Strata Channel Strip

01.Introduction

Strata Channel Strip is a Q-SYS plugin that gives every channel in your design a complete channel strip - high-pass and low-pass filters, a noise gate, parametric EQ, a compressor, and a peak limiter - with live visual feedback drawn right on the plugin: the EQ response curve, a real-time analyzer, and a dynamics transfer curve with a live operating dot.

Everything runs as native DSP inside the Q-SYS Core. The plugin does not connect to any external device or network - there is no IP address to configure, nothing to go offline, and no connection to drop.

02.Requirements

Component	Requirement
Q-SYS Designer	Tested with Q-SYS Designer 10.4
Q-SYS Core	Any Q-SYS Core processor
Network	None required
License	One activation code per Core. See Licensing

Measured worst case, 16 channels with 8 inputs each and every module enabled, on an otherwise empty design:

Core	Approximate DSP load
Core 510i	~3%
Core 24f	~7%
Core 110f	~13%
Core Nano	~13%
NV-32-H	~14%

That configuration also produces a tall schematic block, one audio pin per input path per channel, which is cosmetic. The demo also runs in the Designer emulator.

03.Installation

The Strata package contains two plugin files:

File	Purpose	License
Strata_Channel_Strip.qplugx	The channel strip processor	Licensed
Strata_Strip_Selector.qplugx	Companion channel and view selector	Free

04.Quick Start

Only one graph animates at a time; Active Page picks it, see Which graph is live.

05.Plugin Properties

Properties are set in Q-SYS Designer with the plugin selected. They define the compiled structure of the plugin - changing them rebuilds the embedded DSP when you next push the design.

Activation codes

Property	Default	Description
Activation_Code	blank	License activation code. Leave blank to use demo mode.
Activation_Code_Backup	blank	Second activation code for the backup Core in a redundant pair. Leave blank on single-Core systems.
Show_Locking_ID	No	When Yes, displays the Core's Locking ID in the plugin header.

Structure

Property	Range / Choices	Default	Description
Channels	1 - 16	8	Number of independent channel strips.
Bands	3 - 8	5	Parametric EQ bands per channel.
Multi-channel	Yes / No	No	Enables multi-input strips and reveals the per-channel Inputs rows below. See Multi-channel Inputs.
Channel N Inputs	1 - 8	1	Shown when Multi-channel is Yes. Parallel audio paths for channel N, one row per channel.
EQ Position	Pre-Dynamics / Post-Dynamics	Pre-Dynamics	Places the parametric EQ before or after the compressor in the processing chain. The filters and gate are always first, and the limiter is always last.
Enable HPF / Enable LPF	Yes / No	Yes	Compiles the high-pass / low-pass filter into each channel.
HPF Slope / LPF Slope	12 - 96 dB/oct	24	Filter slope. Design-time only - there is no runtime slope control.
Enable Gate	Yes / No	No	Compiles a noise gate into each channel and shows the GATE card on the Dynamics page.
Enable Limiter	Yes / No	No	Compiles a peak limiter into each channel and shows the LIMITER card on the Dynamics page.
Enable RTA	Yes / No	Yes	Compiles the real-time analyzer and its controls, plus the external RTA Input audio pin.
Enable Monitor	Yes / No	No	Adds a monitor (solo) bus with a Monitor Output audio pin. See the Dynamics page.

Behavior

Property	Default	Description
Global Copy/Paste	No	When Yes, the channel clipboard is shared across Strata Channel Strip instances in the design, so Copy on one instance can Paste on another. When No, each instance keeps its own clipboard.
Debug_Level	Standard	Console logging verbosity. Standard logs key events (startup, licensing, warnings). Verbose adds detailed diagnostics for troubleshooting.

One activation code licenses every Strata instance on that Core. Activation_Code is a Property, so enter that code on each instance.

06.Multi-channel Inputs

Each channel strip can process up to 8 parallel audio paths through its single set of settings. Use it wherever several signals should be processed identically: stereo pairs, multi-zone feeds of the same program, or a set of matched lav mics.

