Custom Control for dLive is here!

Hi Nicola

The sample you designed is great and I was able to set up profiles for all of the members of the band I BE for quickly by directly editing the XML, each on a separate user as per your design.
My issue is that I also do quite a bit of corporate work, weddings etc. where I will have an unknown band with variable number of members on IEMs (occasionally more than 10) so I’d like to have a generic profile attached to a single user where I could select the AUX send for each user quickly to allow one-off musicians to use their phones for IEM control.
OneMix is just too fiddly to configure on the fly for these shows as even for the same band name a bunch of different people may turn up each show and there’s rarely time available to get OneMix configured, not to mention the fact that it’s Ipad only.

Is there some simple way you can configure what AUX all of the faders are controlling from maybe a drop down list on the last tab so it’s tucked out of the way during normal use?
If not consider that a feature request :slight_smile:

Cheers

James

Is there a specific manual where I can find how to set up the user profiles?

Should be in the “dLive-Firmware-Reference-Guide-V1.8,” in the documents section of the Allen Heath website…

I wish it wasn’t limited to just 10 users, or I wish there was a way for the faders/labels and everything to follow a source selector. Thinking for IEMs. We have 11 IEMs, so can’t give each person a user account because we’re limited to 10, but also can’t create a custom control that allows a single user to login and then choose their IEM mix.

For everyone looking to control IEM mixes,
I’m not sure why every single person needs to have their own user to control their IEMs but I made a single user which controls all IEMs only.

Containers can have subcontainers, and they can be different for each page of the main edit:parent container.
Container with two pages (Band, Vox) with 7 stereo mixes and 5 stereo mixes respectively.
Main Container has a subcontainer with 7 pages, each corresponding to a mix.
Subcontainer page has a subsubcontainer of 8 pages accessing approx 50 monitor input channels.

I have three iPads running the same user (stage left, stage right, backstage) and any person can adjust their mix (level+pan) at any iPad.

There was a bit of copy and pasting, mainly just the container for the guinea pig IEM mix.
But once one mix’s inputs are setup it’s just a matter of copy container → next mix → ctrl+alt+drag → change dest channel → next page → repeat for 8 pages * 11 copied mixes.

Just don’t do what I did and try to get fancy and put meters under your faders.
(You’ll have to select faders one by one as selecting meters means you can mass-change fader dest channels)
Took me about six hours (including watching the webinar) from cold contact with the app.
A&H say it’ll work with 1.80, they lied.

Will share xml once I get back in office.

I see what you’re saying Senny, that makes sense. I didn’t consider doing a container within a container. Thanks!

What is the best aspect ratio for which device?
Is there a list?

Greetings
Dennis

Hey Senny,

I would love to see your layout.

Cheers
Dennis

Is there a way for me to assign input gain/trim control to a knob? I’m setting up IEM mixes for my band and would like to offer them the ability to adjust the trim for their IEM inputs.

@Hoffi

Sorry this took so long, I uploaded it to FB and forgot all about this.

@Senny - care to share here?

And, anyone else - any ideas about offering trim/gain control via the Custom Control application?

@Steve the annoying spam blocker is blocking links to my Google drive. :frowning:

Please, add MCA support for a CC! ??

OK guys so with the help of some of the fine people here I was able to get my first draft completed and tested at the church this weekend. Sadly none of the churches iPads would run iOS 11 so I ended up just allowing the musicians to share my two iPads in order to get feedback from them. And they all loved it! Here are a few photos.

My Father In-Law is also the Worship Leader so for fun I added Custom Fader Caps for him for His Mic, Click and our MD’s Talkback Mic. With all this lovely COVID-19 downtime I may do a video on how to do this for other churches with dLive systems it’s truly simple compared to Crestron and Q-Sys programming.

Hey Nicola - thanks so much for this template. It was almost perfect for what we needed - the only modification I made was to remove the mix assign buttons (don’t need my users leaving land mines for the next person). You saved me hours of work.

Hi,
i was setting up a Custom Control layout for one group.
They do monitor for some wedges from the stage, so I built one layout with Admin access rights and 4 tabs for the different Aux sends.
But if I move the faders nothing changes on the desk.
CC1.01, Firmware 1.85.
Attached a screenshot example of the config from one fader plus the config file.
If I use “Leveltype” “Main Level” it is working.
What am I doing wrong? The Mono Aux exists in the desk config.

Thanks,
Jürgen

Sorry Jurgen, the link doesn’t work, is the issue resolved?

My template for IEMS below, I hope forum bot doesn’t block this:
https://fccperth-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/ansen_soon_faith_org_au/EdhsfNbl0txLmlELDQ0wjNsBoQO9Vd2q3uN7Fld-27GKHg?e=Rys7cO

Sorry, dont know what happened to the link - here again.
Custom Control File

A difference I found to your file was that I have it for all users, you have it for Admin. But still - the mutes and the faders to main mix work.

I hope that this mystery can be solved soon.
It would be nice if you could use this idea for your great choir.
A greeting from me to the musicians :wink:

Sorry, dont know what happened to the link – here again. Custom Control File

A difference I found to your file was that I have it for all users, you have it for Admin. But still – the mutes and the faders to main mix work.

In Custom control I can change the mains or press buttons, then I see the faders changing in Director.
But if I use the AUX sends (mono), they do not change in Director, only in Custom Control?

Did anyone have that issue before? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Jürgen