Version 11.10.5 (September 2024)

New or changed features

•A double-click on a cue in the main window no longer automatically opens the Editor if the current Operational Mode is Rehearsal or Performance. A double-click now only opens the Editor if the current Operational Mode is Design (which is the default Operational Mode).

Bugs fixed

•Significantly reduced the number of entries recorded in the log file - which had increased in SCS 11.10.3.

•Fixed an error that could affect the drawing of a video cue's audio graph in the Editor.

Version 11.10.4 (September 2024)

Bugs fixed

•When creating or editing a Lighting Cue, 'Live DMX Test' would not send DMX if the DMX send thread was not already active.

•There was a bug in SCS 11.10.3 (only) that could cause SCS to die when executing an Audio File cue that contains a loop, where the 'Loop Start' position is earlier than the 'Start At' position.

Version 11.10.3 (September 2024)

New or changed features

•A new action is available in SFR cues: 'Cancel Repeat'. For Playlist or Video/Image cues that have 'Repeat' selected, this SFR action will cancel the repeat so that the Playlist or Video/Image Cue will complete when it reaches the end of the current cycle.

•If a Control Send Network Device has 'Remote Device' set to 'Other OSC Device' then a new field is displayed: 'OSC Version', from which you can select either 'OSC 1.0' or 'OSC 1.1'. Messages sent using this Network device will be properly formatted to comply with OSC 1.0 or OSC 1.1 standards. The 'Inter Message Delay' is not displayed as no delay is required.

•Cue Control Network Devices and Remote App OSC devices now accept both OSC 1.0 and OSC 1.1 messages.

•The 'Max. Screen No.' Display Option has been removed as it is no longer considered useful.

Bugs fixed

•If a logo image is active and another image is currently displayed, then 'Stop Everything' would not re-display the logo image.

•Clicking within a currently playing Playlist cue could cause SCS to close down.

•Some actions did not check the 'Enabled' state of a cue or sub-cue, resulting in incorrect assumptions.

•When validating a created or edited 'Enable/Disable Cues' cue, SCS did not check that at least one entry was present. Same fix for SFR cues.

•Fixed an issue with DMX Cue Control.

•Loading new images in a Video/Image cue could cause a memory error due to a timing issue.

•If an MTC sub-cue is linked by SCS to an Audio File sub-cue, then stopping the MTC sub-cue would also suspend the displayed progress of the still-playing Audio File sub-cue.

•If a Lighting cue is set up as a Toggle or Note Hotkey then on pressing the toggle hotkey a second time or releasing the note hotkey, SCS did not apply any specified fade time.

•A memory error could occur when changing the 'Display' property of a Lighting Cue if the license level is lower than SCS Professional Plus.

•Sending consecutive Control Send messages to a TCP network device with an 'Inter Message Delay' would lock out other SCS activities during the process due to the delays.

•The audio graphs for files with more than 2 channels were incorrectly displayed.

•A 'Stop All Playing Cues' sub cue did not stop earlier sub-cues in the same cue.

•If a cue file using Time Profiles and Time-Based Cues is closed and then a cue file that doesn't use this feature is opened and run in the same SCS session, then the cues in that second run would stop at the designated 'Time of day to Auto-Reset TBC's' of the earlier cue file.

•Double-pressing a toggle hotkey should have ignored the second press, as it was presumably accidental. For example, double-pressing a non-active toggle hotkey would start and then immediately stop (or fade out) that hotkey cue.

Version 11.10.2 (May 2024)

New or changed features

•Added BCR2000 and BCF2000 SCS Faders support for controlling the device levels of the first currently-playing audio file sub-cue, ie giving you BCR2000/BCF2000 control of the device levels shown in the cue panels.

•The copy and paste buttons for DMX Items in Lighting Cues are now re-enabled where appropriate. The buttons for Entry Type 'DMX Items' had been disabled in SCS 11.8.3.2.

•With ENTTEC DMX USB PRO devices, the format of the serial number that SCS interrogates has changed in recent devices. SCS now accepts this changed format (as well as continuing to accept older formats).

•The 'Move to Time' feature (M2T) now also supports cues and sub-cues activated 'on cue marker'.

•In addition to SCSremote, SCS now supports any app that can communicate with SCS using OSC network messages. To use this, select 'OSC App' as the Remote App in Options / Remote App Interface.

•When selecting a VST Plugin for an Audio File Cue, you can now select 'Same Plugin as <cue>' eg 'Same Plugin as Q204'. This is useful if you want to apply the same effect to multiple cues, and during development you need to make some adjustments to the VST effect.

•If you have multiple audio output devices used in an Audio File Cue then you can now temporarily link selected devices and adjust their levels manually, applying the same dB adjustment to each selected device.

•Performance improvement in VU meter handling, particularly with regard to VU meter displays for video cues.

•MIDI Control Send messages to be sent to an 'A&H SQ Series' remote device now support 'Recall Scene' numbers up to 300. Previously the limit was 100.

Bugs fixed

•After importing devices from another cue file, the Production Properties / Devices tabs may not have been refreshed to show the imported devices.

•Certain time fields (eg lighting cue fade up time) were not being set correctly, and some time fields that should accept times in minutes, such as 2:30, did not.

•Parameters used in callable cues were not always applied correctly. This particularly affected time fields, such as lighting cue fade times.

•The check for disabling a cue did not allow for 'Previous Cue'.

•When creating or editing a Video/Image Cue or a Playlist Cue, changing the transition info would not take immediate effect in the editor.

•A second or subsequent 'logo' Image Cue would not always replace the previous 'logo' image, especially if fades were specified.

•Cue Control devices using 'DMX In' may not have processed all incoming relevant DMX channel values, especially if they were sent in rapid succession.

•If a dummy DMX port is selected (eg for a Lighting device) then SCS could throw an error on trying to close the device.

•If a required MIDI output device is not available and the user selects 'ignore this device' then SCS may still try to send MTC to that device, and that would throw an error.

•When setting up a MIDI Cue Control device in Production Properties, an error would be reported if the 'Play Cue' command and any other command both had 'Control Change' selected as the MIDI command, regardless of the selected CC number.

•Checking the Sound Designer Password in 'Lock Editing and 'Options' could fail, even if the correct Authorization String was entered.

•In Bulk Edit, 'Apply Peak Normalization' did nothing for files that had not yet been scanned by SCS.

•When importing devices and selecting a lighting device, the lighting device's fixtures may not have been populated in the device map, causing a possible memory error on trying to set a  fixture's DMX start channel.

•A cue set to start 'before end' of another cue may not have started at all if the specified time is short, eg less than 0.4 second.

•Changing the selected Controller in the Faders window setup did not reload the MIDI control devices, resulting in the change not taking effect until SCS was reloaded.

