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title: OSC: Personal Monitoring Control
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Personal monitoring can allow a performer with a smart phone to set
their personal monitor mix for a floor wedge or inear monitoring.
Setup
Some setup needs to be done in the GUI mixer window before this can
work.
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Create a bus for each performer who will have personal
monitoring. A good practice is to name the bus with the
performers name.
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Connect the output of that bus to one of the audio
interface's playback ports that is not otherwise used. OSC
will now include this bus in it's list of aux buses as it
no longer has it's output connected to the Master bus.
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Add an aux send to each channel the performer needs to hear
in their personal mix. Many performers only need three or
four sources to be mixed. If the performer needs to hear a
a set of inputs that are combined into a bus, adding the
aux send to that bus may make more sense than adding ten
drum channels for example.
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If the performer wishes to hear effects in their monitor,
an extra send from the send bus, placing the performers aux
send after the effect or a plugin can be added in line in
the aux bus itself.
This gives stage or studio monitoring for the performer.
The OSC commands and feedback for personal monitoring
All of the personal monitoring commands and feedback start with a
/cue. It is expected that a surface used as a personal
monitor control will use only /cue commands.
The send controls and feedback all have the send id (1 to n) in line
as part of the OSC path. So the path for the second send would be
/cue/send/fader/2 to set the level. It is considered that
most surfaces used for this will only be able to handle one parameter.
Commands
- /cue/connect
- Returns a list of aux buses.
- /cue/aux aux-number
- where aux-number is an integer which is the aux bus
number this surface will use.
- /cue/next_aux
- Sets the the aux bus to one bus higher.
- /cue/previous_aux
- Sets the aux to one bus lower.
- /cue/connect
- Returns a list of aux buses.
- /cue/fader position
- where position is a float for the position of the fader
between 0.0 and 1.0.
- /cue/mute state
- where state is a float of 0.0 for mute off and 1.0 for mute on.
- /cue/send/fader/id position
- where position is a float for the position of the fader
between 0.0 and 1.0.
- /cue/send/enable/id state
- where state is a float of 0.0 for disable and 1.0 for enable.
Feedback
- /cue/name name
- where name is a string that is the name of the currently
selected aux bus.
- /cue/name/id name
- where name is a string that is the name of the aux bus
that id belongs to.
- /cue/fader position
- where position is a float from 0.0 to 1.0 that shows the
fader position for the selected aux bus.
- /cue/mute state
- where state is a float of 0.0 or 1.0 that shows the state
of the mute for the selected aux bus.
- /cue/signal activity
- where activity is a float of 0.0 or 1.0 that shows audio
activity for the selected aux bus.
- /cue/send/name/id name
- where name is a string that is the name of the channel
that send id belongs to.
- /cue/send/fader/id position
- where position is a float from 0.0 to 1.0 that is the position
for the fader for the send that id belongs to.
- /cue/send/enable/id state
- where state is a float of 0.0 or 1.0 that is the state
of the enable for the send that id belongs to.
While a fader is being adjusted, the corresponding /*/name
text will give the level in db.