Adjusting Multiple Controls

Multiple controls may be grouped and then adjusted simultaneously in a number of different ways.

• "Control Grouping" controls

• Temporarily grouped controls

• Permanently grouped controls

There are advantages and disadvantages to each type of control grouping/linking.

Control Grouping provides the easiest way to manipulate multiple controls that share identical control settings.  The big difference between Control Grouping, and other types of grouped controls, is that Control Grouping allows you to NAME a specific set of controls, and identify and gesture all controls that are a part of that named group.  Control Grouping is also how remote users can control many features of MediaMatrix 3.0, via RATC, RAMM, PASHA, and WebStatus.

Use temporarily grouped controls where you only want to adjust a certain group of controls on a single occasion, or infrequently, simultaneously affecting all grouped controls in a relative manner (ie. without the same value overall, with gain or loss adjusted up or down relatively).

Use permanently grouped controls where you want to permanently group controls in a relative manner.

Use Control Grouping (also called parameter linking) to gang multiple controls, so they always have the SAME value (ie. not a relative value with a grouped offset).

It is VERY IMPORTANT to realize the significant differences between temporarily and permanently grouping controls in Edit mode, and in Control mode.  When controls are grouped in Edit mode (using the "Group" command from the "Tools" menu), this results in the device's location on the screen being grouped.  That is, when one control is moved to a different location on the screen, the other control(s) it is grouped with will move with it.  THIS DOES NOT GROUP THEIR SETTINGS!  In order to do this, you must switch to Control mode, select the objects again, and then select "Group" again from the "Tools" menu.  The reason for this, is so a control can be a member of one group in the Edit mode, and another group in the Control mode.  If you want to achieve this, simply omit grouping the controls in either Edit or Control mode, as desired.  Both of these types of grouping only affect the specific copy of the control being grouped, and not all the copies of a given control.

These distinctions do not apply to controls that are grouped via Control Grouping.