I'm noticing a few things that are unique to the Profile interface, some of which are really good and some I would want to change if it were possible.
One thing I'm seeing is that it's not super clear how to copy one channel and paste it to another (or to a group of others.) The copy button is labeled "3 F3" instead of Copy. The paste button is labeled "4 F4"... You press a Function button and the F1-F8 buttons change from being mute groups to being certain common functions. It would be more clear if the English words were there. This particular engine already has it set up (in the Events tab) so that you could install two 1/4" footswitches to double as Copy and Paste. You could hit one footswitch to copy a channel and hit the other to paste it on a group of selected channels.
Trick. I wonder who programmed that feature in?
Another thing I'd like is a button that flattens a plugin EQ or resets a plugin dynamics unit to its default.
A Help menu on the VGA display would be good. A complete copy of the user manual residing onboard might serve as second best option.
I'd like to see a main Mono fader separate from Main L/R.
I'd like to have the tone generator send tone ONLY to the selected output as opposed to sending tone added on top of whatever else is running through that bus. This is a universal complaint of mine. o_O
An incredibly awesome feature is that your onboard gates have a Key Listen feature
that does not interrupt the show. You press Key Listen and the channel you are gating (or about to gate) continues to make its normal noise in the PA but in your headphones you hear the Key Listen soloed. You can do this whether the gate's turned on or not. Neat-o.
When I turn up an input really hot and listen to its noise floor, I hear nothing ugly, nothing like chirps or whines or clock like you get on cheaper engines. The noise on this baby is nice and neutral. Can I say extremely neutral?
I wish audio didn't cut out on the entire engine when you call up (instantiate) a new plugin. It would be much more handy if I could bring up plugins out of the blue and apply them to the show in progress. To be certain, the DShow interface makes it impossible for you to NOT know that you are going out of Show Mode to call up a plugin. You have to doubleclick on the bold green word SHOW and change it to orange CONFIG before any new plugins can be loaded to the virtual rack. There's no way you can accidentally interrupt your show.
What's really cool is that you can patch an existing (instantiated) but unused EQ or comp or whatever into a bus and there's no noise or gap in the audio at all. That is, if your new patch is set for unity in and out and doesn't have filters or processing applied. The patching is glitch free. Can't do that in analog.
-Bink
P.S. A couple of times I've reached for a channel's Low Mid EQ and ended up adjusting its High Mid EQ.
The problem is that on the LCD screen the EQ layout is vertical with High on the top like on an analog board. On the surface it's horizontal with Low on the left where a Westerner would read it first. Since I read High on top first I'd prefer High first on the Left making the EQ go High, High Mid, Low Mid, Low from left to right. A change like that would entail a firmware update and a silk screen redesign... perhaps even little stickon plates to swap EQ labels on existing surfaces.
Channel EQ on the surface would have been even more clear if it were vertical from the get-go.
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