Controlling Studiolive Rm-Series Mixers With The Cs18Ai; Accessing Channels With Layers And Filter Dca; Groups - PRESONUS StudioLive CS18AI Owner's Manual

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Controlling StudioLive RM-series Mixers with the CS18AI

5.1 Accessing Channels with Layers and Filter DCA Groups
5 Controlling StudioLive RM-series Mixers with the CS18AI
5.1 Accessing Channels with Layers and Filter DCA Groups
Navigating Layers with the Faders Buttons
The StudioLive CS18AI is capable of controlling up to 64 StudioLive RM-
series mixer channels and provides active access to 16 channels at a time. As
described in Chapter 2, there are two ways to access channels on the CS18AI:
• Layers. The traditional method of accessing channels on a digital
mixer is to have them organized into layers, each layer having
a button that, when pressed, makes it the active layer.
• Filter DCA Groups. Filter DCA Groups do two things:
- They assign the members of the group to the CS18AI's channel
strips, filtering out all channels that are not in the group.
- The levels of all channels in the group are put under the control
of a group master, which is assigned to the Flex Master fader.
Power User Tip: The scribble strips indicate the active channel numbers and names.
Refer to these to know which channels are shown on the CS18AI channel strips.
The CS18AI has eight layers for accessing all available channels for
control. Using the buttons in the Faders area you can switch between
the channel layers. Once a layer has been selected, it remains active
on the channel strips until you navigate to another layer.
Layer A (1-16) displays Channels 1-16 on the channel strips.
Layer B (17-32) displays Channels 17-32 on the channel strips.
Layer C (33-48) displays Channels 33-48 on the channel strips.
Layer D (49-64) displays Channels 49-64 on the channel strips.
Returns displays the returns from the four stereo effects processors, talkback
source, stereo digital return, and stereo Tape In on the channel strips.
Mix Masters displays the master send channels for
the 16 mix buses on the channel strips.
Group Masters displays the Filter DCA group masters on your channel strips. For
information on Filter DCA Groups, see Section 5.8 Working with Filter DCA Groups.
DAW switches your CS18AI between controlling your RM mixer and controlling
Studio One DAW software.
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