Note

•One of the more frequently asked questions is how to recover when windows loses connection to an external monitor/projector and you are using video/image cues. There is now information in this Help under Troubleshooting / Video Problems that explains how an EDID device may prevent the problem occurring.

Version 11.10.1 (January 2024)

Bugs fixed

•Sub-Cue of type 'Enable/Disable Cues' were not accepting actions on other cues that contain an 'Enable/Disable Cues' Sub-Cue.

•If the editor window is resized and an audio file or video file sub-cue is currently selected, then the audio graph would be drawn without checking if the length is greater than the relevant Editing Option 'Max. File Length for Audio Graph File Scan'.

•Fixed a bug in SCS 11.10.0 that could cause memory errors in the Editor / Production Properties / Devices for license levels that do not support certain device types, such as Live Inputs.

Version 11.10.0 (January 2024)

New or changed features

•Art-Net and sACN are now supported for Lighting Cues.

•SCS Cue Markers are now available for Video File Cues as well as for Audio File Cues. The editing screen for Video File Cues has been enhanced to include an audio graph in which cue markers may be added or edited.

•In Production Properties / Devices, the number of device entries displayed for each device type was fixed according to the limit available with the license level. To improve efficiency these displays are now dynamically sized.

•In the editor screen for Audio File cues, the display of audio devices is now dynamically sized.

•A new Cue Activation Method has been added: 'External (Complete)'. This is similar to 'External (Trigger)' except that if the cue is currently playing then it must complete (or be stopped) before it can be restarted.

•Wherever you need to enter a MIDI Time Code you can now use "." to tab between the component fields. This enables you to enter MTC times just using keys on the numeric pad.

•The Korg nanoKONTROL2 can now also be used for controlling SCS Faders. This enhancement includes a 'preset' that enables you to control the device levels of the first currently-playing audio file sub-cue, ie giving you nanoKONTROL2 control of the device levels shown in the cue panels.

•In the Editor you can now call an external editor to edit audio, video or image files. In Editing Options you select the external editors you wish to use.

•For cues with an Activation method of 'Callable Cue', any parameters supplied were previously only supported by subordinate Lighting sub-cues and MIDI Control Send sub-cues. Callable cue parameters may now also be used in fade times of subordinate Audio File sub-cues, Level Change sub-cues, and SFR sub-cues. A pop-up help message advising you of the available fields can be displayed by hovering the mouse over a question mark (?) indicator to the right of the callable cue parameters field.

•Added VST Plugins to the Editing menu in the main window when the toolbar is not displayed (eg for Performance mode).

•An updated version of the 'Control Send Remote Device' file is included which includes MIDI support for the A&H dLive and Avantis consoles. Thanks to Jörg Dietze for providing the update.

•The 'Control Send Remote Device' file now also includes support for the Behringer WING. Thanks to Pavel Borisovich for providing the information for this update.

•Improvements have been made to the editor screen for creating and editing of DMX Capture Lighting Cues.

•A hotkey may now activated by clicking on the hotkey in the hotkey list, if the appropriate Run Time setting is selected. This is primarily designed for controlling SCS remotely from a device that displays the SCS screen but not (easily) a keyboard.

•The audio graph display in the editor for Audio File cues will now display a notification message if the length of the audio file exceeds the maximum length set in Editing Options, instead of just showing blank.

•The default value for  'Minimum Audible Audio Level' in Production Properties / Run Time Settings has been changed back to -75dB following reports from some users of fades not working properly with the previous default of -160dB. They were 'working properly' but much of the fade was inaudible with the equipment (eg speakers) being used.

•Some additional settings have been provided for the 'Minimum Audible Audio Level' in Production Properties / Run Time Settings, now providing -75dB, -100dB, -120dB, -140dB and -160dB.

•When using SoundMan-Server (SM-S), SCS Platinum users may set a cue's Activation Method to 'Linear Time Code' (LTC) with playback of the cue's Audio File(s) locked to incoming LTC received by a dedicated Live Input device.

•The change made in SCS 11.9.6 to limit the movement of the main window's splitter bar has now been made a Display Option, set by default. If cleared then the main window's splitter bar may be moved all the way down to hide the cue panels, or all the way up to hide the cue list.

•HTTP processing has been redesigned to support additional external equipment, such as WLED controllers.

•The maximum number of 'Favorites' in the editor's toolbar has been increased from 6 to 8.

•Group Cues: Although SCS does not support 'Group Cues', this Help file explains how common scenarios for this requirement can be met by using 'Enable/Disable Cues'. See 'Group Cues' under 'Miscellaneous' for details.

Bugs fixed

•Changing the Operational Mode (eg from Design Mode to Performance Mode) did not apply any necessary adjustments to the main window's toolbar until SCS was closed and restarted.

•Some MTC quarter-frame messages could be sent before the relevant full-frame message on starting a second MTC cue.

•Some MTC quarter-frame messages were not sent at all when running the 64-bit version of SCS.

•If a production uses an RS232 port and due to some other device connection issues SCS displays the warning message that some devices were not found, then after connecting those missing devices and clicking 'Try again', SCS would then report that the RS232 device 'cannot be activated'.

•If you had a video audio device defined in Production Properties with a name other than 'Default' (or your chosen language equivalent) then SCS would add a 'Default' video audio device.

•Fading in an Audio File cue may not have completed the fade in unless the fade in type was Linear.

•When running with SoundMan-Server (SM-S) as the audio driver, a stereo file played to a mono output would play 6dB too high. WARNING! This fix will affect current cue files that have stereo files played to mono outputs, where SM-S is the selected audio driver.

•In versions since SCS 11.9.1 the VU meters for video file cues were not activated due to a bug in the TVideoGrabber video playback library. A new version of the library is now included which has fixed the bug.

•When printing the cue list, the printed output could result in the leftmost and rightmost columns overflowing the edges of the printed output, and this could also have affect the page headings.

•SCS 11.9.7 included a change related to SCS not finding a device map for this cue file, and looking for a 'best match' device map file. However, that code did not check for the same lighting devices so could assign an incompatible device map.

•'Import Devices from another SCS Cue File' could incorrectly import details for devices that do not exist in the current cue file, eg import lighting device assignments into the device map of a cue file that itself doesn't contain any lighting devices.

•When using a backup computer, hotkey actions on the primary computer were not being sent to the backup computer.

•A Playlist cue set to repeat would not repeat if crossfades were set and if 'Save Playback Position' was selected.

•In the editor for Playlist cues, the various trim and level adjustments available under 'Other Actions' were incorrectly processed. This error first occurred in SCS 11.9.6 with the addition of -75dB and -60dB in the level selections. (This error did not affect the trim adjustments of Audio File cues.)

•Fixed an error in the format of the SCS recovery file, which is used to assist you in recovering changes following a program or machine failure.

