SQ-Drive page curious thing displayed

Hi A&H team and all,

I noticed that something curious to me in the Utility> Sq Drive page (stereo or multitrack mode)…

  • On USB-B mode
  • 1&2 USB channels routed to inputs 47&48
  • 47&48 (stereo paired) routed only to Master+Matrix

In the SQ-Drive page 1&2 first channel meters display signal but don’t understand why because I don’t send any sound (unless I make a routing error…) and it’s true again when I unpatch the 1&2 USB channels (no sound go to the mixer that’s normal…).

Maybe I make wrong or it’s firmware issue ?

I give you some pictures from my I/O page.






Best

I’m sorry pictures aren’t displayed in my previous post… direct links here :

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you make wrong…

RTFM
https://www.allen-heath.com/ahproducts/sq-5/#tab4

Hello Steffen R,

I appreciate your suggestion but I read the manuals several times since I have the console (for over a year…) but I have not found my answer… But maybe can- you help me understand where I’m wrong.
Look at my images # 3 you can see that USB L and R are not patched to the USB outputs 1 and 2 but that (on picture # 6) on the first 2 tracks of the SQ-Drive that there is a signal …
For me the Direct Out isn’t patched and no Tie Line either.
For example adjusting the Direct Out trim doesn’t change the level received by the Sq drive, only a setting of the output level of the computer influences.

Thank’s

what are your meters displaying?

did you listened to the signals… what is your meter page showing…

Hi,
in “Input Meters” page my meters displaying the input signal normally : I playback music from my computer via “USB-B source” mode to inputs 47/48 and I can listen the signal normally (like pafl or sending to LR).
When I switch to the Sq-Drive page the sq-drive meters show me signals (from computer) in the first 2 meters even if the “direct out” from inputs 47&48 are not patched to the USB 1&2 outputs.

I realized that to remove the “USB L & USB R” from the inputs of the SQ-Drive I need to unpatch the USB 1&2 to inputs 47&48… but… it removes only the text displayed under the meters(in Sq-drive page), the signal goes on again (on meters).

Finally the USB 1&2 are directly routed to the first 2 Sq-Drive inputs no matter what patch settings…

I haven’t check if it’s the same thing with USB source set on Sq-drive mode.

I do not think that this is a real problem but I found it curious (although I know that to use the Sq-Drive normally we must put in usb source on Sq-drive).

Bests


the reference guide says: the metering in the SQ drive screen shows input and output metering