Administrator Commands
| Site: | QSC |
| Course: | Q-SYS Level 1 Hybrid |
| Book: | Administrator Commands |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Sunday, 24 November 2024, 2:43 AM |
Description
Video Transcript
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The Q-SYS Administrator allows you to set up and maintain various Q-SYS resources.
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You can load and manage audio files, customize user access, configure scheduled events, and much more.
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We’ll walk through each of these versatile functions one by one,
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but first you have to launch Q-SYS Administrator.
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You can only do this while running the design on Core Hardware or in Emulation mode.
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Then, you can access the Administrator through the Q-SYS Designer software
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by selecting the Administrator icon in the upper-right hand corner
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or by going to the File menu and selecting Tools > Show Q-SYS Administrator.
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You can also use the stand-alone version of the Administrator program,
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which you can download from the QSC website.
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Using the stand-alone version rather than going through the Designer software allows the user to
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perform administration tasks without having access to the running design.
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Simply launch the program, select File>Administer, and select an available running design.
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On the left side of the Administrator interface you will see a column of navigable tabs,
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each of which controls a different aspect of the running design.
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These include Commands, Command Schedule, Users, User Control Interfaces, Audio Files, and Event Log.
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If you have a public address system in your design, then you will also see tabs for PA Global Settings,
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Page Stations, and PA Zones. We’ll ignore these three tabs for now,
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but if you’d like more information on them, check out the Paging Tutorial on qsctraining.com.
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Let’s start with Commands. This tab allows you to create specific actions called commands,
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which you can then automate using the Command Schedule tab.
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Commands can also be activated from page stations. To create a command,
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click the plus icon at the top of the center section: there are four types of commands,
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though you will only be presented with options available to you.
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There are PA Page Commands, PA Play Message Commands, Control Change Commands,
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and Snapshot Load Commands. The PA commands will both be covered in the Paging Tutorial
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with the other public address features, so let’s look at the other two.
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A Control Change Command does exactly what it implies, it will change a control of your choice.
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In order to make a control available for this feature, you’ll need to add it to your Named Controls bin.
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Here let’s show you how: let’s disconnect from the Core and go back to design mode.
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We’ll drag an Audio Player from our Schematic Library into our Schematic, open its control panel,
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and we’ll drag a few of its controls into the Named Controls bin.
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This doesn’t move the controls or remove them from the component,
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it simply makes them accessible for control outside of the Schematic.
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If you don’t have any controls in this bin, then you won’t have the option to add
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add a Control Change Command in the Administrator. So let’s save our design to the Core
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and run it again to gain access to the Administrator, and we’ll add a Control Change Command.
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This settings menu will let us configure our new command.
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You can name the command anything you like, let’s name this one “Gain to Full
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we’ll use it to put the gain all the way up. You can also give it a numeric code of your choice
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we’ll name this one 150 for some reason. This code is a sequence
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that can be entered at a page station to remotely launch the command.
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Next you’ll want to select which Control will be changed, we’ll select the Gain,
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and then select the Value that it will be changed to – we’re going to set it to 20 decibels.
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For a Gain knob like this one you can also select the Ramp Time,
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which is how many seconds it will take to reach the value. Let’s have it take five seconds.
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Now, certain controls are momentary, such as the Pause Button,
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we’ll make a new command that’s the “Pause Button. And you can see here than rather than input a value
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it simply indicates that the Pause control will be triggered when the Command is engaged.
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Once you’ve configured your command, select the OK button
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and you’ll see it added to your Commands list. In this list you can review your commands,
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arrange them in ascending or descending order by each of these columns, you can adjust the column sizes,
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or edit their settings once again by double-clicking them.
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Alright, the next type of Command is the Snapshot Load Command.
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A Snapshot Load Command will load a saved Snapshot that you have in one of your Snapshot Banks.
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For more information on creating snapshots, check out the Snapshot Tutorial on qsctraining.com.
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In this settings menu, simply select the name of your Snapshot Bank
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we’ll use the Global one - which Snapshot number you would like to recall,
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and then the ramp time to change its associated values.
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Alright so let’s take a break right there.
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In the next section we’ll learn about how to add tags to your Commands
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as well as how to automate your Command events using the Command Scheduler.
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So feel free to move on whenever you’re ready.
Lesson Description
Get an introduction to the Administrator and learn to create commands.
Tips and Definitions
Commands: User-defined actions that can be scheduled or remotely triggered
Ramp Time: The length of time it takes for a Command to fade to its new value.
In order to create a Control Change Command, you need to have controls in your Named Controls bin.
You can download a stand-alone Administrator application.
The PA Global Settings, Page Stations, and PA Zones tabs are covered in the Public Address tutorial.