Thanks for sharing your thoughts, everyone.
As part of the architecture of the FPGA, there are four tap off points available in the channel to send to mixes. All crosspoints have to preexist in the core of the mixer for you to be able to use/select them. We have to have post preamp - for obvious reasons - and we also have to have one right at the end (Post Delay/ AMM), also hopefully for obvious reasons.
The reason it was moved was because of people having problems with AMM, specifically monitoring channels that were in an AMM and setting up compression. Now, you can PAFL channels and listen to all processing (apart from the AMM) so that you can set up compressors and the like without having to remove channels from the AMM. Hence we moved this tap-off point to allow all processing except AMM to be recorded, sent to auxes and most importantly monitored/PAFL.
In addition, we added the option to select the metering point for the channel meters, meaning that you can choose to meter with or without the AMM gain but with all processing and including compression.
Apologies that you were using this pick-off point for something else. We would have loved to have added more, but this was unfortunately just not possible. When we spoke to engineers, there was a consensus that the AMM issue made moving the pick point more useful than leaving it where it was (post PEQ is a good compromise for those that really need post insert)
If you’ve got questions, please shout!