[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.

[Mfk0815Participant]

Reaper is for me one of the least complex DAW which is powerful enough to do complex things;-) Nevertheless there are some things you have to know about routing in Reaper.
First you can select in die Dialog ‘Audio device settings’ how much concurrent signals/channels you want to record and how much output sockets you want to use.
Second you have to know that each input and output socket is available twice in the routing matrix. There is each socket available in mono and in stereo. for stereo input you can select each socket as the left one so that it is also possible to send a stereo track to the sockets 6 and 7 where 6 is the left side and 7 the right one.
Third you have to know that the default routing is always to record mono from input socket 1 and to playback all via the Main Bus (called master out) of the reaper (it is also a software mixing desk) and the master out is routed to output socket 1 and 2.
After opening the routing matrix (Menu Edit->routing matrix) you can see all tracks, and all inputs and outputs and know you can do the routing similar to the routing in the Dante Controller( for instance). The only thing which is not self explaining is that you can’t simple remove an existing routing by clicking in it. On Windows (my mostly used OS at the moment) you have to click on the routing while pressing the Alt-Key.
For me it is quite easy to work with Reaper. Some colleagues are working with Waves tracks live to rackord and play back for virtual sound check. Its free and so you don’t loose money for testing it;-)

[Mfk0815Participant]

Hmm Windows can act as NTP Server, MacOS as well, Linux also…
and when the Director Software will be the time master I will suggest to use NTP as a well known, stable sync protocoll instead of reinventing the square wheel.
Just my 2 cents.

[Mfk0815Participant]

Ok, Now I can post some pictures:
First on the GLD you should check the Audio Sync page, and it should look like in the Picture ‘GLD Audio Syn Settings.png’.
Next You should open the Dante Controller on your computer and check the Clock settings. They should look similar to the image ‘Dante Controller – Network View.png’
If both is correct there should be no clicks or cracks.
If they still exists please publish your setup (either here or send me a PM).

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[Mfk0815Participant]

I do not own a wrist mount watch for the last 30 years, there is no need for that for me;-) hmm, afaik is the Base OS for the console unix/linux. So it shouldn‘t be that big deal to use NTP.
BTW. I am relativly new to dLive, so sorry for that question. Is at least a mechanism implemented to synchronize the watch of the stagebox/mixengine with the connected surfaces?

[Mfk0815Participant]

If there are clicks or cracks hearable and visible you have to double check your digital sync settings. I am not at home and cannot check it but on the GLD itself you should use internal clock source and for the dante card you should set it to slave to external clock source (which would be the GLD clock). Remember that even if the card is placed in the GLD you have to see them as two more or less independent devices.
Please read the documentation of the card and Dante carefully to handle sync issues.

[Mfk0815Participant]

Reaper is really simple in comparison to other DAWs. Using Dante is a little bit more complicated than using classical Audiointerfaces.

Reaper is communication with the DVS, the virtual Soundcard. You can define the routings between Reaper and the DVS in the routing page of Reaper in the same way as with any other hardware audiointerface.

The same situation you’ll find on the GLD. The GLD is communicating with the dante card in the expansion slot. You can route signals between those two logical devices.
So far there is nothing special. The same game as with any other digital mixing desk with a multitrack aufio interface.
But when using Dante there is an extra routing required. You have to define the signal paths between the Dante Card in the GLD and the DVS. This you have to do in the Dante Controller on your PC. There you find both devices as Senders and Receivers. The easiest routing would be a one to one routing between both devices in both directions. Then everything will be fine.
Unfortunatly I am on the road so I am not able to post some screenshots from my Dante setup the next days. Maybe I find some time in the beginning of the next week.

[Mfk0815Participant]

Did you assign the stereo Input to channel6 or did you assign the ST1 channel to Fader 6 on Layer A? If the second is the case the fader layout of the iPad do not match with the layout of the console. To have the same layout youhave to create your own custom layer on the iPad.

[Mfk0815Participant]

On the computer you have to open the Dante Controller and have to route the Output from the GLD to the input of the Dante Virtual sound card also. Otherwise no signal will be coming to your DAW (Reaper).
You also have to route outputs from your DAW via the virtual soundcard to the inputs of the Dante Card on the GLD.
That is the task you have to make with the Dante controller software, to rout Dante signals from one device to others.

The Signalpath form GLD Input to a DAW track would be
GLD In Socket -> Dante Card Out on GLD -> DVS In on PC -> DAW track
the first routing you have to do on the GLD
the second in the Dante Controller
and The third in the DAW

post or pre EQ?

It depends on your desires. On the GLD you can distinguish between Input sockets (the physical input connector) and Input direct outs (the direct out of an input channel). for the direct outs you can set the tap point (pre/post) globally (see page 15 of the reference manual) and the direct out send level via the routing page of the channel (see page 14 Chapter 3.15)

[Mfk0815Participant]

I aggree with you Steffen. I also see no practical need for a separated PAFL bus. But maybe there is a possible solution within the App itself. It can somehow emulate the solo function by muting all other channels on the selected mixbus temporary when pressing solo on an channel, or maybe it would even be better not to mute the others but dim them by a configurable level. (In fact a feature I would love also for standard PAFL btw.)

[Mfk0815Participant]

NTP also works without internet;-) and a common time basis over all devices in the network would be nice. Then both the sound engineer and the guy on the lightning desk knows exactly when to finish the job;-)

[Mfk0815Participant]

hmm, nice answer in a manucafturer forum to suggest to switch to another “Marktbegleiter”;-)

But back to topic. It would be anyway a good feature to have some monitoring on error states like problems with the sync to the stageboxes. And if there is the possibility to reset that counters individually this would be the cherry on the top.

[Mfk0815Participant]

I think that the amount of different colors is ok. Having too much different colors would make it harder to differentiate them especially in sun light environments. What I do not need is black because I don’t see a sense in that color. And for me when using dark blue and red the name of the channel is hard to read because of too less contrast. This is maybe because my ears are in a far more better condition than my eyes;-)

[Mfk0815Participant]

I personally like to have both, a hardware surface and a tablet, with me on a job.
I also did some jobs only with a tablet in the last years. But the circumstances have to fit. I won‘t do it for musical jobs with twenty headsets and a band, also not for bands with significant more than 8 input channels or if there is a complex work to do. And I need a remote app which allows me to control the whole processing of the console. Setup and similar stuff must not be controllable by the tablet, but all relevant parameters for the acoustic result must be controlable. It is a no go when you cannot tweak the compressor completly or the reverb for the vocals.
Unfortunatly none of the apps of A&H fulfill the last requirement and that disqualifies them from doing a tablet-only job. Ok, it would be possible to to some stuff via PC for the dLive or GLD but not for the SQ since there is no PC application available.
At theend of the day, and that brings me back to this thread, it is fine to integrate rf control and more complex routing possibilities. But for a lot of people the more important update would be an update to a almost full featured tablet based remote control.

[Mfk0815Participant]

If you look at the current owners manual chapter 7.6 at page 28 and especially 29 you can find that the answer is ‚yes‘;-)

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