atten / eq gain resolution

Software Programming for the Yamaha Consoles
1

might someone with a real console at hand please verify the resolution of the attenuator (in eq) for me?
I’d like to know whether there is a way to input fine values or if it there are just 1dB-steps… (on a M7CL you can hold some knobs pressed down while rotating to get finer resolution)

studio manager only allows 1db-steps, but the file format allows 0.1db steps and studio manager doesn’t complain about finer values but as well gets confused by them.

the same would be interesting for eq-gain values

thanks!

2

I just ran into a M7 so I could try it out. Atten resolution is 1dB, EQ 0.5dB

3

Funny that the format allows for finer resolution than is possible with the consoles. Maybe for future possibilities?

4

if I set the atten to maybe 0.3dB studio manager does accept that and shows this value.
if I now enter a new value or rotate the control the shown value will always be off by 0.3dB with a very strange behaviour, it is not possible to reset it to 0dB…
would be interesting, how a console behaves, but I’m not sure if I would dare to try

5

So even when pressing down the encoder on the M7 the resolution is still only 1db? Obviously there no “press down” (fine) mode on SM…

6

correct, no finer resolution by pressing down an encoder
in SM the way to fine resolution is entering numbers

7

Hi Y’all,

The .1db resolution is a feature on the old 01V96, dropped on the LS9.
For live use, I occasionally appreciate the fine resolution, but really, the faster changes on the LS9 usually work fine for me…

Good health, Weogo