Hello all!
We're doing a lot of theatre shows in a semi-busking way, which is programming the cues but doing the transitions manually with the manual master crossfaders. What we'd love to see is the following crossfader behaviour (could be done e.g. in the fader setup): Use one of the crossfaders, say the left one, as X-Fade A controlling the parameters of the current cue and having the second - the right one - control the NEXT cue.
Example: CUE 1 is the current cue. Moving Fader A fades out the current cue, moving Fader B fades in the next cue. So when I leave Fader A where it is and only move Fader B I have hence CUE 1 and CUE 2 on the output. Leaving Fader B where it is and only moving Fader A results in a BLACKOUT since no cue is output then.
On MA Consoles this feature is called Split A/B, on compulite consoles it's called DipX-Fade.
Another possible workaround would be if it would be possible to define a cuelist as manual master, and have additionally an intensity master on the fader wing for that cuelist. As far as I saw this is not really possible because when a cuelist is defined manual master the MASTER fader always controls transitions, would be great if there is another separate option I-Master in the fader setup.
Thanks for reading and thanks for the great consoles and of course for the really valueable updates in a very short time (we entered the Eos world with v2.0) and every single update till now made me more happy with the gear.
Cheers, Thomas Bergner
Well, pure tracking desks don't really work the way requested in the first post. You can't pile two cues together - in a tracking console, you are always transitioning between two cues. The description is the HTP behavior that old preset-style desks had (or perhaps still have).
You can currently define a cue list for manual behavior. If assigned to a single fader playback, this just manually controls the entire transition between two cues. If this content is mapped to the master, the left fader controls the intensity upfade and the NP transition, and the right fader controls the intensity down fade.
The options are to move all intensity transitions (up and down) to one fader, while the other fader controls only the NPs.
or.....
The left fader is the "grand master" for the intensity output, while the second fader controls the transition, as described in the second post.
Thank's for the answer. And sorry for the late reply.
I get the caveat with pure tracking and piling two cues together.
However if I consider current workflows, the behaviour of the second posts will fit the needs of most of our users. To sum up: Left fader controls overall cuelist intensity ("grand master" for the cuelist intensity output) and the right fader controls the entire transition.
I'd love to see this implemented in the next updates.
Another possibility would be to keep the master playback fader as is, and to add the possibility to define an intensity master on the fader wing. Or to put the cuelist to the fader wing, configuring it to take up three faders, where the first fader is the intensity master, the second is the upfade X-Fader and the third one is the downfade X-Fader...
