigns the group.
Any of the cursor keys may be used as “no” or
“escape” keys here.
If a channel has already been assigned to a group as a
master, pressing the
SEL key clears the whole group.
A popup message appears ( Clear this fader grouping? ),
and pressing ENTER clears the group. Any of the
cursor keys may be used as “no” or “escape” keys
here.
Fader groups to mute groups
At the right of the display, about halfway down the
screen, there is an on-screen
LINK button.
When this button is off, it is labeled FADER>MUTE .
Moving the cursor to this button and pressing
ENTER brings up a popup asking whether a link
should be made: Grouping link(Fader -> Mute) ( ENTER
for yes, cursor keys for no).
This transfers the fader groupings to the mute group-
ings (that is, the mute group settings become identi-
cal to the fader group settings). This is a “live link”—
when changes are made to the fader groups, they are
echoed in the fader groups and the other way round.
The button is now labeled FADER=MUTE and is shown
in inverse, showing that the link is active.
Pressing the LINK button in either the fader or the
mute group screens deactivates the link.
Turning groups on and off
When a fader group is highlighted on screen (the cur-
sor box surrounds it), either use the fourth soft key or the ENTER key to turn the group functionality on or
off. This does not clear the group settings.
Grouping layers
It is often useful to make groups of groups in order to
simplify mixing. This applies to both fader groups
and to mute groups.
For example, when using mute groups, you might
find it useful to group the vocal microphones of a
session into one mute group, the drum microphones
into another, and other percussion microphones into
yet another.
In order to cut out any microphone spillage, these
three microphone groups could be layered into a
“supergroup” which controls all the microphone
inputs.
It is also possible to layer the layers,
The right part of this detail showing a three-level lay-
ering setup is a tree diagram, showing that group 6 is
the “supermaster” group. In other words, pressing the
master
SEL key of this group controls the status of
groups 7 and 8 (for mute groups) or moving the mas-
ter fader of the group.
These “submaster” groups in turn control groups 1
and 2 (controlled by group 8) and 4 and 5 (controlled
by group 7).
To use these grouping layers:
1 Use the § and ¶ cursor keys or dial to navi-
gate the cursor to the master groups shown
as horizontal rows in the matrix at the lower
part of the screen.
Empty groups (with no master or slave) are
shown with an
x by the group number)
2 Use the SEL keys of modules 1 through 8 as
group selectors to assign slave groups.
NOTE
Note that here the SEL keys do not refer to channels—
they refer to the groups that have been set up in the
top part of the screen. They can be used in this way in
the two channel layers (1-16 and 17-32) but not in the
MASTER
layer.
Pressing the SEL key corresponding to any group
except the highlighted master group adds (check
mark) or removes (dot) the group to or from the layer
controlled by the master group. The master group has