ASCII Fader Control/More Master Fader Access

[ryanjimmersive]

Realized I posted this earlier in the wrong thread.

I am using a PLC to communicate with SCS for an immersive experience. I really love the software and the flexibility it offers. A couple things listed below have come up that would be nice to have as a feature, or maybe they do exist, but I don't know how to accomplish it.

- Controlling Master Fader with Network Cue Control (ASCII UDP from PLC). For my situation, I am unable to use OSC commands, instead forced to ASCII. I understand positioning the fader is easier accomplished with OSC but offering a basic up/down command over ASCII such as "scsMasterFader(Up)" or "scsMasterFader(Down)" would allow me to send button pushes to increase/decrease overall volume at a dB increment set in the shows settings. Sort of like the Master Fader up/down keystroke shortcut.

- I was able to control Master Fader via OSC but had to use a separate program (TouchOSC), just ideally wanted everything centralized. That being said, is there a way to transmit Master Fader value/positional data back to TouchOSC or alternative?

- Alternatively, allowing access to the Master Fader from within a Level Change Cue would suffice.

- Additionally, allowing a relative volume change of a Cue and all it's sub cues (sort of like an aux fader/send bus) would be beneficial. So if I have a cue who has a bunch of subcues that all play out in different rooms/channels, I can control their relative overall volume without having to adjust the device's volume or each individual output from within that cue. Heck, the ability to send cues to a send bus and be able to control those faders like a real mixer would be super cool.

Otherwise, my SCS experience has been incredible! Thank you for the great software.

[Mike Daniell]

Many thanks for your comments - much appreciated.

You say you cannot use OSC from your PLC. We encountered a similar issue when the remote app was developed, and to work around that we developed what I call 'text-only OSC'. I will email you the document that contains the message formats.

[ryanjimmersive]

Thank you. That document has been extremely helpful!

In regards to suggestions for future iterations, I believe allowing OSC/Text cue control for a Playlist, in addition to Master Fader/Device Fader, would solve my "audio bus/aux send" volume control desire. The Playlist already has group relative volume control built in - just looking to adjust it as needed