[dreichmccullochParticipant]

When my iDR48 had a problem (acknowledged manufacturing fault) my dealer swapped it out for another during the repair time as the loss was going to directly effect my business. Maybe something to pursue with your dealer?

[dreichmccullochParticipant]

Yes please – it’s the only thing the Midas guys guesting with us complain about.

[dreichmccullochParticipant]

Hi Leon,

Unfortunately I use the inputs from the xDR (as analogue insert points and walk music feeds). I know I could do this from the surface but the xDR is my preferred solution.

I know now the setup I’ve been trying won’t work – and now understand why, it’s been a great exercise in becoming familiar with how things work underneath. Although I’m still not sure the actual networking differences between ACE and ACE LINK in the drop down…

For what I had in mind two xDRs would be the perfect solution, however, because of a disastrous issue with a mixrack which took months to sort out, and my geographical isolation, my lovely distributors in NZ supplied a second mixrack to use as a hot spare.

I was just trying to see if there was anyway I could utilise this on the larger stage festival work I have coming up in the next couple of months…. and apart from recording it looks like I can.

Now:
If I could just persuade A&H to put a huge amount of resources into rewriting the firmware to allow a mixrack to boot in an xDR mode just to solve one esoteric issue faced by one small customer that’d be lovely! 😉

Thanks again Leon, appreciate your time.

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Didn’t work – did think I’d tried that before, but always worth trying again.
The Master mixrack to xDR output patching doesn’t allow me to choose channels above 64.
Redundancy Mode is set to off: 1-32 port 1, 33-64 port 2; so that would make sense, I think.
I change this to off: 1-64 port 1, but lost all the xDR signals; which also makes sense (I think – I’m still making second guesses as to ACE even after reading the docs).

I did make the Slave send a Channel Direct Out on ACE 33 and patched the xDR MMIO channel 1 (ADAT 1) to ACE 33 but still no signal at the ADAT output. Again because of the redundancy mode. Damn shame, I though that with my understanding that would work – again, my ACE understanding is lacking.

Confused over the difference between ‘ACE’ and ‘ACE LINK’ in the Slave output patching selection, but tried both.

In some ways it would be a lot easier if I could get the Slave to behave as an xDR: I doubt I will never need 124 channels but two remotes would be so useful for festival type stages (expander FOH, 64 master up stage, 32 slave down stage) – no more long heavy sub-snake runs.

Thanks again though Leon!

[dreichmccullochParticipant]

Thanks! Will try that out tonight.

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