Simple Desk questions
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 5:15 am
Couple of quick questions regarding the use of the simple desk in comparison to a standard theatre console. Most of these questions relate to the last desk that I used, a Strand Lightboard M.
1) Is there any way to have direct access to a fader and it's level from the keyboard? On the Lightboard M, you could press a dedicated key to put a selection box on the screen. You then keyed in the channel you wanted to control and put a "+" between multiple channel numbers or use "-" to select a range. You could then directly enter a percentage value (0-100) for the selected channel(s) using the keypad and then press enter for the channels to react. This allowed for much quicker entry for large numbers of channels and meant that you could program the basics of an entire show without touching a single fader. As we had 72 channels of dimming but only a 24 fader desk, it meant you didn't have to flip pages on the faders.
2) A "Go To" shortcut combination, ie."CTRL+G" followed by the cue number to bring a cue up without waiting for fade times to run. This would just put your selected levels up on the screen for editing purposes. If you want to see how a cue runs you would "GoTo" the cue before.
3) Shortcuts combinations. Maybe CTRL-SHIFT-R to reset all channels to zero. CTRL-SHIFT-P to switch from design to playback and vice versa. In playback mode, assign the number keys across the top to allow you to switch cue stacks or to solo/flash a channel grou.
If I knew enough about coding I might try to do these on my own. But I don't so I thought I might throw these out for anyone else.
Thanks
1) Is there any way to have direct access to a fader and it's level from the keyboard? On the Lightboard M, you could press a dedicated key to put a selection box on the screen. You then keyed in the channel you wanted to control and put a "+" between multiple channel numbers or use "-" to select a range. You could then directly enter a percentage value (0-100) for the selected channel(s) using the keypad and then press enter for the channels to react. This allowed for much quicker entry for large numbers of channels and meant that you could program the basics of an entire show without touching a single fader. As we had 72 channels of dimming but only a 24 fader desk, it meant you didn't have to flip pages on the faders.
2) A "Go To" shortcut combination, ie."CTRL+G" followed by the cue number to bring a cue up without waiting for fade times to run. This would just put your selected levels up on the screen for editing purposes. If you want to see how a cue runs you would "GoTo" the cue before.
3) Shortcuts combinations. Maybe CTRL-SHIFT-R to reset all channels to zero. CTRL-SHIFT-P to switch from design to playback and vice versa. In playback mode, assign the number keys across the top to allow you to switch cue stacks or to solo/flash a channel grou.
If I knew enough about coding I might try to do these on my own. But I don't so I thought I might throw these out for anyone else.
Thanks