360 Systems DigiCart/II Plus - Manual (Page 77)

DigiCart/II Plus Owner's Manual Stack Mode • 65
S PECIAL E FFECTS
Rotating Stacks can be useful for grouping together various effects to be used in production or
during an air-shift. By dialing back and forth within the stack in Edit Mode, any item can be
accessed and played immediately.
Compound Stack
A Compound stack is one that contains other stacks. For a Linear Stack containing a Rotating
Stack, each time the Linear Stack is played the Rotating element will be different. This allows you
to introduce an ever changing freshness into a routine "air break" package. A Rotating Stack
containing a Linear Stack will play all the Linear elements the same way each time without restarts.
The power of this system comes from the freedom to change any element without needing to
rebuild an entire package. If a spot's contents remain the same, but must have a "this morning",
"this afternoon", "this evening" time reference, only the contents of one cut needs to change. The
basic spot's stack is copied to two other stack IDs and the time of day reference cut changed in the
copies. Adding a simple "M", "A", and "E" to the fifteen-character stack name for identification.
NOTE: A stack containing an embedded stack may not be embedded in another stack. A stack with
more than one level of embedding will be marked with an " * " and will not play. If you attempt to
save a Quickstack that contains a compound stack, a “STACK ERROR” message will result.
Creating A Stack
The process of making a stack (playlist) begins with creating a Quickstack by using PAUSE or
MAKE PLAYLIST on the RC-210/220 Remote control from 360 Systems. Often the Quickstack
list is a one-time-only sequence, created "on the fly". Sometimes you will want to reuse the
sequence. This decision must be made before the Quickstack is played. Each drive's Stack
Directory can hold 1000 stacks, so you might want to establish the practice of saving each new
Quickstack as a stack. It is easy to erase a stack if you change your mind.
While it is not mandatory, it is recommended that only files of the same sample rate be used for
Quickstacks and Playlists. Keeping the same sample rate in all recordings avoids the possibility of an
audible ‘pop’ as the sample rate changes from cut to cut during playback of stacks with multiple sample
rates.
Building A Quickstack
1. Press the PAUSE button. (It will illuminate when pressed.)
2. Use the SELECT control and the Left and Right POSITION buttons to select a
cut or stack (An event).
3. Press the PLAY button to add the first event to the Quickstack.
X.XXXX (EVENT NAME)
1 HH:MM:SS
The number under the event ID counts the entries in the Quick stack.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to add as many cuts or stacks as needed to the list. The
display shows:
X.XXXX (EVENT NAME)
2 HH:MM:SS