[StonepianoParticipant]

Check my previous edit: I am not running a concert here. I have heavy responsibility beyond anything the musicians may fumble.

[StonepianoParticipant]

@GC: x-fade on scene-change would be wonderful. My musicians are not that much spoiled, but the keyboard player has not been able to keep his levels steady, and I hate that sudden jump that wasn’t there yesterday. So I’m constantly riding faders also, amidst all the other variables. And he keeps bringing in new gear he’s not familiarized himself with. (never mind me) It’s busy. And it is a circus-performance- the people on the floor rely on the cues to be precise. If they hear something unexpected, they might lose concentration, and fall. There’s your sixteenth-note miss.

[StonepianoParticipant]

@andreas: blocking mixes/LR- processing was one of the first things I did, after tuning, no pains there. Just confucheized miself w. scene parameters. Youse make all them mistakes, take note, and you’re left with the right way to do stuff.

[StonepianoParticipant]

@Lou: had three weeks of rehearsals, but I only had chance to listen & take notes, had to get the show up&running in two days. Been trying to “fluentizise” ever since… with this one, even a custom layer-setup will not help- can’t fit all I need on a single layer. Amazing, actually, considering that I’m dealing with a trio. 10 more shows to go, out 73 total. I’ll survive, and I’ve learned a lot about what not to try… thank you guys for your patience!

P.S. Running the show single-handedly- so forgive me the occasional exhaustion🤒

[StonepianoParticipant]

@GC- there is absolutely no friggin’ way to do this show on an analog desk. And I am not a neophyte, as for digiconsoles. The scene-thing on the Qu just keeps outsmarting me.

[StonepianoParticipant]

Running my own band with the 16 is a total picnic- Love It! But the present show is a different beast, to say the least… but do have great archive recordings! (I now remember that USB-source select lurks behind that CH/ST 🙄)

[StonepianoParticipant]

Qu’s scene-functionality would be just fine for a music festival, but I’m running a complex theatrical show here, 47 audio cues for a two-hour show. And I want to keep every single unused mic muted, the band stage is tiny, and I have a lot of condensers in there. Trust me, I am a 100% K.I.S.S. -type of guy, but there is a lot happening, the three guys in the band are all multi-instrumentalists, the double-bass player “doubles” on six other stringed instruments during the show. The allocated audio budget dictated the console-choice. But: the Qu is the best-sounding console for the price, IMHO. I don’t think I’m trying to overkill anything, quite the contrary- trying to manage… and eke out a living. And I DON’T HAVE TIME TO RECALL ANY LIBRARY-SETTINGS, things need to change in a 16th- note. Still waiting for the auto-incremental previous scene softkey-command…

[StonepianoParticipant]

Just to clarify: the “walk-in” channel also plays all my special effects, that’s why there are different settings per scene. Some stuff that was sent to me required drastic eq-corrections. Made in bedroom, you know…

[StonepianoParticipant]

I feel I’ve made every possible mistake as far as scene-settings go, and started to be afraid of the CH/ST- button, not knowing if I dare to allow the parameters to change or not…
I have a couple of input channels where there are eq/comp- setting alterations during the course of the show, the aforementioned walk-in being one of them. Now, if I tweak a setting on a scene and store it, are you saying that if nothing is blocked, all other scenes are unaffected? So maybe I could just block preamp-gains globally, since they are about the only settings that stay the same trough the show, and just forget about blocking other parameters? Now that would relieve my anxiety a lot… but I am still afraid of recalling some past eq-settings that are not valid anymore. That’s why I blocked the eq in the first place- when I finally settled on a curve with that horrendous oud-lute, I did not want any changes to happen no matter what else might be going on.

[StonepianoParticipant]

…or so I thought. The whole thing is getting too weird for me. I have a certain setting for walk-in music for my first scene, the from there on the eq is flat for that channel. It stays that way until I reach the last scene, then when I return to the beginning, the first scene mysteriously has changed the eq-curve to that of the last scene. Everything is fine for all other scenes. No matter which combination of blocking I apply, I cannot move from last scene to the first without the console ignoring the original eq.
If I were to design a scene-memory system for a console, it certainly wouldn´t be like this- there is way too much room for errors, too many parameters bundled under “CH/ST”, for instance. You can´t trust your decisions when the board works against you.

[StonepianoParticipant]

Somewhere along the way I forgot the independent tabs and tried to make per scene tweaks under global settings, case closed.

[StonepianoParticipant]

Yes, running 1.8. Now I get it- the per scene/global tabs. I´ve been too global so far…

[StonepianoParticipant]

Seems like a contradiction here- I would have thought disabling the block from the scene before the last would allow a different setting to affect only the last scene… what I do not understand, that while the manual says you can have different filters for each scene, unblocking a parameter from one scene unblocks it globally. What is this “per scene”- filtering, then?

[StonepianoParticipant]

Really? Well I´m still trying to get to grips with the filter-logic… I want to have a different eq on one input for my last scene. I make the changes and store- the new curve finds its way to all scenes. I have ch/st blocked. The screen states that a filter affects all scenes (that´s why it´s “global”, I guess), but on the other hand “you can have different filters for each scene”. This is where I get confused- what do I need to block or allow to have a change affect only one scene?

B.R.
T.K.

[StonepianoParticipant]

This is a bit of a hybrid-situation; I’m having my nearfields routed via matrix to alt-out, this is because the alt does not have delay,needed to align the nearfields to PA. I wanted to have the local monitors’ volume control on the alt-knob. The alt-feed is obviously L/R. Don’t know, if this routing-scheme is a hindrance? But since I did not assign recording functions on softkeys, I can spare one for this. In fact, I already have an “all killed”- button, that may be the quickest way.

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