9 – Grouping—Fader groups
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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 mute grouping?
),
and pressing
ENTER
clears the group. Any of the
cursor keys may be used as “no” or “escape” keys
here.
Turning groups on and off
When a group is highlighted on screen (the cursor
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.
Copying mute settings to the faders
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
MUTE>FADER
.
Moving the cursor to this button and pressing
ENTER
brings up a popup asking whether a link
should be made:
Grouping link(Mute -> Fader)
(
ENTER
for yes, cursor keys for no).
This transfers the mute groupings to the fader group-
ings (that is, the fader group settings become identi-
cal to the mute group settings). This is a “live link”—
when changes are made to the mute groups, they are
echoed in the fader groups and the other way round.
The button is now labeled
MUTE=FADER
and is shown
in inverse, showing that the link is active.
Pressing the
LINK
button in either the mute or the
fader group screens deactivates the link.
Fader groups
As the name suggests, fader groups allow the chan-
nels to be grouped together in such a way that mov-
ing the master fader of a group affects the fader level
of all the other (
slave
) faders in the group.
Slave faders may be moved independently of the
other faders in the group.
Groups are shown as horizontal rows in the matrix in
the upper part of the screen. The 32 channels are
shown as columns.
If a row (group) has no check marks or large “bullet”
dots in it, no channels have been assigned to that
group.
To assign a channel to a group, use the
§
and
¶
cur-
sor keys (or the dial) to move the cursor to the appro-
priate row.
If any channels have previously been assigned to the
group. the
SEL
key of the master channel flashes
when the group is selected, and the
SEL
keys of any
slave channels light.
NOTE
It may not always be possible to see the flashing
SEL
key indicating a group master when you select a group
on screen, as the master channel may be in an inactive
fader layer.
Press the unlit
SEL
key of any channel to assign the
channel to the group.
If the channel is the first one to be assigned to the
group, the symbol changes to a large bullet point,
showing that it is the master channel of the group and
the
SEL
indicator flashes.
If the channel is assigned to a group and it is not the
first channel in the group, it is shown with a check
mark to show that it is a slave channel, and the
SEL
indicator lights.
If a channel has already been assigned to a group as a
slave and that group is currently selected, pressing
the
SEL
key unassigns it from the group.
If a channel has already been assigned to a group as a
master and another group is currently selected, press-