•Fixed some issues with DMX Cue Control.

•Changes made to certain Production Property devices were not reset correctly after processing 'Undo' or 'Redo' in the Editor.

•Fixed an error related to deleting a Device Map.

•Fixed some issues with importing cues from another SCS cue file.

•A change to the 'Minimum Audible Audio Level' in Production Properties / Run Time Settings was not recognized until SCS was closed and restarted.

•Changing the selected Device Map could throw errors, especially if this resulted in the audio driver being changed.

•When using the backup feature (see 'Functional Mode') the backup computer could lose connection with the primary computer after a few minutes.

Version 11.9.8 (January 2023)

New or changed features

•The Bulk Edit screen now shows the Activation method (eg Manual, 1.00 ae Prev, etc) for all field types to be changed, except for 'Audio Levels' which continues to show Device in that column.

•The SoundMan-Server option to force audio processing onto a single processor has been removed.

Bugs fixed

•Bulk Edit was not properly handling clearing (setting to 0) Fade In and Fade Out Times.

•If an MTC sub-cue is linked to an Audio File cue or sub-cue, then on 'Stop All' the Audio File would continue playing, albeit silently. On activating something like starting the Editor, the Audio File playback would then be heard. The Stop All processing should not have resumed playback.

•The SoundMan-Server processing in SCS did not handle multiple ASIO interfaces correctly, especially regarding determining the sample rate to be passed to SoundMan-Server.

Version 11.9.7 (December 2022)

New or changed features

•The keyboard double-click timeout now also applies to network cue control 'Go' commands.

•The SCS Scribble Strip feature available for selected Control Send Remote Devices (such as Behringer SQ series mixers) now supports naming scenes.

•Support for X32 Theatre Control was added in SCS 11.8.5. This product has been re-launched as TheatreMix, so the corresponding descriptions have been changed in SCS. TheatreMix supports more console brands and models. No changes are required to your cue files.

•If you create a cue file on, say, your home computer, and then load this cue file the first time onto your theatre computer, then previously you would receive a message from SCS that no device map file could be found for that cue file and that a new device map file would be created. If no device map file for that cue file can be found on that computer, SCS now first of all looks for a compatible device map file and uses that to create the new device map file. 'Compatible' means that device types and names in the cue file must all exist in the device map. This also extends to fixture codes in lighting devices. SCS sorts the device map information to assist in locating the 'best match' device map. This enhancement means that your new cue file will inherit the same device map assignments, such as audio driver, audio device physical device assignments, lighting fixture DMX channels, control send ports, etc.

Bugs fixed

•Toggle HotKeys were not working for SFR cues.

•When a Note HotKey was released, it did not stop a counting down sub-cue of that HotKey Cue.

•An SFR to 'stop all earlier cues' didn't complete a sub-cue of an earlier running cue if that sub-cue had not yet started.

•Manually changing the pan setting of an audio file cue in the main window would set the level to -INF.

•HotKey Banks were not handled correctly, due to a bug in the 'Step' HotKey processing, which was added in 11.9.1.

•Double-presses of HotKeys is again supported. This had been disabled in SCS 11.9.5 in the code that prevented accidental double-presses of the space bar.

•MTC Full Frame messages may have had an incorrect SysEx channel generated.

•The Cue Panel's Audio File displayed current position would not change if the Audio File Cue (or Sub-Cue) was linked to an MTC Cue (or Sub-Cue). The audio file and MTC both played correctly and in sync - it was just the displayed current position of the audio file that didn't move.

•In 32-bit versions of SCS, a 'division by zero' error could occur on loading some large images. This was due to the underlying library failing to obtain the dimensions of the image, which only occurs under some conditions, such as there being several large images to load. SCS now catches the condition that caused the error and reports that the file cannot be opened. This problem doesn't seem to occur in 64-bit versions.

Version 11.9.6 (November 2022)

New or changed features

•When creating or editing an Audio File Cue or a Playlist Cue, the 'Other Actions' button now includes options to trim all below -75dB or -60dB from the start/end of the file, in addition to the previously supported trim all below -45dB or -30dB levels.

•MIDI Control Send Cues that use a Behringer X32 'Remote Device' can now also set Channel and DCA colors (sending scribble strip names is not yet supported).

•Network Control Send devices in Production Properties may now be marked as 'Connect when required'. This will cause the device to be connected when it is first required by a Network Control Send Cue, if the device is not immediately available.

Bugs fixed

•Fixed the incorrect MIDI values sent for 'Go Scene', 'Go Snippet' and 'Go Cue xxx' in MIDI Control Send Cues that use a Behringer X32 'Remote Device'.

•A memory error could occur on copying cues.

•A memory error could occur if a video/image cue was started in the main window, then stopped in the editor, and then the browse button in the editor used to select another video/image cue.

•Under some conditions, an Audio File Cue with current level of -INF would play at the 'Minimum Audible Audio Level' set in Production Properties / Run Time Settings, eg at -75dB.

•The Production Property 'Default Screen for new Video/Image Cues' was not being applied, so the overall default screen (2) was always applied.

•For Image Cues, the Rotate settings 'Flip Horizontal' and 'Flip Vertical' were not working due to a related change made in an earlier version of SCS. (They may have been working under some conditions.)

•The fix in 11.9.5 to prevent an accidental double-press of the space bar activating the next two cues had the side-effect of also imposing the 750ms delay on other keyboard commands, such as up-arrow and down-arrow for moving through the cue list. The 750ms delay is no longer applied to cue list navigation keyboard commands.

•The video/image display monitor on the main screen may stay black if the first video/image to be displayed has a fade-in time.

Version 11.9.5 (August 2022)

New or changed features

•MIDI Control Send device support for 'Behringer X32 Digital Mixer' as a 'Remote Device' now includes GoCue, and the number ranges for GoScene and GoSnippet have been corrected (0-99 instead of 1-100). Additional fader levels are also supported, including AuxIn, FXRtn, and others.

Bugs fixed

•The Audio Driver Option 'Use BASS Mixer' must be selected to display the Faders window if the audio driver is DirectSound or WASAPI. SCS was not applying this check for WASAPI, resulting in possibly incorrect channel levels if the BASS Mixer was not being used.

•An accidental double-press of the space bar for activating the next cue could result in the next two cues being activated. SCS now checks for at least 750ms between key presses for activating the next cue.

Version 11.9.4 (August 2022)

New or changed features

•MIDI Control Send devices now support 'Behringer X32 Digital Mixer' as a 'Remote Device'. Note that you will need an X-UF or X-USB expansion card installed in the X32 to use this feature.

•For SCS Platinum users, the maximum number of Control Send devices supported in Production Properties has been increased from 16 to 64.

Bugs fixed

•When opening the recovery file, the message 'The cue file has been changed by another application' may be displayed.

