Global Set
The global set is present in every session by default, whether it's a session you've loaded from the library or one that you've created yourself. It functions just like a regular set, except it's always active, regardless of whether or not you have it open.
You can access the global set by clicking the "Global Set" button in the top-right corner of the app. You can tell whether or not you're in the global set because it has a distinctive blue background, as opposed to the grey background of any non-global set.
When To Use the Global Set
The global set is useful for various live performance situations. For example, say you have a vocal mic connected to your EVANS Portal that you'll be using for your whole performance, but you have a bunch of different sets with different sounds controlled by the drums. Rather than copying and pasting the Audio Insert module for this vocal mic into every set in your session, you can simply add a single Audio Insert to the global set. Now, you can switch sets and add new ones to your session without having to worry about whether it includes an audio insert module. This same principle applies to any module, from controllers to samplers to MIDI generators.
Global Set Mix View
In the mix view of the global set, there are 16 global submixes and one global main mix, which are automatically generated and always present. All sounds run through one or more of these mixes before being sent to a hardware output.
These global submixes are useful for adding effects that persist across your entire session. This can be a huge time-saver for sessions with lots of sets. Say you want to apply the same effect to all the sounds in oyur session. Rather than copying an instance of that effect to the mix bus of every set, you can simply add a single instace to the mix bus of your global set. Since all non-global sets automatically run thorugh the global set, this effect will be applied to every set.
Main Mix
The Main Mix of the global set is where you can control the overall volume of your session. This is useful for making sure that the overall volume of your session is consistent, even as you switch between sets.
There are two views in the Main Mix. You can see the layers in your global set and mix those in the Global Set Layers view. This view is just like in all other sets.
You can also see the incoming sets and mix those in the "Incoming Sets" view. This view is unique to the global set.
Every mix bus in the global set also has two views: "Submix Layers" where you can add layers to this submix from the Global Set.
And "Incoming Mixes" where you can see the layers that are coming into this mix from the corresponding submix of non-global sets.
