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1. D GISPOT II Broadcast System User Manual MAG Content Rotation for Music and Jingle Schedule creation LA P The Building Blocks to set up a complete System for Radio Broadcast operation to grow with the Needs E Mail Info barthkg com Internet http www barthkg com Elektronik und Akustik Grillparzerstra e 6a 22085 Hamburg Tel 040 229 74 47 Fax 040 22 32 09 BARTH Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik 248 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Page 2 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC I Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG PRAEDAS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH i P I KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu Table Of Contents LO WHATI MAG oren T T E E a 5 1 1 System requirements ansannnnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnmnnn 5 2 WORKING WITH THE PROGRAM cccccccecceeceeeeeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeneeneenseneeneon
2. e Arrow downwards Move selected audio tracks one position closer to the end of the list e Arrow downwards resting against a line Move selected audio tracks to the end of the list e Two shaped arrows Swap the selected audio tracks in the list e Sh Shuffle Reshuffle the order of audio tracks e SP Spread Evenly spread the order of audio tracks The list of all categories is resulted in the left vertical column and the list of elements Songs and other components of broadcasting commercials jingles broadcasts news in the right column To add or remove fields necessary for work in lists of categories and elements place the cursor of the mouse at the heading of the list and click right button The window List Customization appears on the screen Page 8 of 50 te copyright RBKG amp TRC WEE Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MASTAINALNA and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu List customization x Cem pe pe p p a a E i 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 o Owner dblD ID Number Version 5 Oooo Dur 00 00 0 Type 3 Archieve bal Name 300 lv Interlaced h
3. FED Page 30 of 50 SOP oe copyright RBKG amp TRC I I Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MURTAGI and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH i P I KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu Similarly works the Restrictions by texture rule And finally here we have the last rule Restrictions for items using by day time Restrictions are set in a card of every song in the MAG window Here they are only activated Set up the texture restriction rules x to 1_ pb 3_ _5_ Tou can set up the restrictions for placing in a row two tithes whith different types of stark and end texture Vertically placed are ending texture of compositions which can not be a previous composition and horizontally placed are starting texture of compositions which can not be a nest composition 1 most light texture for example violins most heavy texture for example drums Cancel Fig 32 The window Set up the texture restriction rules 2 6 6 Remarks on using of rotation rules In conclusion some comments to the general rules of programming At making of the list of rules of programming and first of all of artistic rules it is veryimportant to set up priorities which determine the gene
4. You have to enter the name of a new category for example HOT it will be a category of hot hits and press OK The new category HOT appears in the left column List of categories You can also choose its color by double clicking on a small square located to the left of the name of a category Thus you can create so much categories as you need proceeding from your vision of the musical program for example List of categories i4 COLD Fig 5 List of created categories Folders Jingles News etc are filled in the same way You can delete previously created categories with the help of the context menu opened by right button mouse click on the list of categories Similarly with the help of the same named commands you can Add new subcategory Print selected categories Export selected categories to file Besides items of the context menu allow to expand the tree of viewed categories Let s note that at deleting of a category elements belonging to it are not erased but rather transferred to the category Unspecified Filling in a card After we have defined and created all necessary categories we proceed directly to filling in song cards It is possible to make it in two ways by means of the Add new object button located on the toolbar or by adding several files to the chosen musical category simultaneously In the first case the Properties window is opened where you have to register all parameters of a created element To
5. a BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Fig 45 Rubber string 010 0 A A 10 20 30 60 Al om 1 2 Py Fig 46 Toolbar View Area The button increases the view area zoom in on of the current one and the button reduces it on There is a button which sets a reference point for performance of scaling operation and has two states safe If the first state of the button is fixed the scaling is carried out from the center of the screen in the case of the second state from a left edge The following three buttons 1 2 and 1 2 are intended for viewing of crossfades Pressing of the button 1 changes the point of viewing and the view area in such way that entire first crossfade is placed onto the screen The button 2 allows to view the second crossfade in case if three elements are opened and the button 1 2 sets such scale that both crossfades completely fit onto the screen If one of these buttons remains pressed it redefines the reference point by scaling In this case the center of scaling can be the center of one of crossfades or the central point between two crossfades The button M enables the scale memorization mode If it is pressed the program remembers the scale of the image when saving a crossfade and when the
6. web www tract ru web www digispot eu If necessary you can create your own attributes with any set of values It can be done from the DB settings window on the tab Attributes and their values For attributes displayed on the given tab special rules named Restrictions and limitations for the XXXX attribute xxxx the name of the concrete attribute are created in the program These rules allow limiting the number of elements going successively with identical value of attribute maximum number of specified values in one hour and so on With the help of the tab Remote control is possible to create commands and attach them to the chosen elements of the schedule For example it is possible e To create command for switching on off of an indicator panel MIC ON during operation of Microphone insert element of the schedule e To start the tape recorder for playing back at a pause inserted in the schedule and to provide thereby it s filling with an external source e To submit a command about switching over of retransmission router Besides options of the tab Remote control allows to implement many other things which require complex decision technology and automation of radio station Methods of physical implementation of command can be very different but the main thing that in the certain moment the certain command comes out of a serial port of broadcasting station which can be interpreted and transformed unequivocally in GPO or o
7. Absent December 2007 Saturday Absent December 2007 Sunday Absent December 2007 Monday Absent December 2007 Tuesday Absent December 2007 Wednesday Absent December 2007 Thursday Absent December 2007 Friday Absent December 2007 Saturday Absent December 2007 Sunday Absent December 2007 Monday Absent December 2007 Tuesday Absent December 2007 Wednesday Absent December 2007 Thursday Absent December 2007 Friday Absent December 2007 Saturday Absent December 2007 Sunday Absent 44 December 2007 Monday Absent December 2007 Tuesday Absent December 2007 Wednesday Absent December 2007 Thursday Absent December 2007 Friday Absent December 2007 Saturday Absent December 2007 Sunday Absent 5 December 2007 Monday Absent Cancel Fig 35 Select schedule window Note that if you have generated the schedule and then removed it the order of generating of elements of all categories will be returned in the condition in which they had been prior to the start of generating of deleted schedules Repeated generation without change of parameters of rules and so on gives the result identical to removed schedule After pressing the Schedule generation button the window of log with showing percent of performance and number of generated elements appears on the screen positions for which the program could not pick up suitable audio tracks are also shown After finishing of generating of the s
8. Barth KG EREADER and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu cases when some knights of broadcasting simply destroyed cards of unloved songs But even if DJs worked with observance of all instructions some rules regulations often clashed with each other In result the program left much to be desired as the rules of rotation constantly became more complicated and there were more and more rigid requirements to software product in conditions of tougher competition The card system has simply gradually become obsolete because it was enough primitive and did not cope any more with the tasks put before it Then its basic computer variants which began to work much better without human problems or restrictions have been created However don t think that computer programs could solve all questions The person continues to play a determining role in creation of play lists The computer program is only the tool assisting to the person and a basis of broadcasting its structure etc is created first in a head and only then brought into machine according to individual vision of the expert engaged in musical programming It is the main element To master MAG virtuously it is necessary first
9. List of categories 4 Fig 15 Created categories Usually at mentioned above order there are 12 13 songs fitting in one hour If we decide that we have more smash hits in our program than songs of hot rotation we get HOT 2 broadcasts per hour NEW 2 WARM 3 COLD 4 DANCE 1 Now we have to prepare all non musical elements which are present in clocks except for categories We have 3 commercial blocks and one news block in our clock 2 5 3 Non musical event Besides mixes there are also non musical events in clocks usually they are commercial and news blocks but you can have also any other time interval which is not filled with music Inserting of non musical event in clock reserves necessary time interval in it and forces the Page 18 of 50 Ko copyright RBKG amp TRC V EEA TRAIT mail info tract ru web www tract ru Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe m Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik 248 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail sales digispot eu web www digispot eu program to generate the block of corresponding type in the resulting schedule Non musical events are added in clock from the list of non musical events Initially the list is empty you have to create yourself all necessary events for your clock To create non musical event open th
10. Mix E H electronic 2 218 ri cfl Hold me back Generator i 2 19 W eG Space Ballad for the space lover aus BEE 2 50 i D J Slaide Schedule generation 8 Analyse and history ef Right or Wrong ef Rapture eel Run A vay ef Rhythm Is A Dancer 2003 Radio Edit fl Catch Me cf Another vay fl Piople cf Armour d Stay etl lda muttz wassuup ef ALARMA ef Meet Her At The Love Parade G In My Mind ef v ill Survive Dance mix 2002 etl Nowhere To Hide ef Since you ve been gone _Marba e fl Icvrclone Dw oy Aw 7 eb hw DD Fig 1 Main window of MAG application Erika lio The Soun Snap Antiloop Paul van I Sound lowe Porn King sash BEE Da Hool Antiloop Gloria Ga Antiloop M Evergre Duh Piet In the top horizontal field of the main window you can see basic working menu points which will be repeatedly referred to In the left vertical field the main push button menu is located which allows to pass from one functional program window into another These windows are only five Music Database Rules for categories and Attributes Clock and week matrix Schedule Generation and Analysis and history Functional buttons are located in the central horizontal field a 3 e a sort by schedule order P A cae Sh Shuffle aS am A ce el Gs eX 2 A atitens Sp spread Fig 2 Functional buttons of MAG application The first line features the following functional butto
11. Software for Audio R Barth KG and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik 248 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Page 4 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC I Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG MIAGEANUMLRS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH i P I KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu 1 WHAT IS MAG MAG is the computer program intended for compilation of play lists for radio stations of different formats both musical and news It is very convenient accessible easy to use system developed for needs of musical editors program directors producers and advisers of modern radio stations 1 1 System requirements DIGISPOT II software works under the control of Microsoft Windows XP system file system NTFS on Intel compatible computers Following technical requirements are made to system performance e RAM optimum requirements of operational system 128 256 Mb depending on configuration of the DIGISPOT II software e HDD minimum 50 Mb of an empty space on har
12. TRC Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail sales digispot eu web www digispot eu The third tab is Distribution It allows to see how many times songs of the necessary for you category have been broadcasted for the certain term If received results are differed not so much there are no mistakes in using of musical material by the generator of play lists If at a once in three days rate of songs rotation for the 30 days period you receive the result when the part of compositions was played back20 times and a part of them 1 2 times instead of average figure 10 for the overwhelming majority of songs it means that your record library is badly balanced or there are serious mistakes in settings of the generator of play lists the superfluous or incorrectly set rules small search depth etc nalysis and History Week grid MAIN z IV Select active From os September 2007 Category NEW Clocks Rotation pattern ih Distribution pn mode Plan History Title Days to display 3 Culture beat Mr Yain Recall CJ Stone remix Played A Live Walk this Land 99 mix Paul Yan Dyke For An Angel Robert Miles amp Ayla Remix The Mission Clubbed To Death Kurayamino M Your Thick Promo Mysterious Times Secret Club Mix Crush YUN NN NNN NNNN HO Fig 55 Distribution o
