[benmannellParticipant]

Yes please another +1 for DCA metering. It’s so helpful!

[benmannellParticipant]

I hate to be a negative Nelly, but after a brief attempt to use a DLive for theatre it’s clear it wasn’t developed with an understanding of how theatre is mixed in mind.
No “ABCD” toggle option.
Can’t insert a scene!?
Faders jump without showing scene fade times…
Oh dear.

[benmannellParticipant]

We are in New Zealand, so our pricing might not be very relevant. But I can confirm we just got the replacement PSU from our distributor, and installed it ourselves. It’s a fairly easy swap if you are careful.

[benmannellParticipant]

In the end we replaced the whole PSU and the desk seems to be fixed now.

[benmannellParticipant]

Yep I’ve found the on-screen diagnostics. But I was hoping for crash logs, e.g. “Internal temp too hot, powering console off now!”
The DAC seems to sit around 55-60 deg C – I’m not sure if that’s normal?

It boots fine currently, and has been running continuously in the workshop for a few days.

My dealer wants to replace the PSU, which is not cheap. They gave no comment about diagnostic crash logs, so I will assume they don’t exist for the QU series.
Thanks all!

[benmannellParticipant]

Thanks, we obviously don’t put it in the sun intentionally, but a bit hard to avoid sometimes at a festival. Ventilation slots weren’t covered.
Not every 100% sure if heat is the culprit yet. Hoping for a diagnostic log which might point us in the right direction. Would be nice to have some evidence before we just pull the trigger and replace the PSU etc.

[benmannellParticipant]

Just noticed it’s changed its IP address to 192.168.1.20.

[benmannellParticipant]

I would look closely at your Cat5 cable during your troubleshooting. I can’t remember exactly how I resolved this, but I’ve a funny feeling it was a poor shield connection, or bad power distribution causing ground loop on the cat5 shield…

[benmannellParticipant]

Hi mturner, did you find a solution to this problem? I have a T112 and iDR48 which has just developed the exact same problem. I don’t have time to troubleshoot it just yet, as I have a show tonight which I’ll have to use my T80 for!
But I’m getting these error messages:

Ping of Host (192.168.1.82) Failed (that’s the surface IP – yes my IP addresses are set correctly)

192.168.1.83 Disconnected (AHNet)

***** TraceError message repeated:613093 TraceError message:- mSourcePath = "192.168.1.82/Control Surface TFT Rotary" mDestinationPath = "Scene Manager Scene List" mSourceParameter (PARAMETER_BASE Adjusted) = 4 mDestinationParameter (PARAMETER_BASE Adjusted) = 4
mSyncToSource = false mBidirectionalLink = false mRemoveLink = false mRequestingClass = Null mCallbackInterface = Null
(ciLiveManagerBase.java:258)

***** TraceError message repeated:613093 TraceError message:- FINDING_SOURCE Can't find = "192.168.1.82/Control Surface TFT Rotary" ConnectionId:65535 Handle:65535(ciLiveManagerBase.java:258)

**** TraceError message repeat exceeds 10 TraceError message:- mSourcePath = "192.168.1.82/Control Surface TFT Rotary" mDestinationPath = "Scene Manager Scene List" mSourceParameter (PARAMETER_BASE Adjusted) = 4 mDestinationParameter (PARAMETER_BASE Adjusted) = 4
mSyncToSource = false mBidirectionalLink = false mRemoveLink = false mRequestingClass = Null mCallbackInterface = Null
(cSystemBuilder.java:421)

**** TraceError message repeat exceeds 10 TraceError message:- FINDING_SOURCE Can't find = "192.168.1.82/Control Surface TFT Rotary" ConnectionId:65535 Handle:65535(cSystemBuilder.java:420)

mSourcePath = "192.168.1.82/Control Surface TFT Rotary" mDestinationPath = "Scene Manager Scene List" mSourceParameter (PARAMETER_BASE Adjusted) = 4 mDestinationParameter (PARAMETER_BASE Adjusted) = 4
mSyncToSource = false mBidirectionalLink = false mRemoveLink = false mRequestingClass = Null mCallbackInterface = Null
(cSystemBuilder.java:421)

FINDING_SOURCE Can't find = "192.168.1.82/Control Surface TFT Rotary" ConnectionId:65535 Handle:65535(cSystemBuilder.java:420)

Lost Comms to Unit192.168.1.82

[benmannellParticipant]

I accidentally just connected two surfaces to one mix rack – I was pretty confused for a moment, but when moving a fader on one surface moved the same channel fader on the other surface I got pretty excited. I assumed this was a new 1.9 feature, but it’s not listed in the release notes? I haven’t done any testing but it seems stable.

[benmannellParticipant]

Yes, in my understanding this should be possible. I myself have a T112 and iDR-32, and am planning to get another rack in the future and want to do exactly this, so I’m interested to hear other’s explanations too!

Firstly, I assume the two racks are connected by ACE and you’ve set up Dual Rack mode correctly. I can’t tell you the exact steps as I can’t seem to reproduce this setup in the iLive editor (the subject of another post), so I’ll explain the concept.

Signals plugged into the slave rack must be patched to mixer channels 65 thru 128. Assuming you’ve patched 1-1, input 1 will be channel 65.

Go to the I/O patch page for the slave rack, select the Port A: ACE tab. I think you’ll find slots 1-32 are not available as they’re used for sending mix busses etc to the master rack? Select the first available one, say 33, select “Input – Direct Out” as the output source, and choose the correct channel number (It may be 1 or 65?). Your first signal is now appearing at the Master rack on port B ACE channel 33.

Go to the I/O patch page for the Master rack. Select the output you want the signal to be recorded to come out of, then assign to it the corresponding signal coming in to the Port B ACE card.

So, to summarise, send:
Input 1 of iDR-10 to Port A: ACE ch33 (on the iDR-10)
Port B: ACE ch33 on the iDR-32 to Output 1 on iDR-32

[benmannellParticipant]

Hi,

I’m interested in this setup of two surfaces with one mixrack for another application – a dual operator setup in a theatre situation. I can understand that another mix engine would be required for the FOH/Monitors situation, where the two surfaces are accessing all the same channels but mixing them differently and sending them to completely separate outputs, but is it possible to sync two surfaces to one mixrack to create in effect one big surface? All outputs are mixed to Left, Center, Right, or matrix outputs, but one surface could display orchestra channels, and the other display vocal channels? I understand that you would be limited to the processing power of the one mixrack.

[Author]

Posts