Operation Manual

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ACCESSING CHANNELS
Channels may be accessed using the faderstrips, and also by touching the meter screens on the master
screen.
Soundcraft Vi6: Access 96 inputs using the 3 xed (or user) layers, each accessing 32 channels.
Soundcraft Vi4: You can now access inputs 1-24, 33-56 and 65-88 using the 3 xed layers.
Method 1: Use the Input Meter display on the touchscreen in the Control Bay to select
the additional channels in groups of 8, and assign them temporarily to the right-hand 8 input faders. Note
that the input channels that cannot be seen on the xed layers A/B/C are indicated by a white box around
these input meters. This method is good for quickly accessing any of the 96 channels in the default chan-
nel order (25-32, 57-64, 89-96), but has the disadvantage that changing to a different main Input Fader
page will cancel these temporarily assigned channel assignments.
Method 2: Assign the desired channels to a User Fader page.
Using this method, the new channels can be placed anywhere within any of the User Input layers, and
Method 1 can still be used in combination with this as an additional way of grabbing blocks of 8
channels.