Apply Levels and Gangs to cues from Presets Menu

[micpool]

Here's a TEST workspace that can solve many problems with only having a single default level setting available..  For example:

You have set up your default audio levels as a stereo source matrixed and ganged  in pairs to 16 faders

You drag your music cues in and they all default to this setting.

You then have a load of mono voiceover cues that you want matrixed to all sliders but not ganged,  like this:

In the attached example workspace you can select all the cues you want to change (after you have dragged them in and they have the default levels applied). 

Hit  hotkey 1 and select a levels and gang option from a menu and all selected cues will have that preset applied.

You edit the presets in the Preset Templates cuelist. Leave the cue numbers as they are. You can set your own levels and gangs and  describe what the preset does in the q name field.

It's also useful for correcting a ganging mistake on multiple cues, removing ganging from a cue (and reapplying a gang preset after you have adjusted split levels etc.

In the example workspace there are 10 preset slots, but this is easily expanded.

The Hotkey scripts are also in the Preset Templates cue list.

You can use Hotkey 2 to just apply the GANGS from a Preset

Hotkey 3 only applies the crosspoints to selected cues i.e not the GANGS or SLIDER Levels

It can be speeded up by setting the maximum number of rows you want to use at the top of the  scripts. If you are only working with mono and stereo files you can set the scripts to only use rows 0 to 2. If your maximum track count is 6 for 5.1 you set it to 6 etc. Its set in the example workspace at 24 for 24 ch click track and stem mixes.

Test thoroughly before using in a show situation. I may have missed something. I'll leave it here for people to try and break and put a final version  on the cookbook next week.

Any suggestions to improve the scripts welcome.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Gangs are only copied and applied for the sliders (Row 0). Personally I have never ganged a crosspoint, but if you do as part of your workflow it should be reasonably obvious what you need to add to the scripts.

Mic

[Rich Walsh]

I could see two obvious improvements:

1. Make the preset list auto-populate from the cues in a specific Group Cue
2. Have a set of toggles to enable sections of the script so you only have to write it once and then switch bits of it on and off in your Hotkey implementations of it

I've lashed in a few error handlers and tried to optimise the speed a bit too. I'm not sure it's any faster or more elegant in the end though…

It needs a bit more testing: I think I've see Hotkey 1 fail to copy the gangs once or twice, but never when I'm in a position to find out why.

Rich

[micpool]

Thanks Rich