19Quick Start Guide
Navigation
An Introduction To Navigation
The control centre provides you with unique navigational controls to quickly and
easily access the items, such as channels, buses, groups and processing areas,
that you will require for mixing.
Navigation is an important feature of the control centre. One of the advantages
digital consoles have over analogue ones is that their channel count is not
limited by the control surface hardware. However, this means that only a certain
amount of channels can be at the control surface at any time, while the others
are ‘hidden’. So, navigation is required to access these hidden channels whenever
you need them.
NOTE: The way the control centre is set to operate may alter the
function of some of the navigational controls. For more information,
see Operating Modes.
Navigation is primarily via the control surface, although the GUI may provide an
alternative and also has some unique navigational features of its own.
Navigating The Input Channels
The input channels are grouped into ‘banks’, with each bank containing four
consecutively numbered channels.
During normal operation, four banks of input channels populate the input bays,
and these are displayed across the control surface in ascending order from
left to right.