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1. Additional functions for the Preset Memoriae sero Dto E reti e Prrie missio treten Ert m in 27 Using MTC Cues Using Offsets ET A E FEEN KEE EEE EEEIEE IELE EN General Settings FIP Newark UTEM BUR ERR ERN RIA RR RR RI CIR NND EUER RENS Audio Output Devices Souma Lis Sac ene a aa ud Rf ed EID M M MIDI Assign e Remote RS232 Control RS232 commands USB GPI O Hardware and Setup GPI O RR E IN RR TOUCH DORMIT uM RED NE Tools Archive Tools CD Ripping Log Function sss Log Function Setup Keyboard and Mouse commands Lan Ed is ideam name ed aine enn Structure of a Teatro Playlist sccsssssssssssscsssssssscsssssssssssssssssnssssssssssssseesessssusussussssnsnssssensssseseecesssssunusssssssnsnaseeseseesseeee Structure of a Preset in the Preset memory Additional settings s New features in this version Teatro User Manual So
2. Program settings Teatro User Manual Overview Screen The Overview screen shows all 32 channels on one page but unlike other Teatro screens it is possible for the user to change the layout of the page in many ways All selections are made with a menu located at the window ae E i a The width of S Eachcolumn P i Columns canbe each column will be can be moved to a switched off with the automatically resized while different position within the context menu right loading a new playlist but Overviewtable Ny mousebutton they can also be resized P _ 7 m manually Lu I Overview Jog File Preset Sound view Ch Info PLAY PAUSE STOP REW FWD Sound Duration PAsition Restart Loop Pause Hold Jump RLB F 1 Channellnfo Marsh Atmo 00 02 11 01 00 2 Channel Info 2 Birds 00 00 01 00 00 00 X 3 Channel Info 3 a Wood Door 00 00 02 00 00 00 4 Helicopter 00 00 40 00 00 00 X 5 ChannelinfoS Train pass by 00 00 01 00 00 00 6 Channellnfo6 jRainandthunder 00 00 01 00 00 00 x 7T Channel Info 7 m Children play 00 00 01 00 00 00 x 8 Channellnfo8 Phone Ring 00 00
3. Send ACK s This option will force the internal RS232 module to send a reply ACKnowledgement to the sender of the RS232 command Example If the sender sends the character Play sound in channel 1 to Teatro the software will answer Received A start stop channel 1 via RS232 In the RS232 command section of this manual you will find a description of all commands and replies If your sending device gets confused by these replies simply switch off this option Echo CMD s This option will also force the internal RS232 module to send a reply to the sender of the RS232 command But in this case the software will simply echo back the same character it has received before Example If the sender sends the character stop all playing sounds to Teatro the software will echo x via RS232 In the RS232 command section of this manual you will find a description of all commands and replies If your sending device gets confused by these replies simply switch off this option RS232 commands List of User commands recognized via RS232 Command character Function Starts the sound playback for channels 1 8 a b c d e f g h Stops the sound playback for channels 1 8 X Stops playback for all channels 0 9 Preset number Return CHRT3 Selects and starts the Preset determined by Preset number Select and start next Preset Select and start previous Preset 44 Teatro User Manual If t
4. Updating Teatro If you want to install a newer version of the Teatro program you have to remove the old version from your harddisk see Un installing Teatro first and then install the new version as discribed earlier see Installing Teatro It is also possible to simply overwrite an existing version of the program but this is only recommended if you are experienced on how to do these things under Windows After overwriting an existing installation it may be impossible for Windows to exe cute the De Install function properly the next time Always check the read_me txt file s on the CD ROM for last minute information about installation and troubleshooting and bug fixes Software Updates via Internet Please visit our Internet page www ros software de frequently for software and manual updates Teatro User Manual Software Licensing Teatro 3 x must be licensed with a licensing key datafile after the installation As long as the software is not licensed it will run in the unlicensed or demo mode In this mode you can use all features of the software without limitations for a two week period After this period the software will refuse to start Do not try to change the computers system date during the test period as this will end the test period immediately If you need to test the software for more than two weeks get in contact with us so we can send you a special key datafile that extends the test period for add
5. dialog can be used to define Start and Stop Cues for timecode controlled playback When a MIDI interface is connected to the Teatro PC the received MIDI Timecode MTC can control the playback of each sound channel MTC Cues Channel 1 Grand Finale MTC Start Cue Channel Hours Minutes Seconds Frames Selects one of 10 1 To eT 1 Teatro s Up D Ly v playback pon channels buttons Copy MTC Stop Cue Hours Minutes Seconds Frames Capture 10 gt 0 0 a Y Close Up Down Buttons The Up Down buttons can be used to change the Start or Stop Cue by hours minutes seconds and frames It is also possible to type in the Start Stop times manually Capture While a sound is in Play the actual time position can be copied into the Start or Stop Cue time field Reset The Start and Stop Cues go back to zero Channel Selects one of Teatro s playback channels for Start Stop Cue changes Important timecode can only be used when MIDI active and MTC active are switched on in the Options MIDI dialog The Start Stop Cues times will be stored automatically as a part of the actual preset 28 Teatro User Manual Additional information Loops Teatro is able to playback MTC controlled sounds over a longer period than the actual duration of the sound This will be done with the Loop option of each playback channel An example
6. Previously saved layout files can be loaded and used within the current playlist Reset Layout This will reset the Overview table to a number of basic settings View Columns which are not important for display can be made invisible Only columns with a check mark will be displayed These settings will saved in the current playlist Show Playback Progress The field Sound will filled with a colored progress bar depending on the actual play position of the sound This is a global setting for all playlists and will not be saved in the current playlist Autosize Columns After loading a new playlist all column widths will be resized automatically to fit to the columns content For example The Sound column will always display the complete name of the sound Which also means if the soundname is very long then you will end up with a very wide column This automatic behaviour can be switched off and the width of each column can be resized manually while dragging the column borders in the very first row where the column descriptions are The Autosize setting and the manually changed column sizes will be saved in the current playlist Change Font It is possible to select a new font character set for the Overview table Also the styles bold italic and color can be changed These settings will be saved in the current playlist Moving columns Every single column can be moved to a new position withi
7. Select button a user defined color can be selected for every playback state For the Play Pause and End state you can select if the color will be displayed permanently or flashing The End signal will be displayed while a sound is getting closer to its end Show End Signal will select if the End signal will be displayed or not The range of the End signal can be selected with End signal range in seconds Language Switches the Teatro user interface between english and german language Show Tooltips A Tooltip is the little textbox that comes up when the mousearrow points to a screen object a button for example for more than 2 seconds The displayed text gives you some further information on what the element does Tooltips can be helpful if you are new to the program Uncheck the Show Tooltips option if you don t need this information Duration display shows countdown The duration display in the sound channels can be switched between permanent display of the sound length or countdown In countdown mode you can see how long the sound has to play until it reaches its end position 34 Teatro User Manual Resizing When Teatro starts it tries to resize its main screen to fit the actual screen resolution of 800 x 600 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024 or higher This will make sure that all 8 channels plus the Preset Channel Control will be completely displayed on the screen If resizing is not need
