Scene Scheduler
| Site: | QSC |
| Course: | MP-M Series Training |
| Book: | Scene Scheduler |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 12:15 AM |
Description
Video Transcript
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Let’s talk about scenes and scheduling on the MP-M Series mixers.
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These are helpful if you have specific settings for given times of the days,
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like a lunchtime setting vs. a dinnertime setting.
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Or maybe you have a specific preset for Game time,
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or when you have live bands plugging into your system.
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You can create scenes for these scenarios and if you want,
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you can schedule them to automatically deploy at certain times or days.
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Let’s start by checking out scenes first by going to the Menu and selecting Scenes.
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This page should look pretty familiar,
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as you’ve seen something like this in several other places in the app.
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Scenes may be saved on your device where you’re running the MP-M app,
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or internally on the MP-M device, or on a USB drive,
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and you can copy your scenes from any of these devices to the other.
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Once you select a Scene, use the Recall button to apply it.
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A Scene records the values for all settings for input channels, output channels, and the mixer selection.
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So be careful,
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because you might override a lot of the decisions you’ve made in your system if you use Scenes carelessly.
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With that in mind, there are certain input and output channels that you might want to write-protect,
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to make sure they are never changed when you recall a scene.
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You can do this by navigating to that channel’s Setup screen and engaging the “Channel Safe” option.
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When Channel Safe is on, a Scene recall will have no effect on this channel’s settings.
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Another safeguard you have is choosing which aspects of the Scene you want to apply when you Recall it,
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with these switches here.
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Notice that these are labeled as “Omit” switches,
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which means that by default every aspect of your inputs and outputs will be included in the Scene,
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unless you choose to omit something.
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You can choose to omit your input Levels & Sources from the Scene by engaging this button,
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or you could choose to omit all outputs or not by engaging this one.
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Again – if these are off, that means the described element is included in the Scene Recall.
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Perhaps you have a Happy Hour in your bar
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which will automatically recall a particular audio source to your zones,
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but you don’t want this action to change the output level that your bartender has already set at the time -
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—in this case, you would exclude the outputs.
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On the other hand,
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your coffee shop might have different presets to extend the mix of your live performer to the outside patio zones,
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but you obviously don’t want to change anything about the inputs when you do this…
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… in this case, you would build a scene that excludes the input levels.
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Let’s create a few scenes right now for Patrick’s Diner.
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Let’s create a lunchtime scene which has our gains set at a fairly low level.
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We’ll simply select Save,
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and give this scene a name of Lunch Scene, and specify which inputs and outputs it applies to.
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Then we’ll go in and adjust those gains a bit higher for dinnertime
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(because Patrick’s Diner is awesome at night),
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and save that as a different scene.
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Once both scenes are built,
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all you have to do to recall one or the other is to select one from the Scenes page and press the Recall button.
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However, there are several other ways to recall a scene, too.
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When you’re setting up an MP-MFC,
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you can select which scenes can be recalled from that device by enabling them in this column.
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Then, on the device, simply double-tap the Select button to see your list of available Scenes.
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You can also recall and save scenes on a smartphone running the MP-Manage app,
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provided that the user in question has been granted the permissions to do so.
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The final way is to Schedule your scene recalls, which you can do with the Scheduler.
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This is available in both the MP-Install app and in the MP-Manage app, to users with that permission.
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From the menu, select Scheduling, to see this screen.
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Here, a scheduled recall is called an Event.
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You’ll see your upcoming events listed in the left pane,
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and the ability to create new Events in the middle section.
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If you want to make an adjustment to an event you can select it and change its settings,
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but let’s create a New Event first.
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Choose a name for your event, and whether or not this event is currently active.
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This is a useful feature – if you want to de-activate an event temporarily,
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you can turn off this switch rather than deleting the event entirely.
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Then, select the date and time that you want this Scene recall to activate,
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and, of course, which Scene should be recalled.
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The Scheduling depends on the internal clock of the MP-M – if the MP-M is connected to the internet,
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then its internal clock will be automatically updated.
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If it is not connected to the internet,
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the clock may be set to match the time of a connected device from the Settings screen.
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Just go to Menu > Settings > Sync MP-M to App Time.
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Back in the Scheduler…
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If you want this scene to repeat, you could choose its repeating behavior from daily,
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weekly, monthly, weekdays, or weekends, and then the end date.
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If this is just a one-time event, then select “No Repeat,” and then don’t worry about that End Date.
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There’s not much more to it than that.
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You can use the Scheduler to automate your venue for all your regular events,
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or manually recall Scenes from your control devices.
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Thanks for watching.
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Lesson Description
Explanation of saved scenes and how to recall them, including the automated Scheduler, in the MP-M Mixer.