Bennett Prescott wrote on Mon, 13 July 2009 15:48 |
... and not once did we get in each other's way (well, except physically). |
Bennett Prescott wrote on Tue, 28 July 2009 15:44 |
The fader taper on the desk is... unusual. I would like to see a centimeter or so more distance between +5 and -5... as is there is much less control than I am used to, which makes it little awkward sometimes setting balance between things in the mix. |
Chris Tate wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 00:17 |
Zeroing things IS as easy as using the copy / paste function... |
Chris Tate wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 00:17 |
Sounds like there is something up with the cooling fan in your stage rack (I had a fan with dodgy bearings in mine) runs quite as a mouse now... |
Chris Tate wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 00:17 |
The ISO buttons work really well (what software version are you running?) Press to ISO the channel....Press and hold then touch vistonics to narrow down the ISO....gang channels to ISO multiple CH's...etc etc... ISO buttons also help when editing scenes in the automation section....might pay to read the manual bro:) At the moment F keys switch between input a/b but in the next software revision, all the F keys as well as the rest of the user assign keys will become active....(custom layers etc etc) |
Chris Tate wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 00:17 |
what else..... oh yeah.....the surface runs stripped back windows...not Linux.....the brain uses QNX |
Chris Tate wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 00:17 |
You can get 32 more DSP channels by putting another DSP card in the console (thus not eating up your 64 stage inputs) or insert FX over Aux masters....also saving channels....you can also use the Buss masters as stereo returns for CD etc etc in the same way (just assign CD line inputs to the insert return and make it pre EQ) |
Bennett Prescott wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 17:33 |
Ah ha! Good to know... that explains the unused third bank button on the surface. Can the console mix all 96 channels then if I were to plug more inputs into the stage rack, or would I have to run another set of Cat-5? |
Chris Tate wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 22:29 |
I can't wait for that so that I can finally put a stereo pan / phaser combo ober the left / right and realize my all time dream of recreating a poor facsimile of the end of Led Zepplin's When the Levi Breaks...lol |
Bennett Prescott wrote on Wed, 29 July 2009 11:33 | ||
Ahh, bummer. I thought that was a Linux boot screen but I guess not. No wonder it's a little slow to get going. |
Ryan Lantzy wrote on Thu, 30 July 2009 12:41 | ||||
FWIW, the iLive uses a Linux kernel in the surface and it's even slower to boot... Almost 2 minutes. |
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At least it doesn't crash in all kinds of weird ways like the other Vi6 thread is showing. Rolling Eyes |
Bennett Prescott wrote on Fri, 21 August 2009 14:33 |
I think I touched on something similar earlier... had Hammer of the Gods the other day, they're "the" Led Zeppelin "tribute band". Long story short, their "FOH Engineer" was actually just there to mix the lead singer's vocal effects. |
Bennett Prescott wrote on Sat, 26 June 2010 01:39 |
1) It does not appear possible to remotely key the individual channel compressors. This comes in helpful sometimes on corporate gigs, like tonight. 2) The new software (4.0.0.157 is what my desk says) is much better polished, but hot damn does it take the desk a long time to boot now. It used to be less than a minute, now it's... well, I'm in the middle of the show, so I'm not going to find out. But it's uncomfortably long. I would hate to lose power to the surface during a show. |
Andrew Moyer wrote on Sat, 26 June 2010 00:19 |
...what do you mean by remotely key the individual channel compressors? |
Bennett Prescott wrote on Tue, 29 June 2010 13:06 |
Yep, that's what I want. For such a powerful desk it is unusual that the dynamics section is so weak. No auto attack/release, no compressor sidechain, no remote key. |