Tascam Digital Audio Production Environment SX-1 Reference Manual

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Groups
It’s possible to group any of the mixer channels 
(including aux, effect sends, busses, and MIDI chan-nel faders) in two different ways, as stereo pairs or 
groups containing master and slave faders.
VGA Fader Groups
The GROUPS module of the CHANNEL screen gives you 
direct control over the selected channel’s associated 
fader groups.
Press 
CHANNEL in the MAIN DISPLAY MODES sec-
tion to find this module. From here you can add and 
delete...

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Understanding Group Masters
Group Masters are faders that are dedicated control-
lers. No signal actually passes through them - they 
merely control a group of slave faders. The benefit of 
using a Group Master instead of a regular mixer 
channel as a master fader is that you don’t waste a 
mixer channel controlling your slaves.
There are eight dedicated Group Masters.
They show up in the Return/Group preset fader bank 
(pictured here—press the 
RTN/...

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Fader Banks
The 16 mixer faders allow level control over all of 
the SX-1’s audio and MIDI channels. The faders 
themselves are not hardwired to a particular channel, 
but instead are able to control whatever channel to 
which they are assigned (including the obvious 32 
mixer inputs, sends and returns, busses, and MIDI 
tracks).All the different types of channels can be recalled to 
the actual faders in “banks” of 16 at a time. These 
banks are...

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VGA Fader Banks
In the FADER BANK section each key has an associ-
ated VGA screen. The User Bank screens reflect 
your own custom bank setups (explained in the fol-
lowing pages).
From the 
MAIN DISPLAY MODE section, press 
MIXER/ USER BANKS and then the preset fader bank screen you would like to view: Channels 1 –32 
(in two groups of 16), Return/Group, Buss/Aux, and 
all the MIDI channel banks (in four groups of 16 
channels each for a total of 64...

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USER Fader Banks
From the MAIN DISPLAY MODES section, press 
MIXER/ USER BANKS. Make sure that the BANK 
MODE
 LED is set to  (if not, press BANK 
MODE)
. Then select the User Bank key for the user 
bank screen you want to view.The example below has several different channel 
types arranged on a single screen and saved as a User 
Bank for quick recall.
Creating a User Fader bank (VGA)
To create a User Fader bank in the VGA Mixer screen, 
first make...

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User Fader Banks (LCD)
Press SHIFT on the keypad and then the MIXER/ 
USER BANKS
 key in the MAIN DISPLAY MODE 
section. This recalls the 
USER BANKS screens.
PREV BANK Scrolls forward to the next User 
Bank.
NEXT BANK Scrolls back to the previous User 
Bank.
BOTH NAMES Allows the display of both the pre-
set system names and user defined names.
ASSIGN SEL CHAN Selects a channel to be 
edited.
SET TO DEFAULT Returns the currently selected 
User Bank...

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Channel Overview Screens
The Overview screens are recalled by pressing the 
OVERVIEW key in the MAIN DISPLAY MODE sec-
tion, and then clicking on the corresponding tab for 
the overview you want to see. These screens show all 
the signals running through the mixer at a glance.
TIP
The Overview screens can also be recalled from the View 
menu on the VGA screen’s Main Menu Bar.
VGA Buss Overview Screen
The returns, mix busses, aux sends, and Master...

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LCD Buss Overview Screen
Press OVERVIEW from the MAIN DISPLAY MODE 
section, then press the 
BUSS soft key.Use this screen to view the fader positions of the 
channel busses, group masters, Aux sends, cue and 
L/R Master busses. The pan positions for the channel 
busses are also shown.
LCD Mixer Overview Screen
Press OVERVIEW from the MAIN DISPLAY MODE 
section, then press the 
MIXER soft key.This screen shows the fader and pan positions for all 
of...

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VGA Input Overview Screen
All 32 of the mixer channel inputs are displayed in 
this overview.
TIP
The meters of the SX-1’s VGA screens are able to display 
three signal weights at once: Peak, Average, and Cur-
rent. The white dot to the right of the meter (when sig-
nal is present) is RMS (or Average), the peak LED that holds for a few seconds is Peak, and the regular meter 
shows current amplitude (Current).
Incidentally, the speed of meter...

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Chapter 13 – Automation
Understanding Modes & States
The SX-1 can write automation moves to any of the 
mixer’s controls, including: faders, mute, pan, sur-
round, EQ, dynamics, aux sends, buss assign, cue 
and library recall. Automation can also be written to 
the effect plug-ins’ parameters.
The automation functions are best understood when 
broken into two categories - those functions that are 
global in scope and those that are controller...