Crikey I’m just an ordinary user trying to help but cant be dealing with those of superior intellect who won’t respect the effort.
Thanks for putting me in my place. I won’t bother in future.
You may notice I’m the second user on this feed trying to assist with a poor response from you for their freely given time, so suggest you do some soul searching on your communication skills.
I did see earlier today my error in assuming all memory address locations are in NVRAM in the mixer. I’d forgotten about memory spaces in CPUs and chipset so was in error re how I used the terminology in my written comms. But we all make mistakes right. That’s no excuse for failing to be polite to those assisting you.
I know other A&H consoles have a indicator that shows the “last recalled scene”. On the Avantis and Dlive for example, there is a little triangle (like a “play” button) that shows up next to the name of the last recalled scene in the scene manager. It makes it very easy to see which scene was recalled last. Obviously the CQ is lacking this distinction, and I can absolutely see where it would be an important feature to add.
So while I think it was important to clarify what is actually possible when dealing with the scene manager (ie showing the “last recalled scene” rather than the “current scene” which is impossible), the overall intent of the request is not invalid or unimportant IMHO.
Maybe I can add my two cents.
If, for example, a theater is working with scenes (that’s why they’re called that), displaying the current and next scene is very important.
There, for example, it can happen that you have to start several scenes and sound recordings within a short period of time.
You’re half glued to the playbook, half on the stage, you get announcements from a stage manager and you really have your hands full.
Being able to make sure that you’re in the right scene in such situations is a blessing.
Of course, you could say that the CQ and its scene management aren’t made for theater - especially because there are no recall filters.
But I still think that displaying the scenes is by no means the least important wish - and one that could even be realized with the existing hardware.
I play guitar and sing live to pre-recorded drum and bass tracks (using Reaper on a laptop).
CQ-18T Scene 1 has fx, eq, and other CQ-18T settings specific to Song 1.
CQ-18T Scene 2 has fx, eq, and other CQ-18T settings specific to Song 2.
…etc.
At the moment I do this manually, but eventually I’m hoping to use MIDI to automatically recall the appropriate Scene when I queue the Song in Reaper.
So my Scenes aren’t changing during the performance, unless I specifically want them to.
Not really sure what is going on behind the scenes (lol!), but it would be immensely helpful to see at a glance which Scene is currently selected when I queue a song.
As a workaround (found somewhere in these forums), I have renamed the MainLR output to the Scene name.
I’ve also played around with Mixing Station and have created an on-screen label that displays the current Scene. Not a huge fan of MS though, tbh…
thank you for using the word “bullshit” is perfectly appropriate.
anyway
what i would like is
in the scene page (or possibly in a place that is more visible) to have an indication of the last selected scene for example a border around it or something
to have something like a dot near the scene name if the current state of the mixer is different from the last recalled scene
in this way i know if i have to resave the scene (or not) and what scene to resave → i often forget what scene i was using especially if I’m trying some changes
for example in the soundcraft ui24r the current show and scenes are in red in the ui and are easily accessible from the main mixing page in the cq i have to go to a different page and open the third tab not really visible during a show (i currently write down the scene name on a piece of paper)
I agree 100% …I believe A&H is the only Co. that does not display scene name on desk or on app/ Edit app. I’m still wondering why the the long long explanation about something that was not even asked. This could be part of the company stumbling nonsense. The CQ18T is a wonderful little console that could be possibly used in many different situations. The fact that you cant view the scene name is utterly silly in 2025. I cannot install this desk for any situation because of this simple and completely illogical programing fault
Wondering why the scene name is not displayed. This answer is not logical at all … of course the scene is modified constantly. Just like every other computer app/prgrm / file …etc
if I was writing a document , it would need a name at top ( preferably) … if I save it and then decide to edit it later , I need to see the title at top of page … that is the file I’m working on !
The coolness of digital audio is in the recall of saved scenes . Scene name has to be displayed … so you know your place . there could possible subtle differences between scenes that are somewhat buried
I believe the Allen and Heath company are the only company that ever did this
I can’t imagine how a group of amazing engineers signed off on such utter nonsense
I own many different digital mixers … never had this issue
I can’t install for any of my clients that are not sound engineers.
I can’t think in any way why why why would this make sense
No one is saying it’s not possible to display a “Last recalled scene” somewhere on the console. It is possible and in fact A&H displays this on other console models.
+1 here for a display function about current recalled scene and the last used.
The CQ-18T is an amazing portable mixer. Just it needs few more improvements and features to be almost perfect.
Allen & Heath. We need to have the last scene recalled either listed or at least asterisked.
This is just something you have when working in a digital world. Keeping this a guessing game is wild.
If I don’t use my CQ for a little while, why is it that it can’t tell me whether the loaded last scene was our rehearsal scene or live scene, for instance. Do I need to carry around a sticky pad and pencil and put post-it notes on my mixer? Get it together and make it happen.
If you changed some settings, the desk is starting with that changed settings, so the actual state after a restart is unrelated to any scene you were recalling in the past.
The scene did not change.
It is the actual state being different from the last recalled scene.
To change the scene, you need to overwrite.
No. Just no. I don’t know what your problem is but are you seriously advocating for NOT updating the mixer? Add the feature already.
This forum isn’t for you. This is the feature request forum, not the keep the mixer as it is and don’t add anything to it forum. I mean, are you even serious?
Steffen didn’t say anything about not changing or creating an update for the mixer.
He was simply explaining how Scenes work, and that once you make a change, it is not the original scene anymore.
Because of this, technically if you have not overwritten the scene you had loaded and edited before powering down, then the next time you power up, you are not actually loading up a saved scene. You are loading up the console’s prior state.
Acting like people in here don’t know what’s going on with scenes. Been doing this for over 25 years, before digital was even thought of. Don’t tell me what my expectations are or are not.
All your nonsensical fodder that you’ve said here is of no help to anyone that wants a feature found on every other companies mixers when we use those. I’m sorry but this isn’t a big brain topic nor does it need to be dissected this much.
Add the feature.
