Each time I startup my SC6000Ms, they default to Player 1 and 2. When I go into the Utility menu and change them to Player 2 and 3 to reflect the physical order of the player in my setup and input sources into the mixer channels, they change only for that session. Once I reboot or power up the units another day, they go back to default number of 1 & 2. I have even tried to see if Save To My Drive function would save this as a user preference… nope. Keeps resetting to 1 & 2 on restart & loading of User Preferences.
Is there a way of setting these Player Numbers so the units remember and starts up having the correct Player # assignment? If not, could it be a feature request?
My Setup is as follows:
Player 1 / Channel 1: Technics SL-1200M3D
Player 2 / Channel 2: SC6000M running firmware 1.6.1
Mixer: X1850
Player 3 / Channel 3: SC6000M running firmware 1.6.1
Thanks for the help guys. Yeah, I have both M’s plugged into Ethernet port 2 & 3. I would think this should be something that the system defaults out of the box by starting numbers from 1, then 2, and so on… but if the user overrides the numbering because of their specific setup, each player would remember the latest numbering assignment and go back to same configuration when restarted (unless reset to defaults by user).
Clearly the software is written to be smart enough to know to route layer Bs to the other channels (1 & 4) or put the CUE-ed audio to 1 & 4 when Layer A’s are loaded and/or currently playing a track.
lol, no stickers on Technics… but yes Reese, you’re right in that it’s purely a cosmetic thing. Player numbering doesn’t really do anything other then help the users to know which sources goes into which channel of on the mixer (definitely more useful for a club setup than a home one)…
I haven’t tried the Engine button on the X1850, but will try that out as well.
It’s been a while since anyone replied to this but I’m having a similar issue. It seems that the 1850 just assigns player numbers at random depending on when the devices have been turned on. I use the same setup as Minimalizm, sc6000s on 2 and 3 of the switch and without fail I have to manually assign a player number to each device every time I turn them on. Also engine connect only shows up for one of the devices, which is weird, as I have both on and, for example, can tell player 2 (left deck) to use the internal drive installed in player 3 (right deck) as a source, which means they see one another. Seems like there’s an issue with the player assignment in the x1850 hardware.
After 2 years and many Engine OS & one or two X1850 firmware updates later, its still the same… Actually if anything, it might be worse as you say there has been a bug in the past few releases of Engine OS which doesn’t display the Channel Assignment numbers on one of the players. Now this would be fine if you could set both player’s assignments on the one working deck, but that’s not the case… Really hoping the dev team fix and improve this implemenation…
Yeah same. I updated everything and it’s still super wonky. Like the order in which I turn things on affects things. The weather, the time of year, the moon’s alignment. I’m glad that they added the sampler to the 6000s and the new bpm editor but a reliable boot order and connection protocol would be far more useful.
Also really weird that the assignment doesn’t follow the channel. If the device is connected via Ethernet to channel 2, it should default to channel 2. I should be able to configure it to something else if I want to, but the default should match the connected channel.
Also why is Engine connect a toggle feature? Haha like why wouldn’t I want my deck to sync with the effects automatically? I can’t think of a time where I would not want the effects to align with the selected fx channel. And if I didn’t, I could use the tap to set my desired fx bpm. I feel like that’s something I should never have to turn on or configure. Having the ability to turn it off is cool I guess but it seems like an extra state to manage with little to no benefit.
