We have done the same. I am using both Main and Aux 1 with music on Main and stopsets and programs on Aux 2. There is the local city council meeting which often runs longer than an hour. I prepared a legal ID at a good 3db above normal program level and stuck it in Aux 2 with a timed start at TOH. The compressors/levelers in the audio chain automatically duck the program for the louder ID. Simple and works like a champ.
--Chuck On Th, 2 Apr 2020 09:40:59 -0700 Mike Carroll <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > > > > > > > > Steve Varholy > > > President and General Manager > > > > > > [1478183502168_WXRY_Full_993_300x145.png] > > > > > > > > > The Historic Barringer Building > > > > > > 1338 Main Street - Suite 202 > > > > > > Columbia, South Carolina 29201 > > > > > > Office/Studio: (803) 988-9930 > > > > > > Cell: (703) 585-2101 > > > > > > > > > A Service of the Independent Media Foundation > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [email protected] < > > > > [email protected]> on behalf of Steve > > < > > [email protected]> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:07 AM > > > To: [email protected] < > > > > [email protected]> > > > Subject: [RDD] Overlay Event > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is it possible to overlay an event on another cart while in > > > automated > > > > mode? > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > Steve _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
