Post by popmann on Jan 30, 2014 23:42:42 GMT -6
So, I was told today that my MCUs will be out of commission for nearly a month !! ...with no loaner options. Nice.
Anyway...so, I started tonight trying to add some key commands and what not to see how I'd fair living without them for a while....did I need to go get some little single fader guy...and I've found that the only efficient way to do it is to work completely differently. I should point out that at least I still have my "ai focus knob"...which since I can hover on anything and turn...helps a lot with adjustments. But, it's the navigation that's killing me. No direct access to mixer views means the mixer window has mostly become worthless. So, I figured I can keep the channel window open--then when I click a channel in the arrange window it follows...which is basically the way that Logic works now by default with it's docked window that shows the mixer channel and any auxes it's sent to. I always found that odd...now I get why they did it--it's all about how to work with no controller. Who cares about the greater mixer view if you can't do anything to more than one channel at a time?
Funny, it's a minor miscalibration...but, Mackie tech support says it's probably a bad main board...wha...? Not cool.
Maybe I'll do something different with my second monitor, which is off to the side and just holds static metering--audio, control room, and CPU-plus the notepad...stuff I don't need to interact with, but just see...I can glance over...never interacting beyond the main screen and the MCUs. Maybe I'll configure it to be below the main monitor and have it angled up from the keyboard--with said channel window open along side small meters.
Funny how something like this changes everything. This evening has been a series of "shit...how do I...collapse to mono? Where's the guitar channel (A:it's in another mixer view)? Why does the pan adjust in reverse when using the AI knob?" It's ironically, not the actual lack of faders giving me any grief. The AI knob seems ok, at least short term for that.
I'm actually kinda thinking "why do I ever need to look at the mixer?" I'd seen people talk about mixing from the arrange window...and I thought that was so odd--thinking they're using the inspector...but, if you keep the channel window open and just select the channel or track in arrange...it makes the mixer view itself mostly useless it looks like.
Brave new world. Now THIS is some seriously ITB sheeaht.
Anyway...so, I started tonight trying to add some key commands and what not to see how I'd fair living without them for a while....did I need to go get some little single fader guy...and I've found that the only efficient way to do it is to work completely differently. I should point out that at least I still have my "ai focus knob"...which since I can hover on anything and turn...helps a lot with adjustments. But, it's the navigation that's killing me. No direct access to mixer views means the mixer window has mostly become worthless. So, I figured I can keep the channel window open--then when I click a channel in the arrange window it follows...which is basically the way that Logic works now by default with it's docked window that shows the mixer channel and any auxes it's sent to. I always found that odd...now I get why they did it--it's all about how to work with no controller. Who cares about the greater mixer view if you can't do anything to more than one channel at a time?
Funny, it's a minor miscalibration...but, Mackie tech support says it's probably a bad main board...wha...? Not cool.
Maybe I'll do something different with my second monitor, which is off to the side and just holds static metering--audio, control room, and CPU-plus the notepad...stuff I don't need to interact with, but just see...I can glance over...never interacting beyond the main screen and the MCUs. Maybe I'll configure it to be below the main monitor and have it angled up from the keyboard--with said channel window open along side small meters.
Funny how something like this changes everything. This evening has been a series of "shit...how do I...collapse to mono? Where's the guitar channel (A:it's in another mixer view)? Why does the pan adjust in reverse when using the AI knob?" It's ironically, not the actual lack of faders giving me any grief. The AI knob seems ok, at least short term for that.
I'm actually kinda thinking "why do I ever need to look at the mixer?" I'd seen people talk about mixing from the arrange window...and I thought that was so odd--thinking they're using the inspector...but, if you keep the channel window open and just select the channel or track in arrange...it makes the mixer view itself mostly useless it looks like.
Brave new world. Now THIS is some seriously ITB sheeaht.
