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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Eves" data-source="post: 90744" data-attributes="member: 4463">Re: X32 DAW/OSC QuestionsHi Paul,That&#039;s a very fair point, and one which is (or will be) very much subject to discussion and likely scrapping! I&#039;ve been doing sound (and acting too!) for a couple of local community groups for 10+ years, and although this is my first time helping out this particular one, I&#039;ve seen several of their productions in past years and worked (and acted) with many of the techs and actors before, and I&#039;d be far more confident about their reliability than most, but mistakes (and technical failures) still happen.As an imminent (today!) new X32 user and professional software engineer I was just excited and the possibilities and wanted to present some cleverer options, but I completely agree that reliability is paramount. Word is that we have a rockstar mixer operator lined up who isn&#039;t likely to balk at manually driving 26 faders on two banks, especially since we also have 8 DCAs to play with, which in the limit means 24 visible faders, and surely the ensemble presence in this show is such that we can group in the remaining two! (fingers crossed) so hopefully we won&#039;t need the full automation, but I&#039;m going to try to make it work anyway if only as a technical exercise.The 01V being in the band is more of a cabling issue, since the house snake is very limited, and passing all the band channels to the booth isn&#039;t going to happen. Word is that it&#039;s going to be a 15+ piece band, so we might end up using all of the 01V and the ADA8000 expansion. At the very least I should be able to provide remote control of those faders (although probably that&#039;s all), although I&#039;m not sure if it&#039;s wise to do this from the X32 also using some more custom software to hook into the DAW Control stuff (although this means the same operator would have to drive it, and therefore take his ears off the vocals) or if it would be wiser for a separate person to do it from another computer or iDevice. Again, completely up for discussion and experimentation.OK, this is getting way away from a pure X32 thread, so I&#039;ll stop now, but thank you very much for your input.Simon</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Simon Eves, post: 90744, member: 4463"] Re: X32 DAW/OSC Questions Hi Paul, That's a very fair point, and one which is (or will be) very much subject to discussion and likely scrapping! I've been doing sound (and acting too!) for a couple of local community groups for 10+ years, and although this is my first time helping out this particular one, I've seen several of their productions in past years and worked (and acted) with many of the techs and actors before, and I'd be far more confident about their reliability than most, but mistakes (and technical failures) still happen. As an imminent (today!) new X32 user and professional software engineer I was just excited and the possibilities and wanted to present some cleverer options, but I completely agree that reliability is paramount. Word is that we have a rockstar mixer operator lined up who isn't likely to balk at manually driving 26 faders on two banks, especially since we also have 8 DCAs to play with, which in the limit means 24 visible faders, and surely the ensemble presence in this show is such that we can group in the remaining two! (fingers crossed) so hopefully we won't need the full automation, but I'm going to try to make it work anyway if only as a technical exercise. The 01V being in the band is more of a cabling issue, since the house snake is very limited, and passing all the band channels to the booth isn't going to happen. Word is that it's going to be a 15+ piece band, so we might end up using all of the 01V and the ADA8000 expansion. At the very least I should be able to provide remote control of those faders (although probably that's all), although I'm not sure if it's wise to do this from the X32 also using some more custom software to hook into the DAW Control stuff (although this means the same operator would have to drive it, and therefore take his ears off the vocals) or if it would be wiser for a separate person to do it from another computer or iDevice. Again, completely up for discussion and experimentation. OK, this is getting way away from a pure X32 thread, so I'll stop now, but thank you very much for your input. Simon [/QUOTE]

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