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Chapter 6: Channels and Strips 61
Chapter 6: Channels and Strips
Strips
A CM408T module contains eight identical Strips, each with independent Main and Swap channels. The Strip is the console’s
physical control area that contains switches, knobs, displays, and a fader. The figure below shows a Strip, its displays that appear
on the meter bridge above the channel, and block diagrams for the Swap and Main channels.
System 5 has several innovative, efficient methods that manage channel-to-Strip mapping and channel settings:
• Any channel can be assigned to any Strip, and assignments need not be consecutive.
• Two Strips can control one channel, so two users can simultaneously operate that channel.
• Channels with related functions (i.e., individual drums, drum submixes) can be assigned to neighboring Strips.
• Channel-to-Strip mappings can be named, stored, and recalled as Layouts (see “Layouts” on page 113).
• Channel settings can be named, stored, and recalled as Snapshots (see “Snapshots” on page 116).
A 48-Strip/96-channel configuration could map all channels to the control surface:
• Main (channels 1–48 to Strips 1–48)
• Swap (channels 49–96 to Strips 1–48)
A 24-Strip/96-channel configuration cannot map all channels to the console at once but could use two Layouts to easily inter-
change all channels.