Chapter 5: Navigating and Selecting Channels
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Adding Blank Strips
Blank strips can be inserted manually, and are also created au-
tomatically when you use the Make Stereo command.
Manually Inserting Blank Strips
Config mode must be enabled to add or remove blanks strips.
To manually add a blank strip:
1
Enable Config mode.
2
Right-click an input channel strip at the location where you
want to insert a blank strip and choose Insert Blank Strip. For
example, if you want to have a blank strip at channel strip 16,
right-click on channel 16.
You can also select a blank strip and choose Insert Blank Strip
to insert multiple blank strips.
All channels to the right of the insertion point (including the
right-clicked channel) are shuffled one position to the right.
To insert multiple blank strips:
1
Enable Config mode.
2
Create a multi-selection of channels.
3
Right-click on one of the selected channels and choose
In-
sert Blank Strips at Selection
.
A blank strip is inserted in place of each selected channel strip,
shifting all channels accordingly and maintaining the
multi-selection.
Automatically Inserting Blank Strips using Make Stereo
VENUE automatically creates blank strips when you use the
Make Stereo command in order to preserve the current chan-
nel layout. Similarly, blank strips may be automatically re-
moved when you use the Split Stereo command to revert a ste-
reo strip to its two contributing mono channels.
Make Stereo
A blank strip is automatically inserted at the lo-
cation previously occupied by the right-side channel of the
newly-formed stereo pair. There is no shuffling of the remain-
ing input channels as a result of this operation.
Split Stereo
The behavior when splitting a stereo strip into
two mono strips is as follows:
• If a blank strip is located immediately adjacent to the
(previously) stereo channel, the right channel of the ste-
reo pair occupies this position and the blank strip is au-
tomatically removed. No other channels shuffle.
• If no blank strip is located immediately adjacent to the
(previously) stereo channel, all channels to the right of
the split point shuffle one position to the right and the
right channel of the stereo pair is inserted.
Removing Blank Strips
Blank strips can be removed manually.
Manually Removing Blank Strips
To remove a blank strip:
Right-click the blank strip you wish to remove and choose
Remove Blank Strip
.
To remove all blank strips:
Right-click any blank strip and choose
Remove All Blank
Strips
.
Blank strips are removed and all channels to the right are shuf-
fled one position to the left.
Limits and Guidelines for Blank Strips
The maximum number of fader strips is 96. These 96 positions
can be comprised of any combination of mono or stereo input
channels, as well as blank strips. (FX Returns are considered
separate and are not included in this count.)
The maximum number of blank strips that can be used varies
depending on the current system configuration and the num-
ber of stereo channels used in the configuration. This number
can be calculated as:
(96 – the number of input channels in System Configuration)
+ Number of stereo channels
For example:
• A 96 channel configuration with 96 mono channels can
have 0 blank strips.
• A 48 channel configuration with 48 mono channels can
have 48 blank strips
• A 48 channel configuration with 4 stereo channels can
have 52 blank strips (52 = 96 – 48 + 4)
This command will be unavailable if the combined number
of input channel strips plus blank strips equals or exceeds
96. For more information, see “Limits and Guidelines for
Blank Strips” on page 41.
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