Hey there- we recently got the ME-1 to replace some cheap IEM monitors we had. We have several different scenes for different service types. One service type is DIALED IN and sounds great in my ears. But as soon as we swap to another scene, all my settings are gone. I’ve tried to match the input names as best I can in the ME patching and I/O routing on the board, but because the scenes aren’t exactly the same and have different inputs/outputs, I’m assuming that’s why?
I’ve read where I can make a “Master Scene” just for the MEs, so that it won’t change when the scene changes, but I’m not sure how to do that where it’ll include all the input feeds I would need for every scene. Any help here is appreciated.
It sounds like the ME routing is set up like you want on one scene, but it is not setup/saved correctly on the other scenes. This isn’t surprising if you just set up the ME system and are loading scenes that were created/saved before you got the ME system.
You need to load the scene that has the correct ME routing set up (to get the ME system back to working like you want it). Then you just need to set a global filter to “safe” the routing of the ME system. This will prevent ALL scenes from changing the ME routing when they are loaded in the future. That being said, the granularity of the global safe settings are different for every console lineup however. The “higher” up the line you go, the more granular control you will have.
For example, on the SQ, I think you can only safe ALL routing (ie you can’t single out just the ME routing), while on a DLive it is so granular that I believe you can set which ME channels you want to safe.
The other option is to “update” all of your scenes with the new ME routing. This way every scene will have the correct ME routing saved in it. Again, the granularity of the scene update system gets better the “higher” up the console lineup you go. I know it would be trivial to update just the ME routing on existing scenes on a DLive, but I am not sure if that would be possible on the “lower” tier consoles.
Personally I would suggest the “global filter” option as the best choice if the global filter has enough granularity to fit your needs/goals without negatively affecting other needed functionality.
Much like you can go into a channel strip’s EQ, press the [Library] button and save (or load) the EQ to (or from) a named library; you can also go into the patch screen, press the [Library] button and save (or load) a named library patch.
You should be able to load a scene (containing a patch) and replace the patch with a preset named library patch.
I did this for training. I can load a scene (we have a standardised channel configuration that has the default patch for our normal Church setting) and can replace the patching from the named library I have saved.