Chapter 8: Channels And Strips; Strips - Euphonix System 5 Operation Manual

System 5 Digital Audio Mixing System Operation Manual

Chapter 8: Channels and Strips

8.1

Strips

A CM408 module contains eight identical Strips, each with a Main and Swap channel
with independent settings. The Strip is the physical control area on the console that
contains switches, knobs, displays, and a fader. Figure 8-1 shows a Strip with its meter
and status displays that appear on the meter bridge above the channel, and block diagrams
for the Swap and Main channels.
System 5 provides tremendous flexibility in how channels are assigned to Strips and
how the Strip controls the channel:
• Any channel can be assigned to any Strip; assignments need not be consecutive.
• Two Strips can control one channel, allowing two users to simultaneously oper-
ate that channel.
• Channels with related functions, such as individual drums or drum submixes,
can be assigned to neighboring Strips.
• Channel-to-Strip mappings can be named, stored, and recalled as Layouts
(Section 11.1 - Layouts).
• Channel settings can be named, stored, and recalled as Snapshots (Section
11.2 - Snapshots).
A 96-channel, 48-Strip configuration could map all channels to the control surface:
Main (channels 1–48 to Strips 1–48); Swap (channels 49–96 to Strips 1–48). A 96-
channel, 24-Strip System 5 configuration cannot map all channels to the console at
once but could use two Layouts to easily interchange all channels.
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