Qu User Reviews

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Qu-Pad
Allen & Heath Ltd

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Connection errors

I get connection errors at least twice a service. Not sure what the issues are with both the mixer and apps being up to date. The mixer is hardwired via Ethernet.

Love the app and the console!

I have been using the QU32 since it first came out, I am the first too run and operate both the console and the app in my Province and have been loving it. We use it at a outdoor venue every day except Sundays all summer long, and new years eve events in minus 45C and both the app and console never fails. The only thing that we found wrong was the placement of the WiFi Router. I use the board in the studio atmosphere as well and use the app while in the live room with the artists too get the levels they need.
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Need upgrade.

I want to give this app four stars or five stars. But I’m on able to give 2 because my firmware is 1.93 on my brand new Qu-32 board. And the app is 1.92 I need the app updated quickly I can use it today. Next 10 minutes it’s not too soon. :-)

Wonderful App! Needs Monitor Setting!

This app is absolutely amazing! Works great, but it does need one thing, a feature for plugging headphones in and listening to what is going on! Like an in-ear monitor! This would makes it so much better!

Great app - a must companion to a QU desk

It goes without saying that the usability of Allen & Heaths QU range is superb. This app is no different, it has all of the functionality that you get from the desk but obviously with the bonus of being able to have full control wherever you are in the room.

This really is a must have for an QU users, thanks Allen & Heath!
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Auto update on the IPad

I need to go back to the previous version then this one 1.91 because my IPad is not syncing with my qu 24. I need someone to help guide me on this please.

Eroni Dee

Now a very powerful App

V 1.9 has allowed all the functions of the desk to be accessed from the iPad. This means that at several gigs recently, I've not touched the desk at all from soundcheck to the end of the night, so I no longer need to take up valuable space in the room for smaller gigs & weddings. I'm able to set up routing, multitrack recording, save & recall scenes & presets, adjust effects, as well as all the stuff I could do before, all from wherever I want to be in the room. I can now stand with the band to set up monitors or have a monitor engineer on a second iPad.
Seeing the screen in bright sunlight has been a bit of a problem at this time of year, but is not really a fault of the app, thoght maybe customising the colour of the channel strips would help with this?
Check out the Qu-Cotrol app too, as I find it's another very useful tool to use alongside this one.
Mark
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Watch out for upgrades!!!

I almost love the app (four star)mbut I set up some custom layouts on Saturday and on Sunday morning I was greeted with a new login screen and the updated app would not run with out updating firmware on the board. I'm not going to do that an hour before the service starts. Big Fail (Zero stars). Come on A&H if your update is going to break unless we do something additional, WARN US. Because Apple won't let us easily go backward. This brings me to the frustration. I have come to rely on doing the monitor mix from stage which is really nice. No more yelling back and forth with ambiguous hand gestures and musicians not knowing what they are really hearing. I can be up there and hear it myself. So now I'm scrambling to remix the monitors because the drummer missed the rehearsal and I have to go back to "old school" mixing from the back and I'm running out of time. This band only plays once a month so having the ability to create a custom layout to group their sliders on one page is so helpful. The channel order doesn't matter much with the iPad but having the band spread all over the mixer made it tedious to mix from the console. I would have plugged in differently if I thought the iPad was going to break. I chose the QU series because this is our first digital board. The QU is enough like analog that the old timers can make the transition without having to completely relearn a workflow. My biggest complaint with A&H is documentation. The old Mackie documentation was great. It was clear with plenty of examples and very complete with a little humor thrown in (differences between US & UK?). A&H describes each section ok but you can't easily tell how to make sections work together. The iPad is worse in that there are NO instructions. But it seems to be easier to "discover" functionality with trial and error since the screens group related controls together. I figured out group mutes on the iPad first and then could see how it worked on the console. I'm still discovering and will update as I get deeper. But PLEASE A&H don't get me to rely on something and take it away an hour before showtime. Do it again and it goes on ebay!
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Very nice except....

I love everything about it except since I prefer to have my iPad update apps automatically I am always dead in the water when I find my self unable to login because my app updated and can no longer interface with the board until we update the board also. Why not some limited backward compatibility? I lead music in a church and things are already tightly scheduled without having to do an unplanned emergency update in the middle of rehearsal. Other than that a fabulous tool.
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QU-PAC Stunning - App Irritating

Well not much choice really can't use the desk very easily without it. You can but it's .....long.

Would be great if there was a CCK cable hook up....setting up a router every time is tedious.

Some features not in the app.

Go to a different app and it logs you out and you have log back in again...... Every single time...... Aaaargh....

If you use you iPad for a variety of different tasks at gigs it becomes fudgingly irritating and completely impractical.
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