•Memo Cues loaded from a template file would lose their formatting.

•When editing an MSC Control Send Cue, the 'Command Format' could not be changed.

•If an Audio File Cue is linked to another Audio File Cue and the second of those cues is disabled, the link was not broken and playing the first cue would also play the disabled cue. SCS now checks cue and sub-cue 'Enabled' states when linking audio files.

•Earlier SCS 11.9 releases did not allow an SFR cue to select a 'Go To' Cue as a cue to be stopped.

Version 11.9.3 (July 2022)

New or changed features

•None

Bugs fixed

•A memory error could occur on entering an OSC command in a Control Send cue and then clicking on another sub-cue in the editor.

•When checking for existing devices in a device map, if a required device description was not found but a 'similar' description was found, then SCS may have used that. This was due to a now-obsolete work-around for changes to device descriptions that occurred with some device drivers and/or Windows several years ago. That SCS work-around has been removed so an exact description match is now required when SCS searches for existing devices.

•When entering or changing a Cue number, if the entered number has already been used then an 'already exists' message will be displayed. However, under some conditions this message would repeatedly display after clicking OK. This applied particularly when entering or editing a video/image cue.

•You could not change the Activation Method of a callable cue if another used callable cue existed.

•If you selected 'Large' as the 'Video Monitor Size' in Options and had no secondary screens attached, then any image cues set to cross-fade would only partially fill the video monitor panel.

Version 11.9.2 (June 2022)

New or changed features

•In 'Print Cue List' you may now choose 'Manual Cues Only'. This can be useful if the printed cue list is to help you run the cues for the show. (This feature was scheduled for 11.9.1 but was inadvertently omitted from that release.)

•The 'Set Position' cue type now supports the position type 'Before End' (for time before the 'end at' position of the target cue), and also supports 'all playing audio cues' and 'all playing video/image cues'.

Bugs fixed

•When changing the Operational Mode from a menu item under the main window's 'View' toolbar button, any resultant change in the columns displayed in the main window's cue list were not applied for cues completed at the time of this change.

•DMX interfaces (eg ENTTEC DMX USB PRO) with a high serial number were not recognized in earlier releases of SCS 11.9.

•Earlier SCS 11.9 releases did not accept MIDI Cue Control of hotkey cues.

•Earlier SCS 11.9 releases failed to process the cue Activation Method 'External Fader'.

Version 11.9.1 (May 2022)

New or changed features

•In Production Properties / Video Capture devices you may now select the video format, eg 'MJPG 1280x720 (5 to 30 fps)', and Frame Rate. Setting these may improve video capture performance.

•In Options / General, the maximum values for 'Max. No. of Audio Files to Pre-Open' and 'Max. No. of Video/Image Files to Pre-Open' have both been increased to 99. The default values remain unchanged, at 40 and 20 respectively.

•In the Editor's display of Audio File Cues, there are now '+' and '-' buttons under Audio Devices to enable you to easily insert or remove audio devices from the cue.

•A new type of Hotkey has been added: 'Step'. This enables you to have multiple cues assigned to the same hotkey, and SCS will 'step' through those cues one at a time for each press of the hotkey.

•The 'Page Up' (PgUp) and 'Page Down' (PgDn) keys may now be used for Hotkeys as they are the only keys supported by some wireless presenter clickers. However, if you use PgUp or PgDn for a Hotkey then this will override the corresponding action on the main cue list.

•The number of cue entries supported in a single Enable/Disable Cue has been increased from 5 to 10.

•Animated images (eg animated GIF's) may now be faded in, faded out, and cross-faded.

•The Operational Mode (Design, Rehearsal or Performance) can now be changed from the main window using a new menu item under the 'View' toolbar button.

•Chinese is now available as a language choice in Options / General.

•In 'Print Cue List' you may now choose 'Manual Cues Only'. This can be useful if the printed cue list is to help you run the cues for the show. (Now included in 11.9.2.)

•When using Cue Markers, 'Prev Cue Marker' and 'Next Cue Marker' are now available via a MIDI Cue Control device.

•The 'Test Tone' feature in Production Properties / Audio Output Devices now supports pink noise as well as sine wave. The feature also now enables you to pan the test if the device is assigned two channels.

Bugs fixed

•Fixed a bug in 11.9.0 that affected the creating and editing of MIDI Show Control (MSC) Control Send Cues.

•When editing an Audio File Cue, the Trim control was not processed correctly.

•When editing an Audio File Cue that uses a WAV file that contains embedded cue points, it was not possible to move the end marker back before the first embedded cue point.

•In the VST Plugins window, trying to insert a new plugin could cause a memory error.

•Rotating a still image could fail, resulting in a black image.

•Importing Lighting Devices from another cue file could cause a memory error.

•A Playlist Cue set to repeat would not repeat if the run mode is non-linear.

•Cues set to auto-start relative to a previous cue may run more than once if the run mode is non-linear.

•If a MIDI Time Code (MTC) sub-cue is linked to an Audio File sub-cue, then under some conditions the MTC sub-cue may not start when the linked Audio File sub-cue starts.

•An Audio File sub-cue or a Playlist sub-cue with a sub-cue start time of 'on cue marker' would start as soon as the cue itself was started.

•Fixed a bug in 11.9.0 that caused MIDI Control Send messages for Message Type 'Program Change (1-128)' to be processed incorrectly.

•A Recall Scene Control Send message to be sent to an Allen&Heath SQ series 'MIDI Remote Device' would always recall scene 1.

•Fixed some display size issues with Video/Image Cues.

•Fixed a bug in 11.9.0 that failed to ignore keyboard auto-repeats for commands like 'Go' and hotkeys.

•When two or more sub-cues of a cue display images simultaneously to separate screens and fade-in times are specified, then the fade in times of the second and any subsequent image sub-cues may be ignored and the image be displayed immediately.

•A Video sub-cue linked to an Audio File sub-cue may not play the video, even though the progress slider tracks apparent progress.

•Fixed a bug in 11.9.0 related to Audio File cues with cross-faded loops and also with a set number of times for the loop to execute. The loop counter would be incremented twice per loop.

•The Editing Option 'Max. File Length for Audio Graph File Scan' was not fully implemented.

Version 11.9.0 (February 2022)

New or changed features

•You can now set a non-default Playback Rate, Tempo or Pitch for an Audio File sub-cue. Playback Rate affects both Tempo and Pitch, whereas setting Tempo will affect Tempo only and leave the Pitch unchanged, and setting Pitch will affect Pitch only and leave Tempo unchanged.

•The Action of a Level Change sub-cue now allows you to select Playback Rate, Tempo or Pitch if the target sub-cue is an Audio File sub-cue. This enables you to change the Playback Rate, Tempo or Pitch sometime after the start of playback of that Audio File sub-cue. A Duration property is also available so you can, for example, slow down or speed up playback over several seconds.

