M7 DCA problem

Kevin Maxwell

Kevin Maxwell

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M7 DCA problem

I wrote all my scenes for a musical and then realized I wanted to assign all the male singers to 1 DCA and all the female singers to a different DCA. I am only recalling fader movements and have everything else safed. I thought that safeing it this way would allow me to set the DCA how I want them to stay for the whole show (even after I wrote the scenes) and not recall them with each scene change. Is there a quick way to fix this without having to rewrite every scene?

If anyone knows the answer and sees this this morning it would be very helpful to find out the trick. If not I will be rewriting all of my scenes later this morning. But I will check back here before I do.

I have read everything that Yamaha has on scenes and safe and recall focus and global paste and I see no way to do this. I can safe the DCA settings on the channels on other (even cheaper) boards I have used so I didn’t realize this would be a problem.
 
Re: M7 DCA problem

Silas Pradetto said:
Well, not to keep going off topic, what console would you prefer if you were to pick one? That guy is still looking for the 'perfect' console.
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I rewrote the DCA assigns manually luckily I only had about 60 cues.

How about a Digico SD8 and rent it to me for the rental price of an iLive?
 
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DCA assignments are a channel job issue... If you want those assignments to stay the same without re-writing the scenes, you need to safe the individual channels. All the DCA safes do is "safe" the fader positions for the Dca's themselves.
 
Re: M7 DCA problem

Todd Lewis said:
DCA assignments are a channel job issue... If you want those assignments to stay the same without re-writing the scenes, you need to safe the individual channels. All the DCA safes do is "safe" the fader positions for the Dca's themselves.
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Thank you for your attempt to help me.

But the only way that safeing a channel works so it doesn’t affect the DCA is if you safe everything on that channel. And it defeats the purpose of having scenes if nothing changes on a channel. I am only having the fader movements changing and everything else is safed except for the insert on one channel. But the DCA doesn’t safe without setting the safe to include everything about the channel.

On other digital consoles I have used the DCA can be safed on the channels.

I have attended the Yamaha M7 seminar/class and am going to the advanced class on the 11th of this month. So I will see if there are better ways to do some of the things I like to do.

The show went well.
 
Re: M7 DCA problem

Kevin Maxwell AKA TheMAXX said:
Thank you for your attempt to help me.

But the only way that safeing a channel works so it doesn’t affect the DCA is if you safe everything on that channel. And it defeats the purpose of having scenes if nothing changes on a channel. I am only having the fader movements changing and everything else is safed except for the insert on one channel. But the DCA doesn’t safe without setting the safe to include everything about the channel.

On other digital consoles I have used the DCA can be safed on the channels.

I have attended the Yamaha M7 seminar/class and am going to the advanced class on the 11th of this month. So I will see if there are better ways to do some of the things I like to do.

The show went well.
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Recall focus is your friend, I think. I don't use the scene automation in the way you do, so YMMV.
 
Re: M7 DCA problem

Tim McCulloch said:
Recall focus is your friend, I think. I don't use the scene automation in the way you do, so YMMV.
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Recall focus doesn’t affect the DCA at all as best I can tell. Unless you select all and as I said what is the sense of using scenes if nothing changes in the scene.

I will try to find out the answer to this and many other questions I have come up with from using the M7 for a theatrical show. I will report back after the class to let you know what I have found out.
 
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