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Any old laptop will provide you with vastly greater control, flexibility, and utility.

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I think you could also get there with a Bome Box. Neat piece of hardware.

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I never liked my Soundcraft Impact, but it had a great front panel layout. A&H’s QU desks have a full set of EQ controls in a straightforward grid. I really wish SQ had the same instead of this arty smattering of knobs. Seems like a big step backwards.

Interesting. I hadn’t dug into the SQ MIDI Protocol doc before, but it doesn’t seem to have anything for EQ and such. Nothing about parameters for the selected channel. This is, fortunately, a trivially easy thing to do via Mixing Station. Run Mixing Station on a laptop or tablet, plug pretty much any MIDI controller into it, tell it what knob or fader does what parameter, and you’re set.

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I haven’t tried offline editing for an SQ, but I do know that formatting in the desk is always a good idea.

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so no chance it could relate to the dead screen on bootup issue?

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I haven’t tried it with a Windows touchscreen, but we do that on iPads all the time. There are certainly people using touchscreens with Mixing Station. Be aware that there are very tight limits on how many remote devices an SQ can support. You can run 3 instances of Mixpad, or 2 instances of Mixing Station. If you’re cabling to the laptop with ethernet, you can run an audio feed from the board down the unused pairs in the ethernet cable and listen to what’s soloed up. You’re liable to conflict with the house tech, of course, since the desk will also be soloed.

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I sometimes use several hardware effects units, but that’s about having dedicated controls always available as much as it is about how they sound.

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Apparently you can patch the returns to physical outputs via IO Patch/Outputs/Rack FX and then cable them to a channel, where you can add compression. There will be latency, but it should be fine for reverb. I haven’t tried this, just looking at SQ MixPad. I’m curious as to what this is supposed to do for you?

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Are you wanting the FX to return in a conventional channel? That’s not a thing you can do via internal routing. Apparently you can patch the returns to physical outputs via IO Patch/Outputs/Rack FX and then you could cable them to a channel, but there will be latency. Probably be fine for reverb.

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My screen was nonresponsive on first start again yesterday. Once every 3 weeks is never going to be found on a test bench. Sigh. So far it’s always worked after a restart.

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You could just route a prefade Aux mix to Main L/R

Not on an SQ, you can’t. You could come out of the mixer and patch back in to a channel that went to the mains. Then you have 2 independent faders controlling the same signal but 1 would have additional latency.

If implemented, you would want some feature to lock out band members from accessing the L/R Main.

SQ4You has a mix lock. You can also lock out the EQs and comps.

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The knobs aren’t motorized. The display becomes a bar when you turn it.

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It’s not just the firmware. It’s the hardware.

Scrolling would be possible, if it weren’t for the firmware character limitation.

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This would be useful to build templates for whoever. Guitar focused, singer focused, drummer focused. Our venue went from X32 to SQ6. When people came in with in-ears, I’d just hand out tablets running Mixing Station. SQ can only handle 2 instances before the network stack hits buffer overruns, so I can’t do that any more. Considering SQ4You on a bunch of iPhones, but setting up each player with the groups they need one at a time is a drag.

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You can absolutely do that. 2 of my SQ6 knobs are delay time and feedback. Still wish it went all the way to 100%, though.

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