•Callable Cues may now have parameters which are passed when a 'Call Cue' cue type calls that callable cue. Currently only Lighting Cues and MIDI Control Send Cues accept parameters, and these only for selected fields. However, other cue types will be enhanced later to support parameters.

•If a cue has an Activation Method of MIDI Time Code then you can now have sub-cues of that cue set to start by 'Relative Time Code'.

•If an Audio File cue has Cue Markers or Cue Points then subsequent sub-cues within that same cue may now be set to start 'On Cue Marker', specifying a cue marker (or cue point) within that audio file sub-cue.

•Animated GIF's are now supported in Video/Image Cues. Some restrictions apply.

•When using the Primary/Backup feature, the Backup did not report an error if the connection to the Primary failed. This could occur, for example, if the Backup's 'IP Address of Primary' was incorrect. SCS now reports if the connection fails, and one of the options provided is to change (ie correct) the IP Address that the Backup is trying to connect to.

•When using the Primary/Backup feature, SCS now displays a warning message in the Backup if the Primary is running a different version of SCS.

•When using the Primary/Backup feature, there is now an option for the Backup to ignore incoming network Cue Control messages (except for those sent by the Primary).

•Lighting fixtures may now be assigned multiple DMX Start Channels. This is primarily designed for audience lighting in venues with separate DMX channels for audience lighting in different areas of the theatre, such as stalls, upper and lower balconies, etc. If all performances will require the same selection of audience lighting DMX channels, then you can create a single 'fixture' for audience lighting, and assign all of the associated DMX channels to this fixture.

•The editor panel for editing Lighting cues now has a fixture-level 'Include' checkbox, enabling you to quickly include or exclude all channels for the selected fixture. This is useful if you just want to include a few channels of a multi-channel fixture - just exclude all channels and then include then few you need.

•DMX channels are no longer blacked out (set to zero) on closing SCS.

•If you have Lighting Cues and you manually select the next cue in the main window, eg by clicking on a cue in the cue list, SCS attempts to calculate the DMX values that would be active immediately prior to your playing that next cue. This is ideal for rehearsals if the director wants to rehearse a part of a scene - possibly several times. For more information, see 'Run Time Note' under the Lighting Cues topic.

•MIDI Control Send support for various external ('remote') devices such as Allen&Heath Qu and SQ mixers (added in 11.8.5) has been enhanced to include extra controls, including setting channel FX and DCA levels.

•A new Operational Mode has been added: Rehearsal Mode. You can have different Display Options and Cue List Columns for Design Mode, Rehearsal Mode and Performance Mode.

•A Display Option has been added to 'Request Confirmation of Cue Click in Main Window'. If set then when you click on a cue in the main window's cue list, SCS will ask you to confirm the action, with an option to not ask again in the current session. This has been added to reduce the likelihood of accidentally 'clicking' on a cue during a live production, an issue that can easily occur if the laptop's trackpad has not been disabled. This option is set by default for Rehearsal Mode and Performance Mode, but not for Design Mode.

•In Performance Mode the default Display Option for Toolbar Buttons has been changed from 'Hide toolbar' to 'Performance buttons only'. 'Performance buttons' are Go, Pause, Stop, Fade, Load, Options, View and Help.

•As previously advised, Live Input Cues require SoundMan-Server. However, it is now possible to assign a Dummy Live Input physical device to Live Input logical devices, which can then be used with any SCS audio driver, such as DirectSound. This will enable you to create and edit Live Input Cues on a computer that does not have SoundMan-Server installed or loaded, although you obviously will not be able to fully test these cues when using dummy devices.

•The font used for the Editor's Cue List can now be selected in Options / Editing Options. The default is font size 9 normal. Previously the font size was 9 bold and could not be changed.

•There are now Display Options to show a Cue's MIDI Cue Number in 'Next Manual Cue' and the Cue Panels.

•'Print Cue List' now shows the calculated total length of all cues selected for printing.

•Network Cue Control devices that receive OSC messages may now accept relative adjustments to the Master Fader and Audio Device Faders, eg -1.5 will lower the nominated fader by 1.5dB.

•In previous versions of SCS, a MIDI Cue Control device could be set up with a 'Cue Control Command' to control the Master Fader (as well as various other functions). The list of 'Cue Control Commands' has been expanded to include Output Faders for each audio output device, and the DMX Master. This means you should now be able to control these faders from an external device such as the PreSonus ATOM, and various other controllers. These MIDI Cue Control commands will be recognized by the Faders window, in addition to the current presets of BCR2000 and BCF2000.

•An 'Automatic Checks for Update' option has been added under Options / General.

•The Option 'Swap monitors 1 and 2' has been extended to support swapping monitor 1 with any other connected monitor.

•When editing an Audio File Cue you can now shift-double-click on the audio graph to create a standard level point at the mouse click position.

Bugs fixed

•When using the Primary/Backup feature and also using a network Cue Control or Control Send device then the backup would fail to respond to commands from the primary once the cue file had been opened. This was due to a conflict between the network device and the network connection to the primary.

•If an MTC (MIDI Timecode) cue or sub-cue had a linked audio file cue or sub-cue and the audio driver was SoundMan-Server, then MTC would not always start, or would not always resume after being paused.

•When setting up or editing a Lighting cue, if the 'Link Group' is specified then it must be numeric in the range 1-9. SCS was incorrectly accepting 0, even though this was treated as a blank.

•Tidied up some 'info' display issues with Lighting Cues (didn't affect the functionality of the cues).

•DMX Port 2 (DMX2) on an ENTTEC DMX USB PRO Mk2 was not handled correctly for Lighting Cues.

•An image cue that fades in replacing a currently-displayed image cue that has no fade-out time would not completely cross-fade, leaving both images partially displayed.

•The 'resume' button in the cue panels wasn't always handled correctly, due to changes made in SCS 11.8.4.

•Linking an MTC sub-cue to a video sub-cue did not sync MTC to the video if the video sub-cue was repositioned.

•Recent earlier versions SCS did not list the available Live Input devices in Production Properties.

•The editor function to 'Copy Properties from another Cue or Sub-Cue' had not been updated to handle Fixtures in Lighting Cues.

•In Control Send Cues for MIDI devices, 'Capture NRPN' would loop on processing an incoming MIDI message.

•When using an external MIDI device as a Cue Control device, SCS did not apply the 'double-click timeout' to MIDI commands, which could result in SCS actions like Go being double-clicked.

•A memory error could occur when navigating to a new cue in the main window if the cue file contains a disabled Playlist sub-cue within a cue that has other sub-cues that are enabled.

•A bug in SCS 11.8.5 meant that fade-ins for an SFR 'resume hibernating cue' would not fade-in.

