Unlink Send Faders (Stereo inear mix feature)

[pluckyduckParticipant]

Hi all,

i made severeal attempts to get this going and now seek for your support to get this feature implemented on QU Mixers (espcially QU-SB)

We need the option to unlink the sends separately when using linked channels.
Vote for it! We need it. 🙂

Why?
There might be a lot of other reasons why to do this, but my main goal is to be able to pan linked channels on the stereo monitor busses (Mix5-10), which i use primarily for inear mixes, which of course are best if run in stereo. If used in stereo i need to be able to distribute my channels in the mix. This is not possible for linked input channels (which i use a lot, as we have a lot of instruments running in stereo)
In other words:
If i link two input channels i loose the ability to pan those correctly in my monitor mixes.
Their pan pots are hard panned L/R which leaves them quite useless. Wasted. (but this is another story, so we don’t focus on that)

The only workaround to this would be to use the (send-)faders to mimic the panning.
This is possible for the main faders – these can be unlinked individually
But it’s not possible for the sends, as soon as a channel is linked.
As we loose a lot of comfort in editing if we have to unlink the channels completely, just to achieve that panning goal, we NEED the option to unlink the channel-sends separately!

Edit: If this feature is already requested somewhere else, point me there, i’ll vote for it!

best regards
Stefan

[GigaParticipant]

Damn, I was going to post a printscreen of the preference window you get when you press the “link” button but the forum won’t let me (file too big). Anyway, in the preferences, unlink pan et voilá…

Giga

[pluckyduckParticipant]

Hi giga,

thanks for your thoughts, but that doesn’t do the trick.
I’m aware of the unlink option for panning, and it’s true, that you can move the pan pots individually then, but this does not help!
All you achieve, is that you pan the right channel more to left (for example) but that does neither achieve what a normal panpot is doing nor what i intend to do.
It only results in collapsing the stereo image of the source! This is why i state: The panpots of a linked channel are totally wasted, as they MUST stay in full L/R Position to do what a linked (stereo) channel is intended for.

What we need to do is to lower the volume on one side (which is roughly spoken, what a normal panpot on a mono channel, or a true stereo channel does)

greets
Stefan

[GigaParticipant]

The only solution I can think of is splitting the stereo signal and sending the splits to 2 mono channels. Assign stereo to mains, assign mono splits to IEM mixes.

Giga

[pluckyduckParticipant]

I’m not quite sure, if i understand your advice, but as far as i know, the only solution to this now (on a QU-Series, especially a QU-SB) is to simply not linking the channels at all.
This remains / restores full control over both channels and i can handle them individually.
The downside to this is, that i have to edit all the other settings, that i would like to stay linked like EQ’s, Mutes, Gate, Compressor, … twice – once on each channel.

So this takes us back to my initial feature request. 🙂

Stefan

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