13. attributes J3 Jingles W3 Music List of assigned rules for this category etaric dagoe KI Rear piel 3 3 3 3 3 m 1 Category All Nonbreakable rules Ea There are no nonbreakable rules powermetal _ rap rus _ pop rus _ mp2 _Jhip hop MDANCE MHOT MicoLp NEw LIWARM Breakable rules There are no breakable rules A Add rules Delete rules r Available rules Rule Description of parameters Minimum rest for a song specify days hours and minutes Separation from yesterday s position specify hours and minutes Separation from position 2 days ago specify hours and minutes Separation from position 1 week ago specify hours and minutes Separation between positions on Friday and Monday specify hours and minutes Artist separation specify days hours and minutes Yesterday artist separation specify hours and minutes Title separation specify days hours and minutes Number of plays before placing to same hour specify number of on air plays of Fig 27 The window of Rules for categories and attributes All rules of programming generating of categories can be divided into two big groups nonbreakable and breakable If the rule gets in nonbreakable category it becomes absolute and firm i e at programming of the schedule the computer cannot break it under any circumstances If the computer has no choice it leaves a line of the song blank There is a positive momen
14. classified by a sound there will be no necessity to apply numerous artistic rules while programming and it will be quite possible to use only historical rules determining rotation mathematics of songs of various categories on broadcasting Once again we repeat the less is a number of rules and the simpler are they the more fully used is radio records library and the sound of your radio station is richer Page 6 of 50 hPa copyright RBKG amp TRC Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe m Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik 242 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu 2 1 Beginning working with the application The MAG configuration is a set of interface windows allowing working with different functions of the program depending on necessity After opening the application we are in the first window 22 MAG 2 13 17 er 2 12 70 August 31 2007 Unregistered version File View Service Help Music Database a ale c 23 gt a E BD atitens sort by schedule order oh shuffle op Spread re List of categories 7 SS EOSS Category a gt El Rules for categories au x a Dur Type Mame 0000 O O Artist life cull ties epean 2 15 ed Groove Armada Isee you baby Fatboy slim
15. finish formation of one hour clock the example of result of work is shown on fig 21 Total average time keeping of clock is 59 minutes and 30 seconds The real generated schedule will be either little more than an hour or little less depending on durations of real audio tracks More often several clocks are used for creation of more flexible program Also the so called working special clocks which are the copies of the basic clock are created but they include the certain events taking place just in this hour this day of week for example a rubric or interactive insert etc Clock content Title News WARM THRESHING HOT THRESHING COLD Commercial 1 WARM THRESHING MESA THRESHING l AA TIE a Nf News 03 00 COLD Commercial 2 COLD THRESHING HOT THRESHING WARM Commercial 3 COLD THRESHING THA 00 05 NEw 03 27 THA 00 05 gt 55 COL 04 05 AU c Comme 03 00 a5 WAR 03 45 THR 00 05 40 HOT 04 10 oe THR 00 05 COL 04 05 WAR 03 45 00 gg THR 00 05 HOT 04 10 10 THA 00 05 COL 04 05 15 c Comme 03 00 wall WAR 03 45 25 THA 00 05 3 NEw 03 27 THA 00 05 NEV c Comme 03 00 COL 04 05 E THRESHING MHM DANCE Fig 21 Ready clock 2 5 5 Week grid The week grid is necessary for placing of created hourly clocks within the limits of a week pattern In the air program you can have several week grids but only one of them marked as a
16. lt Spacebar gt opens a PFL window for monitoring of the beginning of an audio track After the first 5 seconds of playback the window will be closed if the user did not interfere into playback process lt Shift gt lt Spacebar gt opens the PFL window for the monitoring of the end of an audio track Playback starts 5 seconds prior to the end of an audio track After the end of playback the window will be closed if the user did not interfere into playback process The PFL window is present practically in all modules and windows of the program containing audio tracks in a list or in other representation jingle machine Such program module does not contain a special item of the context menu for execution of this operation by default the key lt Spacebar gt is used for PFL activation Note that after installation of the program prelistening is forbidden to allow PFL you have to specify the playback device in Service gt Settings gt PFL 2 7 2 2 Crossfade Editor The crossfade editor could be opened by clicking Crossfade or Crossfade 3 items from the context menu of the schedule Crossfade item opens the crossfade between two or three elements for editing and Crossfade 3 opens three audio elements the element previous to selected one selected element and the element next after it There can be elements such as Info between audio elements they do not influence activation of the editor The example of the crossfade editor window is
17. positions To divide 745 songs by 96 positions 7 76 day i e 7 days 18 hours and 14 minutes Now deduct a number of songs readable for the search depth from this category If the search depth is 14 songs it will make 745 14 731 Now with the help of the same simple mathematical manipulations let s calculate an average time of rotation of songs without 14 compositions readable for the search depth In result we get approximately 7 days and 15 hours It just will be in our case the time of minimal rest for songs for COLD category If we decide to use this rule it is absolutely non obligatory we mark it in the bottom field then with the help of the mouse or with the help of the Add rules window we move it in the top field Thus there is one more window of value of a rule appears where we set the required value in our case 7 days and 15 hours and confirm our decision by pressing OK List of assigned rules for this category Monbreakable rules Minimum rest for a song 1 dd O0 hh Omm Total nonbreakable rules count 1 Breakable rules There are no breakable rules Rule Minimum rest for a song X Days f Hours 15 Minutes 0 roe Add rules Delete rules Fig 28 The rule Minimal rest for a song To change parameters of already added rule select it in the list and double click it Now the rule is programmed and adjusted and we can go further The next rule is the Separation from yesterday s position As
18. shown on fig 42 Page 40 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe m Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik 242 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu E Crossfade Crush Nothing but you lh z 7 x j 0 10 0 e A BA ao 20 eo a e a 2 AM 1 Fig 42 Crossfade Editor If you are opening crossfade editor by selecting of Crossfade item three elements will be opened in case if selected element has a type Jingle or Voice track Elements of the given types usually have short duration therefore it is more convenient to carry out joint crossfade of three elements at once previous to jingle element jingle itself and next after it Elements in the crossfade editor are displayed per line each subsequent lays below previous For each of elements its waveform is shown graphically displaying a level of a signal of an element The top half of a track corresponds to a level of the left channel and bottom half of the right channel Each element has a frame with 4 knots by moving them with a mouse you can edit certain parameters of an element An active audio track in particular for which indications of the level indicator are valid in the moment is selected wit
19. third left line is End tempo This characteristic is equivalent to Start tempo The first right line is Energy Energy has something similar with Mood however it is not the same E nergy 3 middle Start texture 4 middle E nd Texture Fig 12 Energy of an audio track The composition can be very sad but very much energetic First of all it concerns songs in rock style And on the contrary cheerful pop song can be very light with enough low energy Usually while programming we choose one of these characteristics depending on format to which we orient For example in rock formats is more used Energy and in pop is more likely used Mood One more important characteristic is Start texture The texture is understood as density of a musical substance Start teMture 7 E nd Texture for scheduling by MAG Fig 13 Start texture of an audio track For example texture 1 it can mean lonely voice or lonely violin flute or another silent instrument and texture 5 can mean a roar of rock group while sounding of final part of FE Page 16 of 50 Kaer copyright RBKG amp TRC Seed 4 PAaPABOT TKA Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MRCAOIAS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction m
20. to acquire bases of musical programming And I ll help you with a pleasure Not the computer makes everything instead of the person but the person realizes his creative potential through the computer There are also the cards for every song forming a database in a form of radio records library All songs are divided into categories Within the frames of a category songs form working virtual piles which are rotated in conformity with the clock grid created by the person The person determines the depth of search of songs in a pile for the computer creates rules necessary for rotation of a musical material and places them according to priorities created by him Thus the easier rules the better and more in full radio records library is used for play list generation Let us talk more detailed about it MAG is the generator of play lists providing some methods or opportunities for the control over rotation of music material These methods can be conventionally sorted into two big groups artistic characteristics of songs and historical mathematical rules First group allows carrying out the control over propagation of songs according to those artistic rules which you determine for them for example tempo texture density of music material mood etc Second group of rules is based on the control of time of broadcasting of the song at which minute of an hour on which date in relation to previous time when this song was on air During programmin
21. to the full manual of the system for detailed information It is possible to return to displaying of the MAG schedule by repeated pressing of the same button 2 3 1 Import of commercials Import of contents of commercial and other blocks is possible both in MAG schedule and in On air schedule For import of the schedule it is necessary to adjust preliminary an import format after what an import of contents of commercials is carried out directly in the generated schedule For import of the schedule select the Import from text file item from the menu opened by pressing the button in the top right corner of the schedule window Process of import in the program MAG does not differ from import operation in the program DJin Therefore for more detailed information address to the full manual of the DIGISPOT Il system 2 8 Analysis and history Analysis and history are functions very interesting and important for correct setting of the program To use these functions it is necessary first to create clocks and to set the order of use this or that clock to fill in a week grid There are 3 tabs on the window Analysis and history Clocks Rotation pattern and Distribution 2 8 1 The Clocks tab The information about categories involved in a grid chosen for the analysis the Week grid list is submitted on the Clocks tab fig Fig 48 Copyright RBKG amp TRC LOY oe Page 45 of 50 V s Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Aud
22. use the second way select the category in the List of categories where you are going to add new songs Select View File browser in the main menu Page 12 of 50 hor copyright RBKG amp TRC TR AKT mail info tract ru web www tract ru Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe m BARTH Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction File View Service Help w Tools w Status Show system messages Database browser File browser Toolbars Fig 6 View File browser command e mail web sales digispot eu www digispot eu The files window with address line appears on the screen Select the location of already recorded music for example i Title bi a se E a eey ate Uador Artist Ecuador Artist Ecuador Artist Ecuador Artist Ecuador Artist Ecuador Artist Ecuador Artist Ecuador Artist Ecuador Artist cH Conquest Of Par Ecuador Artist cH Pastor Solitario Ecuador Artist Fig 7 Window of files File browser Mark the chosen song or songs and drag it with a mouse in a field with the list of category elements or directly on the name of category in the list of categories This way allows adding several elements of category simultaneously what speeds up the process of creation of musical base The card is filled au
23. Comme 03 00 PEs Fig 19 Created Clock In the result we get the following picture m i CsSCSCSS la x c3 9 43 P t 9 9 AP ce Ge 0X OE A anim List of categories 3 6 items Category ee 2 All Type LN pentan J02 E4 Hour beginning 1 ID Jingles l iH ter 1 3 J our center THRESHING m J 4 Hour center 2 J 4 Hour beginning 2 ve Hour center long Copyright RBKG amp TRC iO ae Page 21 of 50 y Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG ensais and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik 248 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Note that similarly you can add audio tracks from any categories of MDB in a clock Some more words about jingles These airing elements can be either inserted manually already at a stage of live broadcasting or to be programmed together with music We have already seen above how the so called obligatory or formal jingles are being programmed clothes of news different rubrics etc Common or artistic jingles are programmed by an insert of this category between songs Let us place categories of jingles in clock to the necessary positions by dragging them from the list on the Jingles tab Thus we completely
24. Coolio anjah win ar Bet ws ass Packs Explosion Robins roove Armada Isee you baby roove Armada Isee you babyiFatboy slim Mix roove Armada My Friend Fig 33 Music Database window a z 3 a 3 3 E 4 5 a 3p a3 tb bh D Bs is bes bas bas Os Bs Bs Now we pass to the following page Schedule generation by pressing corresponding button in the leftmost list Copyright RBKG amp TRC SGP se Page 33 of 50 Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik arm recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web _www digispot eu MAG 2 13 17 er 2 12 70 August 31 7007 Unregistered version File wiew Service Help Schedule generation Show ON AIR schedule A 12 September 2007 gt Ss Generate schedule Unschedule save to ON AIR schedule Music D m re TN E m E a r Rules for categories and attributes Clack and week matris Fig 34 Schedule generation window First you have to select a date with the help of the date selection panel in the top left part of the window Besides the date can be selected with the help of the button l Thus opens the window with the list of dates and a condition of the schedule for corresponding date
