script to change audio output patch

[Thomas Wacker]

Hi everybody,

I would like to have an apple script, that selects all audio cues in the active cuelist and changes their output patch (in this case Dante) to another one (Headphone out).

Reason is, I would then put this script on a hotkey to have a safety net in case of network failure (Dante virtual soundcard does not allow redundancy).

Thanks in advance 

[micpool]

Easiest is to use a Network Cue with an OSC message that wil fail silently on any cues that do not have audio

For QLab 5

/cue/*/audioOutputPatchNumber {number}

https://qlab.app/docs/v5/scripting/osc-dictionary-v5/#cuecue_numberaudiooutputpatchnumber-number

QLab 4

/cue/*/patch {number}

https://qlab.app/docs/v4/scripting/osc-dictionary-v4/#cuecue_numberpatch-number

[Thomas Wacker]

Thank you Micpool, I didn´t know this was possible in such an easy way... And I want to take this opportunity to thank you for all your priceless contributions to the Qlab community. 

[jonas...@gmail.com]

Hey! 

I was looking for a similar OSC function but when trying to apply the OSC message to a cue, it just defaults to no output. If I use MacroLab it works fine but it's limited to 8 patches annoyingly and I need quite a few more. 

I'm pretty inexperienced with OSC so I'm sure I'm doing something basic wrong. 

Thanks so much! 

[Thomas Wacker]

looks like your OSC message is missing the : /*/

maybe that´s why....

[jonas...@gmail.com]

Unfortunately no luck there either, it does do something, if the selected cue is patched, it then goes to "unpatched" after I trigger the OSC message. 

[Brent Lord]

Try omitting the curly braces around the argument in your OSC message. In our OSC documentation, we use curly braces to indicate a placeholder, where the characters of the placeholder (including the curly braces) are meant to be replaced with your own value.

For example, if you have an Audio cue with the number "A1", this message below will set the audio output patch of that cue to the first audio output patch as listed in the Audio Outputs tab of your workspace's Audio settings:

/cue/A1/audioOutputPatchNumber 1

Brent