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PMC 16 Owner’s Manual 40
Using Groups
Groups are configured in Setup Mode and can be used to group multiple channels together,
allowing them to be controlled in unison. Pressing the <GROUP> button when in Live
Mode toggles the Group function on and off. When the Group function is enabled, the
GROUP button’s LED will light.
Groups are typically used to combine multiple channels of a single instrument or a stereo
pair which you want to retain individual control over. For example, you may want to group
two guitars together in order to give the end user the power to control the guitar channels
individually (GROUP button disabled) or as a stereo pair (GROUP button enabled). If these
guitar channels were stereo linked during setup, individual control of the two guitar
channels would not be possible by the end user.
Another example would be drums, which may consist of 8 channels: “Kick”, “Snare”, “Tom
1”, “Tom 2”, “Tom 3”, “Left Overhead”, “Right Overhead”, and “Hi-Hat”. By creating a
drum group during PMC16 configuration, all 8 drum channels can be assigned to a group.
With the Group button disabled, the musician monitoring through the PMC16 can adjust
the individual drum channels to create their initial drum mix. Once the individual monitor
mixer parameters have been set for each channel within the drum group, the user can
then enable the Group function to edit the drum channels’ parameters “as a whole”,
leaving the relationship between the respective drum channels’ parameters intact.
Note:
When Group is enabled, it is possible to select multiple groups or select a
combination of groups and individual channels using the “Multi-Select” feature. When
Group is enabled, adjustment of stereo linked pan settings within a group is not supported.