Offset

[Offset] can be used to select a range of channels from a broader channel selection prior to storing groups, submasters, presets, palettes, effects, and using park.

Options

When [Offset] is pressed, a channel distribution display will open.

The following options are available as extensions of [Offset]. Options can be used together. These extensions can be used to create Subgroups. To close the offset display, press {Close}.

Direction

• {Reverse} creates a group with the channels in the reverse order that they were selected in.
• {Mirror In} creates subgroups of channels that mirror inward.
  • [1] [Thru] [8] {Mirror In} [Enter] would create 4 subgroups in this order: (1,8) (2,7) (3,6) (4,5)

    Ch 1	Ch 2	Ch 3	Ch 4	Ch 5	Ch 6	Ch 7	Ch 8
    X							X
    	X					X
    		X			X
    			X	X

• {Mirror Out} creates subgroups of channels that mirror outward.
  • [1] [Thru] [8] {Mirror Out} [Enter] would create 4 subgroups in this order: (4,5) (3,6) (2,7) (1,8)

    Ch 1	Ch 2	Ch 3	Ch 4	Ch 5	Ch 6	Ch 7	Ch 8
    			X	X
    		X			X
    	X					X
    X							X

• {Random} creates a random order to the channels.

Grouping

• {Chan Per Group} creates a specified cluster of channels.
  • [1] [Thru] [1][2]{Chan Per Group} [3] [Enter] would create these 4 subgroups of 3 channels each: (1,2,3) (4,5,6) (7,8,9) (10,11,12).
• {InterLeave} creates a number of distributed sets of channels, that are not clustered together.
  • [1] [Thru] [1][2]{Chan Per Group} [4] {InterLeave} [Enter] would create these 4 subgroups: (1,4,7,10) (2,5,8,11) (3,6,9,12).
  • [1] [Thru] [5] [+] [1][1] [Thru] [1][5] [+] [2][1] [Thru] [2][5] {Chan Per Group} [3] {InterLeave} [Enter] would create these 5 subgroups: (1,11,21) (2,12,22) (3,13,23) (4,14,24) (5,15,25).
• {Num Groups} creates a specified number of subgroups.
  • [1] [Thru] [1][2]{Num Groups} [3] [Enter] would create these 3 subgroups: (1,2,3,4) (5,6,7,8) (9,10,11,12).

Spacing

• {Jump} is used to skip over a specified number of channels.
  • [1] [Thru] [1][2]{Chan Per Group} [3] {Jump} [1] [Enter] would create these 3 subgroups of 3 channels each: (1,2,3) (5,6,7) (9,10,11). Channels 4, 8, and 12 will be jumped over and will not be in the subgroups.
• {Odd} selects only the odd numbered channels.
• {Even} selects only the even numbered channels.
• {Reorder} is used to reorder the channels of a group into numeric order.

Using Offset

For the offset feature to function, you must first select multiple channels, then press [Offset]. Choose from the options described above to modify your channel selection.

[Offset] can be used more than once to apply different offset commands to different channel selections on one command line.

[Offset] can also be used to select steps and actions in an effect.