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2017/04/13 at 3:30 am #62860Scott SParticipant
Has anyone used any particular hardware control surface as a remote for Qu-SB or Qu-Pac? Just wondering how possible that is. I’m just realizing that since I have an AB-168 (mostly to remote my preamps to stage so I can have the Qu-16 at FOH, I could for fairly reasonable money get a Qu-SB and expand to 32 mic inputs and more mixes and functionality. Not sure I’m ready to give up physical faders, though.
2017/04/13 at 4:28 am #62861AnonymousInactiveI have used a BCF2k to provide me with 8 faders – and a RasPi, running android, with a touchscreen monitor and Mixing Station Pro loaded – this gave me a way to have layers on the BCF2k, and use the other controls as well.
More complex Midi devices would also work (MIDI/USB supported by Mixing Station)
I’d like to be able to (ab)use a QU16 in that role
2017/04/13 at 5:16 am #62862Scott SParticipantThe thought had occurred to me to try and use the Qu-16 as a glorified control surface in DAW Control mode or something.
I have Mixing Station Pro on an Android tablet…I’ll have to check out the hardware connectivity options. That’s starting to sound a bit hacky, though. I was thinking more along the lines of an actual MCU or equivalent from Presonus or Behringer. I guess we don’t have MCU compatibility, though.
Thanks for the input.
2017/04/13 at 12:38 pm #62864AnonymousInactiveUSB isn’t particularly hacky, OTG will work from a tablet (though you lose power input)
2017/04/13 at 2:26 pm #62866Dick ReesParticipantScott…
I felt the same way about shifting from the phsical surface to using an iPad. Now that there are THREE custom layers, I find I actually prefer using the remote app. I think you’ll find the options for a physical-faderd remote to be 10x as cumbersome as the Qu-pad app and the connctivity more of a kludge…or maybe not.
I think if you try the Qu-pad, you’ll be like a duck in water.
2017/04/13 at 2:53 pm #62868Scott SParticipantI regularly use the Qu-Pad app for when I’m running sound for others, and yes, get along with it just fine…but when on stage playing I feel more comfortable and am faster with faders to grab. I may just bite the bullet and deal with it…or just continue to use the Qu-16 when I’m in those situations. I don’t need the extra input channels for anything I play in, but it would be awesome to have the additional FX returns and groups without having to burn mix outputs for FX returns 3 & 4 as I do with the Qu-16.
Do you find that the extra custom layers make it easier to use the Qu-Pad app, or do you mean it makes it MORE cumbersome to use the physical mixer?
Again, thanks for the input.
2017/04/13 at 3:00 pm #62869AndreasModeratorIf you’re on Qu-Pac/SB just for the output sockets, please note that you only get group and matrix outputs from a dSnake box. The Qu-Pac/SB itself only provides the same 10 Mix sockets as the Qu16 does.
But, yes, the Qu-Pac/SB provide four FX units instead of 2 on Qu16, if that’s the goal.2017/04/13 at 3:02 pm #62870Scott SParticipantRight, and as noted in the original post, I already have an AB-168, which makes the incremental cost to get those additional inputs, buses, and outputs fairly attractive.
2017/04/13 at 9:40 pm #62873AnonymousInactiveWhere are you based, you look to have most of the kit required for a test
2017/04/13 at 10:07 pm #62875Scott SParticipantJust outside of Kansas City, Missouri, in the US. A test of what?
2017/04/14 at 3:59 am #62881Mike CParticipantI have had my QU Pac for just about a year and for 95% of what I do I do not miss faders. For the series of school class plays I do I did bring out my GL2400 this year.
I have installed four QU series boards and during the install I mentioned that the Qu Pad App was actually as easier way to operate the board, after following up with the operators at those installs all agreed that I was right and said they rarely even touch the board. I installed QU Pacs at two funeral homes and for them they use the Q Control
presets I set up on their phones and iPads as much if not more than the full QU pad App.2017/04/14 at 4:14 am #62882Scott SParticipantI’ve tried to reply twice, and it hasn’t shown up yet [XAP]Bob, I don’t know what “test” you’re referring to. I’m dead in the middle of Midwest US.
2017/04/14 at 2:18 pm #62883AndreasModeratorFor any strange reason the forum scanner interpreted that post as spam, I’ve just made it visible.
2017/04/14 at 4:49 pm #62885AnonymousInactiveAnyone here have a BCF2k in that area?
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