Confusion with the numbering system whilst pairing multiple channels?

[borez]

OK, I was doing some 80 input gig the other night with the Venue and the monitor guy and myself were trying to follow the channel list ( via comms ) as more and more stereo feeds were being added on the fly ( lots of VT and playback stuff going on )

So... I'm logically following the patch list on the board, but every time I pair the channels the numbers shift i.e channel 19 and 20 become one channel and the next spare channel flips from being channel 21 to becoming channel 20?? Therefore my channels no longer match up with my input list, not a problem normally, but with 7 or 8 stereo channels this becomes confusing as hell. What should be channel 50 is now showing as channel 42.

I've asked digi for an option to correct this, but in the meantime does anyone have a logical workaround that doesn't involve un-pairing all the stereo channels.