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    Jeff Toussieng
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Nomad cue lists

I run on an ION with wings. I have 20 cue lists of different looks with 4 cues on each list and each list is assigned to a fader on the wings. Their purpose: when bands play and I know if their song is going to be fast I can be ready with a fast looks cue. bump it and bring up the fader. If medium, a medium cue, etc. Then I can do on the fly if necessary as they play.

I have just started using my Dell laptop running Nomad as a back up. Today was the first time I used it for concert application therefore on a learning curve how to do this:

Not using a second monitor yet, just the laptop screen. Set one of the 3 choices as a 4 way window and assigned faders to each window. Also assigned the cue lists on appropriate pages for the 20 cues; 10 in the top left window and the other 10 in the top right window.

The bottom two windows were assigned my subs. I have 18 of those.

I picked "playback" as the type for each fader in the cue lists.

Each fader started out all yellow or all at full. They each have a "load" button at the top, a gray left arrow, green right arrow and bump button at the bottom. I assume all the cue faders were full intensity default because if they were all off then the cue would not show when run. Only a guess.

Anyway I can't figure out what the "load" button is for. I guessed if it is pressed it loads that cue list into the playback so when the space bar is hit the cue plays and each hit advances it to the next cue. Wrong. No matter what I did cue list 1 always played.

So next I did CTL F2 then entered the cue with 2/ and enter. Now when the space bar is pressed it runs cue list 2, and so on. But pressing "load" on any of the faders seems to do nothing. It would make sense to me that is what it is there for.

Also the gray and green arrows don't seem to do anything. Seems only the spacebar advances.

I am running it as a backup so it's not terribly critical however I would like to know what I am missing.

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  • the load button is what on a fader wing pressing both of a fader's buttons would do. if you have "Sub 5" sitting in your command line and press the load button of an empty sub, that's where the sub will be mapped to. same for "Cue 3/" and load will map it there. Shift + Load will unmap that fader. when you open the virtual facepanel, most of the buttons on the right hand side, like Assert, Release, Off, GoToQ 0, Timing Disable, they work in combination with those load buttons. those are the functions that an Ion has hidden under FaderControls.
  • in reply to ueliriegg
    Couple of questions on that.
    If the sub is not empty; already has a cue list or something else on it will hitting the load button replace whatever was on that sub with what was in the command line? I hit load a few times on a few different subs last night trying to figure it out. :-)
    If there is nothing on the command line then hitting load won't load whatever cue is loaded into the main playback, or will it? Anotherwords does the cue need to be on the command line? Also does the command need to be completed (return - gold symbol) or does it need to be uncompleted for load to work?
    Here is something else that I could not figure out and had to open a previously saved show file to bring it all back. I got my laptop/Nomad going and linked to my ION. I arranged my laptop monitor with what I wanted on it and went into fader config and assigned them to the pages I wanted and the number I wanted them. When I was done my ION had duplicate subs on 20 of the 60 subs. There were 20 of one set (originals) and the same 20 subs on 20 other faders. ALL of my cue lists were gone from the original faders.
    When setting up the nomad as a backup does configuring the virtual faders affect what is displayed and operational on the main console?
    After opening the last saved show file and bringing everything back to normal and closing all my virtual faders on my laptop, I reopened virtual faders and instead of making changes in the fader config I just selected which page in each of the 4 quadrants that showed what I wanted. That did not affect my ION faders.
    Strange?
  • in reply to Jeff Toussieng
    the virtual faders represent the same pages that can be assigned to the fader wing. if you have the fader wing set to Page 1 and a set of virtual faders set to page 1 as well, then the have the same content. if you change it in the virtual faders, it will change on the faer wing as well and vice versa. if you want different stuff, then either use different pages in nomad or on your ion fader wing (hint: keep [FaderControls] pressed and press one of the blinking buttons on the fader wing)
    Sub x or Cue x/ can be terminated or unterminated in the command line for the load thing to work. but the target fader needs to be empty.
    please note the difference between loading a cue to a sub and a cuelist.
  • in reply to ueliriegg
    I'll digest all of this when I get to the venue this afternoon. It's very helpful.
    What are the green and gray arrows supposed to do on the virtuals?
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