Major changes in this version:
- Ability to change the Playback Rate, Tempo or Pitch of an Audio File, including support for this in Level Change Cues, so you can, for example, slow down or speed up playback over several seconds.
- Callable Cues may now have parameters which are passed when a 'Call Cue' cue type calls that callable cue. Currently only Lighting Cues and MIDI Control Send Cues accept parameters, and these only for selected fields.
- Sub-Cues may be started by a Relative Time Code or by Cue Marker.
- Animated GIF's supported. Some restrictions apply.
- MIDI Control Send support for various external ('remote') devices such as Allen&Heath Qu and SQ mixers has been enhanced to include extra controls such as channel FX and DCA levels.
- You can now set a non-default Playback Rate, Tempo or Pitch for an Audio File sub-cue. Playback Rate affects both Tempo and Pitch, whereas setting Tempo will affect Tempo only and leave the Pitch unchanged, and setting Pitch will affect Pitch only and leave Tempo unchanged.
- The Action of a Level Change sub-cue now allows you to select Playback Rate, Tempo or Pitch if the target sub-cue is an Audio File sub-cue. This enables you to change the Playback Rate, Tempo or Pitch sometime after the start of playback of that Audio File sub-cue. A Duration property is also available so you can, for example, slow down or speed up playback over several seconds.
- Callable Cues may now have parameters which are passed when a 'Call Cue' cue type calls that callable cue. Currently only Lighting Cues and MIDI Control Send Cues accept parameters, and these only for selected fields. However, other cue types will be enhanced later to support parameters.
- If a cue has an Activation Method of MIDI Time Code then you can now have sub-cues of that cue set to start by 'Relative Time Code'.
- If an Audio File cue has Cue Markers or Cue Points then subsequent sub-cues within that same cue may now be set to start 'On Cue Marker', specifying a cue marker (or cue point) within that audio file sub-cue.
- Animated GIF's are now supported in Video/Image Cues. Some restrictions apply.
- When using the Primary/Backup feature, the Backup did not report an error if the connection to the Primary failed. This could occur, for example, if the Backup's 'IP Address of Primary' was incorrect. SCS now reports if the connection fails, and one of the options provided is to change (ie correct) the IP Address that the Backup is trying to connect to.
- When using the Primary/Backup feature, SCS now displays a warning message in the Backup if the Primary is running a different version of SCS.
- When using the Primary/Backup feature, there is now an option for the Backup to ignore incoming network Cue Control messages (except for those sent by the Primary).
- Lighting fixtures may now be assigned multiple DMX Start Channels. This is primarily designed for audience lighting in venues with separate DMX channels for audience lighting in different areas of the theatre, such as stalls, upper and lower balconies, etc. If all performances will require the same selection of audience lighting DMX channels, then you can create a single 'fixture' for audience lighting, and assign all of the associated DMX channels to this fixture.
- The editor panel for editing Lighting cues now has a fixture-level 'Include' checkbox, enabling you to quickly include or exclude all channels for the selected fixture. This is useful if you just want to include a few channels of a multi-channel fixture - just exclude all channels and then include then few you need.
- DMX channels are no longer blacked out (set to zero) on closing SCS.
- If you have Lighting Cues and you manually select the next cue in the main window, eg by clicking on a cue in the cue list, SCS attempts to calculate the DMX values that would be active immediately prior to your playing that next cue. This is ideal for rehearsals if the director wants to rehearse a part of a scene - possibly several times. For more information, see 'Run Time Note' under the Lighting Cues topic.
- MIDI Control Send support for various external ('remote') devices such as Allen&Heath Qu and SQ mixers (added in 11.8.5) has been enhanced to include extra controls, including setting channel FX and DCA levels.
- A new Operational Mode has been added: Rehearsal Mode. You can have different Display Options and Cue List Columns for Design Mode, Rehearsal Mode and Performance Mode.
- A Display Option has been added to 'Request Confirmation of Cue Click in Main Window'. If set then when you click on a cue in the main window's cue list, SCS will ask you to confirm the action, with an option to not ask again in the current session. This has been added to reduce the likelihood of accidentally 'clicking' on a cue during a live production, an issue that can easily occur if the laptop's trackpad has not been disabled. This option is set by default for Rehearsal Mode and Performance Mode, but not for Design Mode.
- In Performance Mode the default Display Option for Toolbar Buttons has been changed from 'Hide toolbar' to 'Performance buttons only'. 'Performance buttons' are Go, Pause, Stop, Fade, Load, Options, View and Help.
- As previously advised, Live Input Cues require SoundMan-Server. However, it is now possible to assign a Dummy Live Input physical device to Live Input logical devices, which can then be used with any SCS audio driver, such as DirectSound. This will enable you to create and edit Live Input Cues on a computer that does not have SoundMan-Server installed or loaded, although you obviously will not be able to fully test these cues when using dummy devices.
