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E-MEM Preferences
There are nowhere near enough "Master E-Mem Enable Buttons" (15) for all the things you want to control with E-Mems. Don't waste buttons with things you never want to change in a show. For example, map the Colour Background generators to the PgmPst button.
Except for M/E Primary partitions, you can assign any apparatus to any level. So you could assign (for example) Still Store 1 and Still Store 2 to the "M/E 1" level. This would Learn and Recall the contents of these two Still Stores whenever you operated the "M/E 1" level, including when you used the local "M/E 1" E-Mem subpanel (not just by the Master E-Mem sunpanel). Stop and think about this - it's a powerful concept. Now read on.
One advantage of this would be that a complex timeline with pauses that involves an M/E and multiple other devices (such as Still Stores, DDRs etc) can be Run using the M/E's E-Mem "Run" button, while other timelines could be used from the Master E-Mem panel - without disrupting the paused timeline on the M/E.
If you use "Split" mode (the Double Take option), you may want to have the Secondary Partition mapped to separate "Enable" buttons on the Master E-Mem subpanel. It seems "natural" to use the "Misc 1" level for the "M/E 1 Secondary" partition, "Misc 2" for "M/E 2 Secondary" etc. If you haven't got the Double Take option, but have more "Enable" buttons than you require, try to keep these Misc levels 1-4 free, in case you later get the option. That way you won't have to change your practices (and E-Mems) when the upgrade arrives.
In my (limited and humble) experience, I often Split M/E1 or M/E2 into "mini-M/E"s, with each Partition separatedly recalled by E-Mems from the Master E-Mem subpanel; four "Enable" buttons (ME1, ME2, Misc1, Misc2) to control four "mini-M/E"s. M/E3, however, I leave as a full-function M/E with the Secondary Partition assigned to the ME3 button; recalls for M/E3 (if I ever Split it) would recall both Partitions simultaneously. Similarly, I have never needed to recall the Pgm/Pst Secondary partition independently of a Primary Partition recall. As a result, I have not mapped the Secondary Partitions of M/E3 and PP to the Misc3 and Misc4 Enable buttons. (My reason for Splitting M/E1 and M/E2 is that on a K4 (large) control surface, those M/E's are furthest away from me, and I typically use them for "set-and-forget" effects or things I recall only from the Master E-Mem panel. On a K2 (compact) control surface, I often split M/E2 into set-and-forget mini-M/Es, and delegate my two physical M/E Banks to M/E1 and PP.)
Even if not mapped to a Master E-Mem enable, an M/E secondary partition can be independently learned or recalled from the M/E's local E-Mem by delegating the red "Sec" button first.
If you use Aux busses to (manually) feed an external DPM, map those to the "DPM" Enable button. The DPM button can and should also be used when you are controlling a DPM via CPL.
Partition Boundary: For each M/E, you can determine which Master E-Mem Enable button is used to change whether the M/E is Split or not. When assigned to the M/E1 Level, an E-Mem recall of M/E1 (primary) can change M/E1 out of Split mode, or back into it. When assigned to M/E1-Sec, the M/E Mode setting is recalled with whichever button has the Secondary partition mapped (or when the red "Sec" button is active on the local M/E). If the Partition Boundary is set to "Not Assigned", the M/E Mode is unaffected by E-Mem recalls; you would manually change it from the "M/E | Mode" menu. In this way, one control surface could operate an M/E's Primary partition, and another control surface could operate an M/E's Secondary partition, and there would be almost total independence between the two.
Don't assign Aux busses that you don't intend to control with E-Mems. (They can be set to "None".)
The "SSA", "SSB" and "SSC" Enable buttons confuse some people. They are just buttons, to which you can assign any apparatus. Standard configuration assigns Still Stores 1 & 2 to the "SSA" button. This means that whenever an E-Mem or Timeline involves the "SSA" button, the Still number currently being shown on Still Stores 1 and 2 will be memorised. (Just the number is memorised. If that number is subsequently deleted, there is nothing to recall. Similarly, if you replace that Still with a different image on the same number, the new image is recalled with the E-Mem. And if you change file folders in the Still Store, there may be a different image recalled if it has the same number.) Still Stores 3 & 4 are assigned to "SSB", and the four remaining Still Stores are all lumped together under "SSC". You can change this if you like. Here's a learning exercise for you: Map Still Store 1 to the "SSA" level and Still Store 2 to the "SSB" level. Then "Pair" these two Still Stores, and recall a "Cutout" (which will send the key signal to SS2). With only the "SSA" level enabled, learn an E-Mem. Change the contents of both Still Stores, and then try a recall of the E-Mem. Did the key signal get recalled to SS2 successfully? What conclusions can you draw about Still Store mapping from this simple exercise? (You won't find the answer on this site - I have to leave some work for you to do.)
From software version 11, you have the ability to assign the recall of a Macro to one of the Master E-Mem Enable buttons. A Macro can recall an E-Mem. I wonder what happens if E-Mem 05 recalls a macro that recalls E-Mem 05 ???
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