Mogers
09-26-2008, 02:16 AM
Hi Bob
Loving the new update - big thanks for sorting out the issues I raised last week so quickly. It's a rare joy to get such incredible support.
So, having sorted some issues, the never-satisfied user is now asking for more... ;)
Outputs 9-24 are not really outputs at all - they don't send signal out of the system, but instead their only function is to send signals to the next stage in the internal system - i.e. the real outputs 1-8. So maybe, for clarity and consistency, they should be renamed - groups? subgroups?
Meanwhile, is there any reason why 9-24 must only be able to feed one of 1-8, rather than more than one? I'm thinking of a few possible scenarios:
(1) doing speaker management (crossovers, LPF for subs etc) in software rather than using an external device - so you could, for example, use output 1 for the Mid-Highs, and output 2 for the subs, and output 3 for a delay stack - with all the EQs and delays done using plugins.
(2) where you have main FOH speakers, but also surround speakers which carry not only swirly FX but also some of the main FOH mix.
These are both possible if you only use the input channel routing (i.e. send an input to output 1 and 2 and 3 etc), but if you want to use the submixes of 9-24 (i.e. not the Grp Latch mode), then it doesn't work.
Maybe this could be done by adding an 8-button routing matrix to "outputs" 9-24 in the relevant blank space?
cheers
Mark
Loving the new update - big thanks for sorting out the issues I raised last week so quickly. It's a rare joy to get such incredible support.
So, having sorted some issues, the never-satisfied user is now asking for more... ;)
Outputs 9-24 are not really outputs at all - they don't send signal out of the system, but instead their only function is to send signals to the next stage in the internal system - i.e. the real outputs 1-8. So maybe, for clarity and consistency, they should be renamed - groups? subgroups?
Meanwhile, is there any reason why 9-24 must only be able to feed one of 1-8, rather than more than one? I'm thinking of a few possible scenarios:
(1) doing speaker management (crossovers, LPF for subs etc) in software rather than using an external device - so you could, for example, use output 1 for the Mid-Highs, and output 2 for the subs, and output 3 for a delay stack - with all the EQs and delays done using plugins.
(2) where you have main FOH speakers, but also surround speakers which carry not only swirly FX but also some of the main FOH mix.
These are both possible if you only use the input channel routing (i.e. send an input to output 1 and 2 and 3 etc), but if you want to use the submixes of 9-24 (i.e. not the Grp Latch mode), then it doesn't work.
Maybe this could be done by adding an 8-button routing matrix to "outputs" 9-24 in the relevant blank space?
cheers
Mark