Would this work?
Assign whichever channels to Grp 1&2 creating a mix. Pan Grp 1&2 hard Left and assign to Mix 5&6. This effectively gets sent mono out of the left side of Mix 5&6.
Create another mix using Grp 3&4 and pan hard Right. Assign to Mix 5&6 and this will be sent out of Mix 6 (the right side of Mix 5&6)
Essentially,
Grp 1&2>Mix 5
Grp 3&4>Mix 6
Grp 5&6>Mix 7
Grp 7&8>Mix 8
Matrix 1&2>Mix 9
Matrix 3&4>Mix 10
Yes, you sacrifice sub groups and matrices BUT if you need to supply a separate mix to 10 people on stage this seems like the way to do it.
I’m going to try this later today unless someone first explains why this wouldn’t work…cheers!
Besides the fact that you can’t feed channels into Matrix directly, you’ll produce different latencies between mix1…4 and mix5…10 and Groups do have a Balance control instead a Pan, this may work.
However, I’d still prefer the classic way and use the channel pan on stereo mixes to control to which mix the channel should be sent.
Groups can be run as mixes anyway.
So, mixes 1-4, 5, 7, & 9 , then the groups 1, 3 & 5
Does that work?
What physical output would you use for the groups?
Their own if I had a QU-32, or some from the AR2412 if using the QU-Pac
What you want is just to split the stereo link or not…period
AH should have included that. Its been on other consoles for a long time.