Now that we've got a couple of months and a bunch of productions under our belts with the LS9s I thought I'd post some of the issues we've run in to.
1 - By all accounts the biggest issue is low-scale proportionality with channel ganging. If all ganged channels are in the middle of the range all works well. The problem is if one or more channels are very low (or all the way down). If you even blow on one of these all the other channels max out immediately. Towards the bottom of fader travel there needs to be a lower ratio than straight proportional. This is very much a keep the amatuers from making mistakes issue. A pro knows (ok, most times) to always use the highest fader in a gang, but non-pro's forget.
2 - No provision for inserting scenes. This has caused us a number of headaches. It really needs the ability to insert 'dot' cues such as 10.1, 10.2, etc.
3 - No way to overide global recall safe parameters. Typically we have everything safed except on/off and fader. Not having any way to overide this on a cue by cue basis has become a huge problem. For theatrical productions you really need the ability to include faders in some scenes and not in others. For example, we might ride gain on 18 singers through a number of cues, but then need to have all faders go to presets for one particular cue.
I know this isn't a PM1D, but these are the things that have stopped us from recommending this board to schools and churches.
1 - By all accounts the biggest issue is low-scale proportionality with channel ganging. If all ganged channels are in the middle of the range all works well. The problem is if one or more channels are very low (or all the way down). If you even blow on one of these all the other channels max out immediately. Towards the bottom of fader travel there needs to be a lower ratio than straight proportional. This is very much a keep the amatuers from making mistakes issue. A pro knows (ok, most times) to always use the highest fader in a gang, but non-pro's forget.
2 - No provision for inserting scenes. This has caused us a number of headaches. It really needs the ability to insert 'dot' cues such as 10.1, 10.2, etc.
3 - No way to overide global recall safe parameters. Typically we have everything safed except on/off and fader. Not having any way to overide this on a cue by cue basis has become a huge problem. For theatrical productions you really need the ability to include faders in some scenes and not in others. For example, we might ride gain on 18 singers through a number of cues, but then need to have all faders go to presets for one particular cue.
I know this isn't a PM1D, but these are the things that have stopped us from recommending this board to schools and churches.