•Fading in a hibernated cue would not execute the fade-in if the cue's fade-in type was set to 'Linear' (a different issue to the one above).

•Fixed some issues with Playlist cues played using SoundMan-Server.

•If an Audio File cue has a 'Start At' time part way through the file, and a subsequent cue is set to auto-start n.n seconds after the start of the Audio File cue, then that auto-start cue's start time was incorrectly calculated, and may have caused the cue's activation method to be set to a manual start.

•When using 'Import Devices from another SCS Cue File', the last device (eg a Cue Control device) would not be listed and would only be partially imported.

•A memory error could occur on importing cues from another SCS cue file.

•HTTP Control Send cues would always add CR LF to the end of a message, unless it had already been supplied in the message. SCS no longer automatically adds CR LF as this caused error reports from vMix.

•Still images in video/image cues set to display to multiple screens may have been displayed only on the first selected screen.

•Time-based cues were not handled correctly if the run mode was non-linear.

•Cross-fading a 'continuous' images to another image did not fade out the continuous image if the 32-bit version of SCS was being run.

•When editing a Playlist Cue, the 'Other Action' option to 'Remove all files from this Playlist' could incorrectly mark an unrelated Audio or Video/Image file as non-existent, typically resulting in a sanity check error on the cue using that file.

•When using 'non-linear' run mode (see Production Properties / Run Time Settings), a cue set to auto-start after the end of another cue would not auto-start.

•When using 'non-linear' run mode, only the first cue in the cue panels would accept M2T (move to time).

Version 11.8.5 (August 2021)

New or changed features

•Added MIDI Control Send support for various external ('remote') devices such as Allen&Heath Qu and SQ mixers, Yamaha LS mixers, and others. See Control Send - MIDI Remote Device for details.

•Added X32 Theatre Control to the list of Remote Devices supported under Production Properties / Devices / Cue Control - Network In, and / Control Send - Network Out.

•The message box that was displayed when SCS loses focus has been dropped. SCS will now just display a warning message in the status line of the main window, although even that may be suppressed (as before) by a Production Property Run Time setting.

•In Production Properties / Fixture Types, the 'Fixture Type Detail' and 'Fixture Type Channels' panel tabs have been combined to make it easier to see all the details at once, and to reduce the likelihood of omitting significant channel details.

•Lighting Cues now support different 'fade up' and 'fade down' times, Previously there was just a 'fade time' that was used for both 'fade up' and 'fade down'. Cross-fades can be improved by entering a longer time for the fade down.

•A new Cue Activation Method of 'External Fader' has been added, initially for Lighting Cues. This enables the Lighting Cue to be activated, deactivated, faded up and down manually under the control of an external fader such as a nanoKONTROL MIDI controller, or a Behringer BCF2000 or BCR2000. See Lighting Control by External Fader for details.

•Improved the performance of image cues in cue files that do not contain any video fades.

Bugs fixed

•In Production Properties - Fixture Types, leaving the Description blank for a Fixture Type when the Name had been entered would correctly throw the error 'Description must be entered', but SCS would then loop throwing this error so you could not then enter a Description to correct the problem.

•Under Production Properties - Audio Output Devices, setting the 'For LTC (Linear Time Code) Cues' checkbox was not processed correctly. (NB this checkbox is only displayed for SCS Platinum users, and also requires SoundMan-Server to be installed.)

•Reducing the size of the main window to hide the VU meters could throw an error message if the Audio Driver is SoundMan-Server.

•Certain multi-monitor configurations were not handled correctly by SCS and could cause a 'division by zero' error.

•A sub-cue relative start that references the previous sub-cue (eg 2.00 after end of previous sub-cue) would fail to start if the previous sub-cue was disabled. The test now checks for the previous enabled sub-cue.

•'Stop All (Esc)' could incorrectly set the 'next manual cue' if an earlier callable cue exists.

•There was a bug in the processing of blackouts in Lighting Cues, which could prevent some dimmable channels from being blacked out.

•Some video/image cues would fail to display as the target display control had not been made visible.

•'Fade All' did not fade the audio of a playing video.

•When adding a Live Input 'device', the 'Test Live Input' button had no effect until the cue file was saved and reloaded.

•The 'Fade All' enhancement added in 11.8.3 had not been applied to SoundMan-Server audio output devices.

•Fixed a bug in editing old-style Lighting Cues, ie where the Entry Type is 'DMX Items'.

•Using the 'Display DMX Values' window could cause SCS to freeze if SCS needs to resize any part of the screen when displaying DMX values.

•Renumbering cues could leave some sub-cue descriptions with leading Z's in an embedded sub-cue label, if they referred to another sub-cue within the same cue. For example, this could occur with a Level Change sub-cue that applies to an Audio File sub-cue within the same cue.

•A thread conflict issue sometimes affected the display of still images with fade in times specified.

•Audio file cues with very short fade-in times may not have fully faded in.

•In Lighting Cues, some DMX channels could fail to be set due to a bug in blackout processing.

Version 11.8.4.1 (March 2021)

New or changed features

•A 'Move to Time (M2T)' property has been added to MIDI Control Send Devices in Production Properties to indicate that when applying M2T then control send messages set to fire before the nominated M2T should not be sent.

Bugs fixed

•A few bugs in M2T processing have been fixed.

•An Audio File Cue that has been faded out and hibernated may not have faded in correctly when the hibernated cue was resumed.

•A Lighting Cue could sometimes incorrectly blackout other DMX channels.

Version 11.8.4 (March 2021)

New or changed features

•A 'Move to Time' feature is now available, which is designed for use during rehearsals (not during live performances). This feature allows you to start a cue part-way through, and SCS will synchronize any sub-cues and associated auto-start cues so that the cue may be correctly started from that point. See 'Move to Time' in the Help for more information. ('Move to Time' is only available under SCS Professional Plus and higher licenses.)

•When a 'Go To' cue is played, the cue list will be repositioned at the target cue and by default that cue will then be started. There is now an option in the 'Go To' cue properties to indicate that the target cue must NOT be started.

•Up to ten Time Profiles may be set up in Production Properties. The limit was previously four Time Profiles.

•Network Cue Control now supports an OSC command to set the fader level of a specified Audio Output device.

•Some timing improvements to MTC Cue processing.

Bugs fixed

•The checkbox "Do not blackout other active channels when using 'Live DMX Test'" has been changed to "Do not blackout other dimmable channels when using 'Live DMX Test'". Previously, if this checkbox was left clear (which is the default) then the channel values for any non-dimmable channels would be set to zero.

•Fixed a bug in 11.8.3.4 that could incorrectly calculate the fade in time for an Audio File cue set to start part-way through the file.

•If a Playlist Cue has 'Wait' transitions, then when the first of these transitions occurred the cue would disappear from the main window's cue panels, even though the cue continued to play successfully.

