154 Ion Operations Manual
About Basic Manual Control
Ion provides a variety of different ways to select and command control channels. This chapter iden-
tifies the many basic ways you can select channels and manipulate show data within Ion.
For additional methods, see About Advanced Manual Control (on page280).
Selecting Channels
There are multiple ways to select channels including the control keypad, direct selects, and groups.
Selected channels are available for manual control through keypad commands, level wheel, and/or
ML controls.
Channels are deselected when any action is taken on the keypad that is unrelated to manual control,
such as recording groups and cues, or updating a record target, etc. You can also press [Clear] after
a terminated command line to clear the channel selection.
Note: When manual channels are used, there will be an advisory that says "Manual Chan-
nels" in red in the upper left hand corner of any Live display.
Note: Selecting channels from the summary or table displays will start a new command
line.
Select Channels From the Keypad
The keypad defaults to selecting channels. Channels may be selected on the control keypad using
the [+] and/or [-] and [Thru] keys for consecutive or non-consecutive channel selection.
The following examples illustrate various methods of selecting channels from the control keypad:
[5] [Enter] - selects channel 5.
[5] [+] [7] [Enter] - selects non-consecutive channels 5 and 7.
[5] [Thru] [9] [Enter]- selects channels 5 through 9.
[2] [Thru] [8] [-] [5] [Enter] - selects a range of channels 2 through 8, except channel 5.
[-] [6] [Enter] - removes channel 6 from the current selection list.
[+] [1] [Enter] - adds channel 1 to the current list of channels.
Note: You may use [+] and/or [-] multiple times to add or remove multiple channels from
the selection. [Thru] lists may be entered in ascending or descending order.
Note: The [Thru] command uses the current flexichannel state. Channels not included in
the flexichannel mode (except selected channels mode) are not collected in a thru range.
[Thru] [Thru] can be used to collect all channels in the range, even if they are not in the cur-
rent flexi mode. See Using Flexichannel (on page55)for more information.
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