Show Cue System

I am about to run my first show with SCS, and my inital thoughts are great bit of software. As long as the computer does`t crash our january panto should be much easier.

I am looking at trying to control my behringer LC2412 lighting desk and a midi to voltage card to control colour scrollers.

Currently I can send snap changes to both devices with out a problem. However, if it were possible to output more than one note in a cue (maybe by allowing the text box at the bottom of the page to become editable) One scs cue could become a scene (in my case selecting the colours in say 4 scrollers).

The other really useful thing would be adding the concept of a fade time. So a cue transmits cc messages say starting at 127 finishing at 0 over 30 secs. Which on my desk could be the fadeing out of a memory in 30 secs, triggered 30 secs before the end of the sound cue.

The only way I can thing of doing this is by adding 127 cues with each level and making them auto start after the last.

Rob,

I've had requests for multiple MIDI messages per cue before, but an idea occurred to me on reading your post and that is to provide an option for a free format MIDI message. I'll look into providing this.

Regarding the fade time, that is certainly a possibility, but I would have thought it would be preferable to program the fade into the lighting desk and just have SCS send a MIDI message to commence the fade. Or am I missing something here?

The fade time issue came from the fact that most of the equipment I am using is very low end. One device outputs levels directly to dimmers via a midi note on command, the lighting desk allows all faders to be "moved" via midi, but doesn`t really have a proper scene recall. So I can trigger blackouts etc, but a fade up on a sub master would need multiple cues.

I agree that on a proper LX desk triggering a scene recall would be ideal.

I could see things like reverb delay times etc being useful to be able to fade over time though.