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2024/04/19 at 1:59 pm #121451
Take a look at that X32/M32, though, and you’ll realise that its LCD scribble strips are streets ahead of the SQ’s dreadful ones – they’re legible, for a start, have a 12 character label limit, and can show much more info.
It’s definitely an area where A&H went cheap, just like not having a RTC on board.
2024/04/08 at 9:55 pm #121197How would you propose fixing it to the CQ?
Why not just get a free-standing tablet holder?
2023/10/07 at 2:25 pm #115472+1 (to the more moderate option of greying out or indicating with a $/£ sign that an effect is premium and needs to be purchased)
2023/10/07 at 2:20 pm #115471Yup, agreed, doubt it’s even feasilble.
And better stands/mounting is a much better solution, i.e., resolving the root cause.
2023/10/03 at 2:29 pm #115337@tetrasoundlab – I mentioned in my opening post why A&H choose not to store/recall stereo/mono settings in scenes.
It’s also explained on p57 of the SQ User Manual.
That doesn’t stop it being, as you say, both irritating and confusing. This thread was intended to explore the possibility of making this feature recallable in scenes, and has had some informative input, above, from Keith@A&H
2023/09/24 at 7:47 pm #115110Whilst I agree that a label would be great, if I’ve read your use case correctly, wouldn’t you be well served by linking your two channels into a stereo channel and using the width control?
This is what I do when I want a stereo source to be “less wide” – works very well.
2023/09/19 at 9:38 am #114969+1
It’s always surprised me that A&H never ensured that they matched/aced X32 on as many features as they could. There’s so much that’s head & shoulders better, but then silly things like this, no expander, rubbish scribble strips and the like that stop SQ from running away in every area.
2023/08/28 at 9:57 pm #114411I’m all for the most “rude” indicators that SoF is on, and don’t believe that the Bus LED is enough. Mixing Station can be configured so that all faders flash in inverted colour when SoF is active – that’s how I like it – not pretty, but dead clear what’s going on.
SQ using flashing LED strips would be a pretty good way to achieve this.
2023/07/14 at 11:30 pm #113694It is a major irritation, particularly in small shared venues.
You might do well to follow this change request, where discussion is a little more positive than the usual “you can’t, just use shows, or gang channels” – neither of which are brilliant workarounds.
2023/06/21 at 3:37 pm #113401Yes, I only discovered the ducker today after someone else pointed it out.
Great to have, on the odd occasion it’s needed. As would be an expander in the Gate section, of course…
2023/06/12 at 3:42 pm #113295Thanks Keith,
That’s the first response I’ve seen on this topic which seems to care about the need, and explain the subtleties between platforms. Makes sense that SQ is quicker than other platforms to reconfigure, but that A&H treat them all the same.The stereo pool idea has some mileage, where the desk is for a single operator. But, in house usage, with a team of engineers, all with different workflows, it’s still subpar.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the stereo channels – both for inputs, where they save channel strips, and just work, and for outputs where stereo ears are required. It’s that they’re not in scenes – it’s less that I want them to come in when I recall a scene, but what I really don’t want is the left over assignments from the last person.
Great to hear that this is now being considered, rather than the original “it can’t be done” response. I won’t hold my breath, but this would resolve one of the gotchas that all of my team get bitten by from time to time on our SQ7.
2023/06/11 at 11:12 pm #113285So, I bought this whole thing about mono/stereo assignments requiring changes to the XCVI core, interrupting audio.
I’ve recently done some testing of changing mono/stereo assignments with audio passing through the desk, and have *never* been able to discern any audible interruption to audio.
Come on A&H, it’s really time that you faced the challenge on issues like this, which make SQ so much more irritating to use as a house desk.
2023/05/01 at 3:43 pm #112669Tobi wrote:
SLink and dSnake are protocols to send audio streams and control messages to the preamps
To be pedantic (a.k.a. accurate), SLink isn’t a protocol, it’s a connection port that supports multiple protocols – dSnake/ME, DX, gigaACE/GX.
This video summarises SLink very concisely
2023/05/01 at 2:33 pm #112666Hugh said:
We have beat this request to death over and over in the past and IMO, A&H have made an appropriate decision to offer their best world class processing only with tactile controls with ancillary Wifi controls for both entry level up to the flag ship D-Live and all FPGA offerings in between.
Not quite so, while D-Live comes as a Mixrack & Controller system, there’s nothing to stop you going out with just the Mixrack.
Nottooloud said
Personally, I’d love to see an SQ version of Behringer’s Midas M32C. Mixer brain with all the control ports and a bit of mix position I/O. Leverage my stageboxes.
I’m with you. While I’d assumed that what we’d want is an SQ5 with no control surface, a brains-only box makes more sense, as it has the flexibility of using whatever IO you already have.
2023/05/01 at 2:14 pm #112665I concur that the workaround is completely workable – it’s what I’ve been using.
It makes absolute sense to have a softkey set up for SQ drive recording. Even better, the flashing/colour of the softkey makes it very apparent what state the recording is in – which was a very pleasant surprise.
With that set up, it’s a piece of cake to use the softkey in SQ MixPad.
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