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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 129726" data-attributes="member: 24">Re: New Midas M32 ConsoleI am talking about a festival setting where I have 6-10 minutes max to get the band on stage and playing.I am talking about using someone else&#039;s board that is preset according to their mix style.I may take me a couple of minutes to figure out how they are routed already let alone make some changes.I never said I don&#039;t know how to do these work arounds. I said that type of programming is excessive and should be unnecessary for these types of gigs. Hell I consider it a win when they system and stage techs can tell me how they are patched already and it works on the first go around.You can justify you like of this board all you want. I reserved judgement until I had enough shows under my belt to make an informed decision. I don&#039;t like it. This is not a brand oriented bias. It is completely about workflow and ergonomics. Maybe setting up the iPad or computer so I could look past it to the stage would help ( like Venue), but right now it seems to be everyone&#039;s new toy to trot out to these festivals regardless of whether it is really an appropriate tool or not.A band mixing themselves from stage...sure why not.A band mixing their own iem monitors... Sure great choice.For a festival with limited changeover and walkup techs... For me thank you no.Some of that may be the desk and some may be how the desk was setup. Maybe one day I will walkup to a desk set up by a power user and that will change my mind. But now when I go by FOH before our set and see the X32 it us not a happy feeling I get.Sent from my DROID RAZR HD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 129726, member: 24"] Re: New Midas M32 Console I am talking about a festival setting where I have 6-10 minutes max to get the band on stage and playing. I am talking about using someone else's board that is preset according to their mix style. I may take me a couple of minutes to figure out how they are routed already let alone make some changes. I never said I don't know how to do these work arounds. I said that type of programming is excessive and should be unnecessary for these types of gigs. Hell I consider it a win when they system and stage techs can tell me how they are patched already and it works on the first go around. You can justify you like of this board all you want. I reserved judgement until I had enough shows under my belt to make an informed decision. I don't like it. This is not a brand oriented bias. It is completely about workflow and ergonomics. Maybe setting up the iPad or computer so I could look past it to the stage would help ( like Venue), but right now it seems to be everyone's new toy to trot out to these festivals regardless of whether it is really an appropriate tool or not. A band mixing themselves from stage...sure why not. A band mixing their own iem monitors... Sure great choice. For a festival with limited changeover and walkup techs... For me thank you no. Some of that may be the desk and some may be how the desk was setup. Maybe one day I will walkup to a desk set up by a power user and that will change my mind. But now when I go by FOH before our set and see the X32 it us not a happy feeling I get. Sent from my DROID RAZR HD [/QUOTE]

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