Ok..., well it now looks like I'm not going to be able to use the Mixer Presets the way I wanted because it appears as if I'm not able to reassign the audio stereo pairs to a second configuration. Yes, I can change the assignment, but that change would apply to all the Presets, not one assignment per Preset.
As I now understand it, the General Settings, Audio Device and Channels window is where the stereo pairs are set up. By default on this window, chanel 0001 & 0002 are pair 1, channels 0003 & 0004 are set to pair 2 etc... Because of the large number of speakers I have, they are all fairly close together, so I set channels 0001 & 0003 as pair 1 by using the drop down arrow of audio channel 002, and changing it to device channel 0003. I did similar for pair 2 as well by changing audio channel 003 to device channel 0002. This puts channel 1 & 3 together and channel 2 & 4 together as pairs, which is what I needed.
The problem is that all the Presets appear to use just this 1 configuration. I was hoping to have 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 in Preset 1, and 1 & 3 and 2 & 4 in Preset 2 (this is a drastic over simplification of the changes I made, but it explains my problem).
Am I going about this the wrong way, and is there another place where I should be doing this or is HW5's routing really limited in this way?
I have noticed one other odd thing on the Audio Device and Channel window (which leads me to think I'm missing something), and that is that the 'Audio output (device) channel(s)', 'Channel(s)' drop down arrow displays channels 1 & 2 as a pair, and channels 2 & 3 as a pair, and channels 3 & 4 as a pair etc... which does not make sense to me, so maybe I'm missing something. Is there a reason for this semi-duplication of channels?
Martin, clarification would be appreciated
Thanks,
Mel Piercey.