Set Gain/Pan With Faders

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Just reading up on this unit, didn’t see this anywhere.

Is there a way to change the faders via a shift-function to set gain?

This would be a nifty way of doing quick manual gain setting as if each pre has its own physical gain knob.

Haven’t looked into sends yet, but also if not featured, setting send levels for each channel for a particular send.

Could even have these shifted states set to different layers for quick on the fly adjustment.

If this is already possible, sorry for posting.

There are other possibilities as well, like Pan control on faders per channel, or even control of a master graphic EQ with bands → faders.

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Used to have this on the Digidesign Profile.

Was a handy feature, but SUPER dangerous if you got distracted and forgot you were still on Gain on faders :rofl:
Pan on faders was really handy for fast hard left right panning for guitar solos and stuff.

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some colour coding of lights when in this mode could help keep users from error if the lighting system is rgb… noot sure. looks like they are set colours. so blinking lights or something maybe

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In this case too, until your suggestion is potentially launched, I would recommend taking a look at the Mixing Station app.
Transforming all faders into gains at the touch of a button and simultaneously bathing everything in a warning red – no problem.

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Is the channel name strip monochrome only?

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On Qu-5/6/7, yes - channel strips are monochrome

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Interesting, thanks… A nice upgrade from the previous QU gen, but definitely not as nice the RGB name strip on the 8 or so year old SQ series.

Fairly torn between QU and SQ, there’s a lot I prefer about the QU with current design ethics/needs, SD card recording, look, etc… But small things like RGB strip on the SQ feel needed, yet I don’t feel entirely upsold on the SQ.

I wonder what kind of visual programmability is available dev side with the monochrome? Could you invert text/background so the text is black and the background is lit? That would be one way to show faders are in mic-pre gain mode if this FR were added.

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I can’t ever make any promises if or when feature requests are added, but I can answer the part about visual programmability - the LCD modules are inverted because of the physical display hardware and it isn’t possible to invert them with software.

Speaking personally, I don’t love the idea of gain on faders. It feels dangerous and prone to user error.

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Interesting,

I’m sure there’s a clever way/protocol somehow to make it non/less-dangerous whether visually, or, maybe something like it being a button-held function… as soon as the engineer releases the button, it returns to previous/mix mode.

Simple monochromes are great for redundancy, they last forever. Part of me wishes they were LCDs, they have become more dependable/long lasting. There’s just so much more you can do with them in terms of giving users per-channel information - name, colour, pictures, warnings, metering, combinations of these things, etc. The current QU generation would look absolutely slick with LCDs, the monochromes are the only thing that gives it a dated look… 50 year old tech, next to a 2020’s LCD monitor.

Not hating or anything, I’m still likely to pick up a QU. just general consumer feedback, if that counts for anything.

(Im guessing next gen SQ will have LCDs…)

Softube LCDs

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Sorry to double post,

I had brought up Graphic EQ bands → Faders in the OP, but this appears likely to be a feature as it was in the QU-24?:

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Or was this done away with in lieu of Feedback Assistant?

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Cool thanks! great feature