Enabling

How it behaves

• One set of settings. All paths of a channel share the channel's controls - EQ, dynamics, filters, bypass, and copy/paste apply to every path at once. There are no per-path controls, by design; use separate channels when signals need independent processing.
• Linked dynamics. The gate, compressor, and limiter use one shared detector across all of a channel's paths. Signal on any path drives the same gain reduction (or gate opening) applied to every path together, so levels stay matched and a stereo pair stays centered.
• Metering shows the loudest path. The input meter follows the channel's hottest input path and the output meter its hottest output path (a worst-case view). The gain-reduction bar, gate LED, and limiter indicator show the channel's one shared dynamics state.
• RTA and Monitor follow path 1. The analyzer, the monitor bus, and the dynamics operating dot listen to the channel's first path.

Changing a channel's path count later

Pin naming is stable by design. Raising a channel's Inputs count only adds the new higher-numbered pins - existing pins keep their names and their wiring. Lowering the count removes the surplus top pins (their wiring is dropped, as it must be). Other channels are never affected.

07.Licensing

The plugin reads Activation_Code and Activation_Code_Backup when the design starts.

What demo expiry stops

Strata is a fail-safe audio processor. Every channel switches to a clean safety bypass, so audio keeps passing unprocessed and the system never goes silent. Processing controls gray out, and an edit from a pin or a UCI is rejected, with the displayed value snapping back to the bypassed state. Navigation, channel names, the graphs, the meters, the RTA display and Monitor all stay live, so you can still look around. If your gain structure depends on the strip's compression or filtering, plan your evaluation window accordingly.

Activate

License status

Q-SYS prefixes the LICENSE box text with its own status word, so the box reads OK - ACTIVATED or Compromised - DEMO: 9:59 remaining.

Status	Color	Meaning
ACTIVATED	Green	A code validated against this Core. No time limit.
DEMO: M:SS remaining	Yellow	No code entered. Counting down.
DEMO (invalid code): M:SS remaining	Yellow	A code was entered and did not validate against this Core's Locking ID.
DEMO EXPIRED - Activation Required	Red	The demo ran out. "What demo expiry stops" above says what the plugin still does.

At expiry the plugin's Status control also reads Fault - License required - demo expired, so a Status Combiner sees the fault.

08.The Plugin Panel

The plugin has three pages, selected with the tabs at the top of the block in Designer: EQ, Dynamics, and Config. The header, status bar, and NAVIGATION strip appear on every page.

Header

• LOCKING ID - above the LICENSE box, when Show_Locking_ID is Yes. See Licensing.
• LICENSE - the live license state. See Licensing.
• Refresh - see below.

The Refresh button

Refresh re-reads the selected channel's settings from the processor - all EQ bands, filters, gate, compressor and limiter - and redraws both curves to match. It repaints the panel and changes no audio processing, and it still works after the demo has expired. Press it when a channel was changed from outside this panel and the on-screen values or curves look out of date. A control system, a script writing to pins, or a snapshot recall can all do that. You rarely need it otherwise: selecting a channel pulls that channel's values, and editing a control redraws the curves live.

Status bar

The full-width bar under the header reflects the plugin's overall state. OK is normal. It also carries informational notes (for example Paste skipped - clipboard empty) and the license fault after demo expiry.

NAVIGATION strip

Control	Function
CHANNEL 1..N buttons	Direct channel selection. The lit button is the channel every page is showing.
SEL	The selected channel as a number - drag it like a slider or type a value. Buttons and SEL are two faces of the same selection.
NAME	Displays the selected channel's name (read-only here). Channel names are set on the Config page's CHANNEL NAMES card.
Copy Ch / Paste Ch	Whole-channel copy and paste: EQ bands, EQ bypass, filters, compressor, and (when enabled) gate and limiter settings (channel names are not copied). Copy on one channel, select another, paste.

Which graph is live

The plugin animates one graph at a time to keep DSP script load low. The Active Page value (a dropdown on the Config page, also a control pin) selects it:

• 1 - EQ: the RTA spectrum animates on the EQ graph.
• 2 - Dynamics: the operating dot animates on the dynamics curve.

