4 – Routing & assignment : Channel-to-buss assignment64 TASCAM DM-4800 User’s Manualsends to the appropriate destinations, in an easygraphical solution.Use the POD 3 encoder to select banks of eight chan-nel modules at a time, and the display changes asthese are selected. You can also select busses ingroups of eight, as well as the aux sends (see below).Use the wheel or left and right cursor keys to navi-gate round the screen (you can also use the SEL keysor fader selection), and the ENTER key to assign andde-assign busses or the stereo (ST) or direct outputs(DIR) (not shown above, as the direct outputs are notavailable for channels 49 through 64). As you makeand break these assignments, the indicators by thecontrol surface keys mirror the screen settings (andthe other way round).Pan switch There is an invisible “pan switch”which links and unlinks pairs of busses (this alsodepends on the linked pan mode).When this switch is set, and busses are linked, theyare also joined for panning and they are assigned inpairs.However, when this switch is not set, the buss pairscan be split for individual assignment.• Pressing and holding the SHIFT key whilepressing one of the ASSIGN keys operates asplit or join function on a buss pair, allowingbusses to be individually assigned when split.In Figure 4.5, Buss assignment screen (linked bus-ses), channels 49 through 51 have the busses linked(except for 1 and 2 on channel 50). The other bussesare separated.The linked pan mode (“BUSS Link/BUSS PANMode are Linked” on page 44) also determineswhether splitting a buss pair either splits the bussesfor channels individually (as in the example screenabove), or all together for all channels. When thisparameter is set off, buss pairs may be split individu-ally, and when it is on, buss pairs are split together.Note that buss assignment is also connected to mod-ule linking. When two channels are linked, assigningone of the linked channels to a buss also links theother channel 2 to the buss.Figure 4.5: Buss assignment screen (linkedbusses)
