[DwightParticipant]

If I am not mistaken the direct out Trim it does not work on USB or Qu-drive only on in ear monitor feed through the D-snake.

Dwight

[DwightParticipant]

great nice to know there is another cubase user out there with the Qu!!

Cheers

Dwight

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I believe you need to set them the channel to normal (not usb or qu drive from them to be seen in the daw.) Play back has to be set to USB (I put it into 17-18) Then make sure you are also selecting the desired input (from your mixer) to the channel you wish to record on. Hope this helps!!

Sorry I don’t have my board or manual in front of me (going from memory)

Dwight

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Yes that is what I do as well, but I end up having to eq the tracks in the Qu-16 for monitoring then as well after recording them, eq them in cubase to listen back to the recorded tracks for adding other tracks while tracking. I can not use anything in my DAW in the way in destructive or non destructive without some major latency issues or use any eq on the Qu-16 (in my case) on the way into my daw.

Regarding the original post from my perspective yes you can do have no latency issues if you are direct monitoring from the q-16 (Which works fantastic) but if you are trying to use effects or eq on a track as it is being recorded there will be latency issues. In my case I have not been able to get the latency low enough to use as of yet.

[DwightParticipant]

Ya you I can but I am experiencing too much latency to monitor at the same time. I will have to experiment a little more! Might e my computer. I am not saying it can’t be done but I haven’t had it work properly as of yet.

So Dave in reaper you can eq and such to the track you are recording and then monitor it going to print with no latency?

I would like that!!

Cheers

Dwight

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I use cubase in my studio but do all of the monitoring through my Qu-16 works great and you can save your presets. The midi control works great on the faders, I have not tested it on setting it for other controls on the board. I have not gotten the latency figured out for monitoring internally in cubase and it is unusable at this point for me. Just too weird, but that may be my error. So monitoring the track back through cubase with an effect on may not be what is desired. If you figure it out let me Know!!
The only draw back to my method is the tone going into Cubase is pre eq/ compression if you use it. so I end up having to eq twice, one for monitoring and then when it is tracked in Cubase even to listen back. I am missing the ability to sweeten tone going into cubase but they tell me that will be added on a future update. I have a avalon 737 channel strip that I use for single tracking.

The ME-1 I think would be a very useful tool in the studio as well as live!!

Dwight

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Hi Tom I use the Qu-16 in my studio. I bought it for monitoring /and tracking and for live folk gigs. What I didn’t figure out till after the fact is that the with the Qu-16 when used with a Daw can’t access the eq or compression which I thought it could. So you can record individual tracks which works great but not eq or compression and such. Not a big deal recording a live show but in the studio I use eq especially all the time going into my DAW. In talking with Allen and Heath support it appears this will be added the ability to access the eq and compression with a future update. I wanted it specifically for tracking drums and with this feature would I feel be the ideal board for a small recording studio situation. I am not stuck as I have a high end channel strip that I use a lot but you also could run your your channels out a stereo buss or mono buss which will access the eq and such. If you do everything is a DAW i guess it is no big deal, but it was for me.

I love this mixer and can’t wait to be able to use it with the added feature as it saves a lot of work.. at least for me in my studio. Live it is awesome! … it keeps getting better as well with each update

I think the rev/ delay are comparable to your lexicon..(I have the 400) except the lexicon has a lot more control and presets. I find a lot of the other effects other than delay and reverb I wouldn’t use as much as I have better ones in my DAW and I think your lexicon would be better (my opinion)

Dwight (near Calgary AB Canada)

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I am thinking that if you have less than 16 channels including effects cd and such it isn’t a bad ideas to lock it in as there is less of a chance in making a change in the wrong layer. Example if you have moved your cd player to 16 on your custom layer but are in your normal layer you will not be adjusting the cd player anymore but just moving fader 16 which may or may not do anything, but will not adult your cd player anymore.

You may as well have your custom layer full of normal channels but have grouped them like all of your vocals together but still need to access your effects on your other layer.

I have used the custom layer but I haven’t locked it yet

[DwightParticipant]

I have never used it so I don’t exactly know what it does but I have seen in in the screen menu when in the custom Layer

[DwightParticipant]

there is a button in the screen that you can lock the costom layer so you can’t get out of it. Make sure that is not clicked on.
Hope that helps

Dwight

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Hey guys I don’t use a lot of compression on my tracks just on occasion but I do use some sort of eq just about always going into my DAW. All of you seemed to have focused on the compression. Eq is far more important to me. I use the Qu-16 for live shows, recording those live shows as well as wanting the Qu-16 for drum tracking, especially along with monitoring, in my studio. I know how I generally want my kik drum to sound and I can get it really close to what I am looking for with some eq. I assumed this mixer would allow especially eq if I desired. My first tech support person I got from Allen & Heath in an email showed me the steps of how to select post delay setting….till I told him that is what I was I was doing with no result. Then he told me it wasn’t possible. To me the feature of having the ability to have post eq especially, is important.. I recognize that it my not be important for you the same way that many of you are recommending features the this mixer that I probably wouldn’t use regularly. I think my request or maybe even expectation, is still valid.

Dwight

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I am not sure what to do now as there is no way to use the Qu-16 for tracking as it is counter productive. I have used Qu-16 for recording live shows that are going to tv and to a radio show. I thought that I could set up the mixer to record the main outs then set up my room eq on mix out 9/10. I thought this would get my tone closer to the desired result. Worked flawlessly except didn’t capture any of the eq and compression 🙁

Then in the studio tracking drums with same result. I do understand the function of having the dry signal for live applications but that is not a studio application. For me a studio application is a controlled environment where you can treat the sound to get close to the desired tone. I think it is a pretty standard STUDIO practice to record live instruments and use eq and light compression to improve the tone and even levels, then set the gain again after.

[DwightParticipant]

That I guess is what I am getting at. There is apparently no way to use the eq and compression or effects on any recorded tracks into the DAW just dry after the preamp. For me this is a big deal as that is a major reason why I bought the desk. Any other use in my studio is like a glorified monitoring system… a good one at that but still…

[DwightParticipant]

Hi I am streaming from the Qu-16 to a mac using Cubase 7.5.0 and wondering if you have been able to record the Q-16’s eq and compression into your DAW using the Qu16. I have been able to record, just not anything after the preamp. I have selected the post Delay setting on the Global settings which should give me what I am looking for but having no results. It looks like it is selected but when I test the recording there is no difference

I have tried everything that I can think of, but can’t get any results. I am tracking drums and love what I am hearing in the Qu-16 but can’t get it into my DAW

Just wondering if it is working for someone or if it is something that I am doing wrong.

[DwightParticipant]

Hey guys, relax…. I wasn’t expecting them to change anything really but it was merely an observation and yes I use a power bar!! lol!

cheers!

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