Chapter 9: Playing Back Cues
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The Encore console can run up to 500 "simultaneous fades", including all effect
fades, cue parts, and split fades. There are 124 additional "virtual playback
faders" for the purpose of running more than four cue fades at a time. In this
way, timed cues are able to run on virtual playback faders that can't be seen, but
that continue to run the cue fade to its completion "in the background".
Cue fades are loaded to the lowest available faders first. If there are more than
four currently running fades, the oldest fade is assigned to a virtual fader and
the new fade is assigned to fader four. In this way you always have the option
to take manual control over the most recently started fades.
Manual fades are a special case for fader hierarchy because manual fades
require a physical playback fader to be completed. Manual fades take
precedence over timed fades for that reason. If the oldest fade is a manual fade
and more than four other timed fades are loaded to the playback faders, the
oldest of the timed fades will be assigned to a virtual fader, leaving the manual
fade on its physical playback fader.
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BASIC RULE: When there is a combination of four timed and
manual fades and a fifth fade is loaded, the oldest timed fade will be assigned
to a virtual playback fader, which runs in the background.
When there are manual fades already on the four playback faders, and a fifth
manual fade is loaded, the oldest manual fade is temporarily loaded onto a
virtual fader, until one of the four playback faders becomes available.
Go To Cue Command
The [GO TO CUE] hard key is used to access cues out of sequence. This
command is especially useful for bringing up cues on stage that you wish to edit
or re-record.
? EXAMPLE: To fade to cue 2 out of sequence:
[GO TO CUE] [2] [ENTER]
The command in the Example above causes a fade to be loaded to a playback
fader similar to pressing the GO button. The fade can be switched to a manual
fade by pressing the fader's Take Control button, as with any other fade. The
factory default fade time for the Go To Cue command is two seconds. You may
enter a different time for the fade, or even assign a manual fade time.
? EXAMPLE: To fade to cue 2 out of sequence in 10 seconds:
[GO TO CUE] [2] [TIME] [10] [ENTER]
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