This is GREAT!!! We have the Avantis at FoH and the SQ5 in Livestream and I have been looking for an "easy" way to use the SQDrive to do virtual sound check on the SQ5 from the SQDrive. Using scenes is a great way. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! I also have a scene setup to quickly change where our livestream audio comes from. Normally we have someone mixing livestream on a DAW and I have that tielined through the mixer but if I can’t find a someone I use a scene to flip from tielines to the output of a post-fader mix on the SQ.
So, just a hypothetical here. If I had an SQ with a Waves Sound Grid card (for use with super rack performer), when I change the input to the usb port, does the I/O (WSG) Card remain functional? Meaning that I can still insert the SRP fx rack into my channel strip and actually dial in external plugins as well? On the X32, the usb playback option is part of the usb card slot, so trying to use both USB playback AND a waves card simultaneously isn't actually possible unless I'm using the wet signal from SRP as my channel input instead of the preamp.
I believe so, I will test on my sq and get back to you. The sq is a bit different than the X32 in that the USB port is built in and not part of the IO card. In patching you can patch tracks from usb to channels then patch other channels to IO card or and insert to your IO card. It should work like that
One thing I struggle with is gain when recording multitracks via USB and DAW and playing them back from the DAW. They are recorded at a much lower level and when I playback, I'd need to adjust the gain for the channels, but that's not really the goal of a virtual soundcheck, is it? ;)
I don’t know how you are setting your gain but if you are not then you should be trying to average 0 dB on the meter. This unfortunately would be -18 dBFS in most DAWs which can be a bit low. You can boost the signal level in your DAW if it isn’t enough signal when playing it back.
Can the multitrack recordings be used with the SQMixPad software OFFLINE? In other words, can I make a multitrack recording live on the console (to an SSD drive) and then somehow connect that multitrack file into SQMixPad on a PC and listen to the result on headphones?
No. No audio passes through the app, either on an iPad or a PC. You would need the mixer to play back the tracks. Or you could mix them in a DAW but you can’t use the app that way.
@@upliftaudio Thanks! I realized the ignorance of my question a few hours after asking. The app only acts as a "remote control" for the desk. It would be like expecting your TV remote to show you media content independent of the television. Thank you for the reply!
