🟦Clip groups

You'll notice that each clip has a coloured outline, and this colour represents which group it's in. The APC40 clip buttons also light up in the relevant group colour.

Group 1	Cyan
Group 2	Orange
Group 3	Red
Group 4	Indigo
Group 5	Green

The group system is very flexible and it allows you to :

• Keep clips in one group going, while you toggle groups in another one

• Quickly assign zones and X/Y flips to all clips within a group

• Set Flash mode for a clip (Group 3 is set to Flash mode by default)

• Set the default transition in/out times that can be inherited by clips, or over-ridden.

It's up to you how you use the group system, but if you have a lot of zones/lasers, it can be helpful to use the different groups for different groups of lasers. But it's up to you! As a starting point, this is how I generally use the groups :

Group 1	Cyan	The default group for the most commonly used beam zones.
Group 2	Orange	The secondary group of laser beam zones
Group 3	Red	Assigned to flash mode, live played, usually fast stabs of light
Group 4	Indigo	Slower mellower clips with a slow default fade in and out
Group 5	Green	Graphics / canvas clips

The Group buttons

The Group buttons are down the right hand side of the clip deck, and when you activate one, you can :

• assign clips to a group

• change the zone settings and x/y flip for all clips in the group

To activate the group button :

• Press and hold the group button on the APC40

• Mouse click the on screen group button. Click again to toggle off.

You can easily assign clips to the group by pressing them while the group button is active. (Another way to assign a group is with the clip's right click menu).

Change zone settings for all clips within a group

When a group button is active, you’ll see the zone buttons (BEAM 1 - 8, CANVAS 1, etc) light up as follows :

• OFF : this zone is not set for any of the clips in that group

• FLASHING : this zone is set for some but not all of the clips in the group

• ON : this zone is set for all of the clips in the group

Press the zone button to activate and deactivate that zone in all the clips in the group.

The exact same concept applies for the X/Y flip buttons.