4 - Module operations—Aux sends
4–4
NOTE
The direct out setting is available for channels
1 through 16 only.
4.4.2 Using the ASSIGN key for buss
assignment
Press the
ASSIGN
key
[10]
to bring up the channel
assignment screen.
The cursor keys are used to move the cursor to a par-
ticular channel and highlight the channel’s number at
the top of the column.
Alternatively, the channel’s
SEL
key may be used to
select a channel.
When a channel has been highlighted on this screen,
pressing any of the following keys to the right of the
display screen will change the assignment status of
the selected channel:
BUSS 1-2
,
BUSS 3-4
,
BUSS 5-
6
,
BUSS 7-8
and
STEREO
.
As with most analog consoles when a buss pair is
selected, the odd-numbered buss of the pair corre-
sponds to a hard left pan, and the even-numbered
buss corresponds to a hard right pan. Anything in
between will balance the channel signal proportion-
ately between the two busses.
In addition, the
EQ
and
DYN
keys can be used to
bypass the equalization and the dynamics processor
for each channel, respectively.
There are three “global” on-screen buttons. The first
of these (
ALL BUSS CLEAR
) is used to
clear all buss (but not stereo) assignments. This may
be used, either together with or independently from
the last (
ALL STEREO ASSIGN
) when
starting the mixdown in a multitrack recording
session.
The second on-screen button,
ALL STEREO
CLEAR
, clears all channel-to-stereo assignments.
The direct out of channels 1 through 16 can also be
set in this screen (there are no on-screen representa-
tions of the direct out setting for channels 17 through
32, as this is not possible).
NOTE
When channels 1 through 16 are set to direct
out, the signal appears in the output channel
corresponding to the number of the input
channel plus 16, as described above.
4.5 Aux sends
The
MODULE
screen can also be used to set the
Aux send levels for a channel or pair of stereo linked
channels. In addition, there are six dedicated
AUX
keys which allow the viewing and setting of the six
Aux send levels of many channels from one screen.
4.5.1 Using the MODULE screen to set
send levels
The level of the signals sent from the channel to the
six Aux sends are set and displayed on the bottom
two rows of the
MODULE
EQ/AUX/PAN
screen.
In an identical fashion to the dedicated Aux screens,
the levels of the Aux sends can be set from
-ß dB
to
10.0dB
.
The left switches of the Aux PODs are used to turn
the module’s Aux sends on and off.
Aux sends 1 and 2 can be selected as pre- or post-
fader, using the right switches of PODs 1 and 2
respectively.
When two modules have been linked into a stereo
pair, or one of the two stereo inputs is selected, the
Aux send levels apply to both channels in the pair.
When two Aux busses have been linked together into
a stereo pair, the level control of the first (odd-num-
bered) Aux buss is replaced by a pan control. The left
switch of the corresponding POD becomes a center-
ing switch.
4.5.2 Using AUX keys to set send levels
When one of the
AUX
keys is pressed and the Aux
buss selected has not been made into a stereo linked
pair with the adjacent Aux buss, two screens are
available, each controlling 16 input channels. The
