Internal Effects Buses; Subgroups: To Merge Or Not To Merge - PRESONUS STUDIOLIVE 24.4.2 Owner's Manual

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8.9 Cascading Two StudioLive 24.4.2s

8.9.3 Internal Effects Buses

8.9.4 Subgroups: To Merge Or Not To Merge

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3 output on the Master unit. If you would like to add Fat Channel dynamics to
the overall Aux 3 mix, simply press the Aux 3 Select button on the Master unit
and use the Master unit Fat Channel to dial in your dynamics and EQ settings.
Note that the Aux outputs on the slaved mixers are still active, but they only have
access to the local channels. So in this example, the Aux 3 mix for Channels 1-24
on the Slave is routed locally to the Aux 3 output and merged with the overall
Aux 3 mix on the Master unit at the same time. Only the Master mixer receives the
merged signals from all cascaded mixers in addition to its own local channels.
Because Aux mixes are sent to the Master unit before the Fat Channel
(for obvious reasons), if you wish to create a stereo Aux mix, you
must link the Aux channels on both of the mixers in the chain in
order to control panning for the channels on the slaved mixer.
Unlike the 10 Aux buses, the two Internal Effects buses on each mixer are
independent. Using the same example as the previous section, Channels
1-24 can only be routed to EFXA and EFXB on the Slave, and Channels
25-48 are processed using the Master unit's two internal effects buses.
The advantage is that you get twice the number effects buses!
Of course, if you'd like to send all channels to the same effect, you can
simply load the same effect on both mixers. 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.
This is determined from the Master unit (i.e. if SubGroup Merge is enabled on the
Master, the Slave's Subgroups will be merged with the Master's Subgroups). The
Subgroup faders on the Master mixer will control the entire group and dynamics
processing can be added to the entire mix using that Master's Fat Channel.
If Subgroup Merge is turned Off, each of the four subgroups on both mixers
are locally controlled. So Channels 1-24 can only be assigned to the Subgroups
on the Slave and Channels 25-48 can only be assigned to the Subgroups on
the Master unit. Because the Subgroups on each of the mixers can still be
routed to the Main output on the master unit, unmerging the Subgroups
is offers advantages for Effects group mixing (See Section 8..4.2 for details),
but this can also be useful in any situation where you want 24 or fewer
channels assigned to the same Subgroup, just do a little careful patching!
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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.
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