[mfusaParticipant]

Yes. You can play multi-tracks back through each channel to form a virtual sound check. You can do this either by playing back multi-tracks that the CQ has recorded to the SD card or can hook up a DAW via USB cable and route DAW channels to each channel on the CQ. In either event you have to go to the inputs section of each channel and change it from pre-amp to USB/SD. When it’s time for the show, go back to the inputs and change them back to the preamp setting. You can probably set a scene to do this change, I haven’t tried it yet.

On a side note, I have not been successful in copying WAV files (from computer) to the SD card and playing them back as multi-tracks on the CQ. Instead, I connected USB cable between my Mac and CQ and played back my multi-tracks that way. I was able to record to SD at the same time so could subsequently could play those back from SD. I ready someone else who had been able to simply copy WAV files directly on to the SD card but that didn’t work for me; even when I had the same folder structure, file names, and sample rate as what the CQ does itself.

[mfusaParticipant]

I’ve got the CQ-20 running 1.1.0. The 64GB USB drive, that it formatted, opens fine on my Mac OS Ventura 13.5.2. I can copy files and firmware to it (from the Mac) that are visible on the CQ.

[mfusaParticipant]

C’est le même comportement que j’ai remarqué. La lecture depuis USB ne semble rien détecter sous un nom de dossier. Tout doit être dans l’USBP de base. Ce serait une bonne demande d’amélioration des fonctionnalités.

This is the same behavior I have noticed. Playback from USB does not appear to detect anything under a folder name. Everything must be in the base USBPLAY folder. This would be a good feature enhancement request.

[mfusaParticipant]

It does not have them unfortunately. Adding mute groups and/or DCA’s is a highly requested feature I believe.

[mfusaParticipant]

Yes. I did this on my Mac, with Reaper, and it worked easily. Simply plugging the USB cable between my computer and mixer allowed reaper to see a 24 channel in/out audio device from the CQ. I could click on a track in Reaper, click a track routing, and add say channel 1 of the CQ as a hardware output of that track. Go through and do this for each track in your DAW. Once done there, go to the CQ Config Tab and Inputs. You have to change each input from Analog (the preamp) to SDHC/USB.

Once you do this, you can click play on your DAW and all the tracks you mapped to the CQ will come through as if you had a device plugged into the XLR jack. You can mix, add FX, mess with output routing, etc.

Sorry but I don’t really understand your headphone question.

[mfusaParticipant]

You can also assign a button to Mute “All FX” if you want as well

[mfusaParticipant]

As far as I know, it is on by default but is in a “hold” mode so I don’t believe it will do anything. Check out this video that Keith did. FBA Demo

[mfusaParticipant]

Yes they can be. At least I can do it in the CQ iPad app. Go to Config | Controls | Select the Desired Soft Key | Click Mute for Function | Click FX(1,2,3,4) for the channel

[mfusaParticipant]

I recently built my rack for the CQ-20. I used the “Gator G-PRO-6U-13 Pro Series Shallow Rack Case”. You can see it here along with a Phenyx Pro PTM-10 IEM transmitter and CyberPower CPS1215RMS power strip. This leaves me 1 more open U position in which I could install a wireless mic receiver. I am concerned about ventilation and whether the side mount fan (of the CQ20) will be able to handle this; especially when used outdoors. All suggestions welcome.

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[mfusaParticipant]

+1

[mfusaParticipant]

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I assumed (no user manual yet to confirm) this was already an option. If not, I agree, Listen bus absolutely needs to be assignable to Alt Out please.

[mfusaParticipant]

FYI that A&H Tech Support has also continued to assure me that the two things are unrelated. Again, I’m in the IT industry so I understand the statement and would generally agree that this should not be related. However, as I mentioned in my last post, the board was experiencing no board boot failures or slow boots prior to the FW update attempt on the IO card and then immediately experienced the failure/brick thereafter.

So, as of now I’ve got an unusable board and scrambled to get a rental arranged on an SQ series for a temporary fix. In the meantime I need to get the GLD board sent out for repair.

So, coincidence? Maybe. However, at least be aware of what happened to me. Good luck 🙂

[mfusaParticipant]

Thanks for the reply. I would agree that the FW update on the card should not affect the booting abilities of the board. I am in the IT industry so I totally understand what you mean. I’ve been part of many of those unfortunate coincidences that you describe. However, this is a board which only gets used a couple times weekly. Each time, the board is powered up, used, and properly shut down. No recent issues with the board being finicky on booting. However, after applying the IO card firmware, the system asked for a reboot and then immediately failed to start thereafter.

As per your suggestion, I have tried booting with, or without, the IO card and the same result occurs.

Thanks again for the reply.

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