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Subject: Re: [LCtalk] Cues and MIDI Program change
From: Fokko van Duin
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:48:01 +0200

Hello Flo,

At 19:00 +0200 30-06-2004, Flo Zombie wrote:
I found out that I will have to trigger the cues by midi control messages or by note velocity or whatever might be possible.

Hmm, that's no fun if there are many cues to go. Sure you can't use program change?


"this show control cue continuously test the two buttons, and start show control cue 5 or 6 depending on the button pressed."
Ok, then you press button B and cuelist 6.1 in Layer D starts.
But then you are in cuelist 6.1 and the buttons won´t work because there are no new switches set up in 6.1?

No, no. The control cue with these actions is running in another layer (and has another list number), and it stay running in order to check the switches. It just -starts- a cue in a layer depending on switch state.

In previous chapter the general working of cues was alreday explained, so if you just jumps in multimedia/showcontrol it's a bit hefty :-)


If I want to work with 40 cuelists, I will have to make a "40 times switch" in the end of each cuelist.

Beside that I cannot figure out how to set these swiches up for midi.

OK, here is an example. Paste below into an empty cuelist, save it as e.g. 99, and run it in e.g. layer D. It checks light channel 2 for certain value ranges, and starts a cue in response to it:


// Cuelist 99 (27 steps), stored 14-06-2004 12:45
001:
  hold for 0.05s
  go 003 if channel 2 outside 1 - 15
  go 100.1 in layer A
002:
  hold for 0.05s
  go 002 if channel 2 within 1 - 15
  --
003:
  go 005 if channel 2 outside 16 - 25
  go 1.1 in layer A
004:
  hold for 0.05s
  go 004 if channel 2 within 16 - 25
  --
005:
  go 007 if channel 2 outside 26 - 35
  go 2.1 in layer A
006:
  hold for 0.05s
  go 006 if channel 2 within 26 - 35
  --
007:
  go 009 if channel 2 outside 36 - 45
  go 3.1 in layer A
008:
  hold for 0.05s
  go 008 if channel 2 within 36 - 45
  --
009:
  go 011 if channel 2 outside 46 - 55
  go 4.1 in layer A
010:
  hold for 0.05s
  go 010 if channel 2 within 46 - 55
  --
011:
  go 001


As you can see this control cue checks for a value to come in a certain range, then it starts a cue in layer A. Then it checks when the value leaves the same range, and starts checking whether it is in other values. This cue is only for 5 values (5 different cues), for 40 cues this is no fun, so program change is really much easier :-)


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