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Controlling Other Components
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You can program the remote controller’s Macro buttons
to perform a sequence of remote control actions.
Example:
To play a CD you typically need to perform the follow-
ing actions:
1. Press the [Receiver] Remote Mode button to select
the Receiver remote controller mode.
2. Press the [On] button to turn on the AV receiver.
3. Press the [CD] Input Selector button to select the
CD input source.
4. Press the [CD] Remote Mode button to select the
CD remote controller mode.
5. Press the Play [
1
] button to start playback on
the CD player.
You can program a Macro button so that all five actions
are performed with just one button press.
Making Macros
Each Macro button can store one macro, and each macro
can contain up to eight commands.
Note:
If any of the buttons you used to make a macro are taught
new commands, the macro will no longer work properly
and will have to be made again.
Running Macros
Deleting Macros
Using Macros
1
While holding down the Remote
Mode button of the remote con-
troller mode you want to use at
the start of the macro, press
Macro button [1], [2], or [3].
The Remote indicator lights up.
For the CD example in the left column,
you’d press and hold the [Receiver]
Remote Mode button, and then press
Macro button [1], [2], or [3].
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On
Standby
TV
Input
TV CH
TV VOL
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11
12
D.TUN
+10
0
Clear
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Input Selector
VCR/DVR
CBL/SAT
DVD
Tape
Tuner
CD
Phono
Net/USB
Game/TV
Macro
1
2
3
VCR
DVD
CDR/MD/Dock
CD
Zone
2
Remote Mode
Dimmer
Tape/AMP
Sleep
Receiver
TV
Net/USB
Cable
VOL
CH
Disc
Album
+
Enter
Top
Men
u
Men
u
SAT
Zone
3
AUX 1
AUX 2
Receiver
Remote
Mode
Macro
1, 2, 3
Remote
indicator
2
Press the buttons whose actions
you want to program into the
macro in the order you want them
performed.
For the CD example in the left column,
you’d press the following buttons:
[On], [CD] Input Selector, [CD]
Remote Mode, Play [
1
].
3
When you’ve finished, press the
Macro button again.
The Remote indicator flashes twice.
If you enter eight commands, the pro-
cess will finish automatically.
Press the Macro [1], [2], or [3]
button.
The commands in the macro are trans-
mitted in the order in which they were
programmed. Keep the remote control-
ler pointed at the AV receiver until all
of the commands have been transmit-
ted.
Macros can be run at any time, regard-
less of the current remote controller
mode.
1
While holding down the
[Receiver] Remote Mode button,
press the Macro button whose
macro you want to delete.
2
Press the Macro button again.
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