Internal Effects Buses; Subgroups: To Merge Or Not To Merge - PRESONUS StudioLive 16.4.2 Owner's Manual

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Note that the Aux outputs on the Slave mixers are still active but they only have access to
the local channels. So in this example, the Aux 3 mix for Channels 1-16 on Slave 2 is routed
locally to the Aux 3 output and merged with the overall Aux 3 mix on the Master unit at the
same time. The same is true of Channels 17-32 on Slave 1. Only the Master mixer receives
the merged signals from all cascaded mixers in addition to its own local channels.

Internal Effects Buses

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Subgroups: To Merge or Not to Merge

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the Mix button for the corresponding aux will illuminate on every mixer in the
chain. For example, if you press the Mix button on Aux 1 on the Master unit, the
Mix button on Aux 1 on each of the Slave units will also illuminate. Creating an aux
mix with multiple mixers works exactly the same way as with one mixer. Each of
the encoder beneath the meters in the Fat Channel control the amount of send
level for each of their corresponding channels on that mixer to the enabled aux.
For example, if you have three mixers chained together, Channels 1-16 will
reside on Slave 2, Channels 17-32 will reside on Slave 1, and Channels 33-48 will
reside on the Master unit. Let's say that you want to create an aux mix on Aux
3. To begin, press the Aux 3 mix button. The Fat Channel meters and encoders
on all three mixers will be ready for you to create an Aux 3 mix. You will use the
Fat Channel meters and encoders on Slave 2 to set the Aux 3 send levels for
Channels 1-16; the meters and encoders on Slave 1 to set the Aux 3 send levels
for Channels 17-32; and the meters and encoders on the Master unit to set the
Aux 3 send levels for Channels 33-48. The resulting mix is then routed from the
Aux 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.
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 each of the mixers in the chain in order
to control panning for the channels on the slaved mixers.
Unlike the six Aux buses, the two Internal Effects buses on each mixer are
independent. Using the same example as in 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 as many 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.
Cascading Two or More StudioLive 16.4.2s
On Page 3: Digital in the System menu, you will find
the SubGroup Merge field. The Subgroups on each on
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