112 Ion Operations Manual
Selecting Channels
Ion provides interactive ways to select channels including the control keypad, faders, and direct
selects. For information on using the direct selects for channel selection, see Selecting Channels
with Direct Selects, page 25.
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.

Select Channels From the Keypad

The keypad defaults to selecting channels. Channels may be selected on the control keypad using
the [+], [-], 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.

Selecting Channels from Faders

Holding down the [Fader Control] button while a fader wing is attached will cause the last button
on the wing to toggle between channel and fader modes.
In channel mode, each fader will control a separate channel for the number of faders available.
Channels above the number of available faders will need to be controlled from the keypad.
Holding down [Sneak] while moving a channel fader will allow it to be moved without asserting
control.

Using Groups as a Channel Collector

[Group] can be used as a quick way to collect channels from submasters, cues, palettes, or
presets.
The following actions are possible:
•[Group] [Cue] [1] - selects all the channels in cue 1.
•[Group] [Sub] [3] - selects all the channels in submaster 3.
•[Group] [Int Palette] [5] - selects all the channels in intensity palette 5.
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 current flexi mode.

See “Using Flexichannel” on page 36.