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Selecting Channels
Ion provides interactive ways to select channels including the control keypad and direct selects.
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, therefore no channel key is provided. Channels may be
selected on the control keypad using the [+], [-], and [Thru] keys for consecutive or nonconsecutive
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.
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 40.
108 Ion Operations Manual