Dear Dick,
Your observation is correct, and it is a known topic we accepted for the time being, because anyway S16 were not yet available when v1.2 was released. The XiControl 1.2 was submitted for Apple approval several weeks before the required OSC server update in the console firmware was available. However, the recent fw release 1.10 includes the additional protocol and the next release of XiControl 1.3 will allow remote access to the S16 preamps. FYI, XiControl 1.3 is providing many additional features and is definitely a major update. We just start the internal QA procedures, the planned submission to Apple is before end of the year. So, it will be available in the app-store early next year.
Your suggestion copying channel gain information whenever remote preamps are connected to that channel is a bit tricky, actually. Currently the analog gain parameter is a property of the preamp, not a property of the channel it is sent to. Which makes sense, because the mic is physically connected to the preamp so its analog gain setting will only be relevant to this preamp. Consequently, the analog gain setting for a preamp that is feeding two channels can only be defined once! You can verify this on the console e.g. by using the same local input on Ch1 and Ch2. Copying information from a random channel to a preamp might rather be dangerous, than useful. The Trim however, is a property of the channel, as it is independent from any hardware. That means trims can be different on two channels being fed from the same source.
When the AES50 connection between S16 and console is established, and the corresponding AES50 channels are routed to the channel processing, then the S16 preamp gain will follow the X32 Gain control. Please note that the physical preamp gain stages have a resolution of 2.5 dB (20 steps, -2...+45.5 dB), as you can see at the S16 gain display or on the X32 Setup/preamps page. When an analog preamp is patched to one of the X32 input channels, the range will be expanded and interpolated digitally (0.5 dB steps, -12 dB ... +60 dB), with a total of 145 steps. E.g., if you are altering the console gain from 13...15 dB, you wouldn’t notice any change on the S16, because the analog A/D Gain will remain at +13 dB.
Jan
