Re: X32 Discussion
<Edit> while we are on the subject, what's your advice on an elegant way to go from small to large monitors using the user defined keys?
How are you doing that now? Just assigning two outs to Monitor and unassigning the other two outs? Then Dan's suggestion to use a snippet will work, actually, if you can save it to a scene or a preset you can save it to a snippet.
Assuming your small monitors are on output 1&2 and big monitors on output 3&4, do the patching and save as two snippets, selecting Out Patch, then export those two snippets to your computer or stick and edit in WordPad, removing all but those four channels, and import back into the console.
Your snippets will look something like this after editing
#2.1# "Small monitors" 16777216 0 0 0 1
/outputs/main/01 74 IN/LC
/outputs/main/01/delay OFF 0.3
/outputs/main/02 75 IN/LC
/outputs/main/02/delay OFF 0.3
/outputs/main/03 0 IN/LC
/outputs/main/03/delay OFF 0.3
/outputs/main/04 0 IN/LC
/outputs/main/04/delay OFF 0.3
#2.1# "Big monitors" 16777216 0 0 0 1
/outputs/main/01 0 IN/LC
/outputs/main/01/delay OFF 0.3
/outputs/main/02 0 IN/LC
/outputs/main/02/delay OFF 0.3
/outputs/main/03 74 IN/LC
/outputs/main/03/delay OFF 0.3
/outputs/main/04 75 IN/LC
/outputs/main/04/delay OFF 0.3
and you presumably don't need the delay setting lines either, so:
#2.1# "Small monitors" 16777216 0 0 0 1
/outputs/main/01 74 IN/LC
/outputs/main/02 75 IN/LC
/outputs/main/03 0 IN/LC
/outputs/main/04 0 IN/LC
#2.1# "Big monitors" 16777216 0 0 0 1
/outputs/main/01 0 IN/LC
/outputs/main/02 0 IN/LC
/outputs/main/03 74 IN/LC
/outputs/main/04 75 IN/LC
After loading into two snippet slots, assign one button to invoke one snippet and another button to invoke the other. Haven't tried assigning snippets to buttons, it doesn't seem to work on the editor, but hopefully it works on the console.
The advantage of editing away the other channels is that now these snippets will not affect anything else you have going on with the outputs, so if you make a patch change somewhere, the snippets will not affect those changes.