Phil Mckerracher Posted Saturday at 09:44 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 09:44 PM I occasionally use a Leapfrog 48 desk at a small theatre in the UK, and it has recently (I think) gained the ability to disable "page handover" on "playbacks" (previously called "submasters"). It's a brilliant feature but it seems to have a fatal flaw - there's no quick way to clear them all. Or is there? I can't find any documentation about this. So that's my question - how can I quickly clear all the active playbacks, if they are scattered around the 20 available pages? For context, I use playbacks quite often to add effects to live music shows - things like spotlighting soloists, changing colours to follow the mood, pulsing for a disco effect, chases and so on. The problem is there are only 10 of them and I typically have more effects than that. There are 20 pages though so in theory 200 effects are available to me, but until now "page handover" meant only 10 could be actively in use at any one time. Then I discovered someone had disabled the page handover feature (I think) and now I can bring up multiple effects on any of the 20 pages. Fantastic! The only problem is, at the end of the song I faded to black using the master fader and tried to clear everything ready for the next scene by pulling down all 10 playbacks and pressing CLEAR a couple of times and it didn't work! I seem to be required to cycle through 20 pages of playbacks looking for the active ones and clear them individually. Meanwhile the audience is in the dark and getting restless. That's unacceptable and so the feature is useless. Surely there must be a way, though? I would have expected multiple CLEAR presses or perhaps SHIFT + CLEAR or something would do it, but I couldn't find a way (in the time available, I only have occasional access). Am I missing something? Quote Phil McKerracher www.mckerracher.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted Sunday at 08:16 AM Report Share Posted Sunday at 08:16 AM Hi Phil Not sure what buttons you have on your console but CLEAR+Fader Function is how you do it on FLX. Probably you have equivalent buttons on your LeapFrog. https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/playing-back-cues/triggering-releasing-playbacks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Mckerracher Posted Sunday at 02:01 PM Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 02:01 PM That looks promising. Is "Fader Function" what I would call the "flash" button under each "submaster"? (Giving away my age here!). If it's a single button on the main console I don't think I have that. Quote Phil McKerracher www.mckerracher.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgallen Posted Sunday at 05:18 PM Report Share Posted Sunday at 05:18 PM Maybe the Memories button. For Solution console that’s what that manual page says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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