Owner's manual

SD7 - Getting Started

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1.11 Control Groups

Any number of input channels and output channels can be connected to one or more of the 36 possible Control Groups. They can

then all be operated from a single worksurface control. Changes to the Control Group fader, mute or solo or controls will affect all

channels connected to the group.

There are 2 methods to set up Control Groups:

1) Press the LCD Function button on the CG fader bank followed by the JOIN CG button;

Press the channel select button for the CG that you want to use;

Press the channel select buttons for each of the channels to be included in the CG;

Deselect the JOIN CG button:

Press LCD

Function Button

then JOIN CG

Select Control

Group to join

Press Channel LCD Buttons to assign members

2) Press the on screen JOIN/LEAVE button for the required CG channel;

Press the channel select buttons for each of the channels that you want to make members of the CG;

Release the JOIN/LEAVE button:

List of members

Press Join/Leave button on required CG channel Press Channel LCD buttons to assign members

A list of all the connected channels and their names is displayed above each Control Group display.

You can also clear all the channels from a Control Group by pressing Clear.

When a channel is a member of a Control Group, its own controls can still be adjusted independently of the other Group members.

Adjustments to fader levels are transmitted to the Group members as dB changes, so that a level increase of 2dB on the Group

fader will increase all the member levels by 2dB, irrespective of the relative levels of the individual channel faders.

CG Mutes are treated as “in series” where a channel is a member of more than one group. All CG mutes must be off for a channel

to be unmuted; any CG muted always mutes all of its members.

If a channel is CG muted by single or multiple CGs, the worksurface channel mute button will override all CG mutes for that

channel. The channel will not however be removed from CG membership so if the relevant CG is muted again, the channel will

also be muted.