Show Cue System

A GUI option to collect into the current show directory (with a confirmation question) would be a way of doing this - if the target directory is the same as the current directory and a file already exists then the copy of that file would be skipped. Currently it won't let you do that. Or a "collect ...

Thanks, I've had a look. I need to look in more detail to see if it can be command line driven and if I can use an SCS "run external program cue " to spawn the new process and pass the command line to it with all the parameters (or if the setting can be saved). The only user interface the operators ...

Hi, I have a requirement to fire a number of cues at random intervals over a period of about 20 minutes. I can do this using a few hotkeys, with the operator acting as a random number generator. :) I'd like to suggest a new cue activation type - "Random repeat". The sequence would be started by one ...

I will once I've programmed the show! First tech meeting this week, it'll be a few weeks after that I have a show file ready.

Dave

Pretty much - don't know where the "queue" came from, I typed "cue"! Let me be more specific: I have a 1 hour audio file cue running with a loop to provide a background. Also in that same file, outside the area looped in the first cue, are a number of sections that I want to use for spot effects dro...

Hi,

If I have multiple audio file queues playing different parts of the same audio file at different times, is the file only loaded into memory once?

Thanks,

I have a 3 part cue - sub-cue 1 plays an mp3 file, sub-cue 2 adds another mp3 file 1.00 minute after the start of the cue and then sub-cue 3 is a "stop all playing cues" 40 seconds after the start of sub-cue 2. All the subcues fire on schedule but Sub-cue 3 does not stop the two playing sub-cues. SC...

Phil, Tried your first suggestion (had to use the BASS mixer to see the faders of course) and it works fine if there are only a few multi-subcue cues, so thanks for that. I just created another one for a storm, which has 4 subcues running simultaneously - so had to add a new device. The problem with...

Hi Phil, Thanks for those suggestions and for your suggestion in the next post. It would certainly be useful but that's not really what I want to achieve. I'm not looking to change the overall level of a bunch of sub-cues under cue control, rather I want to do it once in the editor during the tech r...

Yes, I could do it that way, but that would need more output devices than I have available -- only 2 channels at the usual venue, 4 if I use the headphone output of the laptop (yuk). Unfortunately there are no Win10 or 11 drivers for my Tascam US122. If I was using my X32 then it would work very wel...

PS: Would also need a level change cue to be able to be applied to the cue master so that all sub-cues in that cue can be faded up or down together maintaining relative level. Again this is a very common requirement - a composite cue providing background atmosphere to establish a scene, which then n...

I very often have to change the level of a complex cue made up of multiple audio file sub-cues - sometimes up to 10 or even more running simultaneously. It takes a long time to get the relative levels of each sub-cue just so when building the cue file away from the theatre, but when I get to the ven...

That's pretty much how I do it now, only I put the cues into the normal stack, rather than use hotkeys - sometimes whoever is operating lights also does sound but they are not familiar with SCS so needs to be nearly foolproof - just hit the "go" button as they do with the lighting cues. We normally ...

In every show I do, I have a need to make announcements whilst music is playing. It would be great to have a feature that enabled me to duck and restore a playing cue when another cue is played, with the level returning when that second cue ends. I'd see it a an added feature of Audio File cues : Cu...

Mike Daniell wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:19 pm

Thanks, Dave. I've emailed you a new version of the external file that includes these additions for the X32.

Mike,

Many thanks, mostly works fine, I've emailed you about the mute groups.

Dave