[JoshRose]

I run FOH at a house of worship. For the last 4 months, I have been mixing remotely from my laptop, as the console position is a poor listening position. This past weekend was my first time running a large production from my laptop. I just have a few suggestions for the digi live team that might improve this experience.

I would greatly like to see the "Notes" section in the snapshots tab upgraded to hold more text. Even to the point of adding a scroll bar to the window. Even with the window expanded I can only fit a few sentences. A few extra sentences could be a life saver during a difficult production.

Sensitive faders! The CTRL button allows for really sensitive changes to aux sends, eq's, and so on. I would love to see this with the faders as well. I usually select the channel strip first, so that I can pull the large fader up and down, rather than trying to work with the small ones.

Even better would be to allow the mouse scroll wheel to move faders up and down. Perhaps in the options panel there could be a setting where you could dictate how sensitive the faders would be to wheel scroll wheel movement. This would give me a lot more confidence in moving faders remotely.

I mix with VCA's, in additional to channel strips. I would really love to have a window that can display both! The closest thing available right now is the snapshots panel, because you can quickly move back and forth between inputs and outputs. But a window that would let you see both inputs and outputs would be great. Sometimes I need to unmute a particular microphone for a speaker, while simultaneously bringing the band down. Currently, to do this remotely I have to turn the mic on early and guess as the volume, so I can switch over to outputs to get the band down. Or I would have to devote a vca to the MC or Pastors mic, which wouldn't be ideal during a big production.

I thought of more stuff during the production, so maybe the rest will come back to me later.

Anyhow, Digidesign Venue rocks! I wouldn't trade it for any other system. These suggestions are not complaints. Just some ideas for improving remote mixing functionality. Thanks for making an awesome product.