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Why is there a character limitation to 6 letters? I’d appreciate to have longer channel names!
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I’ve found on the QU that putting channel names in is just about a waste of time since there is no display on each strip unlike GLD or many other brands. A simple one line display would have been nice. But since this is what we have on QU it is was it is. I still just use 1/2" label tape. ?
For me it’s not a waste of time becauce I like to look on the touchscreen when doing channel processing :-p. So longer channel names could be useful for me, even if the Qu-Series doesn’t have scribble strips like the X32-Series.
Or for those who use the iPad, which does have a scribble strip.
Naming is particularly useful to QU-You users, since musicians have no idea what is on each channel.
This is what I do when performing FOH or mixing at home, rather than looking at the QU screen I position my iPad on top of the QU and use that as an external screen. Works a treat for me. When out on location I have the iPad secured in an adjustable holder that is attached to a very very short boom table stand.
Personally, longer channel names and/Or channel memory names would help me; for instance on one act I work with the lead has different Eq settings for different parts of the show; another act also frequently changes Bass player, and being able to store more details of a stored channel purpose/which band member would be very helpful, even of of was just another 3 or 4 characters.
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I second, third or whatever amount, this. My band uses the QU-16, with white tape under the faders to write what’s on each channel, so I’d never noticed the lack of characters in the channel name…until today when my own QU-Pac arrived!
I’m gonna have to start inventing nicknames for some of the singers I work with just to fit their name in. So more characters would be awesome!
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Thanks Bob… YES!
Way too many other tech issues & musicians issues o think about rather than scratching my head , squinting my eyes in the bright sunshine to look at the strip name, let alone scene and show names.
I am amazed how having just two more characters for a total of 8 characters would have helped.
At least allow this for the Qu-Pad app … have them optionally scroll if longer than can be displayed in entirety.
I agree, six charachters is ludicrous.
John, I can see you are intimately familiar with Mackie’s Master Fader
yes, 6 charachters is not enough!!!
I find it imposs see why anyone would have proble with with a six charac limita
Be nice if we could use “<” “^” and “>” as arrows too…
Agreed, an extra 2 characters would make all the difference
Well I don’t know if this would help any bit (since AH seems to be totally unmovable with this) but I really wanted to express myself by writing here that I also find the 6 character limitation often way too restrictive and blows my head to come up with a super ingenious code naming every time. 2 more chars would make much more sense. Even 1 more char would be much better.
So is there any chance of getting more characters for channel naming?
The 6 character limit is baked in at a low level and used throughout the mixer including in data storage and manipulation. So it might be possible to increase, but would be a fundamental change and far more complex than you might imagine. For that reason, it is almost certainly never going to be increased, but we will leave this topic live as we also cannot say it is impossible.