System 5-B Digital Audio Mixing System Operation Manual
Chapter 8: Channels and Strips
8.1Strips
A CM408 module contains eight identical Strips, each with a Main and Swap channel with independent settings. The Strip is the physical control area on the console that contains switches, knobs, displays, and a fader. Figure 8-1shows a Strip with its meter and status displays that appear on the meter bridge above the channel, and block diagrams for the Swap and Main channels.
System 5-B provides tremendous flexibility in how channels are assigned to Strips and how the Strip controls the channel:
•Any channel can be assigned to any Strip; assignments need not be consecutive.
•Two Strips can control one channel, allowing two users to simultaneously oper- ate that channel.
•Channels with related functions, such as individual drums or drum submixes, can be assigned to neighboring Strips.
•Channel-to-Strip mappings can be named, stored, and recalled as Layouts (Section 10.1 - Layouts).
•Channel settings can be named, stored, and recalled as Snapshots (Section 10.2 - Snapshots).
A96-channel, 48-Strip configuration could map all channels to the control surface: Main (channels 1–48 to Strips 1–48); Swap (channels 49–96 to Strips 1–48). A 96- channel, 24-Strip System 5 configuration cannot map all channels to the console at once but could use two Layouts to easily interchange all channels.
