'Fade out then move on' and 'stop then move on' hotkeys

[Tim Steer]

In the typical sort of awards dinners and live events that I work on, it's usual to play a music cue each time someone walks up to the stage and fade it out on cue from whoever is calling the show. It would be really really useful to have a shortcut that simply fades the current cue over a pre-determined time and lines up the next cue.

I have a home-made three button controller for SCS, and ideally I'd like the buttons to be:

1.) GO
2.) Fade-out currently playing cue and advance to next cue (allows me to do an auto fade when I have my hands full)
3.) Stop currently playing cue and advance to next cue (allows me to fade the current cue manually on the console then get the next one lined up quickly)

Features 2 and 3 are currently lacking in SCS, which I find a bit surprising tbh.

[Peter Jackson]

Hi Tim
Make yourself a SFR cue and set it to "fade all Playing cues" with a 2 second fade out then give it a 'Trigger'. I usually make mine '0' on the numerical keyboard and put a piece of white tape over it so I can see it in the dim control room light and this will fade out your cue and leave the next one ready

HTH
PJ

[Tim Steer]

Thanks Peter - like it! It's slightly clunky but it works.

Now I'm regretting choosing the ESC key as one of the three I hacked on the keyboard to make my controller, as you can't assign it as a hotkey in SCS (it's permanently set to be the "Oh sh*t!" button). Oh well...