8. Teatro Audio Playback System User Manual Version 3 6 4 3 2010 designed by 2010 R O S Software Germany Teatro User Manual SOFTWARE LIMITED WARRANTY To the original customer purchasing this product in the first instance only R 0 S provides the following warranties 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee If you are dissatisfied with the Software for any reason we will refund your money for a period of 30 days from the date of original purchase R 0 S warrants that the Software will perform in substantial compliance with the documentation supplied with the Software If a material defect in the Software is found you may return the Software to us for a refund In no event will such refund exceed the purchase price of the Software This is your sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of warranty during this 30 day period R 0 S does not warrant that the Software will meet your requirements that operation of the Software will be uninterrupted or error free or that all Software errors will be corrected R 0 S is not responsible for problems caused by changes in the operating characteristics of computer hardware or computer operating systems which are made after the release of the Software nor for problems in the interaction of the Software with other software R 0 S will have no responsibility to replace or refund the license fee of media damaged by accident abuse or misapplication Programming amp Distributi
9. WindowsXP Themes As you can see by the graphics in this manual the Teatro 3 x software will follow the WindowsXP theme settings Blue Olive or Silver If you want to use these themes as well just select System Display Properties Appearance and switch from Windows classic to Windows XP Style and select one of the color themes Blue Olive or Silver Teatro User Manual Introduction TEATRO is a sound playback software for WAV AIFF MP1 MP2 MP3 O0GG WMA audio files with 44 1 48 96 192KHz and bitrates of 8 16 24 32Float during Live shows in Theaters and TV or Radio studios The TEATRO software replaces tapemachines or cart players but the basic operation is similar to these machines The necessary audiofiles can be loaded from disc after you have created them with one of the many PC programs designed for audio editing Sounds can be loaded into 32 separate stereo channelstrips and their playback options can be assigned and arranged in a Preset memory TEATRO was initially designed as a frontend software for the Fairlight MFX3 system which means that audiofiles can be transmitted from an MFX3 or a Medialink server via industry standard 10 or 100MBit Ethernet networking hard software Network setup In order to communicate with an MFX3 or the Medialink server the following requirements are necessary If you have acquired the Teatro PC and software through your local Fairlight office dealer a network card should be alread
10. lt all available sounds for M playback 2 f Preset Control Channel Control leatro Audio Playback System MTC 00 00 00 00 Sin Playlist v Cl Autostart iz The Big Show Groups ond sand Play CJRLB RLF Stop gt Preset Memory Gm Scene 1 Scene 2 Pla Intermezzo y 14 Scene 3 RLB RLF a nis Grand Finale C Autostart gam Groups m Play L RLB RLF pm S e C Autostart sle Load Sound d Play lamni C 5 Global Playback Control EE aN ar E 4 Opensthe 27 i Nis To chscreen g an utostart functions 3 s c P ad E LT Incoming MIDI Timecode gt a 2 22 Playlist selector gt em dmm a Preset memory control _ 0 0m 4 Playback control for multiple 27 7 Opensthe N Overview window N _ Additional rogram functions SP g
11. GPI 0 Functions Whether you have programmed a GPI O group as input or output TEATRO will offer a set of functions for each channel line If a GPI O channel is programmed as an input you can apply a voltage 5V to that input which will close or open this GPI contact and trigger one of TEATRO s internal functions The following table lists all possible functions you can trigger with the GPI s Function Effect OFF no function selected Channels has no function START STOP Channel 1 Sound in Channel 1 will start or stop to START STOP Channel 32 Sound in Channel 32 will start or stop STOP All Channels Stops all playing Sounds Channels Panic function Next Preset Selects the next Preset in the Preset memory Previous Preset Selects the previous Preset in the Preset memory Recall Preset Recalls the actual Preset with all stored parameters Pause Preset Switches the whole Preset all playing sounds in pause mode Rollback Preset Winds the Preset depending on settings xx seconds backwards Roll FWD Preset Winds the Preset depending on settings xx seconds forward Continue Continues the Preset from the actual position e g after Rollback Repeat Repeats the Preset from the position that was used previously Select next channel Selects the next channel on the mainpage Select previous channel Selects the previous channel on the mainpage Select next sound Selects the next sound for the currently selected channel Select previous sound Sel
12. Touchscreen MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Display FTP Close Enable Logging Activates the Log function and can be switched on off anytime during playback when needed key combination CTRL L can be used to switch the logging function on off The state of the Logging function on off will be displayed on the Log tab When previewing sounds for example in the alternative Load Sound dialog no log data will be written into the log list Teatro will remember the last state of the Logging function on or off and will switch to this state when the program is launched the next time Channel Restart creates new Log entry When the Restart function of a channel is active every restart of the channel creates a new Log entry Channel Resume creates new Log entry When the Pause function of a channel is active a new Log entry will be created after each pause and resume cycle Show warning when Log list is not empty When Teatro will be closed and the Log list still contains log entries a warning message will be displayed and the Log list can be saved Backup Log file when Log list is not empty When Teatro will be closed and the Log list still contains log entries the Log list will be saved automatically into the directory which is selected under Log backup directory The name of the backup file will be put together using this scheme Log Backup Day Month Year Ho
13. Volume Loads selected sound s into the channel strip List of sounds in the selected directory Preview Start Stop Sets the level for the Audition function Automatic auditioning The sound goes into Play when selected Closes the dialog without loading any sounds e tis also possible load sounds while using drag amp drop Sound can be dragged from a Windows filebox or the Explorer and must be dropped over the Load Sound button 16 Teatro User Manual Network soundfiles If the desired soundfile does not come from the local disc but from an or the Medialink server you have to select the FIP file dialog tab This will display a dialog box for FTP connections to other machines in the network Files in network or on FTP server File Management Local FTP Local disc directory List of FTP clips iv mem servers predefined Folders on the the Options FTP server 15 applause wawv dialog 15 boing wawv 15 drumfilldono wav Connect to FTP 15 drumfillStereo wav server Files on the 15 grandfinale way uds _ Cancel the FTP connection To music wav Start Transfer Status USER admm Progress 331 Password required tor PASS admim 230 Welcome to the Sarribar FTP Server Opens the Options Dialog Starts the file transf
14. dialog where you can load the transmitted sound into the active channel strip Teatro User Manual Playing sounds Teatro has 32 channels for mono stereo or multichannel playback Every channel has the following elements and functions 2 IN 38 D3 OUT 00 0 L1 Restart De 00 00 01 Music Loop m Groups Em Load Sound Soun it i Play lt gt PLAY C Pause Position 00 00 00 Children play Play while hold Church bells oyw g Coach drive by Stop leia Channel Info 2 Dhumtnext Yori rrr Doa bark Cl Autostart Play This button starts or stops playback for each sound with a mouse click You can also start and stop playback with the F keys on the PC keyboard When MIDI control is active you will see the corresponding MIDI note e g C3 in the upper left corner of the channel Restart When the Restart option is active checked the sound can be played with the Play button but when you hit the Play button again the sound will be played again from the top In this mode a sound can only be stopped while clicking the Play button with the right mousebutton Loop When Loop is active checked a sound will not be stopped when it s end is reached The sound will start from the top instead and play in loop until you hit Play again Pause Normally when you stop a playing sound the play position will jump back to the beginning of the sound In
