Specifications

Chapter 4: Banking and Selecting Channels 49
Blank Strips On-Screen
Blank strips appear as a simple gray strip with no fader, buttons or
meter. A blank strip can be right-clicked to reveal its context
menu.
Adding Blank Strips
Blank strips can be inserted manually, and are also created auto-
matically when you use the Make Stereo command. You can also
insert multiple blank strips.
Manually Inserting Blank Strips
Config mode must be enabled to add or remove blanks strips.
To manually add a blank strip:
1 Enable Config mode.
2 Right-click an input channel strip (or a blank strip) at the loca-
tion where you want to insert a blank strip and choose
Insert
Blank Strip
. For example, if you want to have a blank strip at
channel strip 16, right-click on channel 16.
All channels to the right of the insertion point (including the
right-clicked channel) are shuffled one position to the right.
To insert multiple blank strips:
1 Enable Config mode.
2 Create a multi-selection of channels.
3 Right-click on one of the selected channels and choose Insert
Blank Strips at Selection
.
A blank strip is inserted in place of each selected channel strip,
shifting all channels accordingly and maintaining the multi-selec-
tion.
Automatically Inserting Blank Strips using Make Stereo
VENUE automatically creates blank strips when you use the
Make Stereo command in order to preserve the current channel
layout. Similarly, blank strips may be automatically removed
when you use the Split Stereo command to revert a stereo strip to
its two contributing mono channels.
Make Stereo A blank strip is automatically inserted at the loca-
tion previously occupied by the right-side channel of the
newly-formed stereo pair. There is no shuffling of the remaining
input channels as a result of this operation.
Split Stereo The behavior when splitting a stereo strip into two
mono strips is as follows:
• If a blank strip is located immediately adjacent to the (pre-
viously) stereo channel, the right channel of the stereo pair
occupies this position and the blank strip is automatically
removed. No other channels shuffle.
• If no blank strip is located immediately adjacent to the (pre-
viously) stereo channel, all channels to the right of the split
point shuffle one position to the right and the right channel
of the stereo pair is inserted.
Removing Blank Strips
To remove a blank strip:
 Right-click the blank strip you wish to remove and choose Re-
move Blank Strip
.
To remove all blank strips:
 Right-click any blank strip and choose Remove All Blank
Strips
. Blank strips are removed and all channels to the right
are shuffled one position to the left.
Limits and Guidelines for Blank Strips
The maximum number of fader strips is 64. These 64 positions
can be comprised of any combination of mono or stereo Input
Channels, FX Returns, as well as blank strips.
The maximum number of blank strips that can be used varies de-
pending on the current system configuration and the number of
stereo channels used in the configuration. This number can be
calculated as:
64 - (the number of Input Channels - number of stereo inputs +
FX Returns) = maximum number of blank strips
For example:
• A 64 channel configuration with 64 mono Input Channels
can have no blank strips.
• A 48 channel configuration with 48 mono Input Channels
and 8 FX Returns can have 8 blank strips. [64-(48-0+8) = 8]
• A 48 channel configuration with 4 stereo channels can have
12 blank strips. [64-(48-4+8) = 12]
Blank strip in position 16, Right-click menu shown
This command will be unavailable if the combined number of
input channel strips plus blank strips equals or exceeds 64.
For more information, see “Limits and Guidelines for Blank
Strips” on page 49.