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Yes, It is confirmed. If you do not need the iPad app then by all means upgrade your GLD. You cannot use the present iPad app (V1.10) with the new GLD80 software (V1.20). I had to downgrade as I needed the iPad app to mix monitors from the stage this Saturday.

While I had V1.20 loaded I must say I loved the new features. Sweet!!! Makes me feel I invested in a GLD80 rather than simply bought one.

I hope A&H sends out a notice when the app is upgraded. Should be soon I guess.

John

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Any suggestions from A&H?

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If anyone from Allen & Heath reading the original post has a suggestion or course of action I would be interested in what they have to say.

Thank you,

John

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Edit: Chris, Ahhh, you are correct sir. After signing correctly editing was possible.

Thank you,
John

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Chris93,

That is brilliant use of the matrices. I will try to set up mine that way as I have to feed a camera my main mix. Your way is so much better.

Thank you.

John

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Ryan,

Mixing a band is an entirely different animal from mixing a musical play as I believe you know.

The off-line editor is as useful to musical theater operator as the iPad app is to the live band operator. One is very useful before load-in, one is very useful after load in. That is the most distilled essence of the difference I can think of.

I also mix the occasional festival and one-off show so I also am familiar with your side of the art. Neither discipline is superior. Both are quite different but still fun. As long as we are getting paid all is well.

With a musical 98% of the work is done before opening night. In fact significant work is done weeks before equipment load in. I must put in 10 to 20 hours into a mix before I even hook up my 30 wireless mics and work with actors. We musical mixers also are recalling cues that are (at times) only seconds apart. I regularly have 170 scenes in one performance. My 170 scene memories usually get revised about 12 times before opening night. The big overall picture an editor would provide is a huge benefit here.

That is why some add their voice to the editor software request choir. Like mine for example.

Respect.

John

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Allow me to look back and see if you ever asked for a feature or improvement.

John

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An off-line editor would be a great addition to the GLD. I too run sound for musical plays and found Yamaha Studio Manager very helpful. My old Yamaha 01v96 can be purchased for about $1200 used these days and it has an off-line editor. Used for quick set-up and an overall picture during plays it is a huge time saver.

I was thinking of starting a list of what my old 01V96 has that my new GLD does not (especially at 8 to 10 times the purchase price). I must admit to feeling a bit ripped off when I think of what I had to give up to get the GLD.

Oh, to the person who asked about the old days and mixing analog. We chose to buy new technology and enter the present. We have a reason to expect or at least ask for features that are in much cheaper offerings. I have little need for the iPad option but do not ask people what they did in the old days. I see good applications for the iPad too, just not now for me.

If you purchase a new computer you expect your new one to have at least the horsepower your old one had. If your new computer only allowed 100 megs of RAM you would not be happy I am sure.

Thank you

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Rave:
Got it working thanks to the help when I phoned AM&S in Oregon. The help was quick, thorough and cheerful.

Rant:
Had to skew my schedule to make the phone call during their hours. I just wish there were written instructions for our GLD. I know there is an ILive video but the first screenshot of the mixer is one not on the GLD. Instant road block.

Thank you,

John

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GLD80, small expander, large expander, and MDante card.

Logic Pro for multi-channel live capture and virtual sound check. Hope to be able to do 32 channels bidirectionally via Dante.

I have Macbook Pro (early 2008).

Haven’t settled on the external hard drive or interface yet. Am willing to start with USB2 and see what I get for max track count when recording. Will upgrade HDD interface later, no rush.

The DVS (Dante Virtual Soundcard) is seen by Logic. I Assume I installed the license properly.

The GLD I/O menu simply says Dante. That’s it.

Thank you,

Frustrated in new equipment land…

John

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I read elsewhere that if DHCP was enabled the boot times are very long. I checked to find that DHCP was set to ON after the update. I turned it off and the boot times returned to normally fast.

Be warned all my fellow updaters. Check the DHCP
Setup/Config/Network/DHCP Enabled must NOT be green.

John

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So I re-downloaded the V1.11 firmware, formatted my usb drive and reflashed the GLD80 with v1.11 firmware. The first reboot took 2m 43s. The second reboot took 2m 37s.

I used a 2Gig usb device that I have used for years on many projects.

The touch screen is very unresponsive too.

I looked for V1.10 to down revision and see if there is a performance difference but could not find V1.10 on the A&H site. Can I receive V1.10 to down rev and test please?

The long reboot worries me. It does seem to wake up ready to work but I do not know for sure.

John

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