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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 116753" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Using Waves Dugan with X-32While digital mixers have been around for decades we are still in the early days where digital mixers are just &quot;digital&quot; versions of analog mixers, where some features are made cheaper and more flexible, but we are barely scratching the surface of what digital decision making could add to the mix. This does not require a significant hardware change as much as a paradigm shift in the minds of users and manufacturers who still ultimately give the customers what they think they want or are willing to accept. Dugan automatic mic gain sharing, is just one of multiple control automation techniques that could be handed over to cybernetic control to make sound system operation easier (and potentially better). I expect huge resistance against turing over more control to such sound system automation from &quot;when you finally rip the fader knob out of my cold dead hand&quot; desk operators.&nbsp; I am happy for Dan that he can still pull a revenue stream from this good but rather long in the tooth idea. It is not heavy lifting for the modern digital mixer technology, while they do not appear to embrace supporting it in the core design. A chcken/egg issue with customer awareness about how the technology works.&nbsp; I remain surprised that this still is not integrated into modern digital consoles. Even Peavey built automatic mixing into dedicated analog church consoles JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 116753, member: 126"] Re: Using Waves Dugan with X-32 While digital mixers have been around for decades we are still in the early days where digital mixers are just "digital" versions of analog mixers, where some features are made cheaper and more flexible, but we are barely scratching the surface of what digital decision making could add to the mix. This does not require a significant hardware change as much as a paradigm shift in the minds of users and manufacturers who still ultimately give the customers what they think they want or are willing to accept. Dugan automatic mic gain sharing, is just one of multiple control automation techniques that could be handed over to cybernetic control to make sound system operation easier (and potentially better). I expect huge resistance against turing over more control to such sound system automation from "when you finally rip the fader knob out of my cold dead hand" desk operators. I am happy for Dan that he can still pull a revenue stream from this good but rather long in the tooth idea. It is not heavy lifting for the modern digital mixer technology, while they do not appear to embrace supporting it in the core design. A chcken/egg issue with customer awareness about how the technology works. I remain surprised that this still is not integrated into modern digital consoles. Even Peavey built automatic mixing into dedicated analog church consoles JR [/QUOTE]

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