- The font used for the Editor's Cue List can now be selected in Options / Editing Options. The default is font size 9 normal. Previously the font size was 9 bold and could not be changed.
- There are now Display Options to show a Cue's MIDI Cue Number in 'Next Manual Cue' and the Cue Panels.
- 'Print Cue List' now shows the calculated total length of all cues selected for printing.
- Network Cue Control devices that receive OSC messages may now accept relative adjustments to the Master Fader and Audio Device Faders, eg -1.5 will lower the nominated fader by 1.5dB.
- In previous versions of SCS, a MIDI Cue Control device could be set up with a 'Cue Control Command' to control the Master Fader (as well as various other functions). The list of 'Cue Control Commands' has been expanded to include Output Faders for each audio output device, and the DMX Master. This means you should now be able to control these faders from an external device such as the PreSonus ATOM, and various other controllers. These MIDI Cue Control commands will be recognized by the Faders window, in addition to the current presets of BCR2000 and BCF2000.
- When using the Primary/Backup feature and also using a network Cue Control or Control Send device then the backup would fail to respond to commands from the primary once the cue file had been opened. This was due to a conflict between the network device and the network connection to the primary.
- If an MTC (MIDI Timecode) cue or sub-cue had a linked audio file cue or sub-cue and the audio driver was SoundMan-Server, then MTC would not always start, or would not always resume after being paused.
- When setting up or editing a Lighting cue, if the 'Link Group' is specified then it must be numeric in the range 1-9. SCS was incorrectly accepting 0, even though this was treated as a blank.
- Tidied up some 'info' display issues with Lighting Cues (didn't affect the functionality of the cues).
- DMX Port 2 (DMX2) on an ENTTEC DMX USB PRO Mk2 was not handled correctly for Lighting Cues.
- An image cue that fades in replacing a currently-displayed image cue that has no fade-out time would not completely cross-fade, leaving both images partially displayed.
- The 'resume' button in the cue panels wasn't always handled correctly, due to changes made in SCS 11.8.4.
- Linking an MTC sub-cue to a video sub-cue did not sync MTC to the video if the video sub-cue was repositioned.
- Recent earlier versions SCS did not list the available Live Input devices in Production Properties.
- The editor function to 'Copy Properties from another Cue or Sub-Cue' had not been updated to handle Fixtures in Lighting Cues.
- In Control Send Cues for MIDI devices, 'Capture NRPN' would loop on processing an incoming MIDI message.
- When using an external MIDI device as a Cue Control device, SCS did not apply the 'double-click timeout' to MIDI commands, which could result in SCS actions like Go being double-clicked.
- A memory error could occur when navigating to a new cue in the main window if the cue file contains a disabled Playlist sub-cue within a cue that has other sub-cues that are enabled.
- A bug in SCS 11.8.5 meant that fade-ins for an SFR 'resume hibernating cue' would not fade-in.
- Fading in a hibernated cue would not execute the fade-in if the cue's fade-in type was set to 'Linear' (a different issue to the one above).
- Fixed some issues with Playlist cues played using SoundMan-Server.
- If an Audio File cue has a 'Start At' time part way through the file, and a subsequent cue is set to auto-start n.n seconds after the start of the Audio File cue, then that auto-start cue's start time was incorrectly calculated, and may have caused the cue's activation method to be set to a manual start.
- When using 'Import Devices from another SCS Cue File', the last device (eg a Cue Control device) would not be listed and would only be partially imported.
- A memory error could occur on imparting cues from another SCS cue file.
- HTTP Control Send cues would always add CR LF to the end of a message, unless it had already been supplied in the message. SCS no longer automatically adds CR LF as this caused error reports from vMix.
- Still images in video/image cues set to display to multiple screens may have been displayed only on the first selected screen.
- Time-based cues were not handled correctly if the run mode was non-linear.
- Cross-fading a 'continuous' images to another image did not fade out the continuous image if the 32-bit version of SCS was being run.
- When editing a Playlist Cue, the 'Other Action' option to 'Remove all files from this Playlist' could incorrectly mark an unrelated Audio or Video/Image file as non-existent, typically resulting in a sanity check error on the cue using that file.
- When using 'non-linear' run mode (see Production Properties / Run Time Settings), a cue set to auto-start after the end of another cue would not auto-start.
- Fixed a bug in RC1 that could cause a memory error in the editor, possibly preceded by a message displaying "preChangeItemInfo nItemId=-1".
- A change in an earlier development version (ie post 11.8.5) caused the Windows default beep to be sounded on activating cues using the space bar. That change has now been undone.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes occurred with time-based cues being reset after a specified time-of-day.
- Fixed some issues with looped Audio File Cues.
- Fixed an issue with the editor's 'View Playable' processing of an Audio File Cue.