15. 03 00 00 00 x 9 ZA gt j pem a Pd _ Depending onthe N Every playback The overall width of v selected FontSizeit parameter is the Overview table can be is possible to display upto represented by a stretched across the whole 32 channels within the Separate conan p _ Overview table _ lt poe E E cM n Most of the user selectable layout changes of the Overview window will be saved as a part of the playlist but some of them are global settings and will be valid for all playlists see next pages for more information Additionally a layout setting can be saved as a template and loaded into other playlists 12 Teatro User Manual The Overview table has 32 rows and 31 colums Each row contains the information for one of the 32 playback channels The 31 columns are used to display the playback parameters for each channel The picture to the left shows only a few of these columns but additional columns can be displayed if the scrollbar will be moved to the right or the window is being spread extended across the whole screen The following parameters can be displayed e Channel number e Sound i e the name of the currently loaded sound e Duration length of the sound e Position actual playback position e Output Soundcard channel e Restart e Loop e Pause e Hold e Jump e RIB F Rollback Roll F
16. DM500 LCD display offsets will be indicated using the progress bar X Keys 128 remote keyboard start offsets can be captured with Shift F1 X Keys 128 remote keyboard start offsets can be removed with Shift F2 e When switching beween Presets while clicking the Preset list with the mouse using the Next and Previous buttons or using the keys it is possible to use the following key modifiers Switching Presets together with the Shift key All Autostarts are ignored Switching Presets together with the Ctrl key All changes made to the current Preset will not be saved Switching Presets together with the Shift key AND the Ctrl key Preset changes will not be saved AND Autostarts will be ignored e In the Options Playlist dialog you will find a new option Save changes before switching Presets which will make it possible to switch between Presets without saving the changes previously made to these Presets Version 3 5 3 e X Keys controller keyboards now also usable in Teatro demo versions Demo limit extended to 30 days Version 3 5 2 62 Teatro User Manual Additional functions for GPI control were added Select next channel Select previous channel Select next sound Select previous sound e minor error when detecting MIDI devices was fixed Version 3 5 1 e Inthe Options USB Remote dialog it is possible to select if a channel will be selected automatically when a P
17. Love 20dp Description Time Middle section 02 00 000 Cue Load Preset Clear Preset Jump to changed offsets Applying start offsets The easiest way to apply an offset is to play the sound using the Play button and then use the Capture button when the sound reaches the desired offset point Now you have a rough offset point which can be fine tuned with the Minutes Seconds Milliseconds and Samples up down buttons Minutes Seconds Milliseconds Samples With these up down buttons you can fine tune the start offset down to sample accuracy Capture While a sound is playing the Capture button will copy the actual playback position to the Minutes Seconds Milliseconds and Samples fields for further tuning Reset Removes the applied start offset from the channel Playback Control The Play and Stop buttons can be used to control the sound playback within the offset dialog The playback position can also be set with the slider Using the Play button repeatedly always repeats the sound playback from the offset position 30 Teatro User Manual Presets The Presets field can used to store up to 20 presets for later use in other sound Presets or Playlists These presets will be stored globally within the Windows Registry It is possible to type a description for every preset This will make it possible to store many different
18. a playlist takes care of the following e all Preset data will be loaded into memory e all path information for the sound files will be loaded into the 32 channels e the text will be loaded into the Text Reader The Playlist does not contain the text itself it only contains the path information where the text is saved on disk e the first Preset will be activated which will load the sounds for the 32 channels and their playback parameters see next page for details 60 Teatro User Manual Structure of a Preset in the Preset memory A Teatro playlist can contain up to 100 Preset The selected Preset determines which sounds have to be loaded into which channel and which playback parameters they have to use The following parameters are stored and controlled with every Preset Preset Preset Name Row number for Text Reader Row number for TR 1 Text Reader Overview Layout settings Channel 1 Path of the Sounds to load Number of Play Group 1 to 4 Number of Stop Group 1 to 4 Restart On Off Loop On Off Pause On Off Play while hold On Off Jump to next On Off Rollback On Off Volume Pan Vari Speed Fade IN Out EQ DSP Fffects Midi Note Midi Channel Midi Active Autostart On Off Name of used Sound Device Number of used Sound Device Listposition of sound Start Offset of sound MTC Start Time in Frames MTC
19. be mixed during playback Additional key commands for upcoming new remote controls Start Stop of channels 1 8 with F1 F8 Start Stop of channels 9 16 with Shift Fl F8 Start Stop of channels 17 24 with Ctrl F1 F8 Start Stop of channels 15 32 with Shift Ctrl Fl F8 Visual styles for XP can be used in Teatro Screen resizing can be switched off in the options dialog Touch screen shows sound position and sound length on top of the progress bar Channel number display on the touch screen has been changed for easier recognition Play button color enhancements for better status feedback red green and yellow Channels in pause are now keeping their color red green yellow until playback continues Added driver for new cable version of the GPI 0 interface MIDI Out settings will now be recalled correctly when Teatro starts Version 2 0 0 to 2 2 2 Teatro now runs under Windows 95 98 ME 2000 XP Version 1 x could only be used under Windows98 Completely redesigned audio engine with support for WAV MP1 MP2 MP3 OGG and WMA files Support for multichannel Quadro 5 1 and 7 1 playback of WAV and OGG soundfiles DSP effects such as EQ Reverb Delay Flanger Chorus VariSpeed Fade In Out per channel Logging function observes all playback channels and creates a list entry for each sound song and its overall playback time during a show Re designed dialog for MIDI IN OUT settings Starting and stopping of sounds can now
20. from clipboard Delete text Undo changes Setup dialog for text font D px S E text size text color etc Search for one or Copy text to clipboard more word s Cut text to clipboard Text left aligned Italic text Text right aligned Bold text Close Text Reader Text underlined Text centred 33 Teatro User Manual Options The Options button on the main page opens the dialog for various program settings Each group of functions has its own tab which will give you access to the groups properties General Settings Program Options gE Progratt Interface Interface PLAY Button Color Language License Playback Play Select v Flash S English Audio Output Devices Pause V Flash Deutsch Soundlist Playlist End Select v Flash Log Resizing Stop Control 95 232 Remote setect Oo USB Remote Goff GPIO Default colors Touchscreen MIDI i Setup Show End signal show Tooltips Assign End signal range in 4 Duration display shows countdown Monitor seconds Display FIP Close PLAY Button Color Assigns a color to the PLAY buttons on Teatro s main page The PLAY buttons can indicate the following states Play while a sounds is playing Pause while a sounds is paused Ende while sounds gets closer to its end Stopp while a sound is stopped and not paused With the
21. interval can be selected between 50 milliseconds and 5 seconds If no Interval function is needed the length must be set to Hold The Interval mode can be combined with the Duration mode Duration in msec The Duration parameter will determine how long the GPO will be closed or opened depending on the Invert setting You can select values between 1 and 999 seconds If no Duration function is needed the length must be set to Hold The Duration mode can be combined with the Interval mode Status This column will show the actual state Open Closed of each GPI O channel line GPI 0 configuration GPI 0 settings can be stored globally OR within the playlist The two modes can be selected in the GPI O dialog 49 Teatro User Manual GPI 0 Technical information e The PIO devices can only be used with low voltages e For switching of higher voltage and current we offer additional relais cards e We also offer additional optocoupler cards for the PIO inputs e Always make sure that the PIO channels are only programmed as IN or OUT in TEATRO s GPI O setup dialog when their external wiring uses them as IN or OUT A wrong external wiring can destroy the PIO device Additional technical details supplied by the manufacturer of the USB hardware can he found on the Teatro installation CD in the following directory For the USB version CD drive VIO Installation ush mempio ds
