4 – Routing & assignment : Channel-to-buss assignment
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User’s Manual
sends to the appropriate destinations, in an easy
graphical solution.
Use the POD 3 encoder to select banks of eight chan-
nel modules at a time, and the display changes as
these are selected. You can also select busses in
groups of eight, as well as the aux sends (see below).
Use the wheel or left and right cursor keys to navi-
gate round the screen (you can also use the
SEL
keys
or fader selection), and the
ENTER
key to assign and
de-assign busses or the stereo (
ST
) or direct outputs
(
DIR
) (not shown above, as the direct outputs are not
available for channels 49 through 64). As you make
and break these assignments, the indicators by the
control surface keys mirror the screen settings (and
the other way round).
Pan switch
There is an invisible “pan switch”
which links and unlinks pairs of busses (this also
depends on the linked pan mode).
When this switch is set, and busses are linked, they
are also joined for panning and they are assigned in
pairs.
However, when this switch is not set, the buss pairs
can be split for individual assignment.
•
Pressing and holding the
SHIFT
key while
pressing one of the
ASSIGN
keys operates a
split or join function on a buss pair, allowing
busses to be individually assigned when split.
In Figure 4.5,
Buss assignment screen (linked bus-
ses)
, channels 49 through 51 have the busses linked
(except for 1 and 2 on channel 50). The other busses
are separated.
The linked pan mode (“BUSS Link/BUSS PAN
Mode are Linked” on page 44) also determines
whether splitting a buss pair either splits the busses
for channels individually (as in the example screen
above), or all together for all channels. When this
parameter is set off, buss pairs may be split individu-
ally, and when it is on, buss pairs are split together.
Note that buss assignment is also connected to mod-
ule linking. When two channels are linked, assigning
one of the linked channels to a buss also links the
other channel 2 to the buss.
Figure 4.5: Buss assignment screen (linked
busses)