25. RMALADE ts cy Plan T Analyse by artist History Artist Sa 00 OF 02 03 0A O05 O68 OF 0 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 2i 22 23 Total 2007 12 08 So M a 2007 12 10 M a a DD 2007 12 11 Di E ff ff ff nf bp bp bp DB Total Ee O Se Fig 53 Rotation pattern of one audio track Pay attention that the given rotation pattern repeats the rotation pattern with time shift of the NEW category resulted on fig 49 Figure of rotation of one artist is resulted on fig 54 Analysis and History Week grid s1 Select active From Samstag 8 Dezember 2 Category WY Days to display fa Clocks Rotation pattern Analysis mode h Distribution Songs in category J True number Week grid EEE gr Song LADY MARMALADE bg a Plan M Analyse by artist History Artist LA BELLE lt 00 OF 02 03 04 05 06 OF D8 OF 19 20 21 22 23 Total 2007 12 08 S a a a a a a a a a a A 2007 12 09 So M E 2007 12 10 M M OO 2007 12 11 Di W M M ee M H M a Total 0 0 T 0 1 0 0 1 Fig 54 Rotation pattern for one artist i P ky C 1l asn Pgs Page 48 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC TRAIT NPORIBOOCTEO Va Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG ar i a and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH mail info tract ru web www tract ru 2 8 3 The Distribution tab 2 9 Copyright RBKG amp
26. The example of the window is resulted on fig 35 To generate a schedule for the chosen date press the Schedule generation button fig 33 Deleting of the existing schedule is performed by pressing of the Unschedule button Note that schedules are generated and deleted consistently it means that it is impossible to generate first the schedule on 2d date and only then on the first date Before starting of schedule generating the application checks the presence of schedules on later dates than the generated one In case of their presence it will be offered to delete them and only after that the process of schedule generating starts The function of deleting of the schedule works similarly all schedules beginning from the current date and further in the future will be deleted Page 34 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC y Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG ar in a and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu Select schedule x December 2007 Go to today 01 December 2007 Saturday Absent December 2007 Monday Absent December 2007 Tuesday Absent December 2007 Wednesday Absent December 2007 Thursday Absent December 2007 Friday
27. UMLRS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH i P I KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu displayed and in which there is a cursor of controlling of the corresponding channel and press the left mouse button At moving the mouse with the pressed button gain in only one channel will be changed Editing of element signal level with the help of rubber string could be done as follows Fig 44 Panel of tools Drawing of a level Press the button on a Drawing of a level fig 44 toolbar This will switch on mode of editing with a string Press the button This will switch on mode of arrangement of knots of a string Now by the left mouse button click on a track you can insert a knot of a string in a place of click Insert in such a way the required number of knots Switch off this mode by a second press of the button or just by right mouse button click on any place of a track Now you have to move knots to certain positions on a string for obtaining desirable picture of signal level change in time To move a knot you have to capture it with the mouse move the cursor over the knot press and hold firmly the left mouse button and drag the knot Moving mouse upwards downwards changes gain in the given point Moving mo
28. a season as editors in chief and general producers of stations are obliged to look through Let us stop on it in more detail 2 5 1 Mix The smallest measurement unit of air program is so called Mix or scarce term Music Sweep Mix Sweep is understood as a sequence of songs between non musical inserts for example between news and commercials Usually mix does not exceed 15 20 minutes and includes 3 6 compositions less often 1 2 In particular mix is the image of radio station determining its color i e contents of its musical component 2 5 2 Clock Following there is the main element program hour grid or Clock This is a basic element of air program its main building block a brick reflecting the image of radio station in its all completeness Each of program elements music commercials news weather reports DJ s performance etc are strategically placed inside the clock with the purpose of keeping on dynamics of sound stream and optimization of influence on audience Thus it is very important to keep balance and the certain order of songs of different categories Prior to start creating of clock it is necessary to determine those categories of songs and other program elements which will be included in the concrete clock For example the clock which we conditionally name O1 is the basic clock No1 It will consist of 3 mixes of three songs in every mix 3 minute news release and three commercial blocks of 3 minutes each
29. after another there is the Name of the song which is possible to edit and it happens more often that it is necessary to edit Below there are Category and Artist It is very important that the artist is equally registered in cards of all songs otherwise at a different interpretation the program will perceive him as two or more different artists If the given artist there is already in data base it is necessary to click on an arrow downwards in the given field The list of artists appears from which is possible to choose required one The tab Attributes allows to look through and change values of the user attributes of an element of database and also value of attribute Vocal After setting of the program on this tab for elements from the section Music and Jingles the only attribute Vocal will be present This attribute allows specifying the sex of an artist of composition or type of performance Predetermined values are e Male Man s vocal e Female e Chorus e Duet e Instrumental instrumental composition without vocal Page 14 of 50 _ 6h copyright RBKG amp TRC SP eS 4 PAIPAEOTKA Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MIAGEANUMLRS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik 248 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu
30. ail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu composition Usually the Start texture and End texture of composition are marked The End texture is similar to the Start texture The table resulted below designates restrictions of sounding of a song in this or that time interval For example some composition cannot be played in workdays from 7 00 till 9 00 inclusive To make active this restriction place the mouse cursor on the necessary cell and perform a click Select days and hours when this tem can not be used for scheduling by MAG OONO1 0205 04 05 06 07 ORM TO ile lait iD leni 1S J190 lee es a Wednesday Friday Saturday Sunday Fig 14 Table of time restrictions of sounding of audio tracks The tab Comments allows to look through and edit the text comments concerning given audio track Contents of the comment is absolutely free it is determined only by desires of the user The tab Media allows setting all information concerning the media of a musical composition Options of the File tab allow user to clear appoint or change a name of the file which is associated with the given element of Music Database Necessity of change of the file name can arise for example in following cases The element is created in MDB without a file and then the file appeared And it is necessary to bind the file to element The file associated with the given name is absent or inaccessible du
31. by the MAG program will be saved as on air schedule of system DIGISPOT II for corresponding date MAG Schedule and On air schedule are completely independent therefore after saving of MAG schedule it is necessary to make all further changes already in On air schedule For viewing and editing of On air schedule press the Show On Air Schedule button Thus the picture of a window changes a little fig 47 Page 44 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC b Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MISTAINALNS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu ON_AIR schedule Hide ON AIR schedule Ay staat 12 002007 O Chickens in a Barn 03 track 3066 lt 04 41 gt i 404 41 C 00 15 11 03 00 Commercial 1 Dog Barking 02 track 3124 lt 06 19 gt f 06 35 C 00 29 40 03 00 Commercial 2 Mi 00 32 40 12 11 track_3125 Chickens in a Barn 02 Nothing but you Large Crowd Applause 01 opace Ballad for the space lover lt 02 21 eee sil C 00 44 51 03 00 Commercial 3 Fig 47 On Air Schedule At work with On air schedule the set of editing functions is similar to functions accessible in the program Duin therefore it is recommended to address
32. c Commands Hee e ___fpw cH Commercial 1 03 00 cH Commercial 2 03 00 9 a Commercial 03 00 Fig 17 Created non musical events 2 5 4 Forming of clock Let us generate a clock using previously prepared elements We start with creation of a new clock For this purpose click the mouse on the mentioned below icon Create new clock Fig 18 Create new clock In the result the new window appears on the screen allowing to give a name to the new clock Let us name it for example O1 the basic first clock By clicking OK we confirm this action Now we start to assemble the clock Click Non music tab in the left window and drag the non musical news event created earlier to the right window displaying contents of the clock Pay attention that dragged element is inserted in the resulting list prior to selected one to add an element in the end of the list you have to drop it on an empty place below the last element If necessary the order of elements in clock can be changed by moving them with a mouse Now let us switch over to the Music tab and collect the first mix consisting from 3 categories by dragging necessary categories Essentially important point at forming of clock is the order of following of categories in mixes and perhaps most important thing what categories will be placed in the position opener Opener is the first song of a mix representing the image of radio i E pI Page 20 of 50 DP ape copy
33. cation DJin which keeps in a DB the data about real broadcasting of elements of the schedule The position Plan is the basic and the mode History is auxiliary it allows to define how the real broadcasting differed from planned one For example the operator could interrupt broadcasting for announcement of the urgent message and a part of audio tracks planned by MAG has not been broadcasted The tick Analyse by artist switches on displaying of a history about all audio tracks belonging to the same artist as initial audio track The list Days to display allows to choose the number of days displayed in a history lines of the table Let s note that the similar command Show History is also accessible from the window of musical database the context menu of properties of an element of base The only difference is that by a call from the schedule the window of history displays the history of element on specified number of days in both directions from the date of schedule at presence of more later schedules and by a call from the MDB window the counting out always goes from the latest generated schedule All other commands of editing the schedule accessible in the program MAG coincide with accessible commands in the application for broadcasting and editing of the radio schedule of the DIGISPOT II system Djin For detailed information about them address to the full manual of this system Let s result the brief description only of the most f
34. chedule in case if the program cannot pick up an audio track for some positions the list containing a history of selection of elements on these positions with the indication of tested fe gt Copyright RBKG amp TRC irae Page 35 of 50 ra N Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction TAKT e mail info tract ru web http www tract ru R Barth KG Elektronik u Akustik e mail sales digispot eu web www digispot eu elements and rules broken by them will be displayed If necessary you can overlook entire log of the schedule generation by pressing of the button Show all logs The example of the window of log with generation errors is shown on fig 36 E Generating schedule Generating complete Time elapsed 00 00 11 480 items of 460 inserted TT TT TTT ly ner HOT 15 36 51 Message Looking for item Testing iter tithe O9401 category HOT artist HOT 15 36 51 HOT 16 06 50 HOT 16 06 50 HOT 16 36 51 HOT 16 36 51 HOT 17 06 50 HOT 17 06 50 HOT 17 36 51 HOT 17 36 51 HOT 18 06 50 4 ltem inserted title 09401 category HOT artist Looking for item Testing iter tithe 18275 catego HOT artist ltem inserted title 18215 category HOT artist Looking for item Testing item ttle Ju
35. ctive week grid is used For creation of the grid open the tab Week grid Page 22 of 50 shah A copyright RBKG amp TRC Vj Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MIAGE and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu Clocks Week grids E Day pars Amn AXAD Activate Shrink E Expand o pr pe pe pe p pe pr oo po po as fos fs pe uss tes rs pe pos po ps pe pe Monday Tuesday wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Fig 22 Tab Week grid of the Clock and week matrix window For creation of a new grid press the button LJ and specify the name of a new grid for example MAIN The first created grid automatically becomes active The active grid is indicated by letter A in the list of grids Aman N Assignment of clocks to cells of a grid is carried out as follows first select the necessary cells Selecting of cells is possible in two ways By pressing of the left mouse key on any cell except for active it is outlined by a thick frame and expanding of zone of selection by moving the mouse By the keyboard expanding a zone of selecting by keys upwards downwards to the left to the right with pressed Shift key After that op
36. ctronic dn bips electronicidnbips If you decide to keep the order of programming identical in all week days you have to press the Copy rules button If you want to program some certain week days in a different order for example other categories than in every week day the above stated order is determined individually and manually We see that the first for a day forward the category HOT the hottest hits is programmed after goes NEW category candidates to hits The last goes COLD category It is fundamentally important because this category is the biggest one there is an opportunity to choose and due to it MAG solves artistic questions Search Depth Now we will determine the search depth We came to very important point Generator of play lists gives us the opportunity of definition of search depth by number of songs above a pile By default the search depth of 5 elements for all categories is set in the program Search depth is displayed in a column Depth in all windows displaying the lists of categories But it is possible to change it only in the window Rules for categories and attributes For setting of search depth of a concrete category select it in the list press the right key of the mouse and choose the Search depth item from the context menu In the opened window enter required search depth In categories of hot rotation we usually use this parameter equal to 1 Thus we force the machine to put obligato
