Auto power on for Artist series ?

[Lizardpoint]

Hi Team,

2 questions about my new Artist Mix/Control combination;

1. Is there any way to make them power on when the power is applied (i.e so I don't have to press the power on switches when I power on my Mac?) I invariably forget and this leads to even more delays when trying to get Eucon to seet them after I've booted Pro Tools.

2. Is there any way to specify that the first 8 tracks in a session go to the Artist Mix and then tracks 9-12 go to the Artist control? Currently they always go the other way around and as I have the Artist Control to the right of the Artist Mix this is an annoyance. If not then I'll swap them around.

Thanks

Lizardpoint

[mesaone]

1. not that I'm aware of
2. Surfaces tab of Eucontrol has a "My Surfaces" pane. I believe the order is left-to-right, so if you have MC Mix above MC Control, the Control will be on the right.

I have two mixes and a transport, and when I first set them up the mixes were out of order. I believe the above is how I fixed it.

[Lizardpoint]

Thanks Mesaone 👍

[alk3997]

What mesaone said about about the ordering is correct.

The on/off switches are tied to a relay so you can't really force a power-on. However, you can make it less painful if you end up in ProTools with them off.

If you are in ProTools and you notice your faders haven't moved,

1) Power on all of the control surfaces
2) Go to "Restart EUCON Applications" and select
3) Select "OK" to restart

It will take a few seconds but the EUCON app will reinitialize the control surfaces and ProTools will see the change.

On Windows I have to use this method because with 2 Mix units, 1 Control and a Transport, EUCON when booting will not always pickup the Windows workstation as being available. A quick restart fixes that.

I'm sorry I can't give you better Mac instructions but I believe Restart is available on Mac.

Andy

[mesaone]

Where's the "Restart EuControl Applications" menu item? I've been doing it manually from the system tray this whole time.

[alk3997]

Originally Posted by mesaone

Where's the "Restart EuControl Applications" menu item? I've been doing it manually from the system tray this whole time.

On Windows 7, it is in the notification area (the upward facing arrow on the lower right side of the desktop).

1) Left mouse buton while over up arrow for notification area (tool help says "Show hidden icons" when hovering)
2) Hover over EuControl icon and press right mouse button
3) Click "Restart EUCON Applications..."
4) Answer "Yes" to "Restart all EUCON applications?"



Andy

[mesaone]

Thanks Andy, this is much better than my method of right-clicking the tray icon and selecting quit, then relaunching from an icon on my desktop. I can't believe I didn't know about the better option.

[alk3997]

Originally Posted by mesaone

Thanks Andy, this is much better than my method of right-clicking the tray icon and selecting quit, then relaunching from an icon on my desktop. I can't believe I didn't know about the better option.

Happy to help. Since my workstation is never picked up at boot-up with all four surfaces enabled, I always have to remember to restart. Sometimes it takes until I'm in Pro Tools before I remember. So that restart method has been a time saver.

Andy

[Neale]

Just to chime in on Eucon automatically picking up your surface...

Did a clean install with Eucon on my Mac and despite ticking the box for Eucon to automatically find surfaces, it would never find my Artist Control and I'd have to either manually add it or restart Eucon apps. There is an article here:

http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...691?popup=true

and while the article is for a Mac, perhaps being able to delete some Windoze pref files and restarting Eucon will allow it to rebuild a proper preferences way to do things on your system? Mine works perfectly now - finds the surface every time and engages it automatically.

[WilliebSR]

Originally Posted by alk3997

Happy to help. Since my workstation is never picked up at boot-up with all four surfaces enabled, I always have to remember to restart. Sometimes it takes until I'm in Pro Tools before I remember. So that restart method has been a time saver.

Andy

Not sure if this will be useful but... I used to have this problem. If I recall correctly going into mscnfg and delaying the start of Eucon fixed it. Eucon was trying to load before bonjour I think was the deal.
Worth mentioning, after clean install of PT12.5 and the latest Eucon drivers I did not have to do that on my rig.