Currently, linking buses as stereo pairs renders every other fader/pot unusable.
I see an opportunity to use these as controllers and reducing the need of jumping between pages in a performance setting.
If given the possibility to program the arrangement of Bus position/order on a set of 8 faders, interesting applications can be imagined for the unused hardware controls.
For example, if I want the first 4 fader/pots to control stereo bus pairs 1&2, 3&4, 5&6 and 7&8, I can then use the remaining fader/pots for controlling other parameters such as external MIDI CC values, or even assign them to specific internal targets such as a sample release or pitch for a sample track or bank.
If arranged in an alternating fashion, one could imagine the left fader/pot for controlling a stereo bus level/sendA&B and the fader/pots to the right of it for controlling FX parameters that are applied on the adjacent bus.
With this in mind, the Returns/Main page only utilises 3 faders, the other 5 fader/pots could be used as macro controls for the FX on either of these three tracks
In any case, implementing programmable min. and max. values would be very handy in all performance applications.
uuuh thats right up my alley - that would be a game changer to have in a live situation - would be like having your own modifiable mixer/controller - that would be sick! good suggestion!
While I don’t like the idea of being able to map to other controls like cc etc as you suggest.
It might be worthwhile that if, as you say, you setup as 4 stereo buses that only use 1 fader each, that would leave room for the returns and master to then display on the same page.
It could be that as you add/remove buses, they can shift positions between those 2 screens.
however, i’ll leave it open to comment from @Mickey
why don’t I like the 'being able to re-assign those unused faders to things like midi cc etc?
that has a dedicated page.
we don’t like to mix paradigms on the same screen, that moves away from the natural order of how the machine is logically laid out.
I am not a fan of interspersing other functions between the mixer faders.
I am also not a fan of compressing the faders to fit (some or all of) the return and main busses and having to always check the screen to know which fader controls which bus. Would slow down the workflow.
I get your point, it can get confusing and messy to have similar functionalities in various locations.
Truth is I haven’t yet worked with the S2400’s MIDI capabilities as I’m focusing on whaat it offers standalone for now.
However, another idea i had to utilise these disabled faders/pots in a 4 x Stereo Bus arrangement was if one could assign one Live FX on each of them thus bringing the same pad triggered FX but to a Bus group (and perhap not being constrained to this being only playable through the Main Outputs?)
Now I admit don’t even know if Live FX can be loaded to any Bus channel, I’ve not yet had time to dig into all functionalities of the DSP, let alone the S2400 in its entirety, but if it could be used as such… then you essentially have a great stereo performance mixer with FX sends and a cool insert FX on each bus.
I can’t remember the specificities of how live FX work so forgive me if this makes no sense on a processing level!