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Help please! In at the deep end with a Soundcraft Expression
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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Eves" data-source="post: 133360" data-attributes="member: 4463"><p>Re: Help please! In at the deep end with a Soundcraft Expression</p><p></p><p>Hi Adam,</p><p></p><p>Thanks for all that.</p><p></p><p>Tonight after re-enabling HiQ (which I had disabled experimentally) and powering-up the router before the mixer, I was able to get it to connect to the router, and was very happy to find that the current version of VISI works just fine with "1.0 Build 9", at least to the level I need (just tweaking mix contributions and masters). The Artistic Director at the venue was so impressed, he said he would order an iPad! Meters don't work, but maybe that's something with my router (I did read that you have to enable UDP Port 3333 or something), and I can live without it.</p><p></p><p>I did the intermediate bus thing to fake DCAs, which seems to work well enough, although I had to use two buses (and two faders) for the stereo band mix, but it's close enough. I did hit something along the lines of the limitation you described, though, in that I had a pair of linked channels (stereo from a digital piano) which it didn't want to split automatically into the two mono buses (they both got a mono mix), although I was able to pan the two mixes into LR correctly. I un-linked the channels so that I could set their contributions to the buses independently (L to 1 only, R to 2 only).</p><p></p><p>For the FX thing, I decided that a single FX unit is fine (in the very amusing "Reverse" mode), and just flipping to FX4 and toggling the send on and back off is going to be fine. I'll have another go at mapping the FX masters or returns tomorrow, but what I have works well enough.</p><p></p><p>Because of all that, although the venue A2 and TD both agreed the board software needed updating, we all agreed it was probably not worth doing this week considering that I'd managed to solve or work-around all the issues. We'll run it by the A1 when he gets back later this week, and I'll maybe help them do it during strike.</p><p></p><p>All good. Thanks again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon Eves, post: 133360, member: 4463"] Re: Help please! In at the deep end with a Soundcraft Expression Hi Adam, Thanks for all that. Tonight after re-enabling HiQ (which I had disabled experimentally) and powering-up the router before the mixer, I was able to get it to connect to the router, and was very happy to find that the current version of VISI works just fine with "1.0 Build 9", at least to the level I need (just tweaking mix contributions and masters). The Artistic Director at the venue was so impressed, he said he would order an iPad! Meters don't work, but maybe that's something with my router (I did read that you have to enable UDP Port 3333 or something), and I can live without it. I did the intermediate bus thing to fake DCAs, which seems to work well enough, although I had to use two buses (and two faders) for the stereo band mix, but it's close enough. I did hit something along the lines of the limitation you described, though, in that I had a pair of linked channels (stereo from a digital piano) which it didn't want to split automatically into the two mono buses (they both got a mono mix), although I was able to pan the two mixes into LR correctly. I un-linked the channels so that I could set their contributions to the buses independently (L to 1 only, R to 2 only). For the FX thing, I decided that a single FX unit is fine (in the very amusing "Reverse" mode), and just flipping to FX4 and toggling the send on and back off is going to be fine. I'll have another go at mapping the FX masters or returns tomorrow, but what I have works well enough. Because of all that, although the venue A2 and TD both agreed the board software needed updating, we all agreed it was probably not worth doing this week considering that I'd managed to solve or work-around all the issues. We'll run it by the A1 when he gets back later this week, and I'll maybe help them do it during strike. All good. Thanks again. [/QUOTE]
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