Curve shapes always redraw immediately when you edit values, and the level meters always run - Active Page only gates the continuously-animating elements. The Strip Selector sets Active Page automatically when you pick a view; in a custom UCI, have your tab buttons set it (1 or 2) to match the visible layer.

09.EQ Page

The EQ graph

The graph shows the channel's composite frequency response - all EQ bands plus the HPF/LPF roll-offs - from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, with a +/-20 dB display range. (Bands and the HPF can be tuned down to 10 Hz; anything below 20 Hz plots at the graph's left edge.) Three view toggles (in VIEW & OPS) control what's drawn:

Toggle	Effect
RTA	Overlays the live spectrum (filled area) behind the curve. Requires Enable RTA. Animates while Active Page is 1.
Labels	Draws the dB/frequency grid labels on both graphs.
Points	Draws a colored dot at each band's frequency/gain position.

Each band's dot has a fixed color - the same on every channel - and the currently focused band's dot is drawn larger with a white ring:

Band	Color	Hex	Band	Color	Hex
1	Red	#e05a4e	5	Indigo	#4e63d8
2	Gold	#d8b62e	6	Lime	#c4e04f
3	Green	#56c46d	7	Purple	#b06ad8
4	Sky blue	#2aa8e0	8	Orange	#e08a3a

BANDS grid

One row per EQ band. Value fields are drag-to-slide: drag up/down to sweep, or click and type an exact value.

Column	Range	Description
FREQ	10 Hz - 20 kHz	Band center (or corner) frequency
GAIN	-18 to +18 dB	Band boost/cut
Q	0.1 - 40	Bandwidth (higher = narrower)
TYPE	Bell / Low-Shelf / High-Shelf	Band shape
BYP	-	Bypasses just that band

The field colors (green frequency, blue gain, yellow Q) match Q-SYS's native parametric EQ, so the grid reads like the EQ block you already know. The Copy / Paste / Bypass buttons in the card's title row are EQ-scoped: copy and paste move the whole EQ section - all bands, the EQ master bypass, and the HPF/LPF settings - between channels, and Bypass is the EQ master bypass for the selected channel.

FOCUSED BAND strip

The focused-band strip edits one band at a time with fader-style controls - the same controls a compact UCI would use:

• Band buttons 1..N pick the focused band. Editing any value in the BANDS grid also focuses that band, so the enlarged dot always tracks what you're adjusting.
• FREQ / GAIN / Q faders adjust the focused band.
• Bell / Low Shelf / High Shelf segmented buttons set its type.
• Bypass bypasses the focused band.

FILTERS

Shown when Enable HPF / Enable LPF are on:

Control	Range	Description
HPF In + HPF FREQ	10 Hz - 2 kHz	Engages the high-pass filter and sets its corner frequency
LPF In + LPF FREQ	1 kHz - 20 kHz	Engages the low-pass filter and sets its corner frequency

Filter slopes are fixed at design time by the HPF Slope / LPF Slope properties (12-96 dB/oct). The graph draws the roll-offs at the compiled slope.

VIEW & OPS

Besides the RTA / Labels / Points view toggles described above:

Flatten (2s) - press and hold for 2 full seconds to reset all of the selected channel's band gains to 0 dB. Frequencies, Q values, band types, and filters are not touched. Releasing early cancels, so an accidental tap does nothing.

10.Dynamics Page

The dynamics graph

The graph plots the channel's input-to-output transfer curve, both axes -60 to 0 dB, with a dashed 1:1 reference diagonal. Overlaid on it:

• Dashed threshold markers: a vertical slate-blue line at the compressor threshold, a vertical green line at the gate threshold, and a horizontal red line at the limiter ceiling. A bypassed or disabled module drops out of the curve and its marker disappears. A threshold set above 0 dB draws at the graph's edge.
• Live operating dot: the compressor's current input level plotted against its output. Animates while Active Page is 2.

