Examples Of Follow Mode - Mackie DC16 Owner's Manual

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Examples of Follow Mode:

Now that you know what Follow Mode is, let's take a look at some use case examples:
The most common setup I've seen (and used) is the following:
Here you have the iPad in the center slot – iPad A – displaying the current view of the currently
selected channel. Right in front of this iPad are the Fat Channel controls, so everything lines up
nicely with all changes taking place right in front of you, dead center.
Once the channel is changed on the DC16 surface on on iPad A, it becomes history.
This history, though, is still readily available, now on iPad B since it's set to 1st History.
Similarly, once another channel change is made to iPad A [aka the Current Selected Channel],
that history becomes readily available on iPad B [aka the 1st History Selected Channel], just
as stated above. BUT... what was once on iPad B moves to iPad C since it's set to 2nd History
Selected Channel.
This cycle then repeats endlessly with iPad A displaying the current view of the currently
selected channel, iPad B displaying what had previously been displayed on iPad A and
iPad C displaying what had previously been displayed on iPad B.
Here's a setup that's nearly identical to the previous one, but switched ever-so-slightly.
This is how (the previously mentioned) Tom sets up his Follow Mode.
He prefers this setup as it's more linear to him, somewhat like an assembly line with the views
moving from the far left [iPad B, Current Selected Channel] to the far right [iPad C, 2nd History
Selected Channel]. With the iPad Follow Modes set up this way, the Fat Channel controls will
change not the iPad in front of it, but rather the iPad in the left slot.
iPad A – Current Selected Channel
iPad B – 1st History Selected Channel
iPad C – 2nd History Selected Channel
B
iPad A – 1st History Selected Channel
iPad B – Current Selected Channel
iPad C – 2nd History Selected Channel
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