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PRO2 Live Audio System
Owner’s Manual
Chapter 7: Navigation
This chapter introduces you to PRO2 navigation and shows you how to use the
navigational tools of the PRO2 Control Centre to navigate its channels, groups and
buses.
For information on other types of PRO2 navigation, refer to the following:
• To navigate the scenes in automation, see “Managing the scenes” on page 84.
•To open the GUI’s Patching screen, see “Navigating to the Patching screen” on
page 16.
• To navigate the assignable controls, see Chapter 19 "Assignable Controls" on
page 153.
An introduction to PRO2 navigation
The PRO2 provides you with unique navigational controls to quickly and easily access
the items, such as channels, buses, groups and detail areas, that you will require for
mixing.
Navigation is an important feature of the PRO2 Control Centre. One of the advantages
digital consoles have over analogue ones is that their channel count is not limited by
the control surface hardware. However, this means that only a certain amount of
channels can be at the control surface at any time, while the others are ‘hidden’. So,
navigation is required to access these hidden channels whenever you need them.
The PRO2 has advanced navigational functions that are explained in this chapter.
Channel navigation
The channel fader section has eight channels. You can scroll (continuously) from inputs
to outputs and vice versa, but only one type can be assigned to the control surface at
any time. Channels are handled in banks of eight and are shown on the control surface
and GUI in ascending order from left to right.
The following illustration shows the number of analogue consoles it would take to show
all input channels all of the time, as shown in Figure 1 (a massive beast!).
Figure 1: Theoretical analogue equivalent of the PRO2
The following is a list of the types of navigation available on the PRO2.
• Scrolling single channels
• Scrolling assignable control assignments
• Scrolling channels banks
• Swapping the assignable control button assignments
• Scrolling the mix buses
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