MiniDucq - a ducker for the CQ mixer

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The CQ finally gets a ducker! MiniDucq is here and you can test it today by following the link: Join the MiniDucq beta - TestFlight - Apple

This is an early beta version that has only been tested with the CQ20B with the latest FW version as of writing.

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So hows this work? Whats it running on?

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It is an iOS app so it runs on iPhone or iPad. It controls the mixer remotely.

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Not very descriptive. Whats it doing?

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Thanks for your interest. It’s a ducker, meaning it automatically rides the fader of a channel to lower that signal in favor of another channel. It could be lowering background music while someone is talking into a mic, like in my demo. Or the delay while the vocalist is singing.

Technically, the app connects to the CQ the same way MixPad does. But instead of the engineer manually ducking, a machine does it automatically by monitoring the trigger signal and moving faders.

I hope that is descriptive enough for you, otherwise please keep asking.

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Understand what a ducker is.

So youre saying you monitor the metering traffic and use it to in near real time adjust the fader of the ducked channel?

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Yes, that’s precisely it.

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Just updated with a new beta version 6. It has:

  • A demo mode so you can test the ducker without connecting to a real mixer
  • An on/off toggle switch on the main screen so ducking can be bypassed without moving the reduction setting

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