"Pause All"/ "Duck Volume All" Scripts Question

[gcooke]

Hi,

I checked the Wiki for scripts, but I don't think I was able to find what I am looking for.

Wondering if there are scripts for:

"Pause All"-- Pause all active, playing audio cues

"Resume All"-- Resume(unpause) all paused cues

"Audio Duck All"-- Drop all playing audio cues by x db

"Audio Bump All"-- Raise all playing audio cues by x db

I am working on a show with a storm that is made up of 6-7 Groups of sounds and it would be great to have scripts for the above as there are some quick pauses and resumes in the course of the storm build.

Running Qlab4.

Thanks!

-George

[micpool]

With one exception you don't need scripts to do this

You can use fade and pause cues targeting the cue list

e.g 

To pause list, target Main Cue List from Pause cue

to duck 10dB, fade cue with RELATIVE FADE of -10dB targeting Main cue list

to bump 10dB,  fade cue with RELATIVE FADE of +10dB targeting Main cue list

there is no resume cue so you can use a script cue to do this

tell front workspace

tell (cues of (first cue list whose q name is "Main Cue List") whose paused is true) to start

end tell

If you operating from a keyboard key [ will pause and ] will resume.

Mic

[micpool]

There is also an OSC message to resume

/resume

Mic

[micpool]

Resume is a bit tricky. for instance if you used  Network Cues  of type QLab Message and number your main cue list 1000

A QLab message Pause cue 1000 will Pause that list and you might reasonably expect a Resume cue 1000 message to resume, but it won't.

Also, unless you are deliberately slamming the brakes on the storm and restarting hard for comic effect a fade down and back up again might sound more pleasing.

Mic

[gcooke]

As always, thanks for your help!  Great info.

-G

[Joe Wilson]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 3:19 PM, micpool <m...@micpool.com> wrote:

You can use fade and pause cues targeting the cue list

No freaking way!  Can you do that in v3 or is that a v4 feature.  (I promise I'll upgrade soon, I just need to get the bean counters to approve the beans.)

~joe 

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[Chris Ashworth]

Hi Joe,

Yes, you can address cue lists with other cues in v3, too.

Best,

C

[micpool]

Way!

You could do almost all of the above in 2010, (with the exception of OSC) in V2.

Mic