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Example

Playback - Fire/Release Playbacks from Usernumber

by: Peter Budd
published: October 2017
description: Fire/Release some Playbacks.
remarks: This is also an example of the use of userNumber.
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functions

affected properties

Code

firereleaseplaybacks.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<avolites.macros xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="Avolites.Menus.xsd">
  <macro id="Avolites.Macros.ReleaseLists" name="Release Lists">
    <description>Releases some playbacks.</description>
    <sequence>
      <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber:83,  Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime, true)</step>
      <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber:2,  Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime, true)</step>
      <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber:79,  Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime, true)</step>
      <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber:3,  Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime, true)</step>
      <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber:4,  Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime, true)</step>
      <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber:81,  Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime, true)</step>
      <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber:50,  Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime, true)</step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
 
  <macro id="Avolites.Macros.FirePlayback83" name="Fire Hold">
    <description>Fire Hold State.</description>
    <sequence>
      <step>Playbacks.FirePlaybackAtLevel(userNumber:83, level:1, true)</step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
 
  <macro id="Avolites.Macros.ReleasePlayback83" name="Release Hold">
    <description>Releases hold state.</description>
    <sequence>
      <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber:83,  Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime, true)</step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
</avolites.macros>

Explanation

This explains the functional steps within the sequence. For all the other XML details please refer to Formats and syntax

These macros are designed to work with specific usernumbers - either you adjust the usernumbers in the macro or you assign your playbacks the currect usernumbers.

Playbacks.ReleasePlayback() releases a certain playback in a given time - which here is taken from the property Playbacks.MasterReleaseTime.

Playbacks.FirePlaybackAtLevel fires a certain playback at a certain level.

Here, the playbacks are identifies by their userNumber. Also note the syntax of defining the level.

How to use it

  1. make this macro available
  2. These macros are designed to work with specific usernumbers - either you adjust the usernumbers in the macro or you assign your playbacks the currect usernumbers.

Another example see http://forum.avolites.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=5784: 

<sequence>
  <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber: 1, 0, false)</step>
  <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber: 2, 0, false)</step>
  <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber: 3, 0, false)</step>
  <step>Playbacks.ReleasePlayback(userNumber: 4, 0, false)</step>
  <step>Playbacks.FirePlaybackAtLevel(userNumber: 1, 1, true)</step>
</sequence>