TEAC DM-24
Owner's Manual

9 � Grouping�Grouping layers
ing the SEL key to turn the channel into a slave channel brings up a warning message (Re-assign fader grouping?), and pressing ENTER reassigns the group. Any of the cursor keys may be used as �no� or �escape� keys here. If a channel has already been assigned to a group as a master, pressing the SEL key clears the whole group. A popup message appears (Clear this fader grouping?), and pressing ENTER clears the group. Any of the cursor keys may be used as �no� or �escape� keys here.

Fader groups to mute groups
At the right of the display, about halfway down the screen, there is an on-screen LINK button. When this button is off, it is labeled FADER>MUTE. Moving the cursor to this button and pressing ENTER brings up a popup asking whether a link should be made: Grouping link(Fader -> Mute) (ENTER for yes, cursor keys for no). This transfers the fader groupings to the mute groupings (that is, the mute group settings become identical to the fader group settings). This is a �live link�� when changes are made to the fader groups, they are echoed in the fader groups and the other way round. The button is now labeled FADER=MUTE and is shown in inverse, showing that the link is active. Pressing the LINK button in either the fader or the mute group screens deactivates the link.

Turning groups on and off
When a fader group is highlighted on screen (the cursor box surrounds it), either use the fourth soft key or the ENTER key to turn the group functionality on or off. This does not clear the group settings.

Grouping layers
It is often useful to make groups of groups in order to simplify mixing. This applies to both fader groups and to mute groups. For example, when using mute groups, you might find it useful to group the vocal microphones of a session into one mute group, the drum microphones into another, and other percussion microphones into yet another. In order to cut out any microphone spillage, these three microphone groups could be layered into a �supergroup� which controls all the microphone inputs. It is also possible to layer the layers, 2 groups 7 and 8 (for mute groups) or moving the master fader of the group. These �submaster� groups in turn control groups 1 and 2 (controlled by group 8) and 4 and 5 (controlled by group 7). To use these grouping layers: 1 Use the § and ¶ cursor keys or dial to navigate the cursor to the master groups shown as horizontal rows in the matrix at the lower part of the screen. Empty groups (with no master or slave) are shown with an x by the group number) Use the SEL keys of modules 1 through 8 as group selectors to assign slave groups.

NOTE

The right part of this detail showing a three-level layering setup is a tree diagram, showing that group 6 is the �supermaster� group. In other words, pressing the master SEL key of this group controls the status of

Note that here the SEL keys do not refer to channels� they refer to the groups that have been set up in the top part of the screen. They can be used in this way in the two channel layers (1-16 and 17-32) but not in the MASTER layer.

Pressing the SEL key corresponding to any group except the highlighted master group adds (check mark) or removes (dot) the group to or from the layer controlled by the master group. The master group has

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