building a group of faders...!!! 31.2   but they still have to be adjacent to each other?  ("but is limited to operate horizontally within one row... Is this in the Matrix??? or on the mixing board..?? whereas in DP, I can place all the 'drums' next to each other, regardless of where the inputs are....  but correct me if I'm wrong, adjusting the level in DP  doesn't change the fader(s) on the FF mixer? or does it?  I'm having a hard time figuring out how/whether I mix a song from DP or FF mixer?

this is definitely different from ProTools, everything was controlled through PT, ... do I turn of FF mixer when I get to mixing mode? Or do I mute all my individual  (analog 3 -8) outputs in the DP session so everything in the session runs through 1/2 (which is actually going to my monitors via SPDIF

sorry for seeming a bit dense, but having 2 virtual mixers is throwing me a bit

I understand the matrix is basically like a patch bay (at least I think that's what it's akin to)

that was helpful... I notice when he mentions mono outs, he only selects the ADAT outputs, can I do the same with Analog outs 3-8?  Ideally, that's what I want to do (My headphone mixes are summed mono, seems to work best for most folks, anything too hard panned throws them off, all they want is individual levels up (which vary's greatly from player to player), drummer seldom needs any drums in his/her headphone mix, but wants lots of bass, everyone wants vocals, especially the vocalist, etc

SPDIF is used for control room

as to paired outputs... that's probably less of an issue- if I set all paired /mono outs the same, I can control individually on my matrix mixer I typically need 4 - 5 individual headphone mixes

seems to be looking better every hour!!!!

so IF I select (example) bass-input 4 x output 3 in the matrix and leave the pan at 12:00 on the 3/4 pair , then bass only shows up on 3? Then I could just patch (physical_) from analog 3 to my headphone matrix (It has mono "injects")?

it just dawned on me (perhaps incorrect) but how I rout the output in DP has no bearing on FF mixer, so I can just set up DP sessions to all go to 1/2... or do I send that to SPDIF fro the control room?  all the headphone mix routing is handled by the FF mixer? so I don't need elaborate outputs in DP (in PT is required separate mono master faders be set up), and even at the lowest buffer there was a slight /noticeable latency (sounded almost like heavy reverb with a very fast decay, or very short slap delay)... it was a bit strange to get used to

if that's correct, things just improved greatly over ProTools!