Multiple iPads (for individual monitor mixes)

Already love the Qu-You, great addition!
For “real use” I somehow wish to enable/disable specific mix buses for Qu-You usage, just to ensure they’re not tweaking mixes (accidentially, of course) not intended for monitoring (i.e. a mix bus used for external FX gear, works great btw.).

I’m also having trouble finding the qu-you software on the app store from my iphone.

Theres only two ways of doing getting it right now.
Easiest way is to be signed into the A&H forum on your iphone/iPad and follow this link below

The other is to get it on iTunes on your mac/PC and transfer it.

As for the F5 brigade, give it a break already!

some of us are overexcited… This feature was on my “gamble” list when I bought the mixer…

The wheel does not work if the faders were -Inf.

They do, but very slowly (and maybe only if they got taken there by the app)

It also stops going up if any fader hits +10 (preserving the mix relationship) it would be good if the wheel flashed red (or something else visual and obvious) at that point I think.

I’m pretty impressed so far, need to hook it to a desk though…

So the mob got its precious feature… The only problem is nobody else got anything.

I hope A&H can now concentrate on so many so good feature suggestions that have been posted in this forum. Any of them would have been of more value to me than this new app nobody needs (provocation of the mob fully intended).

And I can find a limiter so that my so-called co-musicians don’t kill my monitors and the mix just because they now have the means to do so…

GuitarHero
I hear you buddy. We did get presets as well though, which should hopefully now entice some new users with lesser experiences of live mixing to consider purchasing now.

But yes, we could do with more features, effects, better control of various effects etc.
This monitor mix app feature was well overdue though.

GuitarHero, I must say that multiple TCP/IO connections (which is what I hope is behind that new App) is what I was missing and nothing else. For me and myself and the band, this means we can have iPad control and our FX Footswitch operating simultaneously. This is actually why we still don’t have an iPad in use. So, unfortunate for you, but the mob may be quite happy now.

Personally, I think if you want to get buried with features, you should get a Behringer console. :sunglasses: For me, A&H is the brand that has the features that make sense and that are high quality. I usually do the sound myself, since we can’t afford a separate engineer. But we sometimes have one and this guy jumping up and down in front of his feature-loaded X32, murmuring loudly “oh my God, what am I doing?” did not foster the trust in external engineers in my band members.

Time to update… (after the next show) and time to get an iPad finally.

Actually, to be more precise: Nicola, does the Qu now deal with multiple TCP/IP connections talking MIDI, or does the Qu-You use some other means of communication? I see that the MIDI specs haven’t been updated (yet?) to 1.6

“The mob” is kind of how customer feedback works. Lots of customers wanted this feature, it got implemented.

Your musicians don’t have the capacity to knobble your mix (FOH isn’t included in the app), and I’m only letting the guys on in-ears use the Qu-You app, they can’t mess anything else up with stage noise - I particularly like that I can still help them, since I can still control their mix directly, but they can make minor tweaks as needed - particularly a “more me” for when one of our female vocalists takes lead for a song or two.

In terms of limiting there is a compressor on each mix output that can be configured as a limiter.

7 Qu-You connections can coexist with 1 iPad, so I assume that the FX footswitch will still be knackered. I wonder if you can (ab)use the button on an iDevice headset to trigger the tap tempo? Obviously you’d need to wire it right, and the iPad app would need to support it. But reading the “remote” switch on the headphones (despite that being wired to a proper footswitch) and always using it as tap tempo should be possible - make a nice tweak to the Qu-Pad app (no other change needed)

Given that the software isn’t abandoned (I hope) it might just be that the other features you want aren’t ready. I’d rather features waited until they were ready, then got released frequently, but this was a very popular option so it was always going to be “early”.

Top of my remaining list is talkback control and FX controls on the iPad. I can guarantee that your top two are different (partly because our use cases are clearly different). The guys at A&H have to look at what their dealers are saying about prospective customers, at what their customers are saying in tech support (I note that a midi bug has been fixed) and at what people are saying on this forum.
They have to collate that information, as well as an understanding of the effort involved for each feature and make priorities and compromises. One of those compromises is the release schedule - do you release after each bug/feature? every few months, or when you’ve exhausted the bug tracker?

Nicola, does the Qu now deal with multiple TCP/IP connections talking MIDI, or does the Qu-You use some other means of communication?

I’m afraid Qu is still limited to 1 MIDI TCP connection at a time, as detailed in the Release Notes. Qu-You uses an ad-hoc lightweight protocol.

Is that protocol (going to be) published?

This is kind of useful/important especially if there won’t be an A&H released Android Qu-You…