Controller Assignments fun.....automation controlling the WRONG ch strips!

Hello all,
Further to L8 deleting an entire zone of Controller Assignments and my backups not in fact, having backed up my CA setting, I am rebuilding the Zone.
As a perfect example of just how BAD the CA aspect of L8(.01) remains: I have a brand new environment with 32x Audio Channel strips and 8x Aux Channel strips.
I have successfully mapped controls from my Axiom61 in groups of 8 to audio channel strips 1-8, 9-16, 16-24 but when I do EXACTLY the same thing (learn automation) for channels 25-32 and then exit learn mode, my Axiom is controlling AUX Channels 1-8 and NOT Audio ch 25-32!!!
I mean I have clicked on each audio ch fader (25-32) assigning controls for volume, pan and solo precisely the same as for the previous 24 channels yet Logic assigns these last controls to the WRONG ch strips - ie Aux channels 1-8!
WHY? Pourquoi? Porque? PLEASE!
Is my environment screwed? Is this something to do with L8 deleting my Zone yesterday?
Thank you all....

It depends on how you are learning them. An assignment to a particular channel strip can be done a number of ways - accessing only audio channels, accessing audio objects by an offset, accessing channels based on the current fader bank offset and so on.
What are your assignments set as? If you are assigning them as fixed audio objects, you shouldn't run into this. If you can provide more details as to your assignment parameters, I can have a look and see if I get the same behaviour, or see what's going on.
Note: couldn't you keep all your controller assignments issues to one thread? - it makes it easier to keep track of things and keeps them self-contained with all the relevant info, rather than having related isues split across multiple threads.

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