by jkiddy » 28 September 2010, 07:55
time code allows you to go to specific places in the timeline by using a midi controller. If you had this if you needed to pause it would just keep replaying that moment in the timeline. If you needed to jump ahead you could have the cue points stored in a MIDI controller and you would just hit a button and the sequence would jump to that exact moment and scene in the timeline. It would save creating a stop button that doesn't shut off the lights. It would also allow users to get standard controllers to control there show from. Also since the MIDI triggers of the Live page still work when you are in the Timeline they can even trigger standard chases or specials from the same controller giving the user a solid control interface for playback during a show. While we are talking about MIDI we could also add a simple grand master that was MIDI controllable or make the cues so that the channel they are linked to is not a simple off or on but a fader that started the cue at 1 and faded the intensity of the levels in the cue up all the way to 255. Or a HTP/LTP feature on the timeline so overlapping cues don't always turn out lights. the list goes on but for the price of the SSA intefaces that I have and I have 2 of them, there should be these features in the software.