22. password when connecting to an but if the refuses the FIP connection you should type space into the password field The password for the MediaLink server depends on the settings of the NT Server Ask your network administrator for information Directory This is the directory that will be displayed in the FTP file window when a network connection has been established On this could be depending on your disc configuration for example scl 0 soundfiles The bootdisk can also be accessed with dd Please take note that on the MFX you have to use the slash instead of the backslash On the Medialink server this could be for example clips 36 Teatro User Manual Playlist The settings in the Playlist dialog will control some functions of the Preset Memory Iz Eya I Program Options Program Playlist Interface License v Save changes before switching Presets Playback V Ignore Autostarts when loading new Playlist Audio Output Devices Display a message when sounds are missing Soundlist M Load previous playlist s when program starts Playlist z Log 30 gt Global rollback time in seconds 5 60 sec Control RS 232 Remote Default Playlist USB Remote select GPI O Touchscreen Default Playlist Directory MIDI C Program Files Teatra Setup Assign Monitor Display FTP Close Save changes before switc
23. 2 Soundlist Playlist 299 TR 1 Remote Control RS 232 Remote Layout 1 USB Remote O Layout 2 GPIO O Layout 3 Touchscreen j O Layout 4 MIDI Setup Preset List only Assign 1 Mode Monitor Display 5 lt gt Display Contrast FTP 43 Teatro User Manual Important The information below is only needed when controlling Teatro from a PC via RS232 protocol Information on how to connect and use the Teatro Remote controllers TR 1 or TR 2 can be found in a separate manual for each remote controller Com Port This will select one of the serial RS232 input output ports Normally you have two serial ports in your PC On some PC s the mouse is connected to COM 1 so you can use COM 2 for Teatro interfacing Mode The software has a User and a Remote mode The Remote setting will be used for Teatro s hardware control panel If you want to connect Teatro fo your own RS232 control unit you have to use the User setting The transmission protocol for this mode is discussed further down Enable RS232 This will switch on off Teatros internal RS232 processing If you are not controlling Teatro via RS232 you should disable the RS232 processing as this will save CPU cycles Baud Rate The term Baud Rate is used for the transmission speed between a sender and a receiver You have the choice between 9600 and 19200 If possible always use the fastest speed for transmission
24. 3 Output Devices 4 IN START STOP Kanal 4 Soundlist 1 5 IN START STOP Kanal 5 o Playlist 6 IN START STOP Kanal 6 LJ Log 7 IN START STOP Kanal 7 m Control 8 IN START STOP Kanal 8 o 5 232 Remote 9 OUT START STOP Kanal 1 Hold Hold Open USB Remote 10 OUT START STOP Kanal 2 Hold Hold Open GPI O 11 OUT START STOP Kanal 3 Hold Hold Open Touchscreen 2 12 OUT START STOP Kanal 4 Hold Hold Open MIDI 13 OUT X Keys F1 Hold Hold Open Setup 14 OUT X Keys F2 Hold Hold Open Assign 15 OUT X Keys F3 Hold Hold Open Monitor 16 OUT X Keys F4 Hold Hold Open Display FTP Activate GPI O Interface GPI O configuration GPI O Go Global en configuartion GPI O card from global activation settings or from playlist Important If you want to use the GPI O settings which are saved in a playlist you must first switch to GPI 0 configuration Global and then load the playlist 46 Teatro User Manual The PIO USB device supports 24 channels which can be used as Outputs GPO or Inputs GPI The channels or lines can be programmed in groups of 8 as input or output The group separation is not a limitation in the TEATRO software but is determined by the hardware design of the PIO devices The GPI 0 groups are also called Ports and they are structured as follows USB device Port 1 Channel 1 to 8 Port 2 Channel 9 to 16 Port 3 Channel 17 24 When switching
25. 6 1 Support for new X Keys firmware X Keys Sticks with new MWII firmware can not be used with Teatro versions lower than 3 6 1 as Teatro can not detect them properly Start Offset menu entry added to Soundlist context menu Version 3 6 0 To function added for quick time location Doubleclick over the Position field Ctrl G brings up To dialog Timcode displays extended to hours minutes seconds Colors of time fields can be changed using right mousebutton context menu New and separate Overview window The Overview page is now fully editable The GPI O settings are now also displayed within the Overview page Version 3 5 6 Software interface for new X Keys firmware updated and extended New X Keys devices could not be recognized by Teatro due to firmware changes by the manufacturer hutocue detection enhanced Accuracy is now in the 1 msec range Version 3 5 5 e Added Autocue funktion for automatic detection and setting of start offsets Version 3 5 4 Start offsets option from previous Teatro versions re introduced plus these additional features Sounds can be copied between channels including an existing offset Contextmenu right mousebutton in soundlist features a Remove start offset command Key command Ctrl 0 captures a start offset for the current channel Key command Ctrl R removes the start offset from the current channel On the TD 1
26. An atmo sound has a length of 1 30 The start time for this sound channel is set to 10 05 00 00 The actual timecode is 10 10 00 00 The Loop option is switched off 10 05 00 00 10 06 00 00 10 07 00 00 10 08 00 00 10 09 00 00 10 10 00 00 Atmo Sound Length 1 30 actual Timecode position Normally the sound would stop playing at 10 06 30 00 because its length is only 1 30 But when the Loop option of the playback channel is switched on the sound plays in a loop and repeats at 10 06 30 00 and again at 10 08 00 00 and so on 10 05 00 00 10 06 00 00 10 07 00 00 10 08 00 00 10 09 00 00 10 10 00 00 Atmo Sound Atmo Sound Atmo Sound Atmo Sound Length 1 30 Loop Loop Loop Loop Point actual Timecode position A special situation occurs when the starts at a later time then 10 05 00 00 for example at 10 07 30 00 10 05 00 00 10 06 00 00 10 07 00 00 10 08 00 00 10 09 00 00 10 10 00 00 Atmo Sound Atmo Sound Atmo Sound Atmo Sound Length 1 30 Loop Loop Loop Loop Point actual Timecode position 10 07 30 00 Even though the start time of the sound is set to 10 05 00 00 the sound drops in properly at 10 07 30 00 and plays the final third of its second loop Teatro calculates how many loops the sound would have played in theory and at which timecode position it would be when started at its original MTC start time Controlling grouped soun
27. LAY button was pressed e Below the PLAY buttons there is now a text field where you can input some text information about the sound channel There are two ways to open the text field for input Double click with the mouse below the PLAY button or right click with the mouse below the PLAY button to open a context menu with more options e g change text color All text information will be saved together with each preset and the playlist e When loading a playlist which refrences sounds on a drive that is currently not available like CD DVD or removable disks the playlist will continue to load so you will have the chance to check which sounds could not be found as those will be indicated the channels soundlist in the color red as usual In previous version loading of a playlist with sounds on missing removable devices stopped with an error message Version 3 5 0 e Support for the new X Keys 128 key remote controllers e Support for the new RS232 display TD 1 e Flexible color assignment for the PLAY buttons The Play Pause Stop and End the last few seconds of a playing sound states can be displayed with different and selectable colors The length of the End phase can be set between 10 to 60 seconds It is possible to select if the buttons should flash or show the selected color permanently Teatro does no longer support the GPI O ISA cards but only the USB PIO devices If you are still using ISA cards ge
