C1500 PEQ workflow

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I‘ve thought about, how using the PEQ on the C1500 Surface could be faster.

Since there is a dedicated width button, I think there is a way faster method to use the eq in combination with the button and the touchscreen.

When the button in not pressed, you can move the eq band on the touchscreen freely, as you can do now, and change it‘s frequency and gain.

But as soon as you press the width button, id would lock the frequency and change to width and gain, when you move your finger on the screen.

Would be a gamechanger in speed to me.

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I like that idea! :blush::+1:

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I’m not sure I follow this one. Seems unnecessary.

Currently, you can either:

  1. Use the knobs with a momentary width button.
  2. Use the knobs with a latching width button.
  3. Use the touchscreen with two fingers to pinch the width in and out.
  4. Use touch and turn for the NEQ

I’m not sure it makes sense to have even more control paradigms for the parametric EQs.

What might make sense would be if the last touched EQ band was automatically selected for pinch. Might already be the case, but I can’t remember it since I try to use either the touchscreen or the knobs rather than combing them.

4

A gamechanger for two hands? Really not.

5

It came to my mind at a recent convention, where I was in a talk with a A&H employee.

The origin of our discussion was, how many buttons do they still need to put on a console and wich ones can they remove to make the console cheaper or make room for other stuff on this small surface.

Imagine following scene:

If you are sweeping through the frequency spectrum on the touchscreen, and you have found your frequency, that you want to pull down. You now have 2 options:

  1. Pull it down with your finger
  2. Use the gain knob of the corresponding band.

My issue with 1:

When pulling down with your finger, it‘s likely that you change the frequency as well. Maybe it‘s just me, but I‘m rarely in an accurate straight line when pulling the band down.

This is fine, as long as you‘re dealing with a wide setting. But when you want to be precise and are in a hurry, it can be nerve-racking.

My issue with 2:

You are constantly grabbing over from the screen to the knobs and vice versa. It can happen, that you grab the wrong encoder for the wrong band. Which is not a big deal with no stress, but when managing 60-100 Ch on the 12 Fader surface, it can be quite stressful.

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I wouldn’t mind if there was a frequency lock (like in the Yamaha iPad apps)…but I would never ever use it. If I ever needed that level of precision there is absolutely no way (for me) that locating the a lock button, swiping down, and then perhaps locating the lock button to unlock, would ever be faster than just turn the gain knob.

Also, if being extremely accurate is so important to you, then why are you using the touchscreen to sweep the frequencies in the first place?

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I wouldn‘t use a permanent „lock“ button either.

The idea is, that the „Width“ button on the C1500 would engage a temporary/ non latching frequency lock, which also lets me control the „Q“ by swiping left or right.

This way, your left hand always stays on the „width“ button while adjusting peq, and with your right hand you can do all the adjustments on the touchscreen.

I sometimes do find it rather inconvenient, using the two encoders and the button, how it is now, because you are constantly trying to use two encoders with one hand.

I just think that it would be an easy implementation, with no downsides but with an improvement in workflow.

To your question why I am using the touchscreen whilst trying to be percise:

At the moment, I‘m not using the touchscreen at all, because its so inconvenient and slow in my opinion.

But with this addition, I think it would be using it much more.