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Originally Posted by charcoaldabs
First question, the add-on question. Are "Wait"s and "Follow"s, the same thing, but just a different name? (I'm thinking of this as: "I hate GO, Cue 1 executes. After 15 seconds, Cue 2 Executes.")
Now onto the main question. I'm wondering what use macros might be, when do you use macros, and how. I'm recalling a thread where someone said there was some great ML programmer for the Express 48/96, but he showed up to the focus with disks and disks of macros. (My understanding, not great, just he had it all worked out ahead of time to be efficient.) In my own use of our Strand 300, I can't think of any reason to use a macro.
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Take this all with a small grain of salt, as there are some differences between consoles:
"Wait" specifies how much time the cue "waits" between the GO and the beginning of the fade.
"Follow" specifies how much time after GO the _NEXT_ cue goes. So let's say you want cue 5 to run, and then cue 6 to automatically run.
If cue 5 has a time of 3, and you want cue 6 to start one second after cue 5 finishes, you type (on the Obsession in this example): CUE 5 FOLLOW 4 ENTER.
The thing to keep in mind is that on some boards the follow time is from the START of the cue that starts the sequence, and on other boards the time is counted from the END of that cue.
A Macro is useful for any combination of oft-used keystrokes. Many people write macros for writing to disk. Also, it's especially useful to write macros so that you can do more things from the remote (which often can run macros, but often doesn't have all the buttons that are on the console).
On our Obsession at work we have:
Write to Floppy
Write to HD
Live
Patch by
Channel
House and works (and dump the cue)
and several utility macros for the movers (home,
etc).
Ask away if you'd like more info...
--Sean