28. Lady hear me tonig x All files v Abbrechen Netzwerkumgeb Dateityp The Windows standard file dialog offers additional functions such as deleting copying renaming and moving sounds It is possible to select and load more than one sound at the same time Multiple sounds can he selected with the by clicking the first sound with the left mousebutton and then selecting the last sound with Shift Mouseclick dialog Clicking the Add button with the right mouse button will open a slighly different dialog which corresponds with the FTP This dialoghox is similar to other fileselectors in Windows programs If soundfile was selected by clicking one of the entries with the left mousbutton you have to use the OK button in order to load the sound into the channel strip It is possible to select and load more then one sound FTP network file dialog Local disc HT direct ey oa E d PROGRAMMING Drive selctor Folder tree ifr Manual oae E temp G wma 1KHz Sinewave OdB way 6 Channel 3min wav 6 Channel wav AOUad05 way Applause way Barbers Adagio For Strings way Bladerunner wav Boing wav Drumfill mono wav Drumfill stereo wav Grand Finale wav Helicopter Jingle 1 wav Jingle 2 wav Laughs wav Marsh Atmo wav File Name Preview File Type x Autoplay
29. Pause mode after stopping a sound the play position will remain at the actual point When you hit Play the next time the sound continues from that position Play while hold In this mode a sound can only be played as long as the PLAY button is held If you release the PLAY button the sound will stop immediately Play while hold can be used in combination with Pause and or Loop Jump to next This option can be used when you have more than one sound in the sound list of a channel strip When activated and you stop a sound that s playing or the sound has reached it s end the next sound in the list will automatically load and is ready to play If Autostart is activated the sound will load and instantly start to play Duration Displays the length of the sound when in stop When a sound is playing this field will count down the time to the sound s end position Position Displays the actual play position The actual play position can be selected with the slider below the Position field The colors of the time fields can be changed through a context menu right mousbutton over time field Go To funktion After double clicking the Position field it is possible to input time values for direct jumps to time locations 18 Teatro User Manual Sound List The Sound List displays the names of all currently loaded sounds Allthough you can load more than one sound into the list you can only se
30. RO receives a C3 the first sound in the Sound List will be played If TEATRO receives a G 3 the second sound in the Sound List will be selected played and so on Default Assignment This will set all MIDI note numbers and MIDI channels to a default value Each TEATRO playback channel will be set to a diffe rent MIDI channel 1 to 8 and the MIDI note will be set C3 3 60 This will enable Teatro to be controlled by MIDI controllers keyboards from different manufacturers Some keyboards are sending C3 as 60 and others are sending C5 as 60 MIDI Monitor The MIDI monitor displays the received MIDI commands It can be used for testing and troubleshooting Additonal information for MIDI control All settings on the Setup page IN OUT Note Channel Active will be saved with the playlist The settings on the Setup page are global settings and will not be saved with the playlist Remote R 232 Control The Control dialog defines all settings for controlling Teatro via RS232 signals Teatro accepts single characters received via RS232 for sound playback When selecting Presets from the Preset memory it is necessary to send the number of the Preset followed by Return CHR13 See below for a description of the recognized RS232 commands 1 Program Options Program RS 232 Remote Interface License Com Port Mode Playback com1 v Remoter v Audio Output Devices o Enable 5 23
31. Stop Time in Frames Channel 32 Path of the Sounds to load Number of Play Group 1 to 4 Number of Stop Group 1 to 4 Restart On Off Loop On Off Pause On Off Play while hold On Off Jump to next On Off Rollback On Off Volume Pan Vari Speed Fade IN Out EQ DSP Effects Midi Note Midi Channel Midi Active Autostart On Off Name of used Sound Device Number of used Sound Device Listposition of sound Start Offset of sound MTC Start Time in Frames MTC Stop Time in Frames Additional settings separate file e Overview layout will be saved within the playlist file but it is also possible to save load the Overview layout in a e GPI O settings can be stored globally OR within the playlist Some settings are not stored within a playlist or a Preset Settings in the options dialog are being stored in the Windows Registry with these exeptions All FTP settings are stored in the file C Windows System teatro fip The list of previously loaded playlists are stored in_ C Windows System teatro playlists 6 Teatro User Manual New features in this version Version 3 6 2 to 3 6 4 e Fontdisplay optimized for high screen resolutions e Play state signaling for X Keys Stick On Off switchable in Options dialog e LED s of X Keys Stick On Off selectable in Options dialog Version 3
32. Teatro soundchannels on that same surround device but it is neccessary route these to individual output groups of the surround device For example A stereo sound can be played on the Front or the Rear speakers of a surround device Output Device Channel Selects the sounddevice or an outputchannel of a sounddevice Fades Sounds can be faded in or out with these settings It is possible to set the duration time and the curve type for the fade in out Fade In Out active selects if the fade settings should be applied to the channel or not Equalizer 3 band parametric EQ with frequency and Q selection Offsets See next pages for description DSP Effects See next pages for description MTC Cues See next pages for description Pan and Level setting CPU Load Displays the CPU load of all currently playing channels The more EQ s and DSP effects are used the higher the displayed percentage will be On slower PC s it is recommended not to use too many EQ s and effects 22 Teatro User Manual Multichannelsound Playback Teatro supports multichannelsound playback Quadro 5 1 and 7 1 of WAV OGG and WMA soundfiles Information about the OGG format can be found at www vorbis org Multichannel soundfiles are similar to Mono or Stereo WAV files The main difference is that they have more than one mono or two stereo channels which means they can have four Quadro 6 5 1 or up to 8 7 1 audiochannels toget
33. abilities e The field Drive can read CD audio indicates if the CD drive is capable of reading audio data from CD s If this field is not checked it is very likely that the CD is not able to read audio data from CD properly but you should always try an run a test if that s really the case e field Drive supports Stream is accurate indicates that the CD Drive is capable of supplying an accurate audio stream without glitches and interruptions etc 55 Teatro User Manual Log Function The Log function can be used to automatically generate records of the play times of each track during a show or a broadcast 31 32 Es Grid File Printing Margins Delete Row Do not print empty rows Grid Font Changes the font settings for the Logging Grid Grid Clear Delete Row Removes all entries from the list or only a single line File Save Load Saves the actual Log List or loads a previous Log List for example when additional print outs are needed When saving it is also possible to select tab delimited text format Printing Margins Sets the printing margins depending on the printer used Printing Page width Matches the width of the Log List to the possible width of the used paper The printed list looks exactly like the displayed Log List on screen If the list does not fit the size of the paper it is possible to resize the Log List make it smaller for instance If the printer driver is capabl
34. alog can be used to make some basic settings for Teatro s audio engine mf Program Options Program i Interface Playback Sample Rate Buffer Size License Playback 44 1 KHz 200 msec Set Audio O48 KHz Output Devices Soundlist O 6 krz Preload Size Playlist 192 KHz Bias Log 500 msec Set Control R5 232 Remote Internal Bit Resolution USB Remote 16 Bit Default Volume GPIO a Touchscreen O32 Bit 68 gt MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Display FTP Playback Sample Rate and Internal Bit Resolution This will set the sample rate and the bit depth of Teatro s playback engine Even if Teatro is able to mix different sample rates and bit depths you should set this option to the sample rate bit depth that is mainly used which may help to reduce CPU strain When using 24Bit sounds you must set the bit depth to 32Bit Buffer Size Teatro uses a small internal memory buffer to calculate DSP effects and EQ in advance for every sound channel The size of the buffer is directly related to the speed of the PC processor On a slow PC the buffer should be larger and on a fast PC the buffer can be smaller Usually a buffer size between 200 and 300msec should be sufficient for every PC If not you should try and change the buffer size while observing the following e Ifthe buffer size is too large you will notice audio delays when starting stopping sounds and when changing DSP effect EQ o
