main playcontroller buttons..

I know we(and I) have discussed alternate use for the main playcontrollers for the future..so i'm not shure if this wish has been covered..

-I'd like to "lock" the main playback to a list.. theres pobably more ways that this can be imlemented..but heres two ideas atleast..

1. we could "link" the main controllers to one of the 10 playbacks as today, but just disregard the choose keystrokes.. maybe we could link it with holding mainchoose down, and press the choose we like to link permanently to..

2.we could make the main playback a faderless playback and in that way just move a quelist to the main playback as we today do with the playbacks.. This will also give us one more playback..

-it will probably be wise to look at which of the main playback's button that will be "locked" since basically will only want the play and hold button, since i would use this function on my "main" cuelist in a show situation, and i will probabbly want to have the skip ffw/bck release/assert/goto available to the other lists..maybe an option to choose which buttons you use for this new "playback".. and maybe if you need the other buttons temporarily for this new "playback" maybe holding down main choose and press skip ffw, as an example..
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    When I first read this post, I thought that this would be a really great idea, because I have more than once "chosen" another fader to work on that cuelist in the middle of a tech rehearsal and then would press the main go because I would be so used to that and chaos would erupt on stage from running the wrong cue. So having the main playbacks linked to a particular list would solve that problem; but I'm concerned about not having an intensity fader for that cuelist anymore. I like the idea of locking the main playback to a particular fader so I can choose other faders and work on them. If you temporarily wanted to use the main playback controls for another fader you could hold down choose for that fader and then press whatever button on the main playback controls.
    I realize that this then doesn't allow for a fader to be freed up for other uses. I think that this is a sacrifice that is worth living with. Because if you're going to put your "main" cuselist on the main playback controls, than I don't think that you should loose any functionality on those controls, not the least of which is the ability to control intensity. Hope this makes sense, just my thoughts
    Eric
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    When I first read this post, I thought that this would be a really great idea, because I have more than once "chosen" another fader to work on that cuelist in the middle of a tech rehearsal and then would press the main go because I would be so used to that and chaos would erupt on stage from running the wrong cue. So having the main playbacks linked to a particular list would solve that problem; but I'm concerned about not having an intensity fader for that cuelist anymore. I like the idea of locking the main playback to a particular fader so I can choose other faders and work on them. If you temporarily wanted to use the main playback controls for another fader you could hold down choose for that fader and then press whatever button on the main playback controls.
    I realize that this then doesn't allow for a fader to be freed up for other uses. I think that this is a sacrifice that is worth living with. Because if you're going to put your "main" cuselist on the main playback controls, than I don't think that you should loose any functionality on those controls, not the least of which is the ability to control intensity. Hope this makes sense, just my thoughts
    Eric
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