It's exactly what it sounds like it is... A list of your cues - usually in the order in which they are run.
Lets say you have a straight play with an interior box set and a huge picture window upstage center.
Now over the course of Act 1 you want the sky visible in that picture window to go from late afternoon to early evening - a sunset, if you will. That is easily accomplished with a cue that lasts the entirety of the act, right?
Ok, now in addition to that, you have several entrances and practicals on stage turning on and off through the course of the act. You can easily do that with cues on your lightboard as well, right? But if you are already doing the sunset cue, it can cause some problems.
The easiest way to handle this is with multiple cue lists. Cue list 1 is your lights up/lights down/entrance/exit cue list and cue list 2 is your sunset cue. They are both running at the same time. And since you probably won't have the same fixtures in both lists, you won't have any problem.
Does that make sense?
Not entirely accurate, at least in the case of Expression 3. From the Expression 3 User Manual v3.1: under LTP Channels:...On consoles like Express(ion) and Leviton/NSI models, they are inherently "cue-only" consoles (even if you use the TRACK button). Each cue functions as an "All-Fade" or block cue, so every channel is commanded in each cue. Thus why you have two fader pairs so that you could run a long cue or subroutine on one while running other cues on the other. ...
I've heard this expressed as "128 simultaneous background fades," but that seems contradictory to "Up to 600 cues may run in the background at once." Sarah, Anne?An LTP channel fades in the foreground if its level moves to a new level in the next cue. When a channel is fading in the foreground and no change in that channel is commanded by the next cue, the fade continues in the background. A cue stops running in the background when the last of its channels stops fading in the background. Up to 600 cues may run in the background at once.
Nope. Not even that much chance. Flying Faders are expensive! and the goal was to keep the price point of the Element affordable....Is there a snowball's chance in hell that this will have motorized faders? ...
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