METERS

Meter	Description
IN	Channel input level (RMS), before processing
OUT	Channel output level (RMS), after processing
COMP GR	Compressor gain reduction: a numeric readout (e.g. -6.4dB) plus a bar that fills as reduction increases

On a channel with several paths the meters read as Multi-channel Inputs describes. The METERS card also holds two channel-wide buttons:

• Bypass All - bypasses every processing module of the selected channel (filters, gate, EQ, compressor, limiter) in one press. The button lights only when everything is bypassed, so it doubles as an "is anything processing?" indicator.
• Monitor (when Enable Monitor is Yes) - routes the selected channel's processed output to the plugin's Monitor Output audio pin, and follows you as you switch channels. Wire Monitor Output to a cue speaker or headphone feed for one-button solo while tuning.

GATE (when Enable Gate is Yes)

Control	Range	Description
THRESH	-60 to +20 dB	Level the signal must exceed to open the gate
DEPTH	0 - 60 dB	Attenuation applied while the gate is closed
ATTACK	5 - 100 ms	How fast the gate opens
HOLD	1 ms - 10 s	Minimum time the gate stays open
RELEASE	10 ms - 10 s	How fast the gate closes
OPEN LED	-	Lit while the gate is passing signal

COMPRESSOR (always present)

Control	Range	Description
THRESH	-60 to +20 dB	Level where compression begins
RATIO	1:1 - 100:1	Compression ratio above threshold
ATTACK	5 - 100 ms	How fast compression engages
RELEASE	10 ms - 10 s	How fast it lets go
KNEE	0 - 24 dB	Soft-knee width (0 = hard knee)
MAKEUP	-20 to +20 dB	Output gain after compression
DEPTH	0 - 60 dB	Maximum gain reduction the compressor is allowed to apply

LIMITER (when Enable Limiter is Yes)

Control	Range	Description
CEILING	-60 to +20 dB	Output level the limiter holds the signal under
ATTACK	5 ms - 60 s	Limiter engage time
RELEASE	10 ms - 120 s	Limiter release time
ACTIVE LED	-	Lit while the limiter is reducing gain

Shared card features

• Time readouts. The small gray text under each ATTACK / HOLD / RELEASE field shows the value as milliseconds or seconds (10 ms, 2 s).
• Copy / Paste / Bypass in each card's title row are scoped to that card: copy just the compressor to another channel, just the gate, or just the limiter. Bypass bypasses that module only. If you paste a section that was never copied (or whose module is disabled), the status bar notes Paste skipped and nothing changes.

11.Config Page

RTA CONFIG (when Enable RTA is Yes)

Control	Range / Choices	Default	Description
TAP	1 Pre / 2 Post / 3 Ext	2 Post	What the analyzer listens to: the selected channel before its EQ, after its EQ, or the external RTA Input audio pin (e.g. a measurement mic)
Timeout + TIMEOUT (s)	5 - 3600 s	On, 300	Automatically switches the RTA view off after this much idle time (see below)
FPS	1 - 30	5	Refresh rate of the animated graph elements and meters
RMS (s)	0.01 - 1.0 s	0.20	Analyzer averaging time - shorter is snappier, longer is smoother

If nobody touches the panel for the timeout period while the spectrum is running, the plugin turns the RTA view toggle off by itself. Any interaction resets the countdown, and pressing RTA on the EQ page brings the spectrum straight back.

ACTIVE PAGE

The Active Page dropdown selects which graph animates continuously. See Which graph is live.

GRAPH COLORS

Five text fields re-theme the graphs. Each accepts an HTML color name (white, orange) or hex value (#2AA8E0), and the graphs repaint immediately:

Field	Colors	Default
EQ LINE	The EQ response curve	#eef0f2
RTA	The spectrum overlay	#2aa8e0
GRID	Graph background	#0a0c0e
DYN LINE	The dynamics transfer curve	#eef0f2
DOT	The dynamics operating dot	#c4e04f

Clearing a field restores its default at the next design start.

