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About Device Groups
A Device Group is a series of interconnected devices that “belong together”. A Device Group could be, for example,
an instrument device connected to an effect device and then to a Mix Channel device.
A Device Group consists of the following:
• One (and only one) Source device (e.g. an instrument).
• The devices to which the Source device feeds its audio signals (e.g. and effect device).
• Any CV-only devices (a Matrix Sequencer, for example) that are CV-connected to devices in this group only.
• All sequencer tracks and Main Mixer channel strips for the devices in the group.
! A Device Group is only defined by the connections between the devices - it has nothing to do with the physical
location of the devices in the rack.
By default, when you create an Instrument device, a new (or currently unused) Mix Channel device will be automati-
cally connected to the Instrument device, as described in “Creating devices”. In this situation, the Instrument device
and the connected Mix Channel device will now be considered a Device Group - with the Instrument device as the
Source device.
If you want to keep all devices in a Device Group physically together in the rack (e.g. if you want to move all devices
in the group), there is an option “Auto-group Devices and Tracks” on the Options menu.
The “Auto-group Devices and Tracks” option.
The advantage of using the “Auto -group Devices and Tracks” option is that it’s much easier to get a good visual over-
view over what devices are connected to each other and associated with specific sequencer tracks and with a spe-
cific channel strip in the Main Mixer. It’s also easier to rearrange devices in the rack since all devices in the Device
Group will move together if one device in the Device Group is moved.
The example below shows two ID8 devices connected to one Mix Channel device each. Let’s say you want to move
the ID8 1 device to another position in the rack. This is what will happen: