Internal Effects Buses; Subgroups: To Merge Or Not To Merge - PRESONUS STUDIOLIVE 16.4.2 - V1.12 User Manual

4 Multiple Mixers
4.1 Getting Started

Internal Effects Buses

4. 1 .3
Unlike the 6 Aux buses, the two Internal Effects buses on each mixer are independent. Using the
same example as the previous section, Channels 1-16 can only be routed to EFXA and EFXB on
Slave 2, Channels 17-32 are routed to Slave 1's EFXA and EFXB buses, and Channels 33-48 are
processed using the Master unit's two internal effects buses. The advantage is that you get twice the
effects buses as you have mixers in the chain!
Of course, if you'd like to send all channels to the same effect, you can simply load the same effect
on every mixer. But with some careful patching, you can take advantage of the extra effects buses
at you disposal. The Internal Effects buses on each mixer can be assigned to the Master Unit's Main
output or to a Subgroup as usual. Simply select the Effects bus and press the desired assignment
button in the Fat Channel.

Subgroups: To Merge Or Not To Merge

4. 1 .4
On Page 3: Digital in the System menu, you will
find the SubGroup Merge field. The Subgroups
on each on the mixers in the chain can either be
merged together or local only. This is determined
on each mixer for the unit with the next ID number
in the chain and therefore the previous bank of
channels (i.e. if SubGroup Merge is enabled on
the Master, Slave 1's Subgroups will be merged with the Master's Subgroups; if SubGroup Merge
is enabled on Slave 1, Slave 2's Subgroups will be merged with Slave 1's Subgroup). The Subgroup
faders on the mixer from which SubGroup Merge was enabled will control the entire group and
dynamics processing can be added to the entire mix using that unit's Fat Channel.
If Subgroup Merge is turned Off, each of the four subgroups on each mixer are locally controlled.
Using our three mixer example, Channels 1-16 can only be assigned to the Subgroup on Slave 2,
Channels 17-32 can only be assigned to the Subgroups on Slave 1, and Channels 33-48 can only be
assigned to the Subgroups on the Master unit. Because the Subgroups on each of the mixers in the
chain can still be routed to the Main output on the master unit, unmerging the Subgroups is offers
advantages for Effects group mixing (See Section 5.5.2 for details), but this can also be useful in
any situation where you want 16 or fewer channels assigned to the same Subgroup, just do a little
careful patching!
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