List: a short description of the channels

LIST allows you to give a name or a description to your channels and to have a quick look at their levels onstage.

To call the LIST window:

• Click [LIST]

A vertical scroll bar and line +/line - buttons allow you to navigate up and down within the 512 channels.

Channels have a background color that brightens as the intensity level gets higher:

• from Cue List (blue color)
• from Faders (orange color)

The actual level is also displayed.

To edit the information in LIST:

• select the [EDIT] box

Giving a name to a channel

• Open the NAME window, by clicking [NAME] or by pressing [F5]
• Type the description, nickname or gel number…
• Using the mouse hover above the channel description area in the list window
• Click in the background oval to load the text inside of it (or click where it would be if the channel were on)

Clearing the channel description

• Same as previous but don't type any text.

Channel Macros

version 0.8.2.7

It is now possible to record macros inside the channel function, to trigger events from a channel.

The macro editing is done from [LIST].

Macros are designed mainly for two purposes:

• enabling the recording of audioplayers directly from Cuelist, without using a banger

• enabling events triggering depending on a channel state condition

Those macros are triggered by conditions, based on the level of the channel, either coming from the CueList and then from the Faders Buffer. It is the highest output from those two buffers which is used.

So, macros may be used from CueList recording, or triggered from Faders or chasers, or from the video tracking tool.

Macro Process:

1. White Cat verifies the level of channels
2. if the channel has changed its level
3. if the macro is ON
4. if the channel condition is met (is true)
5. then Macro is triggered

Editing Macro

LIST must be in EDIT mode.

Last Channel selected is the one you are editing.

There are 4 macros available per channel.

Each macro is presented as follow:

Condition, Action and On/Off are edited with a click of the mouse.

Val 1 and Val2: type value, click val 1 or val 2 box.

Condition

Each macro is composed of a conditional trigger:

and a very specific condition which is more an instruction than a condition:

Val 1

Val 1 is channel level, argument of the condition.

Action

There are some actions and certain actions are only performed under certain conditions:

Please note that using midi to remote control other parts of White Cat, you will need to use MidiYoke as input/output to loop back the signal in White Cat. This option enables you to access all functions of White Cat thru midi assignment.

A concrete example: an audioplayer on two channels

Channel 1:

• will be used to assign channel files from the audio list. The intensity of the channel will be the file number. It will be assigned to Player audio 1

Channel 2:

• if the channel 2 is greater than 0, this will trigger the PLAY of audioplayer 1
• if channel 2 is equal to 0, STOP and SEEK to beginning of audioplayer 1
• channel 2 level is also remote controlling the volume of audioplayer 1