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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Leviss" data-source="post: 32070" data-attributes="member: 216">Re: DM2000 &quot;VCA&#039;s&quot;Kristian, that&#039;s out of date and/or misinformed. There are two modes on these consoles ever since v2. In the Group screen, there is a Group Master Fader checkbox. Check that, and your groups work like VCAs, except that you can only assign a channel to a single group, unlike real VCAs. To use them, you assign the group masters to fader on user assignable layers.As Jake suggested, you&#039;re beat to use all four UA banks, and assign the masters to the same faders in each, and let the other faders &quot;flip&quot;.To answer Jake&#039;s question about recall safe, the Yamaha guys designing these consoles felt that group assignments were part of the fader chain, so to safe those, you must not safe the fader. Limits your control granularity a bit, which is one of the console&#039;s downsides, but more often than not, I&#039;m recalling faders anyway.It&#039;s confusing, because there is a separate safe for the masters, but that only controls the the master levels, not assignments. And it&#039;s buggy, sometimes there&#039;s a glitch in the console and it will jump even though they&#039;re safed. But that&#039;s a whole &#039;nother story, and I&#039;ve been around the block with the helpful folks at Yamaha&#039;s non-emergency support multiple times to get this acknowledged, let alone fixed, and it&#039;s worse than beating my head against a brick wall.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andy Leviss, post: 32070, member: 216"] Re: DM2000 "VCA's" Kristian, that's out of date and/or misinformed. There are two modes on these consoles ever since v2. In the Group screen, there is a Group Master Fader checkbox. Check that, and your groups work like VCAs, except that you can only assign a channel to a single group, unlike real VCAs. To use them, you assign the group masters to fader on user assignable layers. As Jake suggested, you're beat to use all four UA banks, and assign the masters to the same faders in each, and let the other faders "flip". To answer Jake's question about recall safe, the Yamaha guys designing these consoles felt that group assignments were part of the fader chain, so to safe those, you must not safe the fader. Limits your control granularity a bit, which is one of the console's downsides, but more often than not, I'm recalling faders anyway. It's confusing, because there is a separate safe for the masters, but that only controls the the master levels, not assignments. And it's buggy, sometimes there's a glitch in the console and it will jump even though they're safed. But that's a whole 'nother story, and I've been around the block with the helpful folks at Yamaha's non-emergency support multiple times to get this acknowledged, let alone fixed, and it's worse than beating my head against a brick wall. [/QUOTE]

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