Dear Josh,
I was looking back a few days to see if any good questions slipped between the cracks. I don't see a straight answer which ever addressed your comments.
Our engineers don't like to reveal what they are working on implementing until it's real. With that said, I know I keep hearing rumors of a 1.10 release sometime in the near future. Of course I don't have a list of specifics, but it's just awesome how quick they are to respond to bugs, features, and revisions so quickly!
You're correct, there is EQ but not dynamics on the AUX and USB inputs. The FX returns don't have EQ or dynamics. This is correct, as your unit isn't missing anything. There are a couple work-arounds to suggest that might help depending on the rest of your setup. First, a lot of the built in FX actually have a bit of EQ control within the FX features. This might be enough depending on what you’re trying to accomplish as far as EQ on the FX themselves. Another solution is to route the FX returns to one of the 32 channels, if you're not using them all. On a channel you would then have full EQ and dynamics both.
The real reason why the DCA's cannot have processing, is because technically channels routed to a DCA aren't really being routed through it like a bus.
With a Bus, you're sending multiple channels to that bus which "sums" all those channels together, and puts it through that bus fader as an additional gain stage.
With a DCA, you're assigning multiple channels to that DCA which is only "controlling" those channels, but at the channel. They are not being routed through the DCA or being summed by the DCA like with a bus.
So you see, that is why there cannot be any processing on a DCA.
Hope it helps.
Best
Chris Painter
Specialist, Product Support
MUSIC Group
BEHRINGER
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