Specifications

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Bus Send Mode
❐ The Bus Sends are always post-fader. This means that in many cases (e.g. when using
the buses for recording into VST) there is no need to adjust the individual bus send lev-
els - you only need to activate the desired buses in the Lower display (Bus Assign
mode) and set the recording level using the faders. This assumes that you keep all bus
send level knobs at their maximum setting.
In this mode you can view and control the eight Bus Sends for the channel. For each
bus there is an on/off button (mirrored in the Lower display in Bus Assign mode)
and a level control. For each pair of Bus Sends (1-2, 3-4, etc), there is also a Post Pan
switch:
• When the Post Pan switch is activated for a Bus Send pair, the Pan control for a channel
is used to pan the signal between the two buses in the pair.
Panning a signal fully left will send it to the odd-numbered bus only and vice versa. When
Post Pan is activated, the Bus on/off buttons are linked for each pair, so that activating or de-
activating a Bus Send (in this panel or in the Lower display) automatically activates/deacti-
vates the other Bus Send in the pair.
This is useful when you are recording in stereo, or when you have assigned the buses to sep-
arate outputs for stereo monitoring, etc.
• When the Post Pan switch is deactivated for a Bus Send pair, the channel signal is sent
to each activated bus regardless of the Pan setting.
This may be preferable when you are recording in mono, since it allows you to route a DS
channel to a VST input without having to take the Pan setting into account.
Below the Bus Sends you will find a Stereo Mix on/off button, which determines
whether the channel should be sent to the main Stereo Mix or not. This button is
duplicated in the Bus Assign panel in the Lower display.
Aux Send Mode
In this mode you can view and control the six Aux Sends for the channel. For each
send there is a level control with a numeric display showing the current setting, an
on/off switch (mirrored in the Lower display in Aux Assign mode) and a Post-fader
switch.
❐ Aux Sends 5 and 6 are “hard-wired” to the on-board effect units (FX Unit 1 and FX Unit
2, respectively). To avoid feedback, Aux Sends 5 and 6 are disabled for the FX Return
channels.
❐ If you have two DS2416 cards installed, you can address all four effect units by using
Aux Sends 3-6.