•If a Playlist Cue has 'Wait' transitions and a Level Change Cue for that Playlist Cue is activated during a 'Wait' time, then the Playlist Cue could be set to the wrong level and/or the Level Change duration may have been ignored.

•Clearing the Display Options checkbox 'Show Master Fader' had no lasting effect.

•Some bug fixes in MTC Cue processing.

Version 11.8.3.4 (January 2021)

New or changed features

•The main window's control panel main now be placed at the bottom of the screen if required. The control panel position can be changed under Display Options.

Bugs fixed

•In Video Driver Settings, selecting a Video Renderer other than the default was ignored, so the default video renderer was always applied.

•Lighting Cues set up as toggle or note hotkey cues would clear all DMX channels on toggle off or note off, instead of just reinstating the pre-hotkey DMX values for the DMX channels specified in that cue.

•When a chase Lighting Cue is running, starting another Lighting Cue may stop the chase even if the chase cue's property 'Next Lighting Cue stops chase' is not set.

•In Lighting Cues, the 'Fade time for the above fixtures' would be applied against any DMX channel marked as a Dimmer Channel in Production Properties - Fixture Types, even if the channel's 'Fade' checkbox in the Lighting Cue was cleared. 'Fade time for the above fixtures' is now only applied against channels that have the 'Fade' checkbox set.

•If an Audio File Cue requires a stereo file to be down-mixed to a mono output device, and if DirectSound is the selected Audio Driver, and if the Audio Driver Setting 'BASS Mixer' is set to 'Do NOT use BASS Mixer', then the program could crash in a 64-bit environment.

•Fixed a bug that could prevent X32 user-defined button actions being processed for SCS Cue Control, if a Control Send X32 network device was also nominated.

•Repositioning an MTC/LTC Cue could incorrectly adjust the MTC/LTC values.

Version 11.8.3.3 (December 2020)

New or changed features

•An MTC cue or sub-cue linked to an Audio File cue or sub-cue is now accurately synced.

•Control Send cues now support the Yamaha MIDI NRPN format, which differs from the standard MIDI NRPN format. In the Yamaha format the NRPN LSB component appears before the NRPN MSB component.

•MIDI Cue Control devices with Control Method 'MIDI Machine Control (MMC)' may now optionally have the MMC 'Stop' command implemented in SCS as 'Fade All' instead of 'Stop All'.

Bugs fixed

•Clicking on the DMX Value field in a Fixture Lighting Cue would cause a memory error.

•When playing a still image cue with a specified display time, activating 'Pause All' by MIDI would correctly pause the cue but would not pause the elapsed time. For example, for a still image cue paused by MMC at 33 seconds and restarted 15 seconds later, playback resumed at 48 seconds and not at 33 seconds. This bug did not affect audio file cues or video file cues.

•A change in 11.8.3.2 could fail to 'complete' certain cues if they were started by hotkey, external control, or from a 'call cue'.

•Fixed a bug that could incorrectly raise the message 'Fixture Types not available when using a cue file containing Lighting Cues created using SCS 11.7.1 or earlier'.

•Network Control Send cues using the 'Hex' Entry Mode failed to send null (Hex 00) bytes.

•A memory could occur on playing a Video/Image 'place-holder' cue.

•An error introduced in an earlier version of SCS 11.8 resulted in DMX sent via an ENTTEC OPEN DMX USB device being one channel out. This did not affect DMX sent via an ENTTEC USB PRO or USB PRO MK2.

Version 11.8.3.2 (October 2020)

New or changed features

•Reinstated the 'Aspect' property in Video/Image Cues.

•Previously, the minimum audio level before audio is cut out was -75dB. You can now select -75dB, -120dB or -160dB in the new Production Properties / Run Time Setting Minimum Audible Audio Level. For new cue files this defaults to -160dB, but as changing this setting could affect fade-out times of existing Audio File Cues the -75dB minimum is retained for cue files last saved prior to this version. The Minimum Audible Audio Level is now saved in the cue file.

•New Editor Keyboard Shortcuts are available when editing audio file cues, video cues and playlist cues, to Skip Back 2 Seconds or Skip Forward 2 Seconds for each press of the keyboard shortcut. The default assignments are Shift+F8 (skip back) and Shift+F9 (skip forward).

•The Keyboard Shortcuts for Skip to Previous Cue Marker and Skip to Next Cue Marker are now available for audio file cues that do not have cue markers. Skip to Previous Cue Marker will skip to the start of the cue if there is no cue marker (or no previous cue marker), and Skip to Next Cue Marker will skip to the end of the cue if there is no cue marker (or no next cue marker).

•A new 'Stop MTC' action is available in SFR Cues, which can be used to stop and complete currently-playing MTC cues. Also applies to LTC cues if applicable.

•In the DMX Display Window you can now change the display from 'Universe (all 512 channels)' to 'All Fixtures'. The 'All Fixtures' selection will show the DMX channel values for each Fixture.

•When setting up Fixture Types in Production Properties, you can now select a 'DMX Grid Text Color' that will be used in the DMX Display Window.

•The feature added in 11.8.3 to include VU meters for video file audio is now an optional setting, and by default this is disabled. This is because a few users reported poor audio quality of video cues, which was found to be due to the constant audio peak monitoring. If you do not have any such issues, then you can turn this feature on under Options / Video Driver.

•Lighting Cues may now be built from captured DMX. This enables you to reproduce in SCS a lighting cue originally created using a lighting board or other software.

•Added 'vMix' as a Remote Device for Control Send Network Devices. This simplifies setting up the device type properties and Control Send Cues for controlling vMix from SCS.

•The 'Visual Warning' available to provide a highly-visible count down to the end of a cue now also supports 'Cue position', 'Cue position plus option time offset', and 'File position'. (The latter two are only available for Audio File Cues.)

Bugs fixed

•Fixed a few bugs in video file and video capture playback.

•When using Lighting Cues in a cue file, and then opening another cue file with Lighting Cues, this second cue file could fail to send DMX.

•If a sub-cue is disabled then this could under rare circumstances affect the selection of the next manual cue.

•Fixed a bug introduced in 11.8.3 that caused PJLink authentication to fail.

•The Keyboard Shortcuts for Skip to Previous Cue Marker and Skip to Next Cue Marker did not work if the selected cue had not yet been started.

•Some MIDI function calls could fail in 64-bit mode.

•Fixed a bug in earlier versions of 11.8 that caused Video/Image Cues with 'Repeat' selected to incorrectly handle repeats, typically causing the cue to stop shortly into the second pass.

•Some dialog boxes may have been off-screen when using non-default display positions in Windows.

Version 11.8.3 / 11.8.3.1 (June 2020)

New or changed features

•The minimum Windows version supported is now Windows 7.

