Problem with Quick start and scene

[Zybler]

Hi
We have a CQ18T in our rehearsal room at our church. I have set up and saved a scene for all instruments and all is fine. Problem is that almost every week someone has recalled a Quick start template and ruined all input Chanels. And because scene doesn’t save stereo link and EQ type I have to reconfigure the hole scene again.

There is a confusion in CQ where the Quick start templates is basically a show and scenes won’t work after recalling a template. There is no way to save different shows unless you have a USB-memory. I understand that A&H use same terminology as their larger consoles but in this smal unit it only add problems.

My suggestion is that you get rid of the “shows” layer and save everything to scenes. That way the quick start won’t destroy the settings for scenes.

Quick start is a good feature if I could edit which template that’s in there. It would be great if I could save a scene as a template (when scenes saves everything). The default templates is impressive as demo for CQ but hardly ever useful in real gig situation.

[Enriquerf]

Hey,

I totally agree, I use my CQ20B as My main Home Studio Interface (Quite happy with the setup) and also as my bands portable mixer for IEMS, occasionally also for feeding Mains at smaller gigs. I have a scene for my studio setup and scenes for my band setups. As you can imagine the input stereo link setups are quite different from one another and i just don’t get why scenes wouldn’t also recall these settings. Recall safes to select what should recalled, would open a ton of possibilities!!!

Also I always try to keep with me and regularly update a USB with configs, shows or scenes from different Mixers have worked with. It has saved me many times from catastrophe, one time someone at work fiddled with the light console and mixer, somehow everything got messed up…. The USB backup brought it back and I was up and running in minutes.

Last update was headed in the right direction in my opinion, adding mute groups, DCAs, plus custom layers! I would be set with a better recall system!

[Simon]

The Problem with overwriting the stereo-inputs, when loading new scenes, could be solved with ganging.

[Zybler]

And how do you suggest that done in CQ18T? There is no ganging in the CQ-series.

[Dor Seidel Thom]

I mainly save my settings in “shows” on a USB stick and only variants of them in “scenes”. I bought a very small USB stick (e.g. Store & Stay Verbatim nano) that always stay plugged.

@simon: what do you mean abaout “ganging”

[Zybler]

“I mainly save my settings in “shows” on a USB stick and only variants of them in “scenes”.”

Yes there is a way around the problem but my point is that the structure with Shows and Scenes is way to complex for a small mixer like CQ. It’s not easy to instruct everyone to load a show and then load the correct scene when they clicked on a Quick Start template by mistake.

The big problem is that Input/Output Stereo Linking is saved on Show level and not in the scene. That’s why the Quick start destroys the scene I’m using for the rehearsal room.

[3ManCult]

Interesting – I didn’t know everything is NOT saved with “scenes”

[SQuser]

Detailed informations can also be found in the manual on page 29.

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