Mixer view: Send colour saturation to match Aux track destination??

[BasketCase]

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!"

[Craig F]

Not that I know of but I like the idea.
Maybe set the color in the I/O window.

[Drew Mazurek]

Good idea.

But you can use the right click menu to show only the tracks sending a particular buss which is very useful.

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

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.

[BasketCase]

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.

[JFreak]

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...)