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Old 01-06-2014, 12:15 AM
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Default Mixer view: Send colour saturation to match Aux track destination??

Hey gents... I have an idea but don't know if its been implemented or not (I don't use HD11)...


If I have 6 AUX tracks with their colour saturation set as follows:

Reverb - Green
Delay - Yellow
HP1 - Blue
HP2 - Red
HP3 - Orange
HP4 - Purple


Is there a way to make the colour of just the sends that go to those aux channels match the aux channels themselves?

I always thought it would be handy, particularly in the way HD11 supports viewing more than 2 send assignments.

"Oh! HP2 is red... all of the red sends on all the channels are for HP2!"
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Old 01-06-2014, 12:50 AM
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Default Re: Mixer view: Send colour saturation to match Aux track destination??

Not that I know of but I like the idea.
Maybe set the color in the I/O window.
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Old 01-06-2014, 05:48 AM
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Default Re: Mixer view: Send colour saturation to match Aux track destination??

Good idea.

But you can use the right click menu to show only the tracks sending a particular buss which is very useful.
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:02 AM
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Good idea.

But you can use the right click menu to show only the tracks sending a particular buss which is very useful.
I think the guy wanted to just get a colour reference of what send goes where... But with PT11 and expanded sends view, it is a no-brainer to have Reverb sends in send slot 1, delay slots in send slot 2, etc.
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:25 AM
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My main thoughts for this were headphone mixes actually. I was staring through the glass into the live room today looking at my headphones on the musicians...

Some of them have coloured electrical tape holding the padding on the head-band where the fabric has ripped. I started thinking something along the lines of "wouldn't it be great if all of the sends for phil's headphone mix were green to match the headphones he is wearing?"

I find colours to be the simplest way of matching things together. Most people do I think - take road cases being rolled into a stadium for a concert. Routinely they are marked with coloured tape to indicate where on stage they should be placed (red = stage right, green stage left, red + blue = center stage right, etc).

I just think having the option would add another layer of transparency to routing, particularly in situations when you are changing things quickly at the request of other people like headphone mixes.

It would create a really simply cross reference with the audio sources being coloured vertically, and if you assign your sends in the same order - the send destinations running horizontally.

Lead Vox channel is green and singer vox send green too. Easy to find quickly!

I'll chuck it up on ideascale and see what happens.
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:29 AM
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How 'bout just placing lead voc sends to send1 and have a green postit note that reads lead voc on the side of your monitor? Some organization is always needed and most of us have manged with send slots numbered one to ten...

Not saying it's a bad idea, but I could certainly live without. (and that said, I'm nowadays stripping all channel colours off to make myself focused on the sound...)
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Old 01-06-2014, 08:09 AM
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How 'bout just placing lead voc sends to send1 and have a green postit note that reads lead voc on the side of your monitor? Some organization is always needed and most of us have manged with send slots numbered one to ten...

Not saying it's a bad idea, but I could certainly live without. (and that said, I'm nowadays stripping all channel colours off to make myself focused on the sound...)

Once upon a time we all managed with a strip of tape above the faders and a marker pen too

Some organisation is indeed needed, but I see no reason why that organisations should be limited. Labels, lists and colour coding... It doesn't get much more organised... Even if each user only prefers one of those methods.

...but anyway. That's a bit aways from the purpose of this thread. I just wanted to check if such a feature existed before I suggested it on ideascale.
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Old 01-06-2014, 10:25 AM
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It is in fact my feature request since PT7 that we could have the "send view" we now have in PT11. I'm a live guy so I think "analog console" way. So in my thinking "aux1" is like "green" and "aux2" is like blue. I don't get it why someone would want to mess it up.
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It is in fact my feature request since PT7 that we could have the "send view" we now have in PT11. I'm a live guy so I think "analog console" way. So in my thinking "aux1" is like "green" and "aux2" is like blue. I don't get it why someone would want to mess it up.
How does my suggestion mess that up?

Almost evey console I have used has a different coloured knob for aux 1, and a different knob for aux 2, etc...

All I am asking for is the option to colour those knobs based on the colour of the channel they are routed to.
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Old 01-06-2014, 11:45 PM
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I wouldn't mind if the send1 was in fact green and send2 blue, etc. as in having certain colour for the send (and then same colour for all tracks that it sends to). That would actually be nice, but it offers very little extra to the way it is now; you can use that hall reverb send on send1 and then have that hall aux track colored the way you want to.

But the way people would use the feature (and how you originally presented the idea) would not likely be organized one, as described above, and instead, your bass track could have send colours blue,green,red and your guitar track right next to it could be red,yellow,brown,pink,blue -- and eventually the mixer would look like this, that's why.

That is, if I understood you correctly and for instance, you first take a look at a "blue" aux track that has input named "hall" and then all sends that go to "hall" would be colored blue. Those sends can be in any of the ten sends available, which would possibly make it a mess.
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