CHANNEL NAMES

One name field per channel. Names appear in the NAVIGATION strip's NAME box for the selected channel and are available as control pins, so a UCI can label its channel tabs from the same source. Naming channels (Pastor Lav, Pulpit, Playback L) makes the whole panel easier to drive.

12.Strip Selector

Strata Strip Selector is the free companion plugin included in the package. It puts a compact button grid in front of a Strata Channel Strip: one row per processing view, one column per channel. Pressing a button selects that channel on the strip and switches it to the right view - press 3 in the COMP row and the Channel Strip jumps to channel 3 with the Dynamics view live.

Use it as a fast admin surface in Designer, or pin its buttons into a UCI as ready-made "channel + view" selectors alongside the strip's graphs.

Selector Properties

Property	Range / Choices	Default	Description
Channel Count	2 - 16	8	Number of button columns. Match the Channel Strip's Channels.
Show EQ / Show Compressor / Show Gate / Show Limiters / Show Filters	Yes / No	Yes	Shows or hides each processing-type row. Match the modules you actually compiled into the strip.
Custom Controls	Yes / No	No	Adds extra button rows of your own. See Custom rows.
Custom Control Count	1 - 4	1	How many custom rows to show. Hidden unless Custom Controls is Yes.
Custom 1 Label ... Custom 4 Label	Text	CUS 1 ... CUS 4	The row's name, used for both the on-panel row text and its pin names. Some names are rejected - see Custom row labels.
Debug Level	Standard / Verbose	Standard	Console logging verbosity.

The button grid

• Rows are the processing views you enabled: EQ and FILT switch the strip to its EQ view (green buttons); COMP, GATE, and LIM switch it to the Dynamics view (blue buttons). Rows that share a view differ only in which row's LED lights - the strip shows its full EQ or Dynamics page either way, so the lit row also tells you what kind of work is in progress.
• Exactly one button is active at a time across the whole grid (radio behavior). Pressing the active button off leaves the strip where it was.
• Each row's LED lights when that row holds the active selection - at a glance, you can see which view the strip is on.
• The processing-view buttons are disabled whenever the Selector isn't linked to a strip. The Close button, the custom rows, Refresh and the STRATA COMPONENT dropdown stay available.
• Close clears every button in the grid, leaving nothing selected. It only clears the Selector's own buttons - the strip stays on whatever channel and view it was last sent to.

Custom rows

Set Custom Controls to Yes to add up to four extra button rows of your own, sized by Custom Control Count. They look and behave like the processing rows and join the same radio (one active button across the whole grid), but they drive nothing on the Channel Strip - selecting one leaves the strip exactly where it was.

They exist so a UCI or schematic logic has ready-made per-channel buttons that follow the same one-at-a-time rule as the rest of the grid: mute-style toggles, a "channel in use" tally, a room-select row. Because they never touch the strip, they keep working while the Selector is unlinked.

Custom row labels

A row's label sets both the text drawn on the panel row and that row's pin names (MY ROW~Ch 1, MY ROW~Ch 2, and so on, one per channel). Pin names must stay unique, so the Selector cleans up what you type: a ~ becomes -, and leading and trailing spaces are trimmed. Spaces inside the label are kept.

A label is rejected and replaced with CUS n, where n is the row number, when it is:

• Empty.
• A reserved pin-group name: LEDs, Link, Connection, Selection.
• A processing-row name: EQ, COMP, GATE, LIM, FILT. These are reserved whether or not that row is shown, so toggling Show EQ never renames an unrelated custom row.
• Another row's default name, such as CUS 2 typed into row 1. All four defaults are reserved even when you show fewer rows. A row's own name is kept as typed.
• Already used by an earlier custom row.

Matching ignores case: eq is rejected the same as EQ.

Link status

Status bar	Meaning	What to do
OK	Linked and driving the strip	Nothing - the Linked LED is lit
Multiple Strata Channel Strip found — pick one in the Strata Component selector	More than one strip in the design	Pick a Code Name in STRATA COMPONENT
No Strata Channel Strip found — set its Script Access to All	No discoverable strip	Add a strip, or set its Script Access to All, then press Refresh
Strata link lost — press Refresh	The linked strip stopped responding (e.g. renamed or removed)	Press Refresh to re-discover, and re-pick if needed

The Selector's Refresh button re-scans the design for Strata Channel Strips. Use it after adding, renaming, or changing Script Access on a strip.

