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cheers
dave

allen&heath iLive-144 /idr 64 / idr 48 (i am convinced audionate is not delivering coz i am a frank zappa fan)

Many points are valid.
I certainly, and many users and sound companies make capital investments. We can agree that the technology changes are even more rapid today. I do appreciate the opportunity to make suggestions and this forum is also a learning tool for many. If I would recommend anything other then bells & whistles and a feature set that is competitive to other models, I would ask that Allen & Heath officially create its own string or blog with regular interaction on upcoming (maybe not to specific) changes to the software. I see many points or feature suggestions in different topics, and maybe the messages get lost and or its simply not possible to do at this time. I appreciate many of the changes with the new version which are good upgrades. I, and maybe other users just don’t know what changes may or may not be coming, and we get disappointed quickly, which may even alter a decision point on a purchase. Our customers bands, churches, etc- have needs and requirements, and no system can match everyones desire 100%. However, I would like to be “excited” or hyped on something that could be coming…that is just marketing 101.

Cheers.

CRJ
Oswego, IL

T112 Surface
iDR48 Mix Rack
Sony F Series laptop
Win 7 500GB HD 8G RAM
Airport Extreme & Express
iPad 2 and Dante soon

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Originally posted by Tuejo

I´m in the market for 1-2 consoles more. If you do not get this sorted I will be forced to go with a Digidesign that will read any plug-in.

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Tuejo, don’t forget that the price for Digidesign is more than A&H. It is human to wont everything and more. We have the ability to buy a low priced digital A&H system. and after a while we wont all the same features you can find on the high priced desk.
IF you buy a LS9 yamaha that’s what you get, nothing more, even barely an feature upgrade.
I only wont to say : A&H put great effort to try to for fill all our needs but you can’t keep getting more and more for FREE.Maybe they will ad some features that come with a price?

Regards
Lieven

T112/IDR48/R72/IDR16/IPAD
Save a tree, eat a beaver

Hi,

We do listen to all feedback from all customers at shows, forums or through distribution. We note all requests – this is precisely why this forum exists and why several R&D engineers read this forum and contribute answers. We would also love to see all feature requests on iLive implemented – but resources are finite.

We have had requests for pitch shifting, possibly one previous request for the much more advanced auto-tune. Many many requests for ipad/iphone control, scene safes and of course dante.

We had a number of requests for gated-reverb, symphonic chorus, infrabass, parallel compression and dynamic fx level control, we implemented these, as you know.

A particular brand of phaser was implemented on iLive without request, simply since it was developed for another product. It involved harmonic emulation which will prove useful in future algorithm development.

The speaker matrix is research into exploring easier ways to control speakers at FOH. Engineers want to mix LR and worry about LR, LCR 4 or 5 way FOH at the venue depending on stage width – on the night. On traditional mixers this involves tweaking all channel pans and re configuration.
Furthermore sub bass management is another topic often discussed. I appreciate this may not seem as exciting as some FX but is important to move forward in the main mix. It was also development into extended IO capabilities of the fx rack.

Whilst we work on new algorithms and products, its very difficult to tell you whats coming up whilst things are being developed and not possibly proved working. Look at Dante. There have been issues in developing the hardware platform which have been beyond our control, the delay has frustrated some customers. We apologise.

I hope this helps.
RobC

Guys I think Rob and A&H in general should be applauded for having the bottle to produce such an innovative product at a lower price point.
It is impossible to have everything on a console, I am sure even the XL8 has foibles which I may not be happy with, The Digidesign certainly has. The product range taken as a whole is very comprehensive with some very interesting features, sure it does not have TC FX (for instance ) so insert your system 6000 the same as you did with your analogue console. I am sure as time goes on more of the features we request will appear, but we should also understand R&D budgets for the company are not infinite.
Should we not be a little more understanding?
Ian B.

I’ll add Kudos also for a great product. I haven’t even laid hands on one yet, but we ordered ours Tuesday. Should be here in the next couple of weeks. IMO the features it does have at it’s price point are incredible. And they definitely have a handle on making it as “future” proof as anything else out there. I can’t wait to get ours and see what else they come out with as time goes on.

Looking at a T112/48.

I & my colleagues & artistes love our iLive systems [] we changed from yamaha & Midas digital & analogue consoles and the overall improvement in audio quality has been noticeable to us & our clients.

I understand that in a perfect world there wouod be no need for external processing & dynamics; on-board provision would be total, however this is the real world and nothing is perfect is it? No of course not. Let’s give the A&H R&D guys a chance to prioritise new developments, this will take time but it will happen if recent updates are a guide.

Lastly this is a great product, the most recent update that introduced the parallel compression option has made turd polishing almost possible! Well done A&H!

I look forward to editor including an mp3 player so enabling playback at foh from media files stored on the laptop running it………..[]