We recommend you download the version 'with LAV Filters' as SCS 11.8.5 includes a new version of LAV Filters (0.75.1).
As mentioned in the first dot point below, with SCS 11.8.5 you can now send commands to digital mixers to mute/unmute channels, DCA's, etc, and set levels of channels, DCA's, etc. This is implemented using MIDI Control Send cues (apart from X32 mixers which continue to be supported by Network Control Send cues). For the new MIDI controlled devices, an SCS-supplied configuration file defines the message types and formats for each device, and this currently supports Allen&Heath Qu and SQ series, Yamaha LS, Behringer X AIR, and Stagetec Aurus/Crescendo. Other devices will be added if and when the appropriate MIDI message formats are available.
New and Changed Features in SCS 11.8.5
- Added MIDI Control Send support for various external ('remote') devices such as Allen&Heath Qu and SQ mixers, Yamaha LS mixers, and others. See 'Control Send - MIDI Remote Device' in the Help for details.
- Added X32 Theatre Control (X32TC) to the list of Remote Devices supported under Production Properties / Devices / Cue Control - Network In, and / Control Send - Network Out. (Requires X32TC version 2.9 or later for Control Sends, and version 2.12 or later for Cue Control.)
- The message box that was displayed when SCS loses focus has been dropped. SCS will now just display a warning message in the status line of the main window, although even that may be suppressed (as before) by a Production Property Run Time setting.
- In Production Properties / Fixture Types, the 'Fixture Type Detail' and 'Fixture Type Channels' panel tabs have been combined to make it easier to see all the details at once, and to reduce the likelihood of omitting significant channel details.
- Lighting Cues now support different 'fade up' and 'fade down' times, Previously there was just a 'fade time' that was used for both 'fade up' and 'fade down'. Cross-fades can be improved by entering a longer time for the fade down.
- A new Cue Activation Method of 'External Fader' has been added, initially for Lighting Cues. This enables the Lighting Cue to be activated, de-activated, faded up and down manually under the control of an external fader such as a nanoKONTROL MIDI controller, or a Behringer BCF2000 or BCR2000. See 'Lighting Control by External Fader' in the Help for details.
- Improved the performance of image cues in cue files that do not contain any video fades.
- In Production Properties - Fixture Types, leaving the Description blank for a Fixture Type when the Name had been entered would correctly throw the error 'Description must be entered', but SCS would then loop throwing this error so you could not then enter a Description to correct the problem.
- Under Production Properties - Audio Output Devices, setting the 'For LTC (Linear Time Code) Cues' checkbox was not processed correctly. (NB this checkbox is only displayed for SCS Platinum users, and also requires SoundMan-Server to be installed.)
- Reducing the size of the main window to hide the VU meters could throw an error message if the Audio Driver is SoundMan-Server.
- Certain multi-monitor configurations were not handled correctly by SCS and could cause a 'division by zero' error.
- A sub-cue relative start that references the previous sub-cue (eg 2.00 after end of previous sub-cue) would fail to start if the previous sub-cue was disabled. The test now checks for the previous enabled sub-cue.
- 'Stop All (Esc)' could incorrectly set the 'next manual cue' if an earlier callable cue exists.
- There was a bug in the processing of blackouts in Lighting Cues, which could prevent some dimmable channels from being blacked out.
- Some video/image cues would fail to display as the target display control had not been made visible.
- 'Fade All' did not fade the audio of a playing video.
- When adding a Live Input 'device', the 'Test Live Input' button had no effect until the cue file was saved and reloaded.
- The 'Fade All' enhancement added in 11.8.3 had not been applied to SoundMan-Server audio output devices.
- Fixed a bug in editing old-style Lighting Cues, ie where the Entry Type is 'DMX Items'.
- Using the 'Display DMX Values' window could cause SCS to freeze if SCS needs to resize any part of the screen when displaying DMX values.
- Renumbering cues could leave some sub-cue descriptions with leading Z's in an embedded sub-cue label, if they referred to another sub-cue within the same cue. For example, this could occur with a Level Change sub-cue that applies to an Audio File sub-cue within the same cue.
- In Lighting Cues, some DMX channels could fail to be set due to a bug in blackout processing.
- A thread conflict issue sometimes affected the display of still images with fade in times specified.
- Audio file cues with very short fade-in times may not have fully faded in.
