Out of the SQ stream yesterday* it would be really helpful to have more colours available.
*great job again Keith!
+1
I find the red and dark blue to be very difficult to use - the text needs to be white. Purple is usable. The other colors work well. And, black needs to be black with white letters (as in another brand) instead of being Off.
+1 for all of this. I hear this from many touring guest engineers.
+1 for all of this. I color code different type of inputs and desperately need more colors, as well as contrast. Some text is difficult to read
+1 for this
+1 for all of this.
+1, and maybe an inverted option as well (ie. m/x32)
+1 a color wheel or more color presets would be great!
+1
Coming from X32, I always thought their scribble strips were pretty lame.
Coming to SQ, pretty much everything about the scribble strips is poor. 6 character limit, tiny - and, most of all, prettly illegible. If there’s one job they’re meant to do, it’s be legible and, especially red, really isn’t.
Sadly, most of this needs an engineering change to improve.
+1 for more colors at a minimum. Better would be a fully mixable color palette.
Interestingly this subject came up this morning when I was reminded that the (very expensive) console I’m working on today has non-changeable colors based on what the fader is doing. My comment was that on the SQ you could at least change the color being used.
Sadly, most of this needs an engineering change to improve.
I agree.
While it would be great to get more colors, even that is probably a hardware change. Certainly adding characters would (likely) require a different type of scribble screen.
So while it is great to ask and dream about new features like this, I think people should also have realistic expectations. It likely isn’t as easy as adding another “5 lines of code” to allow for different colors or more text.
At least for me, dark blue and red is more or less NOT legible… Therefore, i use these colours for inputs where i do not need the letters 
Maybe in the bright sun, where the brightness of the strips must be turned all the way up, this two colours get legible… But not so in dark environments like I mix most of the shows…
+1 for more and brighter colours.
Maybe A&H can give some response, if changing the colour can be done via a software update, or the given ones are related due hardware and cannot be changed.
greetings,
dd
- 1 on mixable colour palettes, inversion and more characters.
And + Infinity on better customer service.
I love the product, but the customer service needs a big improvement!
Please contact us directly using support.allen-heath.com to let us know about any issues you’ve had with our customer service.
It’s something we really care about so seeing a comment like that is quite surprising and a little concerning!
Thanks,
Keith.
Hi Keith,
I wish I coukd delete the post, as I had never had a customer service problem with A&H.
I’m actually very happy with product and service, but like any human being, there was a glitch in my body’s computer and I confused A&H with another vendor.
I apologize for not thinking straight.
Too much work and too little rest leads to confusion.
Again, my deepest apologies. Please, delete if possible.
But I do agree with the scribble strips and I also think that when it comes to effects, the customer should be able to create their own package.
There are a few effects I really like to have, but they come in packages with a lot of other effects I don’t need. And since I’m a very small business, in regards to the economic foot print, I’m also not very rich, so I can’t afford some of these packages offered.
Perhaps something like a custom package can be created.
Thanks again for getting back to me and making me aware of my mistake.
Btw, i I often refer to your videos and find the very helpful.
Cheers,
Kirsten
+1 would be great for me too, working with several more colours:)
+1 for more colors and or inversion for the text.
Keith, is Amy of this possible??
Inversion of the text would not be possible, the LCD displays are in 6 character blocks so it’s not very readable and frankly looks awful if inverted!
Additional colours might be possible, though it would require quite a bit of work due to all the the places colour appears throughout the GUI, all the backend work for colour definitions and assignment/storing of colours.
We did have some suggestions/requests for extra colours early on, but it has never taken priority (or been more popular) than many other suggestions here.
At the moment, it still doesn’t seem to be the most popular suggestion, but as far as I know it’s also not impossible - hence why I’ve not jumped in before!
Cheers,
Keith
More colours would be amazing!
Even just adding the 6 tertiary colours would be helpful and hopefully not be a huge job with little UI change in the console or apps - depending on how they’re stored of course!
Full 24 bit RGB would be the ultimate with a picker, but could be somewhat difficult to add, and many would be unusable and/or indistinguishable of course - but that becomes the user’s problem.