[tomParticipant]

Holy smokes Keefer! I believe you nailed it! I did not fully understand the stereo return to a single ME500 button and now will do some more testing!

I assumed that button 14 would be assigned to FX1/L and button 15 would be FX2/L – but from what you are saying – the ME500 would automatically make button 15 FX1/R ?

Without being in front of the board i ask, ‘do i want my performers managing two buttons for some simple reverb?’

ok, let me re-think this and THANK YOU for the response! will report back

[tomParticipant]

Thank you and sorry for the confusion – i fullt understand the ME500 wont move the faders.

And i also intuitively set the ‘monitor out’ for button 14 to ‘FX1/L return’ but no sound appears on button 14 (me500)

I see LED activity on the QU for FX1 send/return and also in the FX window as well, just nothing coming to the button 14 on the ME 🙁

Any clues on what to check?

[tomParticipant]

trying photos again >:(

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wow – appears this forum is a struggle as well. 405kb file is ‘too large’ and only 1024kb is allowed. Its the new math, i guess

anyway – can someone confirm that FX1-FX4 faders are ‘fixed’ and do not respond (move) when selecting thru the FX1 – FX4 (blue) buttons?

thank you!

(wow – also got an error telling me to ‘slow down, i move too fast’)

[tomParticipant]

sorry – pics too large (in this day and age? 🙂

trying again

[tomParticipant]

yes! thanks, that is the ultimate out-come, budget permitting

[tomParticipant]

thanks again Steffen – let me apply some of this knowledge and report back.

could you just clarify that when you say ‘aux mix’ you are referring to MIX1-4 5-6, etc?

thanks

[tomParticipant]

yes, ok great examples – thank you
as you might tell, i am fortunate to have scored this great board with the intentions of upgrading my home studio while being shut-down. Many projects ended abruptly a few months ago with full intentions of starting up again with the new hardware.

I could sacrifice 6 more inputs for my headphone feeds and route them to the MIX outs, as i am routing the DAW Mater to Ch31&32 to Master LR and AES.
I could then use the remaining 24 inputs for sources…this is as close to my past workflow and my head is already around it.

But could you help me get my head around your initial suggestion:
If you record some tracks you can handle your monitoring completely with the QU32
you can set your headphone mixes with low latency outside of PT and with fader control on a physical surface

i believe this to mean that i USB-B Stream 30 channels in to DAW while i sub MIX out my 6 ‘groups’ from the board to my headphone feeds
Chan 31-32 are my DAW Master returns and this is where the latency will occur?
Is the headphone now tracking to a mix? or how does the headphone continue to receive the 6 individual feeds on playback?

my signal paths are all twisted up in my head, please bare with me?
🙂

[tomParticipant]

ok – more q’s…I also have a AB168 which i have not yet connected. My thought was 16 local inputs and 16 Dsnake – on the QU32 – 32×32 in and out of Pro Tools via USB-streaming
My question is – the remaining 17-32 Local channels ? they no longer exists since i must choose between local and DSnake – correct?

[tomParticipant]

right, thank you! very helpful!

[tomParticipant]

Thank you SteffenR

you are correct, i am coming from an interface / front-end mixer to the Qu32 and i understand that my workflow will change.

Without diving into the deep-end and learning the DAW Controller program (custom strip / midi / HUI interface) , i hoped to try and pick up where i left off – for the sake of current projects and legacy sessions.

new questions – if fully integrating the board with the DAW – where is my output? how do i finish a mix? USB-A to a external drive? or bounce-to-disk in the box, as i have previously done?
or do i route my Master L-R from the board back to the DAW and Bounce-to-disk?

i think i fully understand all options but nothing ‘in practice’ yet…

thank you!

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