I was hoping to use the second playback to allow the board op to run a small set of cues within the show without interfering with the main cue stack. I've enabled dual htp playbacks and set up playback partition groups so that the second playback can only influence the particular equipment it needs to control.
The system pretty much works, but I'm encountering problems when the op needs to run cues on both playbacks in quick sucession. Pressing 'go' on playback one apparently pauses any cues that are still completing on playback two— including halting any wait times. Pressing 'go' on playback two doesn't, however, pause playback one. Is there any way of altering this behaviour? I was hoping that the two sets of cues could be completely independent.
Also, on a very small number of occasions running a cue on playback 2 appears to bump random channels to full even though they aren't in the cue in question (and the desk is in tracking mode) and the channels are not included in playback partition two.
Does anyone have any advice on how to avoid these problems?
Full Version: Strand 520i dual playback oddities
Have you recorded your cues as move-fades?
Hi Chris, welcome to the BR.
Alas as far as I know this is an oddity of the desk. If the channels used are only controlled in one playback and not available in the other then you might have some better luck. We tried using the 2nd PB over the summer with PB2 bringing up a bunch of channels in order and then PB1 takes them out at the end of the scene. We had the same flashing channels issue as you. Flashing house lights are not a good look. After much trial, phone calls and head bashing the solution was not to use the 2nd playback for anything other than spare parts...
Probably not the answer you wanted.
Alas as far as I know this is an oddity of the desk. If the channels used are only controlled in one playback and not available in the other then you might have some better luck. We tried using the 2nd PB over the summer with PB2 bringing up a bunch of channels in order and then PB1 takes them out at the end of the scene. We had the same flashing channels issue as you. Flashing house lights are not a good look. After much trial, phone calls and head bashing the solution was not to use the 2nd playback for anything other than spare parts...
Probably not the answer you wanted.
QUOTE (gareth @ 7 Feb 2010, 5:58 PM) 
Have you recorded your cues as move-fades?
Not quite. The desk is in tracking mode and the cues in question aren't hard blocked.
QUOTE (Chris H @ 7 Feb 2010, 6:06 PM)
QUOTE (gareth @ 7 Feb 2010, 5:58 PM)
Have you recorded your cues as move-fades?
Not quite. The desk is in tracking mode and the cues in question aren't hard blocked.
That's OK, they'll have recorded as move-fades, then. Will give it a little more thought!
Thank you for the responses. Have worked around the problem by creating a big manually stepped chase to replace the second set of cues I wanted to use.
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