BANGER

Access the Banger window

• Click [Banger] or Press [F11]

The main goal of the Banger is to create autonomous series of events, sent by a click, or a GO (when the banger is recorded inside a memory).

So we are mainly talking about triggering events.

The Banger is very simple to use and very powerful. You can, from inside your Cuelist, remotely trigger a lot of things.

White Cat contains 127 Bangers.

Each Banger can have 6 events.

You can trigger the following events, while White Cat is processing cues and doing other things:

• actions on faders : more than automations, you can access channel timing inside a cross-fade
• sending midi outside White Cat to control other software
• call and act upon White Cat's windows (trichromy, video tracking, chasers)
• remote controlling of 4 audio players
• visual messages (alarms)

Triggering Banger and its events

There are several approaches:

• trigger a single event with the mouse: click on the event box
• trigger a sequence of events: click [Bang it!]. When a Banger is being executed, the event box will be highlighted in red
• trigger a banger to execute on a GO by recording it in a memory
• trigger any of the 127 bangers from their display window

The 127 bangers may be called at will without restrictions:

If banger 1 is running, you can also launch 6 and 127, for example, or whatever, depending only on their content.

! Be aware, while programming a banger:

• if you code different types of events (Faders /Windows /Midi /… ) and encounter troubles in its execution*:

you should make sure the events are done one after one, with an increasing delay time: If event 1 is sent after a delay of 1.5 second, it is recommended that other events be delayed as follows: event 2 with a delay 1.6 second event 3 with a delay 1.7 second

• avoid having events out of order:

programming event 5 at delay 1.6 may kill in certain situations event 2 at delay 5.5.

• avoid programming events out of sequence:

loading an audio file needs to be done before playing it

Navigation and editing of Bangers

To navigate through the 127 Bangers:

• click [-] or [+].
• or type a number and click the Banger's number box.

To edit the name of a banger and program it, set [EDIT] to ON by clicking it

To give a short description to the selected Banger:

1. click [NAME] or press [F4]
2. type the Banger's name
3. click the red area of the name to assign the text to the banger

Events type selection

Each event may be of a different type.

The main categories of events are:

• Faders, or automating the 48 faders
• Midi Send, to send midi outside White Cat
• Windows, to handle your onscreen environment
• Alarm, to set reminders
• Audio, to act on the 4 audio players
• Sequences, to automate CueList functions
• Chasers, to handle the chaser window and functions
• Minifaders, for automating the 48 faders using minifaders logic

To create an event, just select one of those categories:

click Ev.Type box, until the type of event is the one you need.

Each type of event proposes specific actions, with dedicated parameters.

Actions are editable, such as types, by clicking the action box, until you find the desired action.

From Version 0.8.3 onward: mouse wheel allows you to quickly change the values of EV. Type and Action.

Selecting values

Val1 Val2 are the values of the actions. The meaning of Val1 and Val2 change depending on the types and actions to be performed.

Delay is a time expressed in seconds, enabling a hierarchy for triggering the bangers. Delay is express in seconds only: 1.5 is 1 second and 5 tenth of a second, 120 is two minutes.

To edit Val1, Val2 or Delay, be sure that [EDIT] is ON, type a value , click the Value or the Delay box.

Go Back information

In the following tables, you will see Go Back information. If a cross (X) is set, this feature is enabled:

• if you launch a Banger from the GO of a memory, if you do a go back, the previous state of the automation will be sent back.
• if you manually launch a Banger from the shortcut panel, a second click will cancel it, and the previous state of the automation will be restored.

This Go Back is done CUT (instantly), with no delay time considerations.

Banger's event types

Faders type

Faders category enables mostly all actions that can be done on ONE Fader.

• Fader is set by Val1 of the action.
• acting on Fader 48 will be programmed as Val1=48.
• Val1: number of fader, Val2: value of the action.

Programming values on the actions (Val2)are of 2 different types:

• ON/OFF , so 0 or 1
• attributing a dedicated value (level, speed, number of a dock to select)

Fader's chart

Actions for ONE Fader:

• Val1 = number of the fader

Programming Faders: a simple example

We will go from the following state:

• Fader 23 is at 60%,on dock 1, nothing special running.
• Fader 24 is in loop mode on dock 1 , in UP mode, and it is running.

So, paying attention to the rules we have described at the beginning of this page:

1. 0.0sec Fader 23 : set to 0% ( Val2=0) of its level
2. 0.1sec Fader 23 : selection of dock 4 (Val2=4)
3. 0.2sec Fader 23: UP ON ( Val2=1)
4. 0.3sec Fader 24: DOWN ON ( Val2=1)
5. 0.4sec Fader 24: Dock Loop OFF ( Val2=0)

Midi Send type

The midi signal is sent to the specified outputs defined in Midi CFG.

By using it from a banger, you may program the remote control of third party software (audio or video or whatever) from the CueList or a manual bang. Generally those events are triggered by a Key-on signal, but certain software, such as SeqCon asks for a Ctrl-Change.

Concerning Go Back, the signal sent depends on the activation of the midicheat in midi options (Key-Off= Key-On Vel=0).

Midi Send actions

• Val1 is Midi Channel (from 0 to 15)
• Val 2 is generally the pitch identifier

And cross-fades with Control-Change ?