37. d disk is required for installation and beginning of work Working requirements are put forward depending of final configuration of broadcasting automation system DIGISPOT Il e Processor could be different for different components of automation system Minimal requirements are the same as minimal requirements of operational system We recommend using higher parameters for editing stations and loggers e Local area network 100 Base T port at least 100 Mb s in case if more than one workplace is used e USB ports e Keyboard and mouse e DIGISPOT II user interface is designed for the screen resolution beginning from 1024x768 pixels e Connection of remote control for example radio mixing console requires presence of LPT port or a special interface device for example TP 312 e Incase of MDB installation one of local network computers should have Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition or higher installed e The type of an audio card is determined depending of the type of working place Much more important is reliability of hardware PC components and appropriate settings of the Windows operational system It is highly not recommended to assemble the system on a principle the best from cheapest Repair or replacement of the broadcasting computer leads to temporary infringement of work of radio station transition to reserve broadcasting equipment and most likely to temporary deterioration of broadcasting And it in i
38. e tab Non music Let s create needed events starting with news Press the button Add located in the bottom of the list The standard window of block of the schedule properties block properties of the DIGISPOT II system will be opened It occurs because non musical event at forming of the resulting schedule turns into the separate block of the schedule Key parameters of the block are selected with Bold font in this window O x General Remote control Description Block items Name News Block type C N M P R Begin time 00 00 00 V count automaticaly Duration oo IE 00 End time 00 03 00 Block time options Fix block time No sooner F Start time fixed No later End time fixed F Cut off blocks F Link next block Cut off items Allowable deviation mn ss 00 00 Later 00 00 Other block options Inner block Manual loading Creation options Quantity Period mm s 01 00 Block info Real duration 00 00 00 Fig 16 Non musical event News Start time fixed allows setting predetermined start time of non musical event For the case when there is no need to fix event rigidly in time there is a flag count automatically which allows creating non musical event which is not bound to time For such event the airing time is calculated by the program proceeding from its position in clock By default the program Copyright RBKG amp TRC ze A Page 19 of 50 I F y Cooperation for Develo
39. e to technical reasons for example it is deleted there is no access to a file which is stored on another computer the file is not found while importing It is necessary simply to replace a file for example for an element Morning of a folder of Station breaks The difference between replacement of a file of element from removal of an element and subsequent addition of a new element is in the fact that at replacement of a file all descriptive information is kept except for those which concerns directly to contents of an audio file labels playback levels The tab Marking allows to specify key points in the audio track Start Stop Intro Outro etc As a matter the elementary audio editor is implemented on this tab allowing to carry out a number of operations of non destroying editing when no changes are brought in the content of digital audio Non destroying editing comes to programming of playback process of an audio file Thus there are the following opportunities To set those part of an audio track which will be really played back by a player when comes the time of playing back of block of the schedule to which this audio track belongs To organize smooth increase of audio volume while playback in the beginning of the block Fadeln To organize smooth decrease of audio volume while playback in the end of the block FadeOut To change a playback level To form labels of playback start of the next block and playback stop
40. eeasneneeseesaes 6 2 1 Beginning working with the application ccccscceecseeseeeceeeeesceeeeesenseeesenseeeeeesanees 7 DZ Nder CaO a E E 9 2 3 Cat QOPies ccccccccecceseceeeeeeeeeeeeeneceneceneeeeseneseneseneeensceeseaeseneseaesenseeaseesonesonesenesensseenes 11 24A PUIG WR a CAG ae acct besncensccactancnrentecutotacesccantipecsceaieosuostbanvisntissunensbesscosiianetssbassoosbesucees 12 2 4 1 Properties Of AN audio IKEM cece cece eecce cece ecto cece eeceeceneceueceeeeeueteeeteeeteeeteeegeeeaeeeaees 14 2 5 Mix non musical event clock hand and week grid cccsccseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 18 DN Ne E E O E E E E sence ace EE auteaiba E seconde 18 A LIO a A E E eee 18 29 9 NOM MUSICA CV CI ssion AES OEREN 18 aor Sd FONO O CIO K aene E E E E E ERE E E S 20 P AN lt 1 O 6 aera nn A E eee ae E E E E ee eee eee 22 2o00 Day PIN ea E eee eer ee eee eee 23 2 6 Configuring the Program ccccccsecseeseeeeeceeeseneeneeeeeceescnesenesenseenseesonesoneseneseesons 24 AO PONUD E ere T EEE 24 2O22 Sea DEDI I ee EE EE e EA E 25 20 93 TRUIGS OF FOTATION s rererei naen E eE ETENEE a snes NENU REEERE 26 2 6 4 Mathematical rules of rotation ccc ccccecccceeeceeeeceeeeeeeeeeeseececeeeeseeeseeessusesseeseeeeseeees 27 269 AIMISHIC PUIES OF TOLAUOM erkni EARE 28 2 6 6 Remarks on using of rotation rUl S ccccccccccseccceeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeaeeeseeeeeeeseeessueeseeeeaneeas 31 2 7 Creation and ed
41. en the context menu by the right key click and select the command Set clock to selected hours from it Monday Tuesday ee ae ee ee Wednesday Oo oS eae aS ea eee Copy selected cells aS ee aS Seas Cut selected cells Paste Friday Saturday Paste into selected cells Sunday Clear selected hours Clear all hours Fig 23 Selecting of cells and assignment of clock In the opened list choose a clock which will be placed on selected cells In our case you have to select all cells of the grid it can be made by pressing Ctri A and to choose our clock O1 for all hours 2 5 6 Day parts One more important element which allows distributing songs in day long parts more regularly is a special grid Day parts It allows breaking the day up into more functional blocks It can be 4 blocks morning day evening and night or 8 blocks early morning late morning first half of day second half of day early evening late evening first half of night second half of night They are marked by figures in the week grid 1 2 3 4 and used at assignment of a rule Number of plays before placing to same daypart see section 2 6 4 Copyright RBKG amp TRC iO ae Page 23 of 50 4A PANPAEOTKA Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG EF AF TD and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and t
42. es Within the category songs form virtual working piles which are rotated in conformity with the time grid created by the person The person determines search depth of songs in a pile for the computer creates rules necessary for rotation of music material and places them according to priorities created by him Thus the easier are these rules the better and more in full radio record library is used for generation of a play list Let us talk more detailed about it MAG is the generator of play lists providing some methods or opportunities for the control over rotation of music material These methods can be conventionally sorted into two big groups artistic characteristics of songs and historical mathematical rules First group allows carrying out the control over propagation of songs according to those artistic rules which you determine for them for example tempo texture density of music material mood etc Second group of rules is based on the control of time of broadcasting of the song at which minute of an hour on which date in relation to previous time when this song was on air During programming MAG follows the rules set by the person Rules as though suggest to the system how to interpret either artistic characteristic of a composition or time of its previous broadcasting For one run it examines the song according to each rule determined by turns depending on importance priority of this rule Remember that above stated priority is a
43. ew songs coming in this category from Light Current and fromHeavy Current categories e B Light Current New completely new songs added this week or on last week e D Re Current former hot hits e G Gold golden smash hits etc Here is one more scheme for older friends let say after 35 e A hot hits it is important that these are songs for the concrete grown up instead of for more younger audience e C former hot hits Songs which are from 4 about 8 months of issue e G gold smash hits e B ballads e slow love songs etc There are a lot of variants The main thing here is in the presence of a certain logic while forming of the list of categories TO pass in a musical part of a database press the button M on toolbar which means music CETE Then press the button Add new category Cy The window New category creation appears on a screen Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 11 of 50 4A PASPAEOTKA Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG oF ar am meeeeamaencen and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe s BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu 2 4 New category creation xX Enter new category name OF Cancel Fig 4 New category creation window
44. f elements of the NEW category Settings of the MAG program The MAG program as well as any other program of the DIGISPOT II system has a system of settings In the Service menu the commands providing access to windows where it is possible to do various settings are concentrated including configuration of the DIGISPOT II system and settings of many parameters We characterize general commands of settings of the DIGISPOT II system available in the menu Settings the Settings window in which settings of the concrete program are made in this case MAG No one of the programs which are included in the DIGISPOT II system read out the settings of another programs and are not interested in their contents Global settings the Global settings window in which settings of parameters common for all programs which are included in the DIGISPOT II system are made simultaneously for all workplaces For example the sound format by default rules of addition of files in the storage catalogues of external storage Workstation settings the Workstation settings window in which settings of all programs of the DIGISPOT II system available on the given workplace are carried out Changes brought from one program influence on other programs MAG settings the window of settings of parameters specific just for MAG application Among them are search depth by default number of audio tracks tested at selection of alternative and so on Customize keyb
45. g MAG follows the rules set by the person Rules as though suggest to the system how to interpret either artistic characteristic of a composition or time of its previous broadcasting For one run it examines the song according to each rule determined by turns depending on importance priority of this rule Remember that above stated priority is also determined by yourself Speaking about rules we mean first of all separately taken system settings For example if to talk about the mood the program follows your instructions in definition of mood of separately taken songs in a mix The Mood concerns the group of artistic characteristics rules If to talk about clock rotation the system analyzes the previous appearance of the song in the same hour but yesterday the day before yesterday etc and permits or does not permit broadcasting of this composition here and now it depends on you It is clear that the given rule concerns the group of historical rules Take into account that all rules are very flexible You can use them in absolutely another way comparing with how it is made by your colleagues Observing suggested rules you decide yourself whether you use them or not Everything depends on basic principles of your work and tasks put before you However we would like to warn too Zealous musical editors Irrespective of rich resources of suggested application the theory recommends using reasonable number of rules It is better not t
46. h the help of the buttons T located to the left of the waveforms window under buttons S and M The element is selected by the click of the left key of the mouse in the area limited by a frame In the simplest case crossfade editing is made by means of dragging of one of glued together elements in such way that elements impose to each other in time an axis X Thus we can determine the position of a point of the beginning of the following element for top one from the pair of them In general for elements which are taking place in the editor following parameters of an element can be changed The point of playback start label Start Thepoint of playback end labe Stop _ Fade in Fade in Fade Fade out The point of playback start of the next element Start Next The point of start of playback at transition from other element on a point Start This Page 41 of 50 Copyright RBKG amp TRC Ka WEEE Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MAARTALNALRS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH I PINKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Playbacklevel of an audio track Adjustment of playback level by a rubber line Prelistening of any part of crossfade is possible from any pos
47. haracteristics are specified in columns to the right peculiar in case of replacement to the clock to the block etc Selected audio track becomes the last in the order of programming in its category Unschedule item removes appointed soundtrack from the specified position but does not delete a position It can be required at manual editing of fragment of the schedule Removed audio track becomes the first in the order of programming in its category Remove item is similar to previous one but with removal of a position Check rules allows looking how the rules appointed to the corresponding category are carried out for a checked element Show variants the program will suggest variants for replacement of the current audio track similarly to the Schedule Item command In case if this command is used for the filled position the replaced audio track becomes the first in the order of programming in its category and chosen alternative audio track the last This command can be also used for filling of free positions resulted for example by the command Remove Item Show history opens a window in which the history of airing of an audio track for some period is displayed Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 37 of 50 ip aes Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG sians and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH I PINKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektroni
48. he categories competently counted number of songs in categories and categories in clocks it is quite enough to use only one historical rule minimal time of airing of the same artist and one art rule no more than two female vocals one after another The computer will work as watches and a play list willcaress hearing And now comes the final statement Of course adjustment of the play list generator to all mathematical rules of programming as well as skilful use of artistic rules is very important However with all this the keystone to success is the competent selection of a record library with observance of principle of hits and harmonicity of sounding of a program Only pearls should be played on air and you should always remember about it Page 32 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC 4A PANPAEOTKA Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG ar AF D a and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik n a recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu 2 7 Creation and editing of play lists 2 7 1 Generating of a play list After all above mentioned configuration steps are made safely you can start generating and diting of play lists However it is necessary to arrange radio record library in working co