35. ches the selected dB level Additional Functions The following functions can be used to quickly apply offsets e key combination Ctrl 0 can be used to capture a start offset on the fly while a sound is playing e key combination Ctrl R can be used to remove a start offset without opening the Offset dialog first e context menu clicking the right mousebutton in the soundlist on the main page also features a Remove Start Offset command e When using the X Keys 128 remote control you can use the following key commands Shift F1 captures a start offset the fly when a sound is playing Shift F2 removes the start offset from the channel 3 Teatro User Manual Text Reader The Text Reader can he used to follow the text during a show and to start the playback of sounds accordingly I Text Reader demotext_e rtf cog Bo seax 5 Preset Memory F1 Horses Overture F5 Dog bark Scene 2 res Loreetue min hent adio doloboreet il exerosto odio dolutat Dui er am con utat venis erciliquat uis dolobore vel dolorerostrud tis nullummy nonulluptatueros aliscillutat in euis enis amconse ercincin eu faccumsan ulla conseniam quis num illa facilisis Save text position B am diam sim niamet la feugiam veliquipisse diam sum ing eugait luptate modoluptat lobore Sounds exer sequatum iure magnit senibh eu
36. ctual text position within the text Move the text cursor to a position in the text in most cases the beginning of a text row and hit Save text position When loading the Preset later the Text Reader will jump to the corresponding text position The filename of the text will be saved with the actual playlist which means when you load the playlist the text will also be loaded into the Text Reader Don t forget to save the playlist when you load a different or a new text Text documents can be editied in many ways because the Text Reader supplies basic word processing functions Text documents can be imported from other word processors such as MS Word Lotus Word Pro Word Pad etc while using the RTF or TXT text format Documents loaded into the Text Reader can also be displayed the TR 1 Remote display Simply push the remote s Menu button and select Text Reader The TR 1 remote can also store the actual text position for each preset but these markers are not identical to the marked text positions in Teatro s Text Reader See the separate TR manual for more information 32 Teatro User Manual Text Reader editing functions The editing functions in the Text Reader can be used to make basic changes in the loaded text documents Save the text under new name Create a ne text Print the text Delet text Load text from disk elete Close tex Save text under the actual name Insert text
37. ds via MTC When Play Groups are selected on the main page and you are going to set change the MTC Start Stop times in the MTC Cues dialog the changes will be copied to all members in the Play Group If you switch off the Play Group or change the number of the Play Group the existing MTC Start Stop times will not be changed or reset This must be done manually 29 Teatro User Manual Using Offsets When it s not required to play sounds from their very beginning it is also possible to apply a start offset to the sound The start offset is a parameter which is not associated with the sound but with the channel currently playing this sound This means that the same sound can be used within the same Soundlist or in other channels as well while new offset must be set for every instance of the sound because the offset is a channel feature This behaviour will make it possible to use the same sound with many different offsets within the same or other Soundlists or Presets However it is possible to copy paste or move a sound together with its offset from one channel fo another channel while using the usual commands from the soundlist context menu Sound Offsets Channel 2 Nightcrawlers Never Knew Love Start Offset Minutes Seconds Miliseconds Samples 2 I 2 po ps o je 5292000 2 3 Playback Control Min Sec MSec Presets Autocue Sound Cue at 9 2 Nightcrawlers Never Knew
38. e PLAY buttons 52 Teatro User Manual Tools Archive The archive function can be used to backup and restore a complete playlist including the audio files which are used referenced by the playlist Archive Archive File List For Restore v D APROJECT Teatro Teatro all 8 channels tea D Clips Waiting For tonight wav D Clips Barbers Adagio For Strings wav vi D Clips Bladerunner wavy ivi D Clips Modjo Lady hear me tonight mp3 vi D AClipsiMysterious Times long wav vi D AClipsiMysterious Times short wav vi D Clips Nightcrawlers Never Knew Love mp3 vi D Clips Ronan Keating Life Is Rollercoaster mp3 D Clips Saint Etienne Can t fight the moonlight mp3 Backup Restore List Files art Backur List Archive Start Restore Remove Fi Restore to original Folder iv Backup List files When a playlist is loaded and the button List Files is clicked the path information for the playlist and all audio files used by that playlist will be listed in the File List window which will show you what will be archived later In the topmost position of the list there should allways be the playlist file followed by the audio file paths The leading checkmark of every list entry means that this file will be saved into the archive during backup You can deselect files if needed Backup Add Remove File Add additional sound files to the l
39. e of scaling resizing the printed pages it is not neccessary to change the page width here Printing Do not print empty rows The Log List always contains 50 rows by default These will be sent to the printer no matter if they contain information or not Empty rows on the printed sheet can be used to make additional entries manually Enable this option if additional rows are not needed Notes If you are going to playback and log lots of sounds Teatro will automatically add as many rows as needed to the Log List which means the list is not limited to 50 entries All fields rows in the Log List can be changed manually after selecting each field row with the mouse If soundfiles have been named like artist title wav Separator minus the logging function will be able to automati cally fill the corresponding columns with the artist name column 2 and the songtitle column 3 56 Teatro User Manual Log Function Setup Teatro Setup dialog offers the following options for the Log function m Program Options E Program Log Interface License Playback Audio Output Devices Channel Resume creates new Log entry Soundlist Playlist Log C Backup Log file when Log list is not empty Control C Enable Logging C Channel Restart creates new Log entry Show warning when Log list is not empty R5 232 Remote USB Remote GPI O Log backup directory C Program Files Teatro
40. ects the previous sound for the currently selected channel If a GPI O channel is programmed as an output and you select one of TEATRO s internal functions the GPO contact will be closed or opened which will apply a 5V TIL voltage to that output The following table will list all possible functions that can be used to open close the GPO contacts Function Closes Opens GPO contact if START STOP Channel 1 Channel 1 starts or stops to START STOP Channel 32 Channel 32 starts or stops The X Keys 128 keyboard supplies the following additional functions Function Closes Opens GPO contact when Functionkey Fl to F8 pushing F 1 to F8 48 Teatro User Manual The following parameters can be used in combination with the 6 0 Invert This parameter will invert the switch logic of the GPI 0 Inputs and Outputs as follows GPl Inputs When Invert is not activated a TEATRO function will be fired when the GPI contact is closed When Invert is activated a TEATRO function will be fired when the GPI contact is opened GPO Outputs When Invert is not activated the GPO s are open and will be closed when a TEATRO function executes When Invert is activated the GPO s are closed and will be opended when a TEATRO function executes Interval in msec The Interval option will cause a GPO channel not to be closed or opened permanently but will automatically switch between open and close The duration of the
