Changing the Levels of All Playing Cues

The feature described below is currently only available for Audio File cues, not for Playlists or Video cues.

When a cue is playing it is possible to manually change the level of the cue by dragging the approriate level slider displayed in the cue panels. However, you may have a couple of cues playing simultaneously and/or using more than a single output and you want to adjust the overall level of these playing cues, especially during rehearsals. Using the Master Fader may not be desirable as that would affect non-playing cues as well.

There are two keyboard assignments that can be used to simultaneously adjust the levels of all outputs of all playing cues. The defaults for these keyboard assignments are:

Using these defaults, if you press < then the levels of all outputs of all playing cues will be decreased 1dB. Hold the key down if you want a larger decrease. Similarly > can be pressed to increase the levels 1dB. Such changes are regarded as manual changes, so the caption above the level slider(s) will be changed to 'Level (Manual)', and the Save Settings drop-down menu will be updated. This means you can make the adjustment permanent via the Save Settings menu.

· Adjustments will only be made to cues currently with a status of Playing or Paused, so cues that are Fading In or Fading Out will not be adjusted.

· Increases or decreases outside the dB range (-75dB up to 0dB) will be capped, but SCS will remember the number of key presses to note the indicated dB increase or decrease. Changing from one direction to the other (eg changing from increasing to decreasing) will calculate back from the latest remembered dB increase or decrease. That may all seem complicated so an example should help explain the reasoning behind this. Suppose you have 2 playing sounds that have respective levels of sound1: -7dB, sound2: -4dB, and you want to increase the levels. Using the ">" key to increase the levels, you will get:

Then you decide the level is too high and want to take it down again. Using the "<" key to decrease the levels, you will get:

Note that the 1st key decrease did not decrease the level of sound2 (it stayed at 0dB) because SCS was reversing the sequence of the increases. So if you continue to decrease the levels this way then you get back to the original levels of sound1 and sound2, ie -7dB and -4dB respectively.

· SCS cancels the 'remembering' of the decreases (<) and increases (>) for an Audio File cue if a Level Change cue that affects the Audio File cue is activated, or if you make a separate manual adjustment to the cue's level by dragging the level slider.

Tip: Although > is also the symbol for 'fade out', in the above context please regard < and > as 'arrow' keys indicating the direction of movement on the level sliders! If you don't like these defaults you can change them in Permanent Options / Key Mapping.