Part IV–Mixer Controls
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TASCAM SX-1
Reference Manual
Understanding Group Masters
Group Masters are faders that are dedicated control-
lers. No signal actually passes through them - they
merely control a group of slave faders. The benefit of
using a Group Master instead of a regular mixer
channel as a master fader is that you don’t waste a
mixer channel controlling your slaves.
There are eight dedicated Group Masters.
They show up in the Return/Group preset fader bank
(pictured here—press the
RTN/ GRP
key in the
FADER BANK
section to reach this screen).
To assign a group of slave faders to a Group Master,
follow these steps:
1
Select a slave fader that is part of the group
of Slave faders you want to control. Press the
channel’s
SEL
key and then press
CHANNEL
in the
MAIN DISPLAY MODE
section to view
the slave fader’s channel screen.
2
In the
GROUPS
module (of the VGA’s
Channel
screen—that you recalled in the last step)
under the
Master
window, click the
Add
arrow.
3
From the menu, choose
GRP1
from the
Group
Masters
sub-menu.
4
That’s it. The first Group Master fader will
now control the selected slave’s associated
group. If you want to add other slave chan-
nels to the group, click on the
Add
arrow
below the
Slaves
window (in the same module)
and select the desired channels.
NOTE
To do this quickly, hold down the suface
SHIFT
key,
and press the Group Master’s
SEL
key, followed by the
SEL
keys of those channels you want to add to the
group.
