It just comes down to how A&H has set up the architecture of this board. Certainly if enough people ask for this feature, they might add it in the future.
I have two thoughts on this however. First, it is much more common to want to add “out of the box” FXs to the individual channels than a group of channels because you probably aren’t as limited with regard to the number of available FX channels. For example, it is better to add reverb to each individual drum channel (or vocal channel) than it is to combine multiple channels into a single FX/aux send and add a single reverb to the whole group of drums (or vocals). We rarely want to use up 5-10 internal reverbs for our drum shells which is why we use the FX buss instead of inserts. But when we are “out of the box”, it isn’t as big of a concern and using 5-10 drum reverbs this way isn’t as big a deal – especially with snapshots, etc.
Second, this is really just a limitation on some consoles (obviously it does effect the SQ series). On the Avantis and DLive models, you set the buss architecture up however you want it. So using an aux send to route things to an “out of the box” solution like Waves or Liveprofessor instead of trying to use an internal FX send works just fine and doesn’t change the total number of busses being used due to the flexible buss structure of those two product lines. Obviously it is a little different on the SQ series because the architecture is hardcoded. You can’t change a FX send to be a Aux send like you can on the higher product lines.
ioTon 1 year, 2 months ago.
