Here's what we've done. It uses two of the RDAirplay playout machines, and
makes use of the fact that the machines run independently of each other.
Something similar may work for you, although we aren't using clocks.
We have a one-hour pre-recorded show that is started by an RDCatch macro at
the bottom of the hour. The macro:
1. Loads a log that plays the program, with pre- and post-program promo
carts, etc. This goes into the Main playout machine.
2. Loads another log, this one into the Aux1 machine.
1. Hard start for the top of the hour, with a stop transition.
2. A macro call that issues a MD (duck) command to drop the Main
playout level a bit.
3. A station id cart.
4. Another macro call that restores the Main playout level.
In action, the program starts playing at :30, in the Main machine. At :00
the Aux1 machine wakes up and does its magic. Other than the level change,
the Main machine playout isn't affected.
The main drawback to this approach is that the hard-start time in the Aux1
log has to be hard-coded. So if you need this same sort of thing for a
program that runs at a different time, you'll need to create another Aux1
log.
Mike
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:08 AM Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the reply. That's a great idea.
>
> I tried setting up a macro with PP S1 1 1! to play the cart and it does
> indeed fire the first button in the panel. But to fire the marco cart,
> I added it to the main rdairplay log and pressed start which then caused
> rdairplay to move to the next cart.
>
> Figuring out how to make the macro cart fire from the log without
> starting the next cart is the challenge now.
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 03:14:59PM +0000, Steve Varholy wrote:
> > Could you do via a macro as a timed event, such that it fires off a
> soundpanel button at a set time?
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> > Is it possible to overlay an event on another cart while in automated
> mode?
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> > Background: We have a Grateful Dead show that features some of their
> > live music. Some of those songs can run 20 or more minutes but some run
> > only 3 minutes. We have clocks setup with music and normal timed events
> > to try to keep the clocks running on time. One of those timed events is
> > a Legal ID event which is setup as Segue/Timed/MakeNext so that it makes
> > itself the next cart at the top of the hour.
> >
> > That all works well for songs that are 3 or 4 minutes because the legal
> > plays out a couple minutes either side of the top of the hour. However,
> > if one of the Grateful Dead songs starts at :50, it could easily go well
> > past the top of the hour.
> >
> > I'd like to have an event that could play the legal but then continue
> > the current cart. If there was a live jock in the booth it would be
> > easy to do through the soundpanel or just live on the air. Is there a
> > way to do that or am I stuck putting a hard start time and cutting off
> > the current Grateful Dead jam and harshing everyone's mellow?
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