Allen & Heath SQ – Patching and the I/O Screen

Find out about patching on individual channels or via the I/O matrix.

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[machytka]

Hello Keith and all the staff! I have a wish for the I/O screen on the SQ, because you get puzzled easily if you are a) a newbie and b) in a hurry. I would suppose dividing the windows by colours: one for the "Input" window and the different riders at the top in a slightly different colour; a total different colour for the "Outputs" and all the subdivisions and so on. Hope you can implement it in future updates! Best regards!

[michaeldillon]

Something that I wish were easier is scrolling through the patch screens, vertically or horizontally. Touching and dragging is slow. Why couldn’t the rotary knob have been used to help navigate? This is pretty clearly a missed opportunity in terms of UX.

[RezcoastBrisky]

Why would my patches show currently unavailable via S-Link? I removed my 1-8 patches from local inputs and put the 1-8 on the S-Link tab and my board shows it is talking to the stagebox but somehow my patches won’t take

[thatguyjezza]

Hello,

I am still a bit confused by this as you go through this at lightning speed. If I have an ar2412 plugged in via SLink, can I still use the xlr inputs on the desk. My plan is to use 24 inputs backstage with the AR2412 for mics then have the other channels for XLR aux cables going into the actual desk. Is this possible?

[galabsingh]

Hi! I’m looking for a way to take a audio output from the SQ16 AH mixer to go straight into a iphone for live streaming/recording.
Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏽
Thank you

[andrewdre]

HI! Waiting for 2 SQ-6. They will work in tv broadcast studio. My biggest question if it can patch more than 16 mix- postfaded witout main 12 mixes? I have plenty of IP calls from different systems and needs to send individual mix- via Dante. Second question how I can extend 2 SQ-6 standing side by side in 48 faders workflow? Thanks in advance

[NeoHumS]

Hi! I have SQ-7 and DX168. But I can’t understand if it is possible to assign all input channels to different faders. I see only 40 IP (Not counting ST and USB). Those. There are 8 inputs left on the DX168.

[lydfar]

Hi. Can you please tell me how many of the ad on plugins, I can use per channel? On X32 only 8 effects are available.

[Ration]

Can you patch the same input to multiple output destinations? Say if I want to internally duplicate a input signal from CH1 of the digital snake to the CH1 and CH8 of the mixer fader?

[silversoundstudio]

Hi! Thanks for this video! Can you please explain why the outputs in the ME screen I/O are unavailable? We would like to send our signals from the SQ-5 to an ME-500 monitorsystem, but we only see those striped unavailable blocks in the output screen. Could you help us out?

[sudarshanacharya]

Hello sir

Q1. In SQ6 while using stage box AR2412 along with that can we use Local I/O? Then can we get 48 input lines?


Q2. What is the major difference between SQ6 and SQ7.
What are main main benfits in Sq7?

[rowelnogas]

Hello how to troubleshoot allen and heat sq6 no audio output but the aux1 and 2 is okay

[BoothOfEternity]

😎can the SQ-5 mix Surround ?..or which of your mixers would be better for Quad or 5.1 ? thanks

[simply_flake]

Hey guys :D I have a question... if you use the insert function on chan1 for ex., can you send the audio out to USB 1, use a PC with waves multirack in between and then return from USB in1 on the same channel?

[tedmason]

Please use a top view on your videos . . I can't really see the SQ5 screen. This becomes useless.

[PedroPaulo-gzud]

Hey guys, we will have an att to the SQmixpad for iphones?

[cbrooks]

I hate this console. I've had it for a year and a half, and I still can't figure out how to use it in the studio. The routing, patching, prefader mode, are all useless for me so far, and these are the things I bought the board for. It gets a 10 for cool lights, but it gets a 1 for user friendliness.