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.

• [1] [Thru] [10] [Offset] {Even} [Enter] - selects channels 2, 4, 6, 8, 10.
• [1] [Thru] [2] [0] [Offset] [3] [Enter] - from the selected group, this syntax would select channels 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19 which is an offset of every third channel from the selection.
• {Group 5} [Offset] {Random} [Enter] - selects all channels in Group 5 and places them in random order. This selection may be used only temporarily or it may be recorded to a new Group.
• [1] [Thru] [2] [0] [Offset] {Even} {Random} [Enter] - selects all even channels within the range and puts them in random order.
• {Group 3} [Offset] {Reorder} [Enter] - reorders the channels in group 3 so they are in numeric order.
• [Offset] [4] [Enter] - selects every fourth channel in the current channel selection.
• [1] [Thru] [2] [4] [Offset] [4] [/] [4] [Enter] - selects channels 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24. You can select to offset by 2/2, 4/4, 3/3 etc.
• [Record] <Cue> [1] [Thru] [Thru] [1] [0] [0] [Offset] [10] [Enter] - records cues with numbers between 1 and 100, offset by 10 (cue 1, 11, 21, 31... 91).

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

• [1] [Thru] [20] [Offset] [Even] [+] [60] [Thru] [80] [Offset] [3] [Enter] - selects all even channels between 1 and 20, and all odd channels between 60 and 80.
• [1] [Thru] [10] [Offset] [2] [+] [20] [Thru] [30] [Offset] [Jump] [1] - channels 1-10 are offset by 2 (1,3,5,7,9) and 20-30 are jump 1 (20, 22, 24, 26, 28 ,30).

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

• [Effect] [1] {Step} [1] [Thru] [20] [Offset] [Even] - selects all even steps between 1 and 20 in stepbased effect 1.
• [Effect] [2] {Action} [1] [Thru] [7] [Offset] [Odd] - selects all odd actions between 1 and 7 in absolute effect 2.