Kia Ora kevG,
I’m based down/up in Nelson and have just taken shipment of an Avantis with musical theatre applications firmly in mind. My understanding is several have shipped around the country in the last month.
I’m in the midst of building a Show file for a season in 3-weeks time, and so far, so good!
I quizzed A&H on this application who said tha5 scene handling is practically identical to DLive, which is a very popular platform for MT. I’m unsure whether (or in which ways) it differs. From what I can see referencing DLive resources while exploring Avantis’s scene management, they’re much the same (Though I expect the community will jump in if I am wrong).
In answer to your questions, I’m still new to the platform, but I can say:
1 – Good, in terms of typical engineering operation if they have good technical understanding of digital audio workflow. Some of the scene management, recall safe or global settings is likely to be well over the head of the average community engineer – something I would expect you could cater toward with show-file templates and in-house expertise.
2 – Early days yet. But I’m excited to explore Custom control for a radio mic PAFL , custom layers on a scene by scene basis, DCA spills; and the AMM for general dialogue appears to be hugely powerful and simply to deploy.
2.1 – Yes, there is an option to remove the confirm, and to auto-advance (preselect next cue). All soft-keys are user defined.
2.2 – Haven’t got into scene updates yet, but you can assign ‘Update cue’ to a soft key.
3 – Unsure, I’ve remained proprietary for my I/O to contain cost.
4 – Nothing stands out yet, but this is a huge upgrade from my previous console, so I’m still in awe of it. I expect I’ll discover things in time.
Ngā mihi, JR
