Paul Henry wrote:Okay, so side by side with SAC who wins in what areas? What are AMP's current shortcomings aside from plugin support? Does it have all the basic effects built in?
I would like to see a complete comparison. I understand the author is working on it. I sat through a demo and kept saying I can't do that now. Some things I remember.
Password protected levels of access.
Turn it on, password in, it comes up live with just a few faders for a simple limited use (Example meetings with two mics and a mp3 player) Note, it turns on. No clicking to turn the engine on.
I was able to change test size and font.
I could set up the screen without pan ETC.
I could see a small graph of EQ on every channel so I could see if EQ was on
The fat channel has a graph for EQ
It has recall safe (I think that will be useful.)
I can put EQ on outputs so one for the main room, one for the halls, one for the feed to the nursery ETC.
I can have effects pre fader That means for example, I can add a gate to a humming guitar and have that gate on all the iem mixers by default. I get complaints now that "My earphone mix is humming. They are not sound guys so they don't know why.
I can use a output as a input to another mixer or aux.
I can recall a scene that plays a .WAV file
Each person on the worship team sees there own separate simplified mixer but I see them all as Auxes on my FOH displays.
I can add as many Motormixes as I want and they don't need a special ship and they don't slow down (each one is on it's own input, not daisy chained.
Getting around the GUE tends to follow windows protocol. For better or worse I know windows.
Of coarse, there are the numbers.
255 Channels
Over 200 Mix Busses
Up to 128 Hardware Inputs and Outputs
8 Bands of Flex-EQ per channel (low/high pass, low/high shelving, peak, and all-pass)
32 Aux Sends (each with separate tap points, and 3-band flex-EQ per Aux)
3 Dynamics processors per channel (Gate, RMS Compressor with side-chain filter, and Peak compressor)
Up to 500ms of delay per channel
32 Assignable Subgroup busses
32 DCAs (Digitally Controlled Amplifiers)
Direct Outs on all auxes, and Post-Fader direct out on channels
Identical processing on input and output channels
Well that is a start, and perhaps some of the above CAN be done on SAC. I just didn't figure out how.