How to loop mutiple cues or entire show? (Mod in 10.2.0)

[johnboy]

I have just started using SCS and am finding it very easy to use but for the life of me I can't figure out how to loop cues. I want to be able to start a show at a specific time then have a sequence of ten cues loop until turning off at another set time. I've worked out the time based cue for beginning but how do I set up the cues to loop then end?

[Martin]

I think you can do this using the playlist function.

Set up a playlist cue with your 10 sound files and a time-based activation to start it off. Check the 'Continuous play' box to make the playlist loop and if you want the playlist to fade rather than just stop, you can enter a fade-out time. Then add a SFR cue (also time-based) to stop at the required time.

That should do it.

[johnboy]

Nice idea but it won't work for me as each audio cue has a midi cue as well that triggers an lx cue. Playlist cues only loop within themselves.

Any other ideas?

[Mike Daniell]

SCS doesn't currently have a facility to jump to another cue, although this feature has been requested occasionally.

Since you're obviously familiar with MIDI what you could try is to enable MIDI control of cues and assign a MIDI Cue Number to the first cue in your loop. Make sure your MIDI Control for SCS does not clash with the MIDI lx commands. Then add a Control Send cue or sub-cue at the end of your loop to send a 'Play Cue #' command to SCS, where # is the MIDI cue number you assigned to your first cue in the loop. Then by looping your MIDI cable run back into your SCS computer you should be able to jump back to the start of your cues.

I haven't tried the above but it should work. I will look into adding a 'Jump to cue' type of cue, but there are a few other things I'm working on at the moment.

[johnboy]

I'm not sure if this will work as both SCS and the LX so are on the same laptop and are linked with a virtual midi cable. But I'll give it a try.

I'd also be willing to try any alpha or beta code you might have of a go to Q function. I'm a little bit desperate

[Mike Daniell]

I'll email you details of a temporary(?) mod that will provide a 'Go To Cue' facility. Should be ready later today my time.

[johnboy]

Thank you so much!

[Theatre III Sound]

SCS doesn't currently have a facility to jump to another cue, although this feature has been requested occasionally.

Since you're obviously familiar with MIDI what you could try is to enable MIDI control of cues and assign a MIDI Cue Number to the first cue in your loop. Make sure your MIDI Control for SCS does not clash with the MIDI lx commands. Then add a Control Send cue or sub-cue at the end of your loop to send a 'Play Cue #' command to SCS, where # is the MIDI cue number you assigned to your first cue in the loop. Then by looping your MIDI cable run back into your SCS computer you should be able to jump back to the start of your cues.

I haven't tried the above but it should work. I will look into adding a 'Jump to cue' type of cue, but there are a few other things I'm working on at the moment.

I'm not sure if this will work as both SCS and the LX so are on the same laptop and are linked with a virtual midi cable. But I'll give it a try.

I'd also be willing to try any alpha or beta code you might have of a go to Q function. I'm a little bit desperate

I tried this and it does work with a virtual MIDI device. You just need to use separate MIDI channels within the same MIDI port for SCS to send messages to itself as well as sending messages to the lighting controller.

[Mike Daniell]

I'll email you details of a temporary(?) mod that will provide a 'Go To Cue' facility. Should be ready later today my time.

This 'temporary' mod will be included in 10.2.0, which I'm hoping will be released by the end of next week (ie by Oct 10). In that version you will be able to set up a Note cue with a Description of $GoTo <cue number>, eg $GoTo Q6. In this example, when you activate the Note cue SCS will jump to Q6 in the cue list and immediately start Q6.

This is only a temporary mod because SCS will not check in the Editor that the nominated cue exists, let alone provide a drop-down list of cues. Ultimately a new cue type will be required, or I may provide tailored extensions to the Note cue for purposes such as this.

[johnboy]

The mod works just fine. SCS is happily looping thru the cuelist for hours at a time. Thanks so much Mike.