I understand your point. I too think that you can request features endlessly. There will always be something that can be done better, and when developing software it could never get ready. You have to stop somewhen.
As for this feature I do think that it is something that needs little resources and has a great impact. For example, a self-mixing band could have an iPad and when a musician is not working in a song he could go to the audience and do some corrections at least to the channel levels. But if you have to relay on everyone knowing the channels by their numbers that would be too error prone.
I see your point, yes. We shouldn’t be asking just for everything, that would be counterproductive. Everything could be implemented (how about an internet browser so you can download music on the fly ), but we should take care to state what we would really need.
I’m more than happy to put tape on the desk - one of the reasons I got this one is that it does not have the dozen or so layers that my Roland has. (Anybody want to buy an M380 system? )
I got the Qu-16 before the iPad app was available, confident that it was coming soon. Which it did, good.
But I have to say I’m astonished that it dose not have any sort of naming. Even if I was happy to stick tape on my iPad, it would not work, because of the way the channels scroll left<>right.
I now think this is something that A&H seriously needs to address. I can’t see any reason for it not being something fairly easy to do by just naming channels on the screen just like in GLD and iLive. This info would tranfer to the iPad when it is running the console.
Let me get this straight… (Never used a digital mixer, but I think about buying one)
I set up for the band, all gains, effects, levels etc and save it as a scene.
Next gig I can open up the scene and I will have it all as it was last time. But I have to remember myself what instrument I had on each channel???
Also when I leave the desk to use the iPad I need to remember what Instrument I connected to each channel?
I agree. It clearly seems like this is not possible on the mixer hardware, but on the touchpad display and the iPad app, this should happen. It would have been VERY nice to eliminate the scribble strip and put a set of LCD displays there to allow this, too.
…oh, and to be able to also color-code things in at least the app. The at-a-glance usability of color coded sections is really nice. For example, a future version of this console might include an RGB LED under the fader slot, so you could control the color there. This would be particularly useful if you could group channels.
I’ve mentioned this a few times on the A&H Facebook page. In fairness they have said it can and will be done, but not given any indication of time. In my opinion they need to do it right away as it’s essential!
It would be nice if Nicola or another member of A&H team would acknowledge some of these requests and let us know when to expect them. I think A&H are falling behind the competition with some of these important lacking features. As mentioned by other forum members, all the other manufacturers have got these features and much more. Just look at Mackie’s master fader - It’s great and feature packed!
This also seems like it would fall under the category of “low-hanging fruit” for them. Relatively little investment in code would be a substantial delight for end users.
This coupled with the ability to group channels on a fader, at least for the iPad app, then “blow the group up if needed” would make the custom layers on the iPad particularly useful. Picture wandering around the house with the drums all on one fader, BGV’s on another, and adjusting the levels as you move. If you need to bring up the snare, just temporarily blow that group up, adjust the snare, and collapse the group again. But without names, yeah… that’s putting a lot of unnecessary cognitive load on the user. And yes, I do have magnetic tags for the hardware scribble strip.
Gange,that’s awesome! Where did you find that!? A&H website still only has firmware 1.12 as the current and my iPad app isn’t updating either.it says Dec release on the document so hopefully it’s imminent! Well spotted!
anyone tried the naming already? I wonder if it is on the console as well!? However, on the ipad is the most important place to find the name… i will use gaffa tape on the board anyway due the missing Channel-LCDs!
Great features are now implemented like the PEQ on all Mixes, Mute buttons and FX-Tap-Tempo on the ipad as well as user libraries for channel processing! Good Work A&H!
Liking it. Please allow this feature on the on board display, too, and allow that data to flow from iPad to mixer, be stored with the scene, and flow back to the iPad if necessary.
It’s not as clean and easy as having individual displays per fader, but this is a step in the right direction! Thank you!
I just purchased a QU-24 knowing that channel names are not stored in the mixer (scenes, etc). However, I think that it is a must have feature (and I’m hopeful the AH will see the light) that as others have said is already available on pretty much all competitive mixers in this price range. The channel names should be stored with scenes and should appear on the processing screen, QU Pad app and the ME1. The lack of channel names truly makes this mixer less user friendly than it should be.
I’m very sad. New firmware version 1.4 and I hoped to find the channel naming on my QU mixer. No!!! A full digital machine and I have to use paper and pen to remember where I have plug the instruments.
I agree. Now especially with the 24 version and hope for a 32. It seems like a very logical item being passed over for some things that only matter to some people. Channel naming would apply to everyone.
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