The Join Button - Solid State Logic SL 9000 J Series Operator's Manual

The Mix System

The JOIN Button

If a fader or automated switch object is in a write status when you roll back, and you
want to drop it back into write before it reaches its rollback point (where this would
automatically occur if you are using Rollback/Join) then you can, of course, press the
fader status button, or switch the object into write (in conjunction with the Match
facility, if necessary – see Page 5-35).
To achieve the same effect with multiple faders/switches, use the JOIN button which
enables a number of automated objects to be dropped into write at the same time.
Any faders physically in the wrong position when you hit JOIN (this could be the case
if you are working with the fader motors off), will drop into write with a level jump.
Note that if TRIM RENULL is selected (see Page 5-47), and you use JOIN to drop
faders into Trim, the system will recalculate the null position to avoid a level jump.
Dropping switch objects back into write with JOIN will put them into write in the state
they were in at the rollback point.
Any fader or object that was in Replay at the rollback point will be unaffected by the
JOIN button.
Bearing in mind that you may have a number of rollback points for different objects,
occurring at different times, JOIN will 'play out' rollback points in time order. For
example, write a pass in Overwrite to 4:00 minutes and rewind to 1:00. Select
Rollback/Join, play forward, and drop a single fader into write at 1:30. You then
realise that you should have punched the fader into write at 1:20, so roll back, hit JOIN
at 1:20 and that single fader will drop into write. If you hit the JOIN key again, once
the single fader is in write, the system will have remembered the next rollback point at
4.00, and the JOIN key will switch the rest of the desk into write – logical, huh?
In all modes, the rollback point will be cancelled if played through. In other words, if
you play past the last rollback point and hit JOIN, the system will not drop back into
write. (Remember that, in Rollback/Join, the system automatically drops back into
write at the rollback point.
See also Rollback Points on Page 5-17.
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