I have been experimenting with using different layers to control FOH and monitors with double patching between the two. Once we have a basic analogue gain structure set up then we obviously don’t want to change this if possible as it would affect both the FOH and the monitor levels, and instead use the digital trim on the appropriate channel. It would be useful to be able to switch the physical Gain knob so that it either controls the analogue trim or digital trim globally as it would be much faster than having to open the preamp page, select the digital trim and then use the assignable encoder.
For bonus points it would be nice to have a third option where the Gain knob does control analogue gain, but introduces an inverse adjustment to the trims on all channels that are using this physical input. This way if the analogue preamp starts to clip then one could turn down the analogue gain while preserving the current mix. This would obviously only work if the audio data post ADC is higher bit depth than the ADC as otherwise we would just reintroduce clipping at a different stage…
