Unofficial iCON custom scripts for Studio One

Metering LEDs on controller. P1-M controller/display.

I haven't ever used the mackie script, or the Studio one script - just yours (loving it so far, but not a pro user by any means).
Also - I make metering mistakes sometimes, when switching between analogue live equipment, and various DAW meters doing recording and light mixing.

That said, I think maybe there's a bug, or feature request perhaps here:

It seems like the LED metering fix you made doesn't always work for every channel type displayed on the controller? I like the default mode you made - where the Red top LED only shows on the controller meter, if you clip/exceed 0db.
However - I first noticed with the mains metering (master fader), that it doesn't work right / doesn't do that (here the red light is showing/meter is maxed out BEFORE hitting 0db). If you have a small session (or perhaps bump right to show the master fader on your icon controller bank (without hitting the icon master button to switch the last fader to display the mains output. On a small session, with a low track/fader count I noticed-- IF you do use the icon controller button "Master (PT:Ctrl)" to show the Main fader on the #8 fader -- WHILE YOU ALSO have the Main channel fader displayed further left on the controller - the LED metering is not the same. The channel on the controller with Main showing naturally, has the funky metering, while the one "flipped" to show the Master has correct looking metering (the custom metering LED you set up).

Also - It appears input channels and Outputs channels, also have the funky metering with red showing up too soon, when displayed on the controller.

Also - a feature request that might be easy - or a pain - but sort of related:
The info display seems a little wonky when using the "Master (PT:Ctrl" button? Any way you could make it appear the same on the controller display when you hit that button, just like the mains channel display appears when you just bump right far enough to show it on a controller channel?

Hope all this makes sense. Let me know what you think, or if I can clarify!
Thanks for all your hard work on this script.

All the best

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the bug reports.

The info display seems a little wonky when using the "Master (PT:Ctrl" button? Any way you could make it appear the same on the controller display when you hit that button, just like the mains channel display appears when you just bump right far enough to show it on a controller channel?

Sadly not. The 'master' feature happens entirely within the P1-M firmware. When in master mode, it prints "Master" on channel 8, row 3 and nothing on row 4. My script isn't doing that and so I can't change it unfortunately. It's not ideal as in some scenes the original track name is still showing on top. But this is just how iCON have chosen to handle the Master channel on the P1-M (and P1-Nano).

It seems like the LED metering fix you made doesn't always work for every channel type displayed on the controller?
It appears input channels and Outputs channels, also have the funky metering with red showing up too soon,

Yes, I hadn't noticed that. The Inputs and Outputs have a different scaling. I'm scaling properly when sending the levels for the Master meter, but not for when they appear as 'normal' channels. I will see if I can find a way of identifying these I/O channels and use the correct scaling.

I have version 1.0 coming out in a few weeks. This fix might make it in if it's easy, but if it will take a while I'll make an update after 1.0 when I've solved it.

Paul

Paul,

Thanks so much for your quick reply!

No worries on the Master button display -- I thought that might be "unfixable," / tied to firmware.

I definitely don't understand the script writing process though, lol. If its an easy fix on the input and output metering, awesome! If its time consuming to fix - the input metering may kinda be moot anyway - at least to me. Even me, an amature recording engineer, I would probably never use just the led meters gain staging inputs - I use a detailed giant meter in my daw. The outputs though - I would reference those meters on the controller often, and just the controller leds are useable for most of my output types (well, they are if displaying the same scale as the track channels do with your script) - but yeah, if its quicker or easier to just fix output channels, that's still much appreciated.

I really do appreciate all the work you're doing.
Thanks again!

All the best,
Kevin Beckman