DigiDesign Command 8, Manual

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Command|8 Guide 24
Pan/Send/PRE
Identifies channels with sends
assigned to them by illuminating their Channel
Select switches. If no sends are present, no
Channel Select switches will be lit.
When you press an illuminated Channel Select
switch, the LCD and the first rotary encoder
show track pan position for that track. (If the
track is a stereo track, you can toggle between
left and right pan by pressing the Pan/Meter
switch immediately to the right of the encod-
ers.)
Channel Scribble Strips 3–7 show send names
and the rotary encoders (3–7) control the levels
for the first five sends on that track. In this
mode, the Channel Select switches on channels
3–7 toggle pre- and post-fader metering for the
corresponding send.
Plug-in < Page > Switches
Plug-in controls are
organized in pages . In a process much like bank-
ing of channel faders, when a plug-in has more
controls than can fit on the LCD at one time,
you can use these switches to page through the
plug-in controls.
When a plug-in has multiple pages of controls,
the current page (out of the total number) is dis-
played next to the plug-in Name in the LCD.
The Plug-in Page switches will flash to indicate a
next or previous page.
Plug-in Master Bypass Switch
This switch by-
passes either a single plug-in or all plug-ins on a
channel, depending on the current view. If the
controls for only one plug-in are displayed, only
that plug-in will be bypassed. If all the plug-ins
on a channel are displayed, all of those plug-ins
will be bypassed. If no plug-ins are displayed,
the Master Bypass function is unavailable.
ESC (Escape) When flashing, this switch lets
you cancel certain operations on the Com-
mand|8, such as Channel View selections and
many on-screen dialogs in Pro Tools.
Hardware I/O inserts cannot be bypassed in
Pro Tools, so the Plug-in Master Bypass
switch has no effect on them.