49. he in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Number of day parts a Ereate day parts First day part offset lo hours Remove day parts Day parts grid oo jo joz jos jo jos o6 lor los log ho li EE is fie ir ig jig lko ki lee les o o o o Oo o 2 2 l2 2 l2 2 Day part Fig 24 Day parts To create day parts you have to choose required number of intervals in the list Number of day parts and to press Create day parts button If necessary you can specify a shift of the first day part In this case the first interval will start not from the beginning of the day but on specified number of hours later To remove day parts press the Remove day parts button Note that times of day are used only in a rule Number of plays before placing to same daypart Use of this rule and creation of day parts are not obligatory 2 6 Configuring the program 2 6 1 Plot numbers Cards are filled songs are distributed on categories clocks and week grids are created Further it is necessary to set priorities in the order of programming of categories The matter is that MAG is filling clocks not in one run but in several runs And for one run it programs only one category If we give a palm of supremacy to categories of hot rotation what happens more often because they are the most important and smallest in sizes they should be programmed the first Programming funct
50. ighlight 50 1101 D owr Use classic windows column scaling Ne el e M M ee Fil 5 6 J Flan dur 00 00 0 7 A 9 Fig 3 The List customization window Second column in the given window allows switching on or off the needed fields These and other functions are described in more details later in this manual 2 2 Index Card Before starting description of work directly with MAG we would like to say some words about general principles of music programming as such Despite of distinction of approaches the basic laws remain constant already more than forty years In their time they were defined on the basis of manual rotation system of a musical material Index Card The term Index Card was borrowed from library practice when a corresponding card is set up for each book and then placed in one or another box depending on classification of the book The same way was taken for setting up of card index of the songs reflecting records library of radio station Thus a card was set up for each song All cards were put in different boxes or piles depending on their category The number of boxes corresponds to number of categories This card index was located in radio studio There was the clock greed scheme in front of the DJ reflecting the structure of an hour order of broadcasting of categories news commercials rubrics etc According to the clock the play list was formed i e those songs of corresponding categorie
51. io R Barth KG ar ay am einen and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Analysis and History Week grid MAIN s lt s I Select active From 12 September 2007 Category can gt Days to display 7 Clocks Rotation pattern wh Distribution Dar of week Tusdy 01 02 03 04 05 06 OF 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Total p ft rt Et PT rT TT TT r de E DANCE E E E E E E E E E E CE E HOT E E E E E E E E E E E E m NEW ff E E E E E E E E E E KE _ WARM E E E u u u u E E u u E Total Hagia Fo amp EJ 4 Fig 48 The tab Clocks The day of week on which the statistics is displayed is selected in the Day of week list Since in our case only one clock is used for all hours of all days of week the information in all columns of the table is identical The most right column displays the number of broadcastings of corresponding category in 24 hours 2 8 2 The Rotation pattern tab The second tab Rotation pattern fig 49 allows executing several different tasks In the Week grid position of the Analysis mode switch this tab helps to calculate correctly and to view the project of possible rotations of songs of the category determined by you Anal
52. ion in MAG is called Plot numbers To get access to this function open menu Rules for categories and attributes and press the Plot numbers button In the result the Plot numbers editor window appears on the screen Now with the help of mouse cursor place categories in such order in which you are going to program them and cut off auxiliary categories which do not participate in ordinary linear programming with a double dotted line ira i r F Page 24 of 50 SDP oe copyright RBKG amp TRC TRPAMT mail info tract ru web www tract ru Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction Plot Numbers editor electronic Beats electranicid nb Blectronicidn bp electronicid n bips electronicid n bips electronic Beats electranicid nb electronicid nb Vp electronicid n bips electronicidn bips electronicid n bips R Barth KG Elektronik u Akustik e mail sales digispot eu web Wednesday ah electronic Beats electronicid nb electronicid nb Vp electronicid n bips electronicid n bips electronicid n bips www digispot eu 2 6 2 Copyright RBKG amp TRC electronicid n bips electronicianbips J Copy day to other days Fig 25 Plot number editor ele
53. iting of play liSts 0 cccecceeeseeeeeeeeeceeeeeneeeneceesceesenesanseeeeeeesonesees 33 ZAM GENEFAUNG OT G2 DIAV NSU siccccutenmcecnsecsadeccesscscersasarssnetensnsmaseanaseccssuqndesa iani 33 2 7 2 Manual editing of play list cece ccccececseeeeeeeseeeeseeeseeeeseeeseeeeseeeseeeseeseseeessneesaeees 36 2 1 2 1 The prelistening TECNNOIOOY ve nsccect sete ccceenestcncbrdeconanciaqa Woesiauecadsnendsdaceeesuntewhceuoccouaieecaig 39 2 Ger saa 0 2 9 CANOT eosi E ne ee ee 40 2 3 Saving of the edited play list ec cccceccseeceeeeeseeeceeeeeeeseeseseeeeeeseeessueeseeeseeeenaeees 44 250 Bal MONO COMM MO Gla S areca deacpittencvanseve EE E E E EER 45 2 8 Analysis and history tate ton aaetecenecatecawatwtadenasatedexecnsanneateti ent oxduaveenrorsuexneomabawekausosnnens 45 ZN The Clocks VADs saisessinisewsinaiiesisdninanieincianin tea meses veisws seisieninetenctautedsienaineuumsistnadlanaieienwrstesineenitestusedslernnenstl 45 2 8 2 The Rotation pattern CAD vececcaiivecsrsnoncscconnsascsniesediesavannianniues niasooesdenteaneeiaunnaateoesbiereunnes 46 29 9 TING DISmDUNON laD snn E EEA EEO 49 2 9 Settings of the MAG program s ssassnssnssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnmnnn 49 3 Contact information cccassicssscusccavcccneanacccsdecndaacdaannneesaantesndeendaneseawenesaesevnandaavsanedaevencadeaviees 50 Copyright RBKG amp TRC M Page 3 of 50 Cooperation for Development of Hard and
54. ition for this purpose make a double click with the left key of the mouse in any place of any track Playback starts from position of a click A single click by the left button of the mouse on any track stops playback It is possible to control playback using buttons S and M Solo and Mute located in the left part of a track Pressing of the button M excludes a track from playback and pressing of button S excludes all other tracks Button S can be pressed only on one track Buttons can be switched during playback Scrolling and dragging of audio tracks is carried out with the help of the mouse dragging of the mouse at the pressed left key Scrolling and dragging of audio tracks at crossfade of two and three elements submits to the following general laws Dragging of any audio track for the top half of waveform except for the first one from above reduces or increases the time of imposing of dragged audio track and audio track located above it Dragging of any audio track except for the lowermost one grasps with it all audio tracks located below simply moving all picture on the screen at such dragging times of imposing of selected audio track and all other audio tracks located below do not change For the lowest audio track this rule is carried out only if capture is made for the bottom half of waveform Dragging of an empty place without dependence of its location a place behind borders of envelopes of all waveforms scrolls a
55. k u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Mistry ee xj Analysis mode Plan History Analyse by artist Days to display 3 Song LADY MARMALADE Category Y Artist L4 BELLE 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 OF 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Tos 0912 2007 01 02 56 2007 12 07 r eee 2007 12 08 S eee 2007 12 09 Soli PPP eee a M M 6 Bam kl 2007 12 10 M 2007 12 11 D MEM Total 1 E E a o a 0 E 0 if Se E Fig 38 History of element window The given window displays the history of airing of element The history is displayed as the table with the cells containing the information about number of times the element was played in corresponding clock The cell corresponding to that position in the schedule for which the command is called is highlighted by a yellow background In the right part of the window there is the list containing the same information as the table but as simple enumeration of dates and times of broadcastings of the given audio track The Plan History switch located in the top part of a window allows specifying a source of the information for displaying In the position Plan the information is displayed under the planned by program MAG schedules and in position History under the information from broadcasting appli
56. lads compositions of the hottest rotation etc There can be any principles of uniting of songs in categories and giving names to categories Only you determine them proceeding from your own vision of broadcasting So depending on a broadcasting format the radio records library of the radio station consists of one part or is divided into some parts songs united in categories of so called hot rotation novelties compositions of the current year songs united into categories of usual rotation last years compositions so called golden hits and songs united into auxiliary additional categories ballads romances compositions from movies soundtracks etc These parts are not always equivalent by their quantity but often equivalent on an occupied broadcasting time and hence on their value In Contemporary Hit Radio formats CHR small on volume hot rotation from 50 up to 100 compositions occupies from 80 up to 100 of air time Of course in the last case the entire radio records library consists only of one part In Modern Music For Adults AC formats adult contemporary the ratio of hot and usual rotation changes from 30 70 up to 50 50 etc There are a lot of broadcasting schemes of categories of hot and usual rotation Here for example one of them If you are focused on an active audience younger than 35 years there can be 5 categories in your rotation e A Heavy Current hottest hits e C Medium Current as a rule n
57. lso determined by yourself Speaking about rules we mean first of all separately taken system settings For example if to talk about the mood the program follows your instructions in definition of mood of separately taken songs in a mix The Mood concerns the group of artistic characteristics rules If to talk about clock rotation the system analyzes the previous appearance of the song in the same hour but yesterday the day before yesterday etc and permits or does not permit broadcasting of this composition here and now it depends on you It is clear that the given rule concerns the group of historical rules Take into account that all rules are very flexible You can use them in absolutely another way comparing with how it is made by your colleagues Observing suggested rules you decide yourself whether you use them or not Everything depends on basic principles of your work and tasks put before you However we would like to warn too Zealous musical editors Irrespective of rich resources of suggested application the theory recommends using reasonable number of rules It is better not to complicate but to simplify programming Everything is very logical To make broadcasting more harmonious it is necessary first of all to classify songs by their sound The concept of sound includes style features of a song its arrangement instrumentation texture energy tempo and a lot of other characteristics If the records library is
58. mood 3 4 and 5 but not 1 and 2 Similarly this function works towards increases of mood inside a mix Thus it is important to take into account the following factor the rule works only inside a mix under condition of direct mix of songs i e without jingles If there is a necessity to program through jingles they cannot be given of a mood Note that there is no necessity to specify values for all variants of moods for group Maximum in a row It is necessary to specify only those situations which should not appear in the resulting schedule On an example 29 the program does not allow to put in a row two sad or very cheerful compositions This setting will not influence compositions with other mood The group of parameters Average mood allows limiting change of mood of the neighbor elements with an alternative way This way allows to calculate average value for 3 or 5 neighbor compositions and to limit the maximal and minimal value of average Correspondingly if the checked composition deduces average value of mood out of the specified range it breaks the given rule The second rule similar to previous one is Average energy for 3 songs The only difference is that energy and mood are noncoincident concepts To avoid a jumble we recommend using either one or another rule Usually Mood is used in various pop formats and Energy in rock Some more artistic rules determining a structure of a mix will be described below Restrictions and limitati
59. nd only of the gold category Fourthly pay attention to image positions in clock openers If computer puts obviously uninteresting song from the point of view of energy or image after a commercial swap it with more worthy song of the same category but don t make anything more If you are using songs of hot rotation categories as openers it is not necessary to touch anything Fifthly after editing of clock overlook songs Try to hear how your mixes sound how much they are harmonious If you don t remember some composition by heart or cannot see how it will be mixed in an audio scale take advantage of a special option see the figure below an option PFL crossfade And the last interfere with your hands in what is already done by the play lists generator as little as possible If program is correctly configured the computer will not give you a pleasure to bring a lot of editorial corrections Page 36 of 50 hak copyright RBKG amp TRC Min Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MIAGEANUMLRS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu For editing you have some opportunities to delete a song to add a song to replace a song It is d
