Dear A&H-Team,
i really love my Qu-16, but please make it possible to write and save the channel names in the mixer
(and the Qu-Pad). Every small digital Mixer, (Presonus, Yamaha, Soundcraft, Phonic, Behringer, …) is able
to write and save the channel names.
Especially if you recall a scene it is a must have to see the saved channel names.
Thanks a lot.
Oliver
+1… absolute necessity at least on the app!
Yep +1 too. This needs doing urgently! (Please!)
YES!!
Yes it is awesome that you can save scenes, But if you are working with numerous artist (Bands) it is hard to remember what each channel is for, Right now I am saving all of my white tape that I use to name channels, Brings me back to my analog day’s, I own a t112 surface for my ilive rig…so you can imagine that I am a little spoiled by that, but some kind of indicator to name channels on the QU16 would be greatly appreciated… Thank’s A&H
This would be a nice option
I need this too!
Make it so !!
I’m actual testing the QU-16 together with the QU-PAD.
Without possibility of naming the channels on the QU-PAD, I’m sure to return the mixer.
@Allen&Heath: It is a must. Please hurry up, before many other users are also disapointed about this.
I just came to this forum trying to figure out how to label channels figuring I was missing something simple. The QU-PAD app is almost worthless without this ability. I just got this mixer yesterday and will return it if I can’t find any information that says that naming channels is possible or at least will be possible in the near future with an update.
I’ve asked and they say its possible - just waiting now…
You guys must have never had a large analog board to work on…That is why they(Whomever) made label tape…
That must look really funny. Each scene with its own label tape, all cramped on the mixer 
And label tape on an iPad…
I know what you mean, but this is a digital console with scene and remote control capabilities. Of course if you don’t need the remote control and use only one scene, yes, you don’t need it. I hope you didn’t really think the OP was asking for it just for such a case.
Without scribble strips exactly how do you propose they achieve this?
Being able to overwrite ‘CH00’ with a name I presume? That way it should show up on the Qu-pad too
Exactly.
I expect to use tape to label the mixer. But it would be nice to have channel labels for remote mixing with an iPad which is available on every other digital mixer I have used by Yamaha, Presonus, Soundcraft, etc. None of the have scribble strips. I also agree that when you recall a scene for a different gig, it is nice to know what each channel was used for. I also like to label my sends so I know which monitor should go where. I know I can write all this information down but I don’t think I should have to. Plus, if I am letting band members mix their monitors, I wouldn’t trust them to do it without channels being labeled.
Hard as it is to say, but everything is a ‘get what you pay for’. I would say to a customer if you want the features of a more expensive console then you are going to have to do that. Buy a GLD. It will do all that and more. Just the facts man.
I will agree that this could be implemented on the Ipad app. I think it is more important for that use that on the board since there is not real mechanical way to make that happen other than on the screen. Maybe the app could be written to allow adding names on itand saving that info somehow.
I don’t think it’s about ‘get what you pay for’. Cheaper mixers have this feature. And considering how much the Qu16 is able to do, the naming of channels can’t be thought of as something difficult to implement.
And: even the smallest GLD isn’t rack mountable, it’s heavier, needs a stage box, etc. So if you’re looking for a ‘digital MixWiz’, a GLD wouldn’t be the right choice.
A digital mixer like this is being advertised as having scene recall capabilities. It would be very difficult to use different scenes if a ‘scene’ doesn’t include any kind of scene information. If a ‘scene’ is only the set of settings to a given point in time, I think it shouldn’t be called a ‘scene’. If a ‘scene’ doesn’t allow for even a comment field to write what channel was for what, then the advantage of having ‘scenes’ diminishes a lot.
The whole sense of a ‘scene’ is NOT having to write down settings. Now, it does look a bit strange if you don’t have to write down any settings but… the channel name??? Why that? You can store anything but not the channel name. This is at least disapointing.
If I were A&H I wouldn’t tell my customers to buy a GLD instead because that unit is not what people are looking for if they want something like a MixWiz or a Qu16. That would push them to buy from another company. If I were A&H I would just implement a name field in the channel strip because that’s something a lot of people is expecting to be possible as a matter of course. I didn’t even came to think that wouldn’t be possible when I bought the unit.
Not meaning to be arumentative(if that is a word). I am just an old down to Earth matter of fact kind of guy. I have used and sold gear for over 40 years. I hear it all the time of people asking for this or that as a feature and I have to think of what I said about get what you pay for. I too asked for many features on the GLD’s when I first got one. I saw lots of areas for some improvements like what’s up with the contrast? You have to stand up to use the thing.
So I agree with you that it should be looked at with regard to the iPad. I don’t see a practical way of doing it on the board but maybe and have it appear on SEL functions then transmit to the iPad. I have not seen other consoles in this price point as to their iPad displays. Just have not used or sold them.
So don’t take my comments too seriously or is a bad way. It is just I presume they had to stop somewhere and figured on a 16ch board maybe it was not that necessary. Now they are hearing it is.