13.Control Pins

Every control on the panel is available as a control pin for UCIs, scripts, and schematic logic. Pins for optional modules (filters, gate, limiter, RTA, monitor) exist only while that module's Enable property is on.

A few panel button legends abbreviate their pin names: Copy Ch / Paste Ch = Copy Channel / Paste Channel, Bypass All = Channel Bypass, Monitor = Channel Monitor, HPF In / LPF In = HPF On / LPF On, and Flatten (2s) = Flatten EQ.

Audio pins

Pin	Direction	Notes
Channel N Input 1..K	Input	K is the channel's Inputs count (1 unless multi-channel)
Channel N Output 1..K	Output	Same numbering as the inputs
RTA Input	Input	External analyzer source (with Enable RTA)
Monitor Output	Output	Follows the selected channel's processed output while Monitor is on (with Enable Monitor)

Navigation and channel

Pin	Type	Direction
Channel Select	Value (1..N)	Both
Channel 1..N (nav buttons)	Toggle	Both
Channel Name (selected)	Text	Output
Name 1..N (per channel)	Text	Both
Active Page	Value (1 EQ / 2 Dynamics)	Both

EQ

Pin	Type	Direction
EQ Band N Freq / Gain / Q	Value	Both
EQ Band N Type	Text (Bell / Low-Shelf / High-Shelf)	Both
EQ Band N Bypass	Toggle	Both
EQ Bypass (master)	Toggle	Both
Focused Band Select 1..N	Toggle	Both
Focused Band Freq / Gain / Q	Value	Both
Focused Band Type buttons	Toggle	Both
Focused Band Bypass	Toggle	Both
HPF On / LPF On	Toggle	Both
HPF Freq / LPF Freq	Value	Both

Dynamics

Pin	Type	Direction
Comp Threshold / Ratio / Attack / Release / Knee / Depth / Makeup	Value	Both
Comp Bypass	Toggle	Both
Gate Threshold / Depth / Attack / Hold / Release	Value	Both
Gate Open	LED	Output
Gate Bypass	Toggle	Both
Limiter Ceiling / Attack / Release	Value	Both
Limiter Active	LED	Output
Limiter Bypass	Toggle	Both

Meters and graphs

Pin	Type	Direction	Notes
Meters Input / Output	Meter	Output	Selected channel's levels
meter_gr	Meter	Output	True gain reduction in dB: reads ~0 at idle, fills negative to -40. Bind a UCI Meter block with a 0 to -40 range.
Graph EQ / Graph Dynamics	Button	Output	The plugin renders its graphs into these controls - a UCI Button bound to them displays the live image

Operations, view, and config

Pin	Type	Direction
Copy Channel / Paste Channel	Trigger	Input
Copy EQ / Paste EQ / Copy Comp / Paste Comp / Copy Gate / Paste Gate / Copy Limiter / Paste Limiter	Trigger	Input
Flatten EQ (2 s hold)	Momentary	Input
Channel Bypass	Toggle	Both
Channel Monitor	Toggle	Both
RTA / Labels / Points (view)	Toggle	Both
RTA Tap / Timeout On / Timeout Time / Framerate / RMS Time	Value / Toggle	Both
Colors EQ Line / RTA / Grid / Dyn Line / Dot	Text	Both
Status / License Status / Locking ID	Status / Text	Output
Refresh	Trigger	Input

A few UCI-oriented controls are not placed on the panel but are still pins, listed under their internal names: disp_band_select (the focused band number as a value) and focus_type (the focused band's type as a dropdown).

