Looking through the soft key options (not all that many really) there are a bunch that don’t seem overly useful.
How about a +48v assign on soft key option?..
Hold the soft key and press channel select for phantom power on/off.
The ch sel light should indicate each channels phantom power status while holding the soft key.
Ooh - good idea…
Yes good idea!
The ch sel light should indicate each channels phantom power status while holding the soft key.I was thinking and maybe have said that it would be good to have a total turn off of all phantom as well. However a softkey that showed what is instantly phantom'd says it all. I have found it really easy to quickly mute channels so I dont mind loosing a softkey.
As a current workaround, you can copy the preamp and paste to channel sel keys
Doesn’t that take the preamp gain with it though?
@Bob, even it copies the Gain as well, that doesn’t matter because when you turn on Phantom you need to adjust the gain anyway!
I think this softkey option would be more a difficult feature due no one really knows how it should work without reading the manual!
Why would nobody understand without a manual? It’s standard on other consoles and called something pretty simple like “Set to sel[+48v]”
Nothing wrong with people having to read the manual…
Yes Bob agreed. study is the answer
My thoughts…
To set a soft key so that you can visually see what channels have phantom on would be a plus.
And then to be able to select instantly [via depressing channel strip whilst holding down that programmed softkey] what channel requires phantom would be even better!
Off course as a QU owner/user has to select a soft key to do this function, so as I see this, only users whom have read the manual know what this is about anyhow.
This would be a leap forward to making this series of A & H mixers outstanding.
“a soft key to ‘show’ what channels are phantom’d”
and to be able to phantom or de-phantom at the touch of a channel!?
bit of a rave there huh?
[anything to get rid of pops and clicks]
And to add to this… whilst holding down that ‘soft key’ if you depress ‘RESET button’ it turns all phantom OFF on every channel.
word of the week ‘de-phantom’ 'phantom’d phantomed ?
Just for comparison this is equivalent to the existing “pre/post” configuration for mixes…
I’m sure there are other functions that use the sel indicators in this way as well (and if there aren’t maybe there should be - hold the compressor “in” button and it lights up channels with the compressor enabled etc?)
The mind boggles at that thought!
TO HOLD DOWN OVER A SECOND?
compressor
gate
maybe that’s a really good idea? as to see whats gated, comp’d etc…
after all the likes of myself are so used to ‘seeing’ visually what is happening on each channel.
I watched an incoming engineer “do his thing” with great enthusiasm tapping delay and working the desk this last weekend.
Quite dubb-ish…
it was like a breath of fresh air!
so
to be able to see and hold hold at the push of a button what channels have what happening…
so if you hold any comp you can see what channels have comp
if you hold gate you can see what channels have a gate
anyhow
cheers
just a few thoughts
Have a look at Soundcraft’s “interrogate” feature. Does exactly what you’re describing with each processing block: +48v, pol inv, hpf, gate, peq, comp, and routing to LR + M. It makes engaging the hpf on multiple channels really quick.
No thanks
I’m really happy with the qualtiy of sound of my 6 Allen and Heath QU mixers
They sound really great!
Nothing wrong with looking at the UI of other devices - some of them might even have useful ideas…
He didn’t say you had to buy (or even listen to) their desk…
Apologizes if I seemed a bit abrupt.
I don’t have the luxury of time to check out the nitty gritty of other brands.
I’m committed to the A & H brand and do not want those coveted wishful thoughts from other brands.
I’ll gladly take a slap with a wet fish.
However I do spend a lot of time experimenting with ideas of connecting Reaper with QU in mac and also using Ipad from the Airport Extreme I have with the new Qu-Pad 1.7
Reaper [DAW software] will remotely control faders in the Custom Layer (only) via the router, however the iPad custom layer will not move faders set-up to midi (on custom layer) within Reaper Software.
It nearly had me very exited yesterday!
Anyhow new day here. The Sun is out in force,
cheers
Yes - and the sound is really what we are here for. But I like to import good ideas when I see them 
I just read this thread because I have the same problem with the “Qu” mixers. It’s not possible to have overviews of almost anything. The “audio interrogate” function from Soundcraft is really useful and is what this thread is about.
How can any sane adult person be “commited” to a brand? I don’t get it. Look at the Soundcraft Expression of Performer mixers if you want to know what a good UI is. Compared to that, the Qu mixers lack really badly. All mixes, FX and LR knobs in blue?!? Why not make the mix knobs fully lighten up like the HPF of EQ knobs? Why not different colors for LR, FX and “mixes” so that you can easier see what you’re working on? And the whole mixer UI in black?!? Really?!? Was the X32 the reference for that? Why not group things together visually with different colors for the different sections? Why not put bigger or different knobs for so important things like mixes and layers? Instead: two unlighted oval grey knobs for the layers…
You want to know how good a mixer’s UI can get these days? Take a look at an Expression or Performer. Maybe you will then rethink the childish concept of being “commited” to a brand. Commit to your wife and kids, yes. But to a brand? Sorry, what a nonsense.
So if you are so committed to the Si brand then that is fine. To each his own. No console is the be all to end all. I went to a church last week to evaluate their overall sound. They have a Si Expression. After working on AH mixers I found it to be very clunky. Not very user friendly. They have had it a year and were barely able to use it. Had NEVER saved a scene or show. Go figure. I finally figured out most of it by end of service. So you can have your opinion but don’t come on here and trash the brand this forum stands for. If you are not using it you just don’t need to condemn it.
I’m not commited to any brand, that is somthing ridiculous to say the least. And also includes Soundcraft, of course. The initial setup of the mixer might be easier on a Qu. But that was not my point.
Someone here had the argument of not wanting to hear about other brands because he’s “commited” to A&H. That must be kind of an intimate love relationship with gear… You must be very blinded by such a “commitment” in order to not be able or to not want to see what is good in other “brands”.
The UI of an Expression or of a Performer is better designed than the one of the Qu (and more expensive, for sure). I think that can’t be talked away. If you are willing to accept that you might be willing to accept that some ideas from others might be good too, and then try to implement them. Like is being asked for in this thread.
Btw: I own and use a Qu mixer.