41. ed it can be switched off here It is recommended to use Teatro with a screen resolution of 1024 x768 as this is the native program resolution FTP Network The FTP dialog must be used to make some important and basic settings for a network connection to an or the MediaLink server FTP is the name of the transfer protocol that Teatro uses for the networking If Teatro wants to get in contact with an or the MediaLink server it is necessary to know the network adress of the server and when connecting fo a server we also have send a username and a password FA mi Program Options Program FIP Interface FTP List Name License Server server Payback Audio Adress Output Devices 192 168 1 1 Soundlist Username Playlist admin Log Password Control admin RS 232 Remote Directory USB Remote GPO claudio Touchscreen MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Display FTP New entry This button creates a new entry for an FTP connection See below for more information on the necessary parameters Save entry This will save the changes of the selected entry When your FTP list is complete don t forget to use the OK button as this will save the whole list to your disk Delete entry This will remove the selected entry from the list The list itself will not be saved to disk until you hit the OK button FIP List The FTP list on left side of the dialog can hold up to 50 user d
42. efined FIP connections If you run Teatro with just one you only need to have one entry for this machine in the list If you have more than one server in your installation it would be recommended to have an entry for every possible server connection Name The name serves as an Alias for the server connection you are going to create and will also be displayed in the FTP list to the left If you have for example 2 MFX s in your installation you could use the names MFX 1 and 2 35 Teatro User Manual Adress This field holds the adress of the server Network adresses are also called IP adress and they have a fixed format which uses 4 numbers separated by a period after each number The adress of an can be found on its bootscreen before it starts the discrecorder software In most cases the adress will be something like 192 0 0 1 or 191 0 0 10 The IP adress of the Medialink NT server can be found in the Network dialog of the Windows NT system settings The corresponding adress must be typed into the Adress field Username If you want to connect to an you must use the username ftp or without the quotes The MediaLink server may be satisfied with the username anonymous but depending on the settings of the NT Server it might be necessary to apply a different username In this case check the network settings of your NT Server Password Normally you don t need a
43. els will be listed in the Output Device Channel list on Teatros main page e for example not neccessary to have emulated devices in the list when the soundcard has DirectSound drivers e Some soundcards like the ECHO MIA are reporting four stereo pairs even if the device has only one real stereo output This can be prevented corrected with List first stereo pair only Select Output Devices When loading a playlist Teatro checks if the output device for every playback channel saved in the playlist is still available on the PC and then selects this output device for the channel The check is based on the names of the output devices Setting by name This setting should not be changed In some situations it may be necessary to create a playlist on one PC and then move the playlist to a PC at a different location When the second PC has different output device installed Teatro can not assign the original devices which are saved in the playlist In this situation Teatro will assign the standard output device for each channel When setting this option to by number Teatro can assign the output devices while using their internal device numbers which are also saved in each playlist Preview Channel The Preview Channel is being used for the preview function available on the X Keys 128 keyboard and the TD 1 display but also for the preview function available in the alternative Load Sound dialog click t
44. er One or Status messages more files must during FTP be selected in transfer the file window on the left side File transfer progress Before you can connect to an or the MediaLink server some basic settings have to be done For more information read the Options FTP section in this manual If you have made all necessary settings in the Options FTP dialog box a list of FTP servers will be displayed in the FIP List on the right side of this dialog Select the server you would like to connect to The connection must be initiated with Connect button If Teatro connects to the server sucessfully all folders on this server will displayed with a folder icon in the file window to the left You might not have permission to access all folders depending on the password or access settings of the server Double click the folder containing the sound files or switch to a different server disc If the server is an MFX you will find all possible 0S 9 drive names 5 00 to sc60 in the dropdown list on the upper left side of the dialog box Sound files will be listed with a CD icon see above non soundfiles will be listed with different icons Select one or more sounds and start the transfer with the Start transfer button The destination for the soundfiles is identical to the path you have selected in the Local dialog When the transfer is finished you have to switch back to the Local
45. erly when you set the Windows internal Speaker Setup to 5 1 or 7 1 configuration The Windows setup dialog can be found under Control Panel Sounds and Audiodevices Loudspeaker Setup 23 Teatro User Manual DSP Effects Through the Effects dialog a variety of effects can be applied to each Teatro channel FXChain au REVERB The following effects are available The parameters for each effect are similar to the ones you know from other FX plugins therfore we are not discussing them here Reverb Delay Chorus Flanger Varispeed FX Chain The FX chain displays in which order the effects are connected to each other If you want to change the order simply switch on the effects in the desired order The EQ on the Teatro main page counts as an effect and thus will be displayed in the FX chain as well It is for example possible to send a sound through the Reverb first and then into the EQ Always on top The FX dialog will stay on top even if settings are made on Teatro s main page Lock channel numbers The channels on Teatro s main page will follow the channel selection in the FX dialog 24 Teatro User Manual Preset Memory For playback automation during Theatre or TV live shows Teatro has a built in Preset Memory function All relevant controls are located at the right side of Teatro s main screen Playlist Name and path of the Ere Ba Sow currently loaded playlist es Prese
46. ets in the Preset Memory when receiving MIDI Program Change commands 0 to 127 e Sending MIDI Program Change commands 0 to 127 when switching presets e Receiving external MIDI Time Code MTC for starting stopping of sounds Program Options Program MIDI Setup Interface MIDI Time Code License Mrc active Frame Rate 25 OUT active Output Devices Display MIDI info in channels Soundlist Playlist MIDI IN Device MIDI Program Change Es Muliface Midi Ed 1 Send Receive Channel iid bia MIDI OUT Device Receive MIDI PRG CHANGE GPI Bu li Mutace md ry C Send MIDI PRG CHANGE Touchscreen MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Display FTP MIDI IN OUT Device This will select the MIDI hardware that is installed in your PC You can use all standard PC MIDI hardware interfaces This could be a soundcard with MIDI input or an external 19 rackmount module No matter what kind of device you are going to use as soon as the driver software for the MIDI device is correctly installed the name of the device will be displayed in Teatro s device menu none indicates that no device is installed or selected MIDI IN OUT active This will switch on off Teatros internal MIDI processing If you are not controlling Teatro via MIDI you should disable the MIDI processing as this will save CPU cycles Display MIDI info in channels This will select if MIDI In Out Note assignments
47. ftware Installation Teatro is a software for the Windows XP operating system When installing or un installing the program a few things have to be observed These will be discussed below Installing Teatro Insert the Teatro CD ROM and launch the program d Teatro Installation exe The install program will execute Follow the directions appearing on the screen If the install program wants to overwrite any existing files answer these questions with YES or OK When you select NO or Cancel the Teatro program might not work correctly or will refuse to start After the installation was completed successfully you can start the program from the Start menu Please don t forget 10 plug in the copy protection key first Un installing Teatro Before you de install the Teatro program please copy move all playlist files tea from the C Programs Teatro folder to another loacation because they might get erased during the un installation When un installing Teatro always use the Un Install program that was installed together with Teatro Select Start Programs Teatro Un Install Teatro If the un install program displays any warnings like Remove Files answer with Yes Sometimes the folder CProgramsVeatro will not be erased completely because it contains files which have been copied into the folder after the installation of Teatro was finished You can erase the folder manually if it s no longer needed
