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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Eves" data-source="post: 106524" data-attributes="member: 4463">X32-Edit Connection/Sync Reliability?So I&#039;ve had my X32 for about six months, and used it on three musical theatre productions where the sound engineer was actually sat at the mixer. I also had it connected to a private router and sometimes had either two laptops, or one laptop and an iPad connected over WiFi.Once or twice a night, we&#039;d have a situation where some controls (usually &quot;one shot&quot; toggle button controls, like Mutes) were out of sync on X32-Edit on the laptop, thus causing frantic waving from the Sound Designer to the mixer guy when a vocal channel appeared to be un-muted that shouldn&#039;t be. This appeared to be limited to X32-Edit on the laptop. I never noticed that X32-Mix on the iPad was out of sync.I ask this, because I am about to do a show where the X32 will be backstage, and I will be mixing remotely using X32-Edit (on a MacBook) and a BCF2000 only. Since it&#039;s vocal mixing (six wireless mics for musical theatre), I can&#039;t afford anything to go out of sync. I do plan to have a wired connection (a long run of Cat5 from the mix position to the X32 and router backstage) which will hopefully be more reliable than WiFi, but even so.I realize that OSC is a UDP-based &quot;fire and forget&quot; protocol, so I can see how some commands (particularly one-shot commands, rather than say one fader update in a string of updates while a fader is being moved) might get lost if packets are being lost on the network, but surely this mechanism wouldn&#039;t be very useful if it was significantly unreliable?So... is anyone having trouble with this sort of thing? Has it perhaps improved in the latest versions of the mixer firmware and computer software (I was running 1.13 on the mixer, and whatever version of the apps were current in August).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simon Eves, post: 106524, member: 4463"] X32-Edit Connection/Sync Reliability? So I've had my X32 for about six months, and used it on three musical theatre productions where the sound engineer was actually sat at the mixer. I also had it connected to a private router and sometimes had either two laptops, or one laptop and an iPad connected over WiFi. Once or twice a night, we'd have a situation where some controls (usually "one shot" toggle button controls, like Mutes) were out of sync on X32-Edit on the laptop, thus causing frantic waving from the Sound Designer to the mixer guy when a vocal channel appeared to be un-muted that shouldn't be. This appeared to be limited to X32-Edit on the laptop. I never noticed that X32-Mix on the iPad was out of sync. I ask this, because I am about to do a show where the X32 will be backstage, and I will be mixing remotely using X32-Edit (on a MacBook) and a BCF2000 only. Since it's vocal mixing (six wireless mics for musical theatre), I can't afford anything to go out of sync. I do plan to have a wired connection (a long run of Cat5 from the mix position to the X32 and router backstage) which will hopefully be more reliable than WiFi, but even so. I realize that OSC is a UDP-based "fire and forget" protocol, so I can see how some commands (particularly one-shot commands, rather than say one fader update in a string of updates while a fader is being moved) might get lost if packets are being lost on the network, but surely this mechanism wouldn't be very useful if it was significantly unreliable? So... is anyone having trouble with this sort of thing? Has it perhaps improved in the latest versions of the mixer firmware and computer software (I was running 1.13 on the mixer, and whatever version of the apps were current in August). [/QUOTE]

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