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IX. What Do the Console's Channel Strips Do?
The VM-C7200 has 24 channel strips, and the VM-C7100 has 12. Just
as they would on a traditional mixer, the strips provide access to most of
the settings you'll work with during mixing. Of course, given the
incredible power and flexibility of the VM system, the mixing console
would be impossibly huge if each setting had its own physical knob or
button. As a result, the VM-7000 provides five different operating modes,
each of which handles a particular mixing task—in each mode, the
strips control and provide access to the settings you need for the job at
hand. You can jump instantly between modes as you set up inputs,
outputs, Flex Busses and so on.
To select the desired mode, simply press the corresponding SECTION
button—its indicator will light, showing you at a glance what the channel
strips are doing.
For now, we're not concerned with the top SECTION button—2nd UNIT,
which involves controlling a second mixing processor cascaded from the
main processor.
We'll describe the buttons reading from the bottom up, since this best
reflects the flow of signals through the VM-7000 system.
When you press:
INPUT CH1-24
MULTI IN CH1-24
FADER GROUP MASTER 1-24
FLEX BUS MASTER 1-12
MULTI OUT
VM-C7100 only: Since the VM-C7100 has 12 channel strips, it has an
extra SECTION button: CH 13-24, which provides access to Channels
13-24 when working with input, multi in, fader group and multi out
channels. Otherwise, references in this guide to the VM-C7200's
SECTION buttons also apply to the same buttons on the VM-C7100.
For the rest of this application guide, we'll refer to channel strips as
input channels, multi in channels, fader group channels, Flex Bus
channels and multi out channels—this will serve as a shorthand that
tells us which SECTION button is currently lit.
You can always look at the SECTION buttons if you lose track of the
system's current operating mode—the lit SECTION button shows you
what the channel strips are controlling.
Getting Started with the VM-7000
Getting Started with the VM-7000
The channel strips control:
the input signals received by your
analog XLR and 1/4" inputs as well
as the DIGITAL INPUT A and B
inputs.
input signals received digitally via
R-BUS connections.
the assignment of channels to any of
the 24 Fader Groups, and provide
control of the Fader Groups' levels.
the levels, panning and routings of
the 12 Flex Busses and the outputs
of internal send-and-return effects
(we'll discuss these later).
the levels of signals as they're output
from the analog ASSIGNABLE and
DIGITAL A and B outputs as well as
the R-BUS digital outputs.
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