60. ndition first For this purpose press the Sort by schedule order button on the Music Database page in gold hit categories and bring categories in position before generating Cursorily overlook the order of songs before programming and remove manually drag apart close located songs of the same artists or press the button Sh Shuffle or Sp Spread in order to make more deep arrangement inside a category in an automatic mode We d like to warn you from doing this too often It is quite enough to do it once a week Shuffle changes the order of generating of audio tracks in a random way and Spread distributes audio tracks in such way that the distance between audio tracks with the same artist will be whenever possible maximal Thus the program tries to keep the current sequence of audio tracks making the minimal changes in order of generating After initial forming of categories it is necessary to execute the Shuffle function and then Spread since otherwise audio tracks will be programmed in the same order in which they were added to a DB most likely grouped by the artist Note that this function is carried out for all categories selected in the List of categories window Music Database 3 59 Ww pon t 9 AS l ce Be eX 2 Bl aitem sart by schedule order a op es oh Shuffle op Spread List of categories 12 142 items Pau All J Unspecified DJ Cor Fijneman Antilogp anbareh sash angsta s Paradise
61. next crossfade is opened the similar view area is set If the button is not pressed before an exit the scale specified in Service gt Settings gt Other gt Audio Editor gt Crossfade editor gt View area will be set for the next opened crossfade Also an additional window showing the current playback speed can be referred to parameters of displaying Editing of crossfade is finished with saving of changes in the schedule by pressing the OK button in the lower left part of the program window Pressing of the Cancel button ends the editing of crossfade without saving of changes 2 7 3 Saving of the edited play list Play list or in terminology of the DIGISPOT II system the schedule formed by the MAG program is inaccessible from another workplaces of the CAPS system 2 until it is saved as an On air schedule As a matter it is a project of the schedule You can generate schedules cancel generation bring necessary changes in system of rules and patterns and repeat generating up to desirable result After generating you can finish it manually But the result of your actions will be accessible only for you on your workplace with the MAG program installed on it For saving of the schedule as on air schedule accessible from all other workplaces of the DIGISPOT II system set up on your complex press the Save to On Air Schedule button in the Schedule generation window fig 34 and press the To keep as radio button Thus the schedule prepared
62. ns e C the folder Commercials Jingles Music Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 7 of 50 y Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG nucTANNAUMA and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPZ KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu e B Broadcasts e N News e Ready for broadcasting e A Archive e A with an arrow to the right Into archive e A with an arrow to the left From archive e The picture with an asterisk Add new object e The folder with an asterisk Add new category e Small sheet on a big one Add new value of attribute e Two sheets Copy to the clipboard e Sheet on a case background Paste from the clipboard e X Delete e A hand holding a sheet Object s properties e Binocular Search e Two green arrows Update e Hammer Settings The second has e Sort by schedule order Line up audio tracks in the order of categories e Arrow upwards resting against a line Move selected audio tracks to the beginning of the list e Arrow upwards Move selected audio tracks one position closer to the beginning of the list
63. o complicate but to simplify programming Everything is very logical To make broadcasting more harmonious it is necessary first of all to classify songs by their sound The concept of sound includes style features of a song its arrangement instrumentation texture energy tempo and a lot of other characteristics If the Page 10 of 50 z OP ese copyright RBKG amp TRC ME Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MIAGEANUMLRS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH i P I KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu records library is classified by a sound there will be no necessity to apply numerous artistic rules while programming and it will be quite possible to use only historical rules determining rotation mathematics of songs of various categories on broadcasting Once again we repeat the less is a number of rules and the simpler are they the more fully used is radio records library and the sound of your radio station is richer 2 3 Categories introduce here a new base concept category To avoid a different interpretation suggest understanding as a category a group of songs united together on some one main principle For example dancing hits of 80th slow songs rock bal
64. oard the Customize keyboard and remote keypads window Import formats the Import formats window For more detailed information concerning parameters which are set in listed above windows address to the manual of the system DIGISPOT II re 8 io 4 PASPABOTKA Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MESCCAINIANAN and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu 3 Contact information If any further Information or assistance is needed for the installation procedure or details to the general usage of the DIGISPOT II Broadcast system Software application please send your request to the following e Mail support digispot eu The DIGISPOT II Support Center will get in contact with you within shortest possible time Please include in your e Mail a short and precise description of your request and add your personal e Mail address Ld OP oe copyright RBKG amp TRC lie f F Page 50 of 50
65. of monitored element is displayed or names of all elements which are included in crossfade In the left part there is a position of playback The darker part of the bar displays the played back area Control of playback is carried out by the mouse or from the keyboard With a mouse click in any place of the window playback jumps to a corresponding position Control from the keyboard is carried out by following keys Left and Right arrows move playback position to the beginning or to the end for three seconds from the current position respectfully Up and Down arrows similarly move position of playback but with step of 10 seconds lt Home gt key restarts playback from the beginning lt End gt key moves playback point to the end of an audio track 5 seconds prior to its end lt T gt key sets the playback counter to a mode of reverse counting The window is closed by pressing of lt Spacebar gt key lt Esc gt key and also by clicking of the mouse in any place of the screen outside of the PFL window There are some special features while working with this window If the user has pressed no key from the moment of activation of pre listening before the end of playback and did not interfere in playback process with the mouse the window will be closed automatically after the end of Copyright RBKG amp TRC ESA Page 39 of 50 ip aes Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG sians and Video Broadcast Studio
66. of the current block and also some other labels facilitating operator s work ae Hr Copyright RBKG amp TRC Ka Page 17 of 50 ie b amp h V ee Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG maa and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik i recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu The tab Other contains groups of parameters describing the given element of data base and parameters which are changed very seldom they are collected on the tab Extended For detailed information concerning elements of the interface of tabs Comments Media File Marking Extended and Other address to the DJin manual 2 5 Mix non musical event clock hand and week grid Radio programming for a long time has turned into exact science based on mathematical calculations All stations maybe with rare exception follow this or that mathematical formula in broadcasting of their program material including musical material For development of this formula the program can be considered in different scales i e as though from different heights it is possible to do it from the height of hillock of your working shift how some DJs frequently do it or also from mountain height in the limits of a week or even
67. on In general it is possible to say beforehand that categories number of elements in which is multiple to any divider of 24 2 3 4 6 8 12 24 and also categories which number of elements multiply to a number of positions of this category in 24 hours will give similar to this vertical distribution For example the category DANCE is broadcasted 24 times in 24 hours and consists of 120 elements The example of figure of rotation is resulted fig 51 and an example of figure for 111 elements on fig 52 Ra ee bel a ntal 1 Fig 51 Rotation pattern for 120 elements of the DANCE category 00 01i 02 03 04 05 06 OF 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Total S S S S C T S S S ee T S S T s T l S S OS S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S ee S s e f E E E O E E O O O M E OS S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S s ee s e f m E E E E E E E E E O o OOS S T ee S S S S S S S S S S S S S s S d 0 0 Fig 52 Rotation pattern for 111 elements in the DANCE category To return to real number of elements in categories press the True number button Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 47 of 50 V ee Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG EREADER and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sale
68. one first of all to bring the real time of clock to 60 minutes Thus it is desirable that total time more likely exceeds 60 minutes than it is less Total time of a clock is specified at the very bottom on a grey dividing strip time of ending of blocks is underlined in the right column End By pressing the right button of the mouse a context menu appears There are standard for the system DIGISPOT II editing functions of the schedule in it but except for them there are some of them specific for the MAG program Let us look at them in more details Schedule item allows adding one more element from the specified category to the schedule The program first suggests selecting a category and then some elements from the chosen category taking in account order of their programming and violation of the rules set for the given category MS Select item l Artist separation 1 dd 3 hh O rom rule violation i T I TT Te but T Schedule contral Hour total OO 54 25 Fixed time point Block dur deviation if 00 07 32 Deviation coe Fig 37 Select item window The number of suggested elements corresponds to the search depth This number can be changed by specifying it in the window of program settings by selecting from the main menu Service gt MAG Settings Value is set in the parameter Number of testing alternate item 0 according to search depth for the given category otherwise specified number of elements is checked Various time c
69. ons for Vocal attribute The window below shows the example of setting of a rule on vocal female mail duet chorus instrumental To avoid uniformity the songs are usually divided into the songs with an identical vocal For example it is not recommended to program two female or two choral vocals one after another Fig 30 shows the rule set for it is forbidden to play back one after another 2 and more compositions with a choral vocal Besides there cannot be more than two compositions with such vocal in one clock Thus if there are 2 compositions in one clock they cannot be closer Page 29 of 50 En i Lee ft Exe bay Copyright RBKG amp TRC M2 ria Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG r a senebeanione and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu to each other in time than 15 minutes W Rules for the Yocal attribute 1 Chorus er l Masimum in a row m Maximum per hour 2 Separation list Instrumental Male oA Add xX Delete Attribute and t value Vocal Chorus O 44 15 MM Fig 30 Restrictions and limitations for Vocal attribute For attribute Duet some settings are also done you can revie
70. ools of an element panel Prelistening also can be activated from an external push button field Prelistening can be activated practically in all modules of system by pressing the Spacebar To prelisten the crossfade between elements you have to select PFL Crossfade from the context menu or by pressing the button on the Tools of the schedule panel or by pressing of the appointed key by default lt C gt Thus in the prelistening window fig 39 the sequence of two or three elements is played back Playback of crossfade starts with the ending of first element 3 seconds prior to the beginning of playback of the following element and proceeds up to the end of last element If prelistening is activated for the element of the jingle type or for a voice track 3 elements will be loaded in prelistening window preceding to jingle jingle itself and subsequent element Playback begins from the ending of the first element preceding to jingle Names of all elements participating in playback will be displayed in the PFL window Before their names the line CROSS will be displayed fig 40 The prelistening window opens in the list on a place of prelistened element Fig 39 Example of the PFL window for one element CROSS You can t stop me Jingle Soledad Fig 40 Example of PFL window of crossfade of three elements There is no difference in control of the PFL window of an element and PFL window of crossfade In the PFL window the name
71. picture on the screen Let s note that it is impossible to create a break between elements i e to move an element in such way that between the end of one element and start of another one there was a pause Controlling of a fade is done by means of the mouse you have to grasp and move the top knots of the frame of envelope of the waveform Process of editing of fade in is shown on fig 43 ii M Fig 43 Editing of fade in Level controlling is made by means of the combined level indicator regulator located in the left part of the main window of the program At playback of the audio track selected with the help of the button P the indicator displays a level of the left and right channels if there is no track with the chosen mode Solo all tracks are played back at which the mode Mute is not switched on but the indicator displays the level of only one of them When playback is stopped you can use the dark blue toddler for setting gain for entire track Double click on the bottom area of the level indicator on a fragment of the window in which numerical values of gain are displayed resets all changes It is possible to control level separately in the left and right channels To control level in one channel move the mouse not on the center of regulator but on its left or right part a part where the level is Page 42 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC I Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MIAGEAN
72. pment of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG nucTANNAUMA and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPZ KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu suggests to create in particular such non bound to time non musical events Duration is a planned duration of event which is used for calculation of clock timing Specify some name of the block in the top field Name which will be displayed in the list of non musical events in clock and in resulting schedule Let s set the following parameters Type N news Name News Duration 3 minutes and let s set the flag Count Automatically If necessary we can set any other parameters of the block which in result will get in the air schedule For deeper acquaintance with block properties and their influence on process of playback of the schedule we recommend to address to the complete manual of the DIGISPOT II system Press the OK button The newly created event appears in the list of non musical events Repeat the given operation and create 3 commercial blocks they will differ one from another only by their names Commercial 1 Commercial 2 and Commercial 3 The example of the list with the created non musical events is resulted in the figure 17 Music Jingles Mon musi
