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1.
Press the CHANNEL LIST screen button (under DATA).
2.
Touch the box under the Group column, opposite the channel you wish to assign.
3.
Touch the number pad, selecting the number of the Group to assign.
4.
Touch the CLOSE button.
Make sure that the Group Master Fader is set to a reasonable value, or the Group members will send no sound to the
mix. Group Masters are only available when there is a channel assigned to that Group, and they disappear when the
last channel is removed from the Group.
When the G-C-P (Group Controls Pan) button is pressed above a Group Master on the Zoomed Faders screen, then
the pans of all the group members are controlled directly from the Group Master pan.
Note that grouped faders do not move when their Master fader moves. This is to preserve the VCA Group quality
of the software. It has the following advantages:
The operating range of the faders is maintained at the high part of their throw even when the Group Master
level is very low.
It is possible to write a changing automation level on an individual fader, even when the Group Master is
also changing.
By showing the resultant fader level in blue on the screen, the user has the advantage of seeing both the
balance of that fader within the Group, and the actual level of the fader in the mix.
9.2 Stereo Faders
Stereo faders can be used to control any pair of adjacent channels. These provides easy control of stereo signals,
and ensures the same settings for EQ and Dynamics apply to both sides.
9.2.1 Setting up a Stereo Fader
To link two channels
1.
Interrogate a channel to display the Channel Configuration page.
2.
Touch the LINK button.
3.
The screen will ask whether you want to link to the channel above or the one below.
The stereo fader will be the one currently assigned to the lower numbered of the two channels. Any fader assigned to
the higher numbered channel will go blank and have no further function.
