SQ Drive FILE MANAGEMENT

SQ SQ Feature Suggestions
1

Hi, new to SQ and love it. Playing with SQ Drive I see it desperately needs the ability to manage the recordings, which should not be difficult to implement. Some suggestions:

  • If we can’t Rename the files, at least add a Tag feature, which inserts a tag to the file properties, visible as a ‘Note’ we can edit to see that file SQ-0014 is a song, date, reference track, whatever.
  • Basic file info, like length, possibly creation date, so we can easily determine the pile of short junk files from the files we want.
  • The ability to DELETE those junk files we don’t want.
  • The ability to LOCK or Flag files we want to keep and protect from deletion.

None of this should be particularly challenging for the brilliant engineers at Allen & Heath, and would be HUGELY helpful to those who utilize SQ Drive.

Thanks.

2

Yes, but some will not be along for a long time - anything that needs automatic date & time stamps will need a real time clock on the SQ, and there isn’t one.

3

There’s no clock in the SQ, so no time stamps.

You can change the recordings’ file names by editing the thumb drive on your PC. All caps, ‘-’ sign for spaces, long names. They read fine in the SQ after that. I have all my sound check music on a stubby drive, so it’s always with the SQ. If I worked with one band, I’d have a virtual sound check file on there too.

BTW, I couldn’t figure out how to get songs copied to the thumb drive to play on the SQ. I had to re-record them on the SQ. (Then rename them back on the PC). No biggie, just annoying.

4

Regarding timestamps: A&H introduced in firmware version 1.6.0 an feature, that the console receive a MixPad’s timecode when connected, which is then available for timestamps the SQ Drive recordings.

Renaming and deleting recordings should be a matter of course and has been requested many times in this forum - unfortunately without implementation so far.

5

I don’t understand why it’s not possible to record less than 16 channels. If I’m only using 5 channels, for example, then why record all 16 channels? It just wastes the memory space on the card.

6

Depending on the sampling rate, the SQ can record up to 32 tracks.
However, it will only record the tracks that you patch in the I/O patch - so, if desired, also only one.