[YvoParticipant]

This may be superfluous, but have you changed the cabling between the two devices?
If at all possible, I’d leave the two units running overnight in a test setup, sitting next to each other and directly connected, feed a constant test signal into the stage box and record the output of the console (preferably the analogue outs)
Then you can check the recording the next day to see if there were any dropouts. This might give you a clue, at least.

Totally a stressful situation indeed.
Good luck!

[YvoParticipant]

By the way, I noticed the A&H Matrix boxes have more bands on their PEQ.
It would be nice if we got more than 4 bands on the channel EQ as well as RTA.

[YvoParticipant]

I’ve had a little chat with Jack about this and it turns out this is not as easily done as you’d think, as it would mess up the delay compensation system.
He also said that there seems to be a trend of engineers preferring parametrics over graphics for monitors.
So he basically said he’d see a bigger chance of them adding bands to the channel PEQ then them adding insertable GEQs to the channels.
Frankly, that would be ok with me toom preferably with an RTA option.
What say you?

[YvoParticipant]

May I also suggest adding a detailed drawing of the work surface in the manual/firmware guide?

For those who have ordered an Avantis but are awaiting deliver and have to use the director software to start learning the board, it’s a little frustrating that there’s no drawing of the actual desk in the manual nor is it easy to find pictures of the desk tht are hi res enough to allow us to read the text written under the buttons etc.

[YvoParticipant]

Wow? Is that really true?
I feel the desire to fire up Director just to check and I will. I wouldn’t expect this behaviour either, although I understand it’s the way the analogue mute groups worked and some may prefer this behaviour.
It’d be nice to at least have the option to be able to manually unmute members of a muted mute group.
That would be my preferred behaviour too.
Perhaps turn it into a preference, changeable on a per group basis?

+1

[YvoParticipant]

I second the GEQ/NEQ on channel inserts. On Avantis too please.

[YvoParticipant]

This has happened again, also during an overwrite. Any tips?
I’m going to try a save as as a workaround.

[YvoParticipant]

Thanks for chiming in Steffen.

I’m afraid you’re going to have to explain to me why a balance control on the send would not do the trick for me. It seems to me like it would.

Here’s my logic:
I’m assuming a send from a stereo source to a mono bus simply gets summed.
If my send from stereo master to mono matrix ‘L’ has a balance control and I turn it all the way to the left, matrix ‘L’ should receive only the left channel of the master bus.
If I add a second send to matrix ‘R’ and turn it fully to the right, it should only send the right channel to matrix ‘R’.

Did you misunderstand me or are you suggesting this is not how it works?

Regardless, my master to matrix is only an example. Don’t get caught up on it.
That said, I doubt I’m the first person who likes a stereo bus sending to split mono matrices.
Don’t get caught up on ‘balance control’ either. Like I said, I’d rather have different send pots for L and R.

[YvoParticipant]

Thanks.

That’s a little disappointing but I can work around that.

I’ll make a DCA for the masters or I’ll eliminate the masters completely and send from sub groups straight to the matrices.

I will put in a feature request for balance controls on sends from stereo sources though, whether they are mono or stereo sends.

[YvoParticipant]

– Ability to move / swap entire layers of faders within its own bank, and between banks

Yes please!
I’m coming from S21 and while the Avantis is superior in almost every aspect, I’m missing that feature.

– Input Stereo’ing of even + odd channels; and not just odd + even

No-brainer! I’m sure it’s not easy though as they would’ve done it by now.

[YvoParticipant]

Well I downloaded Avantis Mixpad and ran the demo but if it’s there, I can’t find it.

[YvoParticipant]

Yuo, for the dyn8 too please

[YvoParticipant]

+1 Fully agreed.

I had a demo of the Avantis yesterday and this was my main gripe and frankly a disappointment to a console that otherwise seems like a winner.

I found not being able to touch and drag the plugin parameters completely counter intuitive.
If it can’t be changed, I’m sure I’d get used to it at some point but still… If it’s counter intuitive to me, I’m sure it will be counter intuitive to guest operators. That alone is a problem to me.

I know that many people prefer hardware encoders to adjust settings, but since this console tends to offer users multiple ways of doing the same thing, allowing touch control over the plugins etc, just seems like a weird omission. Avantis has less encoders and larger touch screens than dLive, it seems like a no brainer but here we are.
S21 has horrible touch screens but it allows you to use it in stead of the rotaries, should you prefer.

I’m used to touch screens, I just want to be able to manipulate the GUI directly and have the OPTION to use rotaries in stead when I choose it’s more appropriate. I don’t like a computer dictating what kind of input device I have to use.

Apple are making that mistake and I think A&H are making it here too.
I hope the update it, because this console checks a lot of boxes and we’ll probably end up buying one.
It would be a shame if this would continue to bug me.

[YvoParticipant]

On the demo yesterday, I was told that while the dLive mixpad cannot do input patching, the Avantis one can (like the SQ one). Can anyone confirm?

[YvoParticipant]

Coming from the S21 I agree that it’s disappointing that Avantis doesn’t offer it over USB.
We just had a demo of the Avantis yesterday and I asked them about it. (Distributor, not A&H directly).
They suggested that it’s probably impossible to add as a firmware update as it would likely require extra hardware, driving the price of the product up. Same goes for allowing multitrack playback from the internal harddrive. I’m not sure if it’s true, of course, but it seems plausible. So don’t get your hopes up.
It’s likely that we’ll just be dependent on Dante for multitracking.
UB-MADI is definitely easier to set up, but it has its limitations. It perhaps couldn’t handle 64 channels at 96k…

That said, the Avantis offers so many advantages over the S21 that although disappointed about this omission, we’ll definitely let it slide as we’d be getting a Dante card anyway.

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