Document Outline

• Table of contents
• Introduction
• 1 Installing the CADAC SoundAutomation Manager
  • 1.1 Computer requirements
  • 1.2 Installing from CD-ROM
  • 1.3 Installing from Floppy Disc
  • 1.4 Communicating with the console
  • 1.5 Powering-up sequence of PCs
  • 1.6 Further instructions and Help
• 2 Set the console configuration
  • 2.1 SamSetup
    • 2.1.1 Configuring the frame
    • 2.1.2 Saving a frame configuration
    • 2.1.3 Importing a console configuration
    • 2.1.4 Exporting a console configuration
    • 2.1.5 Undo
    • 2.1.6 Séance
    • 2.1.7 Update Séance
    • 2.1.8 Get Maps & Put Maps
• 3 Basic Windows® terminology
  • 3.1 Finding the Sound Automation Manager program
  • 3.2 The Parent Window
    • 3.2.1 The Child Windows
    • 3.2.2 Lock Views
    • 3.2.3 The Title Bar
    • 3.2.4 The Menu Bar
    • 3.2.5 The Tool Bar(s)
    • 3.2.6 Function keys
    • 3.2.7 Mouse clicks
    • 3.2.8 The Mouse Pointer Shape
    • 3.2.9 Context sensitive menus
• 4 Starting a show
  • 4.1 Starting the Sound Automation Manager
  • 4.2 The Cue Window
  • 4.3 The Cue Cursors
    • 4.3.1 Locking and unlocking the cursors
    • 4.3.2 The Edit Cursor
    • 4.3.3 The Current Cue Cursor
    • 4.3.4 Operating with locked cursors
    • 4.3.5 Cursor response to console commands
  • 4.4 Creating a new show
  • 4.5 Working with Cue Numbers
  • 4.6 Selecting cues
    • 4.6.1 Saving data to a cue
    • 4.6.2 Recalling a cue
    • 4.6.3 Adding a New Cue
    • 4.6.4 Renumbering cues
    • 4.6.5 Moving cues in the Cue window
    • 4.6.6 Moving cues using Cut and Paste
    • 4.6.7 Deleting Cues
  • 4.7 Editing the cue title
  • 4.8 Undo/Redo
    • 4.8.1 Undo List
  • 4.9 Cut, Copy and Paste
• 5 Configuring the SoundAutomation Manager
  • 5.1 Start-up options
  • 5.2 Select user
  • 5.3 User Properties
  • 5.4 View Properties
    • 5.4.1 The Grid class Views
    • 5.4.2 Hiding Columns
    • 5.4.3 Moving columns
    • 5.4.4 Editing features
  • 5.5 Directories
  • 5.6 Communications
    • 5.6.1 Open communications
    • 5.6.2 Tracking
    • 5.6.3 Remote Control
• 6 Opening and Saving shows
  • 6.1 Open last show
  • 6.2 Open a new show
  • 6.3 Saving a show
    • 6.3.1 Backup Show
    • 6.3.2 Restore Show
  • 6.4 Export and Import
  • 6.5 Show and console mapping conflict
  • 6.6 Load from console
  • 6.7 Load from show
  • 6.8 Re-mapper
    • 6.8.1 Re-Map upon opening a Show
    • 6.8.2 Creating Links
    • 6.8.3 Re-Mapping a correctly configured console
    • 6.8.4 Save and Load link files
    • 6.8.5 Translation and partial translation
  • 6.9 What constitutes a show on the hard disk
    • 6.9.1 Showname.Cue
    • 6.9.2 Sam.Cfg
    • 6.9.3 *.MIX
    • 6.9.4 Opening a CGC-show
• 7 Viewing and editing the Cue data
  • 7.1 Opening the Data Editing windows
  • 7.2 The Fader frame window(s)
    • 7.2.1 The Fader detail window
  • 7.3 The Module Frame Windows
  • 7.4 Naming the console modules
    • 7.4.1 Using the module names
  • 7.5 Fader/Module Sets
  • 7.6 Master Title Database View
    • 7.6.1 Ripple-through feature
  • 7.7 Additional functions
    • 7.7.1 Global editing
    • 7.7.2 Selecting the data to be updated
    • 7.7.3 Selecting the faders/modules to be set
    • 7.7.4 Selecting the cues
    • 7.7.5 Cue Notes
    • 7.7.6 Printing
• 8 MIDI features
  • 8.1 MIDI port mapping
    • 8.1.1 Advanced mapping features
  • 8.2 Static MIDI data
  • 8.3 MIDI Program Change
    • 8.3.1 Entering data for MIDI program change
    • 8.3.2 USA or Japan format
  • 8.4 MIDI names
  • 8.5 MIDI Machine Control
  • 8.6 MIDI SysEx View
  • 8.7 Dynamic MIDI data
    • 8.7.1 MIDI Sequence List
    • 8.7.2 MIDI Sequence attachment dialog box
    • 8.7.3 Merging of MIDI sequences
    • 8.7.4 MIDI sequence control
    • 8.7.5 Converting a standard MIDI sequence
  • 8.8 Events
    • 8.8.1 Event names
  • 8.9 X-Act Indicators
• 9 Dynamic Cues
  • 9.1 Definition
    • 9.1.1 Recording a Mix
    • 9.1.2 Replaying a Mix
    • 9.1.3 Editing a Mix
  • 9.2 The Mix tree
  • 9.3 Recalling Static Cues while a mixisplaying
  • 9.4 Replaying two overlapping mixes
  • 9.5 The step time feature
  • 9.6 Cross fade control
• Index