PM5D/PM5D-RH V2 / DSP5D Owner’s Manual Operating section 71
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Using the Selected Channel section

Here’s how you can use the SELECTED CHANNEL sec-
tion to operate the internal compressor.
Note
The PM5D provides four types of built-in compressor; COMP
(compressor), EXPANDER (expander), COMPANDER H
(hard compander), and COMPANDER S (soft compander).
These four operate in different ways. This means that if you
want to use a compressor, you must load compressor set-
tings of the desired type from the compressor library, and then
edit the parameters as desired.
1Press a [SEL] key to select the channel you
want to control.
A compressor is available for all channels except for FX
RTN channels.
2In the DISPLAY ACCESS section, press the
INPUT [GATE/COMP] key (for an input chan-
nel) or OUTPUT [COMP] key (for an output
channel) several times to access the COMP
LIBRARY screen.
In the COMP LIBRARY screen you can store compres-
sor settings in the library, or recall existing data from
the library. The operations described below are the
same for the COMP LIBRARY screen of both output
channels and input channels.
3Move the cursor to the scroll bar of the library
list in the lower right of the screen, and turn
the [DATA] encoder to select the library item
that you want to load. (The library item
selected in the list is highlighted.)
Numbers 001–036 for which an “R” is shown at the
right of the list contain read-only preset library items.
Numbers 001–004 contain preset library items of dif-
ferent types. It is convenient to use these library items
when you want to select a specific type. Preset library
items 001–004 are respectively of the following types.
Hint
•The type of the currently selected compressor is shown in
the COMP PARAM screen (
➥
p.253, 291).
•The COMP LIBRARY screen also provides other library set-
tings suitable for a wide variety of instruments or purposes.
Settings you edit can also be stored in the library.
•For a detailed explanation of each type of compressor, refer
to the Appendices (
➥
p.322).
4After selecting a library item, click the RECALL
button located at the lower left of the library
list.
The library item you selected in step 3 will be recalled
to the channel you selected in step 1.
5In the SELECTED CHANNEL section, press the
COMP [ON] key to make the LED light.
The compressor of the selected channel will be
activated.
6You can use the compressor controls of the
SELECTED CHANNEL section to edit the com-
pressor parameters.
The amount of gain reduction produced by the com-
pressor is shown by the COMP GR meter in the
SELECTED CHANNEL section.
Hint
•For details on the function of the compressor controls, refer
to p.68.
•More detailed parameters for the compressor (selection of
the key-in signal, stereo link on/off, assignment to a com-
pressor link group) can be edited in the COMP PARAM
screen of the INPUT GATE/COMP function or the OUTPUT
COMP function (
➥
p.253, 291).
•You can also cause the COMP PARAM screen to appear
automatically when you operate a compressor-related con-
trol. This setting is made in the UTILITY function
PREFERENCE 1 screen (
➥
p.204).
Number Name Type
001 Comp COMP (Compressor)
002 Expand EXPANDER
003 Compander (H) COMPANDER H (Hard com-
pander)
004 Compander (S) COMPANDER S (Soft com-
pander)

Compressor operations

COMP LIBRARY
Scroll barRECALL button
COMP [ON] key
COMP GR meter