Banger is a triggering events module, which means that banger is triggering on/off events, and there are no time based variations.

Trick: If you want to make a Ctrl-Change execute fades (like a video bus or a midi shutter, or any master in other software):

• attribute a midi identifier to a fader
• set the midi out of this fader
• its value will be sent as actions are performed on this fader
• control the fader with a Banger using Fader's type actions to do fades (up/down/saw )

Windows type

It is possible to open or close the different windows in White Cat from a Banger, configuring your workspace independent of the CueList or your manual calls.

Using these bangers you can configure and automate the workspace.

Alarm type

Alarm is a special window, just for memo and reminder needs. For example, let's say you are forgetting that at 3:45 after a Go to set play of your Minidisc player and give the TOP to stage craft: the Alarm is there precisely to remind you.

• Val1 is not used

Assigning a text:

1. Set event type as= Alarm
2. click [NAME] or press [F5]
3. type your text
4. Click the Action box in front of the Alarm type to load the text inside.

Be aware there is only ONE Alarm TEXT per banger recordable in a banger !

Audio Players type

• The audio player is defined in value 1 of the action (so it is a 1-4 range value).
• Remote controlling player 2 is Val1=2.
• Val1: player number, Val2: action value

Values programmed to actions (Val2) are of 2 types:

• ON/OFF , so 0 or 1
• a precise level (volume/pan/pitch): expressed from 0 to 127. Where, for Pan and Pitch, 64 is the default normal value.

Be aware that those actions are performed ONLY if a player is loaded with a valid audio file. You can't set values to a player if it contains no audio file.

Actions and values for audio players

Automated cross-fade Question

As we have mentioned before about fading midi commands, Banger is just triggering the events. To do an automated audio cross-fade you will need to assign the volume of your players to the Faders. Then use the UP/DOWN/SAW abilities, with StopPos and the Curves options of a fader.

Sequences type (CueList)

This type is for acting on the CueList

CueList Values and actions

Chasers type

Actions quoted [Ch.Sel] are only done on the selected chaser in the Chaser Window . All others can be done for all chasers, without passing through the chaser window.

Actions and values for chasers

MiniFaders type

MiniFaders provides a global view of the 48 faders, accessible through ([SHIFT F10]).

Minifaders actions and values

iCat type

Thsi category concerns Fantastick-iCat, the iPod/Phone remote for WhiteCat.

Chrono type

This category concerns the Time window ( F6 ) and its Chronometer

SetChannel type

This category manipulates channel Val1 using Val2. It contains big families, depending the operation being done in per cent values, or in Dmx range. The operation is done onstage or in blind, depending BLIND position ( CTRL-F11)

Set Banger Type

This category enables you to incorporate the launch of another banger inside a banger, or to rollback actions perfromed by another banger being launched.

MidiMute Type

This category enables you to mute a specific midi entry and to set manually your midi fader at the right level, without reporting it inside White Cat. This is designed for non-motorized control surfaces.

GridPlayer Category

This category allows you to perform actions on the 4 Gridplayers in the Grid module.

Hardware Category

This category is dedicated to hardware managment

Emulate Kbd Category

This category enables keyboard emulation, enabling you keyboard macros, or to pilot thuth the arduino and its Bang! function all the function of WhiteCat.

Catégorie Draw

Catégorie Echo

Echo selected in Echo Window

Echo is Val1

Recording a Banger inside a memory

To record a banger in a memory:

1. type banger number
2. click banger box of the memory to assign it to

If BANGER mode is ON, the banger is sent when GO is triggered. It can also be sent by quick navigation action (clicking on [Stage-]/[Stage+] or using [CTRL-W]/[CTRL-X], this all without delays.

In Go-Back, already sent events will be instantly returned to their previous state (no time calculation for the moment)

At the moment (v.0.7.5) the speed of the cross-fader is not affected by the bangers.

To clear a Banger assigned to a memory: type 0 and load banger 0 inside the banger box of the memory.

Midi Assignment

Bang it, the 6 solo event senders and + - navigations are midi assignable, which means you can use only a 3 keys midi surface and manipulate a lot of macros from it, or use the banger system and the 6 keys to trigger personal actions.

See Midi Configuration and Midi Assignments .

General shortcut to the 127 bangers

This general view enables you to visualize which Banger has been sent.

A click on an already sent banger (flashing in red) will do the equivalent of a go back.

To have access to the go-back function (re-launching a banger) there is a stay on time that the user may specify. Sometimes all the bangs are happening in less than a seconds, which is annoying when you have to go back to the beginning.

If you have manually sent a banger from *Bang it!*, it is the time limit defined in Bang Stay-on Time (*[CFG Menu] > General*) that will be used to access to Go Back:

If you set Stay-On time at 3 (seconds), any banger sent manually will have a minimum time of execution of 3 seconds.

If its events are delayed more than 3 seconds, the global time of a banger will take precedence and be its highest time of delay.

This also works the same way with Bangers sent from the CueList, by a GO.

Copy one Banger to Another

version 0.8.3.1

You can copy the contents of the selected banger in the Banger window to another banger in the Banger Shortcut window.

To do this:

• Click [Copy To]
• Then click the banger you want to copy to in the Banger shortcut window.
• Confirm