Routing Channels In The Patchbay - DigiDesign D-show Manual

Scrolling in the Patchbay
To scroll through the channel list (vertically):
Move the cursor over a channel name at the left of the
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Patching Grid.
Press the Up or Down Arrow keys on the keyboard.
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To scroll through the hardware I/O list (horizontally):
Move the cursor over a hardware I/O channel at the top of
the Patching Grid.
Press the Left or Right Arrow keys on the keyboard.
To scroll the Patching Grid, do one of the following:
Click the up/down or left/right Patching Grid scroll arrows
to move square by square.
Click the up or down Patching Grid double arrows to move
screen by screen.
Right-click in the Patching Grid and drag in any direction.
Scrolling the Patching Grid by right-clicking and dragging
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Routing Channels in the Patchbay

To route channels in the Patchbay:
Go to a patchbay page by clicking the appropriate I/O tab,
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Channel Type tab, and Hardware tab.
Place the cursor over the Patching Grid. The cursor changes
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to a crosshair, and lines extend above and to the left of the
current cursor location to identify the column and row in
which it is located.
Click in the row for the channel and in the column for the
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hardware I/O source. For example, to route Stage Rack analog
input 4 to D-Show Input Channel 4, click in row 4, column 4
as shown below.
Routing a hardware input to an Input Channel
Repeat for other channels as needed.
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Using the Arrow Keys to Route Channels
You can also use the Arrow keys instead of the trackball to as-
sign routing.
To route channels using the Arrow Keys on the keyboard:
Place the cursor over the Patching Grid so that the cursor
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changes to the crosshair.
Press the Left or Right Arrow keys to move the crosshair to
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the next or previous hardware I/O column; press the Down or
Up Arrow keys to move the cursor to the next or previous
D-Show channel.
When the crosshair is over the correct square in the grid,
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press Enter to assign the patch.