Value ranges for custom controls

The plugin's time values are in seconds on the pin (the native DSP unit) - 0.01 means 10 ms. If you wire your own fader or text box to a time pin, set its Min/Max in seconds per the table below, and give it a time format so it displays ms/s:

Field	Min (s)	Max (s)	Equivalent
Comp Attack	0.005	0.1	5 ms - 100 ms
Comp Release	0.01	10	10 ms - 10 s
Gate Attack	0.005	0.1	5 ms - 100 ms
Gate Hold	0.001	10	1 ms - 10 s
Gate Release	0.01	10	10 ms - 10 s
Limiter Attack	0.005	60	5 ms - 60 s
Limiter Release	0.01	120	10 ms - 120 s

Level and ratio pins use their displayed units directly: thresholds and ceiling -60 to +20 dB, gate/comp depth 0 to 60 dB, knee 0 to 24 dB, makeup -20 to +20 dB, ratio 1 to 100, band gain -18 to +18 dB, band Q 0.1 to 40, band frequency 10 Hz to 20 kHz.

Strip Selector pins

Pin	Type	Direction
EQ / Compressor / Gate / Limiter / Filters buttons, Ch 1..N	Toggle	Both
Show_EQ / Show_Compressor / Show_Gate / Show_Limiter / Show_Filters LEDs (lit when that row holds the active selection)	LED	Output
Strata Component	Text	Both
Linked	LED	Output
Status	Status	Output
Refresh	Trigger	Input

14.Troubleshooting

Strip Selector problems

The Selector's status bar shows a message

• Every Selector status string, and what to do about it, is in Link status

Selector buttons don't do anything

• The grid is disabled while unlinked - check the Linked LED and the status bar first
• Verify the Selector's Channel Count doesn't exceed the strip's Channels (buttons for channels the strip doesn't have select nothing useful)

Panel and graphs

Panel values or curves look out of date

• Press Refresh in the header. External changes (snapshots, control systems, scripts writing pins) update the audio immediately but can leave the panel display stale until it re-pulls

The RTA spectrum disappeared on its own

• The RTA idle timeout switched the spectrum off to save processing - press RTA on the EQ page to bring it back
• Raise TIMEOUT (s) or turn Timeout off on the Config page if you want it to stay up unattended

A graph isn't animating

• Check ACTIVE PAGE on the Config page. Which graph is live says which value animates which graph

Flatten doesn't do anything

• Flatten requires a full 2-second press-and-hold; releasing early cancels on purpose
• Once the demo has expired, Flatten is blocked like every other processing edit

Licensing and operations

Controls are grayed out and edits snap back

• The demo has expired. See What demo expiry stops

Status bar says "Paste skipped"

• Paste skipped - clipboard empty: press a Copy button first
• Paste skipped - no ... data in clipboard: you copied a different section (e.g. copied the compressor, pasted the gate)
• Copy skipped - ... disabled or Paste skipped - ... disabled: that module isn't compiled in on this instance (check the Enable properties)

Activation code doesn't work

• Verify the code matches the Core's Locking ID exactly - the format is ####-####-####
• Everything else about codes, license states and redundant Core pairs is in Licensing

Debug output

When the Q-SYS debug console is available, the plugin logs its startup banner, license state, and warnings there. Set Debug_Level to Verbose for deeper diagnostics. The on-block debug button is enabled on all Fresh AV Labs plugins for field troubleshooting.

15.Known Issues

A custom row label accepted before 1.5.1 is renamed on upgrade

Versions before 1.5.1 accepted custom row labels that 1.5.1 rejects. When such a design is upgraded, that row falls back to CUS n and its pins are renamed to CUS n~Ch N. Anything connected to the old pin names comes loose.

Workaround: rename the row to a name that is not on the rejected list in Custom row labels, then reconnect. Rows left at the four defaults, CUS 1 through CUS 4, are not affected.

16.Support

• Support tickets: freshavlabs.com/support
• Website: freshavlabs.com
• Email: [email protected]

Include with a request:

• Q-SYS Designer version
• Core model
• Plugin version, shown under the plugin name in the header
• Your configuration: channels, bands, and the enabled modules
• The Locking ID, for a license question
• Debug console output showing the issue