ATOM SQ for basic S1 track controls?

[michaelhayes]

So I've got my ATOM SQ running alongside S1 and I'm looking for simple volume, pan, etc. controls. I don't think there's a default setting for this but no big, I can just map volume to a knob in the USER section and I'm all good right? Well, it maps, but not matter which way I turn the knob it registers as a decrease in volume. So I turn left, volume goes down, I turn right, volume continues to go down. What am I doing wrong?

I'd like it when there's not an instrument in focus for the SQ knobs to allow basic control of a track volume, pan, yadda yadda.

 

[sintil8]

Hiya,
I do not own an Atom SQ.
Gregor has a video covering SO1 control features. I do not know about the Pan controls... Yadda yadda stuff, but volume contol is covered.
around 2min 45s into the YTube vid...

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Others may be able to expand further.

Best regards.

 

[BobF]

I have an SQ and ioStation24c. I find the SQ a bit fiddly for user defined mappings and such, so I replaced my FP Classic with the ioStation24c.

That's not to say that I ever got the SQ configured the way are trying to get yours - Faderport is just soooo much better suited for me to bother.

 

[michaelhayes]

Sintil: Thanks, that actually helps! At least for volume it does. I've watched all those vidz before but that little tidbit is so buried in there I've forgotten it. It's a bit of a shame there isn't a decent glossary in the documentation that breaks down ALL the controls. So much of it is "turn the knob and see what it does!" kind of stuff. Still, once I can get this thing into my muscle memory a bit more I think it'll help a lot. Thanks!

BobF: Yah the ioStation is pretty nice, but I've already got an ATOM and an ATOMSQ, with all the other USB things in my rig whenever I add something else the machine kind of wigs out. I'd hate to add another $250 gadget just to get basic level controls.

 

[lokeyfly]

Using the Atom SQ like one would a keyboard controller or mixer control surface for such things as channel mix control, isnt one of its strong suits. Yes, there are 8 endless encoders and all, but that's it. Even switching channel banks is fiddly. One could buy a simple Korg Nano mixer to cover such things for way less than half the price and space of an Atom SQ.
For that matter most any instrument keyboard controller changes pan to volume directly on its faceplate. It's best to use the Atom SQ for the other areas it shines.

I agree such direct control to provide a channel-like layout could have been made easier with Atom SQ's design. Just an added main button or two. Currently, it's even clunky switching from the mixer panel open/close to the editor Open/close. Horrible! Who thought of that? That alone doesnt follow real world application. Instead, with Atom SQ, you choose a mode and you're more or less locked in. Almost "stuck" in.

Fortunately, there's other hardware that has a much more direct approach to choose mixer control parameters. Atom SQ with all of its strong (yet compromized) features, doesn't handle mixer functionality well. That is likely why pan to volume control is not addressed in any manual or video to any detail.

 

[sintil8]

Sintil: Thanks, that actually helps! At least for volume it does. I've watched all those vidz before but that little tidbit is so buried in there I've forgotten it. It's a bit of a shame there isn't a decent glossary in the documentation that breaks down ALL the controls. So much of it is "turn the knob and see what it does!" kind of stuff. Still, once I can get this thing into my muscle memory a bit more I think it'll help a lot. Thanks!

BobF: Yah the ioStation is pretty nice, but I've already got an ATOM and an ATOMSQ, with all the other USB things in my rig whenever I add something else the machine kind of wigs out. I'd hate to add another $250 gadget just to get basic level controls.

Yeah, you were probably creating a conflict as Volume is part of the ATOMSQ controller script, but that's another story.
Although you say adding another USB device the machine wigs out, if you can find a second hand FPort it will cover most of the gaps in the ATOMSQ SO! console functions.
Both of the guys above make valid comments which I support as I use a Faderport myself.

It might be a good option when your SO1 perpetual license is up for renewal...buy now and keep the license.

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uk.presonus.com

There was some discussion about being able to extend an existing license during an SO1 sale, but I would check the detail on that with Presonus support ?

Anyway glad you have a partial answer re., your Vol control.

Best of regards.