I received my MX-1000 a few days ago and have become obsessed. I have visions of complete A/V system interconnectivity in which I leap from device to device with the press of but a single button, with all the various adjustments and input selections carried out seamlessly along the way. To that end, it would seem that the more macros available to each device, the better. And you need to able to have those macros leave you on a page of your own choosing. You don't want to have to press a couple of more buttons (main page followed by device selection) to get to your final destination after the macro has finished running.
So, the question is, how many macro buttons are available per device? It' mentioned several times in the documentation that there are a total of 60 favorite channel/general macro buttons available, but how are they allocated between devices? For instance, there seem to be 16 favorite channel buttons (FAV1, etc.) allocated to SAT, but there only appear to be 3 labeled K1, K2, K3?) in the VCR1 device. There seem to be 36 "K-type" buttons in the AUX device; are they all macro-capable? Can you move them where you want, both within a device and between them?
The second question deals with the funtionality of these "common" macros. They seem to execute the macro commands within and between devices with the same aplomb as one of the 3 system macro or 12 device macro buttons, but they ultimately finish on the same page that they started from. So, if I want a number of "hotkey" buttons on each device to instantly take me to another device and make all the setting changes along the way, I want to be able to finish on the home (1st) page of that destination-device. Is there a way to force these common macros to do this, as the system macros do? Seems to me that as long as they will execute a mininum of 12 or so commands, it would be far more useful to give them the same funtional capability as the precious and few system macros. That way, if you were using them as favorite channel buttons, you could always add a couple of more steps to the macro to get back to the original page where you started, if that's what you wanted. Is there a workaround that anybody knows of? A way to modify these common macro buttons to leave you on a specific page of a specific device of your choosing? If not, perhaps a software update from U.R.C. could address this issue?
On an unrelated question, is there any way you can swap page positions within a device? All the devices seem to have a keypad on page 1, and I'd like it to be on page 2 or 3. Simply being able to re-order pages would sure be a timesaver!
One final question: from those who have gone through the "learning curve" on the MXOP, is it preferable to try and relocate, move, and copy existing functional and favorite channel buttons, or just delete them and add new ones, relearning if necessary?
