Hey all!
I’m fairly new to the Actions game (call it macros). Most consoles I work on didn’t offer this feature (yet) or I didn’t have to set them up/think about them. I think I won’t be the only one benefiting from having some ideas posted to this thread on what to use actions for? Things I though of are:
- Bypass toggling inserts. ‘waves panic button’, autotune in/out on a vocal
- toggling ABCD inputs quickly
- toggling multiple gates for dynamic drum parts without scene automation
- quick layout changes (FOH layer or MON layer without needing to use a DCA spill)
Feel free to drop other ideas below, one simple idea might cause many others!
Best,
Bob
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– toggling ABCD inputs quickly
First thing I did was reprogram a bunch of soft keys to toggle between sockets A and B on various wireless mics. It’s a great way to have a backup transmitter without having to worry about keeping channel settings in sync, and switching to actions let me save myself from having a 2nd soft key to switch an input back to socket A (although, TBH, I mostly had that in case I was an idiot and hit the wrong button… if a show’s gone so wrong that the backup transmitter’s failed and you need to switch back to the hopefully-now-working primary while it’s all live, you’re probably past the “make it look slick & easy” stage).
I often do the same thing for people who move between multiple mics… I’m not going to claim there’s 0 difference between how they sing at guitar vs how they sing at piano, but it’s usually close enough that I find it easier to make any necessary tweaks than try to keep everything else synced between a couple channels (although maybe not anymore since we can gang Dyn8s now).
An option to fade or time function changes.
For example: My “changeover” action group key. Mutes inputs (I like how it “soft” mutes , unlike a hard mute group), unmutes MC mics and pushes them to 0db, unmutes house music and pushes the fader up. I’d love if the house music level change could be given a time to wait before firing.
Also make USB audio record and playback functions “actionable”. I would add "start recording " to the “changeover IN” group.
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Fades would be great.
What I’d love is an action/soft button to trigger a specific wav from the stick.
I would really like to be able to have a single key that PAFL/MIX/SEL a musician’s monitor mix AND activates a specific talkback group, so that I can talk to just that musician, if needed.
Like others have said, a timed fader move would be great (ex. move fader to 0dB over a period of 1 second).
I’d also really like to be able to recall scenes. That would be a nice “catch all” for any functionality that isn’t native to Actions yet.
And as others have mentioned, get all of the Soft Key functions into Actions.
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If you post suggestions to the suggestion section of the forum, we would be able to upvote…
It was a call for ideas, not for features 
that’s why.
Just curious what others use actions for.