73. ral picture of broadcasting Prior entering rules for certain categories it is necessary to answer to one very important question If for some reasons have to refuse use from some rule what rule would reject the first And the second And the third In the process of programming and manual editing of play list excess rules which are quite possible to be omitted will begin to appear However if the rule is the last in the list of priorities it does not mean at all that it is not important It means that concerning other important rules it is simply the last in the list Remember that importance of rules is also determined depending on priority of category and the order of its programming For example the rule Tempo is possible to apply onlyin categories which are programmed at last when hot rotation already presents in a play list In any case remember that rules of a mix Tempo Texture Mood etc are absolutely not important for categories which are programmed at first The generator of play list simply doesn t notice them The matter is that when the songs of categories worth to be in the head of the list of priorities are programmed they simply do not have opportunity to clash with compositions from other categories for a simple reason that the last are simply not placed in a play list yet In order to achieve situation when songs inside hot rotation categories do not conflict first of all because of the Artist separations r
74. requently used commands PFL prelistening of an element Commands of editing of transition from one element of the schedule to another following it Crossfade and Crossfade3 Listening of before created crossfade PFL Crossfade Fragments of the full manual of the DIGISPOT II system describing given commands are given below in a Compendium Page 38 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC I Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG masananara and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu 2 2 1 The prelistening technology To monitor contents of audio elements you need to have possibility of their prelistening but thus the sound should not come to the main output of the program To support this requirement we have a flexible system technology for prelistening The prelistening window helps to play only one element and you can play the transition crossfade between two or three elements from the schedule or from playback queue of a player It is possible to prelisten an element in several ways by selecting of the PFL option from the context menu by pressing of a key appointed to this action by default lt Spacebar gt or pressing the button on the T
75. resting discoveries Pay special attention to a history of broadcasting of separately taken songs and separately taken artists It could tell you very much about There canbe so that a selection of a record library is fine but the record library is unbalanced on artists there are no packages or there are banal mistakes in a spelling of a name of the same artist but in different songs metadata cards Fourthly before the first programming after carrying out of large scale work with a radio record library and also regularly once a week from Friday to Saturday or at worst once per two weeks before programming of a play list for tomorrow mix Sh gold hits categories but not hot rotation categories Thus the structure of a pile will change what allows avoiding block effect and as a result guessing of playing the same songs by audience In the days off people listen to radio at another time in comparison with working days therefore nobody will notice small failures in programming on Saturday Fifthly at introduction of new songs in a category of hot rotation obligatory put themin a pile on a place of those songs which you move up to other categories It allows to keep the order of rotation of old songs in a category and to avoid their possible repetition in the same time next day Sixthly previous experience shows that at observance of all sound rules of formingof a radio record library its balance due to packing on artist inside t
76. right RBKG amp TRC My Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MAAGILISE and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu station and being its face Pay attention to this Similarly we place commercial blocks and collect 3 other mixes The example of the formed clock is resulted in figure Fig 19 Technically the clock usually starts not with the song but rather with the identification jingle ID jingle further usually follow the news thus the news as a rule consist of three elements introductory jingle musical background or bed final jingle and only then a song Let us bring elements necessary for us into just created block For this purpose first open the floating database window selecting View gt Database browser in the main menu of the program Drag the necessary jingle for example beginning of the clock 1 from the DB window to the window of clock contents Clock content H News 03 00 O10 WAR 03 45 05 DAN 03 55 NEw 03 27 55 HOT 04 10 COL 04 05 50 10 COL 04 05 c Comme 03 00 45 15 ca Comme 03 00 WAR 03 45 40 20 DANCE 03 55 55 WAR 03 45 HOT 04 10 ao 25 NEW 03 27 COL 04 05 30 c
77. rule Number of plays before placing to the same hour It means how many times the song should be played back in any other hours to appear in the same hour again But there are certain hidden dangers here If not to limit time during which this rule will operate the computer sooner or later refuses to program according to this rule To avoid it we enter a special restrictive rule Number of days to check Depending on a format of radio station this rule can change from 3 4 days to 3 weeks The more songs of the gold hits category are in radio record library the more is the value of this rule The next rule Number of plays before placing to the same day part is absolutely similar simply here we deal with larger unit such as time of the day morning day evening night Daily radio grid is divided into 4 blocks of 6 hours or even more finely for example on 8 blocks of 3 hours named them as early morning later morning first half of day second half of day etc the order of division of the day to a time of the day is described in section 2 5 6 And just this line regulates the getting of the song in the same interval only when it appears in other daily intervals so many times how many times you specify in setting of the rule 2 6 5 Artistic rules of rotation Now some words about artistic rules One of them is the rule of mood of songs Average mood for 3 or 5 songs determined on a five ball scale The rule has two important set
78. ry only the first next song from a pile and we guarantee harmonious and full presence in broadcasting of entire category Page 25 of 50 4A PANPAEOTKA Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG r a sebieiemsina and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe u BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik ae 2 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu Category properties Add new category 4dd new subcategory in HOT Delete selected categories Search depth Category info Fig 26 Setting of search depth In gold categories we will use the bigger number It means that if for example we have 745 songs in a category MAG can easily select the necessary song from 10 15 compositions which are taking place in the top part of a pile if the radio record library is balanced And it is quite enough At correct selection of the record library 15 songs are quite enough for machine to make correct choice adequate to all necessary criteria 2 6 3 Rules of rotation Here we will set the direct rules of rotation of musical material and artistic rules Let us consider them in more detailes on the example of the next table regulating mathematical mechanical restrictive and artistic rules of broadcasting of songs Rules for categories and
79. s digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu On the same tab it is possible to trace a history of airing of a concrete composition or audio tracks of one certain artist You can determine the arrangement of compositions of the required artist in the given category and make corrections in case of violation of the scheme harmony To use this function set the Analysis mode switch in Plan position or what is necessary much less often in History position more detailed the difference is described in section 2 7 2 in description of the History window In this mode a window repeats functions of the window History but with an opportunity of selecting of an analyzed audio track and artist After that you can select one of audio tracks of the current category in the list Song or with setting of a tick Analyze by artist to select the artist in the Artist The date from which the analysis will be executed is displayed and set in the From field in the right top part of the window and the number of analyzed days lines in the resulting table is set in the list Days to display The example of a history of rotation of one audio track from the NEW category is resulted on fig D3 Week grid s1 Select active From Samstag 8 Dezember 2 Category ly Ww Days to display fa ih Distribution Songs in category JE True number H Clocks FA Rotation pattern Analysis mode Week grid Ber gil Song LADY MA
80. s in East and West Europe 7 BARTH I PINKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu playback If the user interfered in playback control the window will be closed 5 seconds after end of playback if during this time the he has not started playback again The PFL window can also be displayed full scaled The example of full scaled window is shown on fig 41 Switching to the full scaled mode and back is carried out by pressing of lt Ins gt key MP 44 kHz 160 kE s stere s Name Just Around The Hill dance radio mis Artist Sash Alburn Dream Dance vol 16 Comment Shaber was here File Wogl ervrskatasAoo TSSHONS ash Just Around The Hill E 0 04Just Around The Hill dance r Position Duration m D gt 44 bd A boi 3455 Fig 41 Full scaled PFL window Full scaled window displays the Meta data of prelistened audio track including soundfile details It is impossible to close the window in this mode by a mouse click outside of the window Control of playback in this mode does not differ from described earlier At the next call of the window it will be opened in the same mode in which it was previously closed There are some specific combinations of keys for prelistening of an audio track not a crossfade lt Ctrl gt
81. s rule Separation from position 1 week ago is a rule similar to previous two rules and existing for those who listens to the radio for example only on the days off or once a week at such condition that rate of rotation of songs in this or that category is 3 5 or 7 days And one more rule from this group Separations between positions on Friday and Monday It exists for those who listens radio on weekdays without Saturday and Sunday at such condition that rate of rotation of songs in the programmed category is 3 days Artist separation is the only rule which is set with the same value for all categories of songs performed in one language for example Russian speaking English speaking songs etc because the same artist can be found both in categories of hot rotation and in gold hits Rate of airing of the same artist is determined proceeding from opportunities of radio record library and average time of continuous listening It is different in each concrete case Yesterday artist separation is a similar rule only with a difference that it concerns yesterday For example if the singer N sounded yesterday at 16 40 today in case of value of this parameter of 1 hour we will not hear him from 15 40 until 17 40 The rule Title separation regulates the rate of airing for example the same version of the song but performed by different singers Sometimes at a dense rotation the same song can get into the same hour To avoid it there is a
82. s which cards were at the top of a pile were selected After airing the already played back card was moved to the bottom of the pile and became the last one This was rotation in a circle From here the word rotation i e circulation has appeared on radio Depending on the size of categories songs were appearing on air with different rate and in different combination creating illusion of variety and richness of radio station s records library There were own rules of musical material rotation on each radio station according to which these or those songs could not be played in some determined combinations for example the same artist existing in different categories could appear on air every other song or one after another song at all To avoid similar issues a presenter was enforced to take not only the first card in a pile but also the second the third etc i e the depth of search of a musical material was determined Theoretically the Index Card system seemed ideal but its practical performance was not such cheerful People are people and everyone has his own weaknesses Some presenters wishing to listen to their favorite song got deeper search depth than allowed breaking not only rotation rules but generally the majority of rules determining the structure of the clock There were Fop Ke gt k a i j De S Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 9 of 50 Ya Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R
83. st Around The Hill dance radio mix category HOT artist S ash ltem inserted title Just Around The Hill dance radio mix category HOT artist S ash Looking for item Testing item ttle O7 315 catego HOT artist ltem inserted title 07315 category HOT artist Looking for item Testing item title Hothing but youl catego HOT artist Paul van Duk ltem inserted tithe Nothing but youl category HOT artist Paul van Dyk Looking for item al Show all lags save logs to file Fig 36 The window of log of the schedule generation After finishing of the process generated schedule will be displayed in the list Note that appearance of the schedule displayed columns and the order of following can be changed For this purpose you have to open a window of settings of the list by clicking of the right key of the mouse on heading of the list and to make necessary changes 2 7 2 Manual editing of play list Some recommendations on the current topic First before editing a clock pay attention to its time keeping and clarify yourself whether it is necessary to fit it to 60 minutes or not Second never touch songs from categories of hot rotation while editing At the worst it is possible to move a composition on one position upwards or downwards Thirdly if there is a necessity to change a song in a clock to fit its time keeping to change energy of a mix etc change only one song a
