[Mfk0815Participant]

Hmm, and why A&H introduced the input to matrix routing possibility with 1.70 for the dLive? Hmm, hmm, hmmm. What‘s ok for the dLive should also be ok for the SQ imho.

[Mfk0815Participant]

After some month with my dLive I have to confess that I more and more avoid the usage of the remote app in my iPad air 2. I was used to work with the iPad in the past to deal with monitors and to tweak the Sound on several places in the venue when I work with my older consoles. But the app for the dLive is for me not that helpful asthe one from other manufacturesor their 3rd party apps. Poor functionaly, odd layout and handling and very slow are the things I can say about the dLive MixPad. The app for the SQ is for me better but far away from good enough to work with on stressful jobs. Maybe A&H should make the communication protocol public so that 3rd party apps can be developed to do a better job.

Nevertheless the sound of the dLive and SQ is great. But a modern console should be more the just a mixengine and IO.

[Mfk0815Participant]

Maybe you are not sofimiliar with the price range up to, lets say, 4000€. Then you find out that the Si Expression can handle more input channels and busses. Ok, they sound not that good and have also other disadvantages but they can handle more signals. And the X-Series of B have 6 band PEQ on any bus (nobody requested 6 bands on input afaik), including high and low cut and also some extra filter types for the matrix to build a poor mans crossover. There you also find a multiband compressor (ok the price for such mixer is 250€ up to 2500€).
We are talking of a dynamic changing product group. It is similar to the automotive industries. While in the 80‘ ABS was a feature only found in the high class, and high price, vehicles nowadays ABS is standard also for entry level cars.
The same is true for mixing consoles. When you go back six years the Presonus studio live 24 was the cheapest digital console for live sound for approx 4000€. The next level was the Si Compact and the LS9 for 7500 and 9500€ (32 channels and without options). Now you can have better sounding consoles with far more features for a little bit more than 2000€. Buildin features which I am missing at the SQ series.
I made in the beginning of the year the transition from a M32 to the SQ6. This transition is still ok for me. But I also still do not understand why the SQ do not come with already developed Effects (from the GLD and the dLive, i desperatly missing the transient designer and the dyn8), a better scene management. routable PAFL, high and low cuts on all PEQs…. nothing which would mean that the have to completly develop from the scratch, like the RTA and Spectrograph as an EQ overlay.
Ok thats my point of view so far. Let‘s see what comes at the end of Q3 with the next feature update. In the summer I willdo the most jobs with my dLive which has far more features but still not all I had on the M32;-)

[Mfk0815Participant]

+1

[Mfk0815Participant]

Press the button switches the display. After some seconds the display will switch back to the name.

[Mfk0815Participant]

Youcan switch the content of the channel displays from name to input socket to source (local, slink, …).

[Mfk0815Participant]

You can use a Mergbox like the Palmer PMB-L. But I think that this problem should be handled by the software instead of extra hardware.

[Mfk0815Participant]

For other consoles I would suggest to save the scene and we can look at the configuration via an offline editor;-)
So, at the moment we just can have som wild guesses.
One possible cause could be that the inputs were directly routed to the Outputs. What happens if you set a route to the output socket and the unset it (so no route should be set to the socket).

[Mfk0815Participant]

unfortunately the matrix is no option because the SQ only have stereo matrix and you cannot control the width on stereo busses.
At the moment only a mono subgroup/aux is an possible Option unless you already use subgroups for your mix (vocal group, drum group etc). Then the handling of a mono output is quite similar as you have done it in the analog desk era. (Welcome back to the ’80s);-)

[Mfk0815Participant]

I agree with you about allowing FX Sends to be routed to physical outputs. This allows you to have a miximum of 16 Mixbusses at once.
But on the other side I think that each mixing desk has its limitations and it is easily to find some requirements which is not fulfilled by the desk. The simple answer to this is „then you have to choose another mixing desk“. If your standard configuration goes to the limit of the device you won‘t have room for special needs. A situation I always try to avoid.

[Mfk0815Participant]

I still cannot see the problem. I have used my M3000 (Vocal Verb and Delay) last week (for testing purpose) on my SQ6 in that way:
Because Aux1-6 is used for 6 wegdes I used Aux7-8 for sending to the M3000. those two Auxes were routed to the local output sockets 7 and 8 and the auxes were configured to be post fader.
The two returns of the M3000 were connected to local sockets 23-24 and those are routed to Input 41-42 (a Stereo pair). So two sockets for output and two sockets for input and the show can start;-)
I don’t see any reason to work with the FX rack of the SQ in a complicated way when I just want to use an outboard FX. KISS is a also a workflow strategy;-)

[Mfk0815Participant]

It just you;-)
In the middle right between the channel meters there is a with „handle“ to either open the details (drag the handle down) or to expand the faders (drag the handle up). Open the channel details and there you can edit the name and the channel color.

[Mfk0815Participant]

+1

[Mfk0815Participant]

It is not related to the calibration. I tried also the same Asus and found out that the Touch works well when I just mirror the screnn of my C2500. But as soon as I select another page for the external screen the touch works not as expected. While the height if the touch is identified correctly the width is wrong. So if you want to click on an element on the right sideit works but when you want to click on an element on the left side of the external screen you have to click in the horizontal middle of the screen. Touch the screen on the left side will „click“ on an element of the Main screen.
For me it seems that the touch resolution is not related to theresolution of the external screen but related to the combination of the two screens.
Connecting a computer mouse you also can use it to click on both screens. So for me thereshould be an option to limit the „mouse“ to only the external screen. Then also a touchscreen will work.

[Mfk0815Participant]

Is it really a basic feature? or are you thinking of linking?
You can already create stereo channels, which removes the need for linking and is why we’re now looking at ganging.

Creating stereo channels means that you hae to reconfigure the mixengine which causes a period of time where the console do not produce output. Something which is impossible during a changeover on a festival or on similar situations. Reserving some stereo channels is also not the answer because you reduce the amount of channels just to be save for the case you need stereo channels. Stereo channels do not allow you to have different gains for left and right or allows you to decide which parameters should be linked and which not.
On the dLive you can use ganging to avoid these disadvantages. But on the SQ you have no real workaround.

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