•The latest version of the TVideoGrabber (TVG) video playback library is included.

•The video playback libraries xVideo and DirectShow have been removed.

•The SCS setup file that includes LAV Filters includes the latest version of LAV Filters (included with permission). Also, LAV Filters is now installed 'silently', ie without displaying option dialogs.

•Changes have been made to screen handling for video/image cues. As a result of this, the following Video Driver Options have been removed as they are no longer required: 'Use 2D Drawing Library for Still Images' (they are now displayed using the video playback library), and 'Apply DPI Context Awareness to fix Incorrect Video Image Sizes'.

•A Video Driver Option has been added for 'Hardware Acceleration GPU'.

•In Video/Image Cues, the 'Aspect' field has been removed. The 'original' aspect ratio is now always used.

•The VU Meter display in the main window now includes VU meters for video audio devices.

•A 'Fade All' (Shift+Esc) button has been added to the main window toolbar.

•Control Send Cues using a Network device may now select UTF8 as an Entry Mode. Entering the message is the same as for ASCII, but when the message is sent SCS will encode the message as UTF8, which is the encoding required by some devices or products, such as CasparCG Server.

•There is now an option under Options/Shortcuts to allow hotkeys to be played even when an exclusive cue is playing.

•The 'Run External Program' cue type now has an option to run the program in invisible mode, which enables SCS to retain focus. This is useful if you not need to see any window displayed by the run program.

Bugs fixed

•For Network Cue Control devices, the 'Test Network Control' window would ignore some messages, particularly if they were deemed to be irrelevant. All incoming messages should now be displayed in this test window.

•Navigating the cue list using up and down arrows would not navigate past an 'on cue marker' cue.

•Fixed some issues in the processing of 'ignore device this run', an option available if a particular device (eg a Control Send device) is not available.

•An SFR cue set to 'fade out and stop' a Memo cue had no effect on the Memo cue. SCS will now immediately close the Memo cue. Note that Memo cues cannot be faded in or out as the control used by SCS for displaying Memos does not support fades.

•After activating 'Stop All' and repositioning the cue list, a previously-loaded video cue that contains a fade-in time may fail to fade-in, resulting in a black screen.

•Some ASIO devices may have failed to initialize, reporting that the device was possibly not started or not connected. This has been reported with the Dante Via ASIO interface. A change has been made to the initialization code in SCS to fix that problem.

•Cues with an Activation Method of 'External (Toggle)' would always start from the beginning when an incoming 'Play Cue' command was received, instead of toggling between start and fade-out/stop.

•'Stop All' would not stop 'Run External Program' sub-cues that were counting down to start.

•'Stop All' of a hotkey cue with sub-cues with relative start times set those sub-cues to 'completed' instead of 'ready', meaning that next time the hotkey cue was started, the associated sub-cues would not play.

•Using down-arrow or similar to go down one row in the cue list past a cue with an activation method of 'before end of previous cue' would immediately activate that cue.

Version 11.8.2.2 (March 2020)

New or changed features

•'Find Cue' (Ctrl+F) now includes 'When Required' in the search.

•Disabled Audio File Cues and Sub-Cues may now be played in the Editor.

•Lighting Cues now also support an entry type of 'DMX Items', which supports the pre-SCS 11.8 method of entering DMX values, eg "PAR1,PAR2:1@20,2-3@25, PAR3:1@100".

•Fixture Types now support up to 48 DMX channels per Fixture Type (previously 32).

•When editing a Playlist Cue there is now a menu item under 'Other Actions' to 'Remove ALL files from this Playlist'. This is useful if you are building a new show's cue file from an existing cue file and want to change the pre-show music PlayList.

•MIDI Control Send Cues may now be set up to send MIDI NRPN messages. If you are currently using MIDI Free Format messages to send NRPN then on reading your cue file SCS will ask you if you wish to have these converted to NRPN messages.

•Control Send Cues may now have a short 'Item Description' entered against each item.

Bugs fixed

•When editing an Audio File Cue, the '+' button for adding a loop was disabled if the cue had cue markers or cue points.

•Fixed an error that prevented multiple video sub-cues of a cue handled correctly.

•The SCS GUI could sometimes freeze under rare but specific circumstances.

•A new version of the BASS audio library is included which fixes a bug that also could cause SCS to freeze.

•If a device required by a production is not available on opening the cue file, and two or more Device Maps exist, sometimes the wrong 'unavailable device' message would be displayed.

•When using 'Test MIDI Input' for a MIDI Cue Control device (in Production Properties), MIDI message types that were not otherwise required by SCS would be discarded and therefore not displayed in the MIDI Test window.

•An error message referring to a failure to open a server connection with port 58000 could occur even if the 'Remote App Interface Enabled' option had not been set.

Version 11.8.2.1 (January 2020)

New or changed features

•Revised the 'Lost Focus' warning message, and added an option to the corresponding Production Properties Run Time Settings to not display the pop-up dialog.

•Cue Control by external MTC (MIDI Time Code) now accepts MTC without full frame messages. Previously, an MTC full frame message had to be received before SCS would check MTC time codes against cue start MTC times.

•Keyboard shortcuts have been added for 'skip to previous cue marker' and 'skip to next cue marker'. The default shortcut keys are Ctrl+9 and Ctrl+0 respectively. (See 'Audio File Cue Points and Markers' in the Help for more information.)

•The ability to link audio files (so they start, stop or be repositioned in sync) has been extended to include video files. However, note that video file linking is not as precise as audio file linking due to the different playback library used.

Bugs fixed

•If the main toolbar buttons are not visible (which is the default for Production mode) then MIDI 'GO' commands and some other actions would be ignored.

•Setting or changing a cue's MIDI/DMX Cue Number did not take immediate effect.

•If an external MTC (MIDI Time Code) was reset or changed, then cues set to start on receiving a nominated MTC may not have started, particularly if the changed MTC was earlier than the last MTC received.

•If an Audio File cue contains two or more Audio File sub-cues of the same play length then SCS would attempt to 'link' the sub-cues. However, that should only have occurred if the sub-cues also had the same 'start at' position.

•Under some conditions, the 'Next Manual Cue' would not advance to the next cue. This mainly occurred with cues containing linked sub-cues.

•If a Hotkey (Toggle) cue is ON and the user presses a key that is not a Hotkey (eg presses '1' when no hotkey cue is assigned to the '1' key) then SCS would lose the ON state of the Hotkey (Toggle) cue.

•When using Collect Production Files, if there is insufficient free space on the target drive for the collection then SCS will now display an error message and not process the collection request.

•'Stop All' (Esc) may not have reset the cue list to the first cue stopped.

•When editing a Lighting Cue, the checkbox 'Do not blackout other active channels when using 'Live DMX Test'' was not always applied.