Control Cues

Selecting the Control tab after + on the home screen will display the above screen. The Save, Save/Add, and Exit buttons are common to all of the 4 tabs. Save will either add a new cue to the list or store any changes to an existing cue. Save/Add does the same, but returns to this screen instead of the main window. Exit returns to the main window.

These are the first 3 columns of the cue list. That being the cue sequence number, the stage manager cue call, and the cue description. As with all cues, the color of the cue description in the list can be set.

There are five types of control cues. Depending on which is selected here, the corresponding detail frame will be enabled below. 

The trigger for playing or running the cue can be either when the cue is selected,  the Play key, as set from the Options menu, the time position of an already running cue, or a time of day. The number of a playing cue goes into the Cue # field and the time position, in tenths of a second, goes into Time field. If the Cue # is 0 and the Time is entered as hh:mm, the cue will play at that time. Hours greater than 12 are afternoon and evening, under 12 for morning. For the cue you are editing to be triggered this way in use, it must be the current selected cue in the cue list.

A Delay control cue simply pauses advancement down the cue list for the entered time. It is always treated as an autoplay cue. Use this, for example, between a video cue of a picture and a fade cue set to autoplay to display that picture for the delay time.

Designed for use with a Behringer X32 mixer, this control allows a cue to mute and unmute specific channels on the mixer. The range of channels controlled goes in the Range field.The channels to be unmuted are entered in the Channels/Settings box.The default setting for the range is muted. So if the box is blank, all will be muted. The dark square at the end of the Range line, when clicked, will bring up a 'most recently used' list of previous Control commands that can be selected to ease entry.

A general purpose send of any valid OSC command string to the address indicated. It could be fader levels to a mixer, control signals to an external dimmer desk, whatever. Multiple commands in one cue can be separated by a semi-colon. The dark square at the end of the command line, when clicked, will bring up a 'most recently used' list of previous commands that can be selected to ease entry. Receiving OSC commands is covered under "Connections". TheaterMix and Palladium are two popular 3rd party programs that integrate with Cue Player over OSC.

MIDI commands to be sent have the format "xn.xx.xx" with values per your end device. n is the small device number. Receiving MIDI commands is covered under "Connections".

Although labeled for prompting a follow spot operator, prompts or messages can be sent to any of four users on the network to their device with a browser. The Local position brings up a simple video player that can be moved to an additional cabled monitor in the booth. The A,B,C,D positions are set up from the Prompt icon on the tool bar. Here we see that both positions B and D will get the message. To receive, the user has to open a browser on their phone or pad and set the url to the address of the computer running CP One - usually something like 192.168.0.xxx. Note the server must be started from the top menu File > Enable Web Remote to use this feature. The message can be text, a sound file name, or a picture file name. The black button on the right of the prompt box will bring up a file manager to select a file. Sounds are mp3 files and pictures are jpg files. An exclamation mark to start a text message will reverse the colors on the receiving display. That is, if the text color is set to red, without the mark there will be red text on a black background. With it, there will be black text on a red background.

  The up and down arrows are used to move the cue being edited up or down in the cue list. A number can be entered directly and the current cue will move to that line.