Stop Start Go

[fincaman]

Hello all, I am doing the mixing for a show where someone else is cuing the music using SCS. Instead of using GO he clicks on the start button on the track below the cue list, are there any implications to this ?

[Mike Daniell]

Clicking the start button on the track below the cue list will work in some situations but the correct method is to use the GO button or equivalent (eg right-click mouse, or use Space Bar). The problem with using the track's start button is that the GO button doesn't get updated for the next cue until the current cue has completed, so if the next cue is, for example, an SFR cue to stop the current cue, then the GO button isn't updated to point to that SFR cue. And there are other possible scenarios.

A change has been implemented in SCS 11 that will treat clicking the start button of the 'next manual cue' the same as clicking the GO button, but if you are currently using SCS 10 then I recommend using the GO button or equivalent.

[fincaman]

Thanks for your prompt reply which explains a lot, there are one or two SFR ques in the list and that's where they are having problems I mentioned that they should use GO but I've only been in the sound business for 40 years so obviously I don't know as much as an armature director and I am sure readers of this post will know the scenario !!!