IraSeigel wrote:RBIngraham wrote:...Right now AMP's fader latching isn't as sophisticated as SACs. But maybe I'll bring that up with Bob P and see what he thinks.
Maybe I'm not getting it, but I don't see the need for BOTH latching and DCA's. If AMP were to only have one, I'd say the DCA method is the way to go. It seems to offer far more flexibility than the latching method, as you pointed out in your examples. Whatever you can do with latches you can do with DCAs. But the reverse isn't true - whatever you can do with DCAs isn't always possible with latches.
LOL.... well that was exactly my point. I don't know why one would prefer latches over a real DCA groups.
AMP does still allow you to select channels and perform functions on those channels all at the same time. That is one thing where the latches in SAC can be handy. If you have to change things on large groups of channels fairly often (say when you're programming a show) it can be nice to use those temporary groups in SAC because I can build up groups of channels that I can select very quickly. Then mute or unmute or reassign, etc... all of them very fast. But that's really not the fader latching thing.
Actually now that I've been thinking about it, there are just so many damn ways to latch faders in SAC that perhaps the first thing I should have asked is just which kind of fader latching are you talking about? There are at least 4 ways I know about... Group Latches (using outputs 9-16), and then there are 3 different types that you access with a right click on the F Mixer windows title bar. And they all have the word latch in them somehow. But that's perfectly intuitive....