84. t in the given fact It allows determining errors in settings of rules If we determine the rule as relative or soft we send it in the group breakable By that we are pg Page 26 of 50 ee copyright RBKG amp TRC PAn ria Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG A ATALS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe a BARTH TPA KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu telling to computer Try also to take into account these rules at programming And well if it will be impossible for you at all you can break it slightly If in the group nonbreakable the position of rules one relatively another does not play any role in the group breakable the higher is the rule in the list the more important it is and more priority it has The last usually are the softest rules and restrictions 2 6 4 Mathematical rules of rotation The first rule is Minimum rest for a song It determines the minimal time interval during which the song cannot be broadcasted i e you may set the value less than this one but you are not allowed to set it more This time interval is calculated as follow In our case there are 745 songs in category COLD There are 4 positions COLD in every clock There are 24 hours in a day i e 96
85. ther form for performance of the planned action For more detailed information concerning opportunities of tabs Attributes and Remote control address to the DJin manual The fourth tab of the card describes different artistic characteristics of composition Ef Properties Run A Way General Attributes Remote control MAG Comments Media File Marking Extended Other E nergy 3 middle Start tempo a middle 5 Start bewhure ja End tempo 2 middle E nd Testure 3 Select days and hours when this tem can not be used for scheduling by MAG Wednesday Thursday Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 15 of 50 V s Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG msaani and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik 248 recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu The first left line is Mood It is emotional constituent of a song The mood is estimated on a five M ood 3 neutral point scale Fig 10 Mood of an audio track The rule Mood is very flexible because criteria of estimation are individual The second left line is Start tempo Start tempo of composition is estimated on a three point scale Start tempo 2 middle Fig 11 Start tempo of an audio track The
86. tings Maximum in a row and Maximum step The first rule designates how many songs of the same mood we admit in a row The second which of the values more or less comparing with given one is allowed regarding the song around which the others are programmed Page 28 of 50 copyright RBKG amp TRC My Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG pocenmiianeer and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe m BARTH i PINKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web www tract ru web www digispot eu Set up the mood restriction rules Maximurn ina Aow Maimun step L Increase decrease fi 5 ver happy fi Number of songs used to calculate average mood 3 or 5 3 Minimum allowed value for the average mood 1 0 to 5 0 1 0 Maximurnn allowed value for the average mood 1 0 to 5 0 5 0 Cancel Fig 29 The window Step up the mood restriction rules If the first rule is clear enough the second one requires certain explanations This rule regulates smoothness of a mix on mood proceeding from analysis of three songs one after another For example if we program a song with the mood 4 first it means that the generator of play list will not put close to it a song lower on its mood than 3 i e it can put a song with the
87. tomatic programming the play list generator throws a song away leaving the certain position not programmed and you will know that there are serious miscalculations than to break vitally important rules Simultaneously it is necessary to avoid temptation to transform all rules into non breakable A lot of non programmed positions in a play list show that there are important defects either radio record library does not correspond to set tasks or the same rules in different categories are initially determined on the base of different criteria or you have simply determined rules in song s metadata incorrectly In any case non programmed positions indicate a serious mistake If you are able to make analysis you will easily cope with a situation It is much better than to agree blindly and powerlessly with defective programming If there is a serious conflict only you can solve it The computer is not able to do it Second while manual editing of play list pay special attention to possible violation of rules at selection of equivalent of songs Analyze a situation Perhaps it is quite enough to makea rule softer or to increase search depth while automatic programming to some points Do not neglect fine details Your self estimation and professionalism will start to grow aS soon as you feel that you can solve complicated questions more easily Thirdly we strongly recommend using all accessible tools of analysis You are expectedby a lot of inte
88. tomatically Thus the duration of composition is taken on the basis of file marking see section Marking Now it is necessary to click on the song itself to open the card You can fill in properties of an element of the Musical database Media Database Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 13 of 50 Mi Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG MACE ATT SAUT and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe s BARTH TPATKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu 2 4 1 Properties of an audio item The first tab is the section General E Properties Run A Way General Attributes Remote control MAG Comments Media File Marking Extended Other File name Local copy WSqlsrvr magatest oot SND Soundlovers RunAWay mpS 0000 Format MP344kH2128kB sstereoiis Name OA Sort Audio item ki A iz Muse oa Owner Album e E nd code Duration yf Feal 00 03 13 mM e ue stark next Voice track Plan 00 03 13 Loop outro Rotate First ine Last line Fig 8 The Properties window General tab First three lines are File name its location its Format if necessary its identification number ID Number and Version for example No 123 version 3 Further one
89. ts turn leads to outflow of auditory and finally to financial losses which can exceed the economy on a cost of the equipment Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 5 of 50 Ya Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG EREADER and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment forthe Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu 2 WORKING WITH THE PROGRAM Do not have illusions and do not think that specialized computer programs and in this case MAG will solve all questions The person continues to play a determining role in creation of a play list The computer program is only the tool assisting to the person and the basis of broadcasting its structure and so on is created first in a human head and only then brought to the machine according to individual vision of the expert engaged in musical programming It is the main element Therefore before starting of work with MAG it is necessary to master the bases of musical programming first One of tasks of the given manual is to help you with it Not the computer makes everything instead the person but the person implements his creative potential through the computer The special cards for all songs form music database of radio station All songs are divided in categori
90. ule it is necessary to adhere to a principle of presence of only one song of the certain artist in all these categories If we bring changes in clocks or change the number of songs in categories especiallyin hot categories or enter significant number of songs in the gold hit category frequently creating the new general spirit of radio record library it is necessary to reconsider all rulesof rotation not only artistic but also mathematical Speaking about rules it is necessary to remember that there are no obligatory universal rules for everybody Your radio station differs from other just by the fact that you can have your own ideas about organization of broadcasting and what is important and what is not important Generators of play lists are set individually by every person engaged in making and Copyright RBKG amp TRC Keue Page 31 of 50 P Ya Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG EREADER and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu editingHowever some remarks on this topic First it is recommended to use iron or non breakable rules for resolving of questions which you count essentially important It will be better if during au
91. use to the left to the right moves knot changing thus its position in time Releasing of the left key fixes a new position of a knot Pressing of the right button while left button is still pressed cancels moving a knot and it is placed back to its initial position You can also move a segment of a string between two knots For this capture a segment of a string green line and move it in the same way as a knot The example of track with rubber string is shown on fig 45 The green line displays the gain diagram versus time Red points are knots of a string To remove envelope knots between green and red markers just press the button on Drawing of a level toolbar after this button is activated all knots will be removed in any area selected by the mouse Second pressing of the button switches of the mode of editing by rubber string Thus the level diagram of tracks will be still displayed by a green line but editing of a string will be impossible Changing of scale of displaying is carried out by means of the toolbar Scale fig 46 The panel consists of several groups of buttons The first group allows setting the size of viewing zone respectively to 10 20 30 60 seconds The All button changes the scale so that all edited elements are visible completely Copyright RBKG amp TRC Page 43 of 50 Ya Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R Barth KG MACE ATTSAUT and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe
92. w them selecting a line with the name of attribute into the left list Other variants of vocal do not get under the action of this rule they are separated with the dotted double line in the list and are not active Note that the rules Restrictions and limitations for XXXX attribute will appear automatically in the list of rules of MAG program for each new attribute created by the user Thus you can add in the system new artistic rules based on your own attributes More details about creation and editing of user attributes are given in the full manual of DIGISPOT II Restrictions of transition on tempo allow avoiding monotony in a mix For example to avoid a failure on tempo we recommend not to put the slow beginning after the fast ending The question is certainly about those cases when you program air without jingles Set up the tempo restriction rules q x t 55 5M SF M5 Mm mF FS FM FF fou can set up the restrictions for placing in a row two titles whith different types of start and end tempo Vertically placed are types of compositions which can not be a previous composition and horizontally placed are type of compositions which can not be a next composition The abbreviation of type names show the start tempo first symboal and end tempo last symbol of compositions These symbols Identifications are S slow tempo Wi middle tempo F Fast tempo Fig 31 The window Set up the tempo restriction rules
93. well as the previous rule it is used for compositions of gold hits and similar categories We assume that an average listener usually switches on radio in certain time of a day each of them in his own time If categories are small and rotations are frequent he can get on the same composition at the same time every day To avoid this we will use above stated rule Separation from yesterday s position This value is determined taking in account the average time of continuous listening to radio at Py fo a Page 27 of 50 cae a JE nin a Copyright RBKG amp TRC Ya Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG EREADER and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH TPAIKT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction e mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web http www tract ru web www digispot eu once and this time in each city differs from another cities Let us suppose that in your city a person continuously listens to radio at once for about one hour To avoid a situation when he gets on the same song twice for two days in the same time we drag an interval taking in account the small addition of 35 minutes We get 1 hour and 10 minutes Separation from position 2 days ago is a similar rule but of the day before yesterday It is set and activated similarly to previou
94. www tract ru web www digispot eu appears moved far enough to 7 hours That is even without addition of special rules of type an interval concerning a position in previous day 2 days ago and so on elements of the given category will be distributed regularly in formed schedules and will not be aired in the same time what can cause an irritation of audience Of course this picture is ideal and hypothetical it does not take into account influence of other rules consequences of manual editing and so on but just such distribution will be a basis of real rotation of this category And now let s imagine that we have virtually changed a number of songs in category by reducing of their number up to 12 For this purpose we enter a number into the Songs in category field and press Enter The picture of rotation will change fig Fig 50 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 Fig 50 Rotation pattern for 12 elements of the NEW category If previous picture of rotation for 27 elements is Supposed to be very good the picture obtained for 12 elements in a category is close to ideally bad The same element of a category will try to get into the same hour every day And at all attempts to improve this picture using mathematical rules of rotation we get nothing good Therefore at planning of clocks and grids and at changing of number of elements in categories always check the result of using this functi
95. ysis and History Week arid Category a Clocks e Rotation pattern ih Distribution Analysis mode Songs in category Week grid on C Plan T Analyse by artist History Artist Monday 1 Fig 49 The Rotation pattern tab of the NEW category In the given figure the possible diagram of rotation of the NEW category is shown at such condition that there are 27 songs in a category the Songs in category field The table on the figure shows how the same element of a category the Category list will be placed in the schedule depending on a number of elements of this category and selected week grid the Week grid list On fig 49 you can see that the same element of a category will be aired 2 times a day on average thus in each next 24 hours its position will be moved from previous last day to 3 hours Besides positions of the same element on Monday and Friday are very much far from each other to 12 hours On Monday of the next week the element also fD iv he ee 1 i Page 46 of 50 gh es copyright RBKG amp TRC aie 4 PAaPABOT ria Cooperation for Development of Hard and Software for Audio R B arth KG MRTAOIAS and Video Broadcast Studios in East and West Europe 7 BARTH i P I KT Design and Manufacturing of Studio Equipment for the Audio Elektronik u Akustik recording Industry and the in field of Video Postproduction mail info tract ru e mail sales digispot eu web

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