48. gait ad tatin utet iriustie mod elenis nullamcommolor Intermezzo Scene 3 Brand Finale sum et sed duip estrud dolor atinit inim eleseniat nulla am vendre min henis aciduissim F2 Birds E F3 Ichurch bells non henit ad euismolore tinis el dolorper susci blaortie magna corerat F4 Coach drive by Lortionsequiscil eugait aci bla feuipit acilit iure dunt nim zzrit lum ipsum dolum amet ullam velisi F5 Dog bark F4 Coach drive by F6 Rain and thunder CMD Load Scene 2 now F7 Door bell F8 Train pass by The presets within a Playlist can be selected in the list control in the upper left As usual sounds can launched with the mouse the keyboards F Keys or the Teatro Remote Clicking the right mouse button while the mouse cursor is within the text window will open up a drop down menu where you can select one of the sounds which a currently loaded in the 8 sound channels The selected soundname for example F5 Dog bark will be inserted at the actual text cursor position in red While following the text during a show the operator will be able to see which sound has to be launched at which text passage The above mentioned drop down menu also contains the entry CMD Inserting this abbreviation into the text followed by some information or description can be helpful for the person who operates Teatro during a show Every Preset can store the a
49. he Load Sound buttons with the right mousebutton The preview channel is Teatro s 33 internal playback channel if you will This channel can have its own output device independent from the main mixer which can be selected here 39 Teatro User Manual The Sound List dialog contains settings for the sound list in each of Teatros eight playback channels Program Options Program Sound List Interface License Default Sound Directory Playback D Clips ae Devices External Wave Editor Path Soundlist Playlist Log Display path and file extensions in Sound List Control R5 232 Remote v Copy Sounds including offsets USB Remote GPIJO Touchscreen MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Display FTP Display path and file extensions in Sound List The names in the Sound List can be displayed in two different ways Only the name of the sound like MySound wav or the whole path of the sound like C MySounds WAV MySound wav If the Display path option is not checked you will only see the names of the sound files Default Sound Directory If you have a fixed folder for your sound files on the local harddisk you can type the path information into this field Teatro will always display this folder in the file dialog when you are going to add sounds to one of the playback channels External Wave Editor Path Here you can select the path directory and name to a sound editor
50. he Send ACKs option is enabled Teatro will send a reply for each command it receives Command character Reply Received lt character gt start stop channel lt channelnumber gt a b c d e f g h Received lt character gt stopping channel lt channelnumber gt X Received x stopping all sounds 0 9 Received number number for Preset select Return CHRT3 Received Return select start Preset 4 Received select start next Preset Received select start previous Preset all other characters will reply Received lt character gt not used USB Remote m Program Options c Program USB Remote Interface License X Keys USB Device Playback Device info Audio X Keys 128 Keys Device 96 Keys Output Devices Soundlist MJ Enable device Playlist Log v Play button selects channel Control 5 232 Remote USB Remote GPI O Touchscreen MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Display FTP X Keys USB Device Here you can check if Teatro has detected any X Keys USB devices on startup Enable device Enables the controller for the usage within Teatro Play button selects channel Everytime when you push one of the PLAY buttons the corresponding channel will be selected automatically In some situations this behaviour may not be useful and can be switched off here Additional information about the X Keys USB controllers ca
51. her in one sound file The main advantage of such a soundfile is that you only have to handle and maintain one file and due to the fact that all channels are combined in a special order within the WAV file they playback of all channels will always be phase locked Multichannel soundfiles can be created with Steinberg Cubase Nuendo and other programs For the playback of multichannel soundfiles the PC must have a multichannel sounddevice installed This means that the device must have more than two outputs and the driver of the soundcard must have the ability to combine all soundcard channels outputs into O N E device with multiple channels Unfortunately this is only possible with a small number of cards such as the ECHO Layla24 and all soundcards who can be used in combination with DVD player software and PC Games because Teatro and these programs are using a similar mechanism for multichannel playback through DirectSound Check out the setup dialog for your sounddevice if it has an option for multichannel configuration It is important that the sound device comes with so called WDM DirectSound drivers not emulated which is normally the case for soundcards with Windows XP drivers There are soundcards who come with WDM drivers for Windows98 but it is a known fact that Windows98 does not work very well with WDM drivers We strongly recommend Windows XP for multichannel playback Important The surround mode on some sounddevices will only work prop
52. hing Presest When switching between Preset normally all changes made to the current Preset will be saved before switching to the next Preset When this option is checked the next Preset will be selected without saving the changes made to the previous Preset Ignore Autostarts when loading new playlist When switching a Preset in the Preset memory every channel with Autostart enabled will start to play a pre defined sound from the channels Sound List If this behaviour is not needed you can switch on the Ignore Autostarts option Display a message when sounds are missing When this option is checked the program will display a message when sounds which are defined in the Playlist can not be found on disk Subsequently the corresponding sound name in the Sound List will be displayed in red to indicate that the sound is not accessible Load previous Playlist s when program start When Teatro is launched it will load all Playlists that were loaded when Teatro was shut down the last time This option will not work if you have defined a default Playlist Global rollback time This will set the rollback roll forward time for the Global Playback Control function Default Playlist You can define a default Playlist drive folder name which will be loaded when you launch Teatro Default Playlist Directory This option defines a default path to your playlist directory 37 Teatro User Manual Audio The Audio di
53. ile hold 0 sound or channel Channel Info3 iumptonext Yr Thunder information 4 IN 4tiF3 OUT 0 CO Restart Rain and thunder M 2 di L Loop Train pass by PLAY pause Position Grand Finale Marsh Atmo Pay while hold Channel Info 4 _ Jump to next IER itle Shot _ 5 IN 43 OUT oco Restart Door bell I Ead Lo Door 7 Position and PLAY Position 00 00 00 Horses duration display p Play while hold g Rain and thunder tr Channel Info 5 Jump to next Grand Finale 6 IN 45 43 OUT O C0 Restart Dog bark VIL Door bell oop Door PLAY Pause H F Play while hold orses Channel Info 6 C Jump to next by 7 IN 47763 OUT 0C0 Restart Prete 00 00 01 Music Loop um Birds PLAY dire Church bells Coach drive by _ Channel Info 7 Ll Jump to next J bark MIDI In and Output 8 48 4 OUT 0C0 v Restart Duration Pile Shot notenumber Loop Rain luc Ri _ ee a PLAY C Pause Position 00 00 00 Play while hold 0 uncer Channel Info 8 Cl Jump to next 77 Slider 7 for selection of playback position 7 10 Teatro User Manual Group selector v l puts two ore more channels into a Play or Stop group gt _ 2 Qo A Soundlist contains
54. is higher than the selected rollback time If the actual playback position of a sound is 20 seconds and the rollback time is set to 30 seconds the sound can not be rolled back The Rollback feature can be used in a rehearsel situation like this Let s assume you have a 5 minute special effects sound e g thunder and rain The intensity of the sound e g very quite at the beginning and much louder in the middle serves as cue for the actors The sound has allready played for 3 minutes and the director wants to repeat the previous 60 seconds Now you can use the Rollback function to jump back 60 seconds and continue from there Continue The Continue button will start the preset at the position that was selected with the lt lt and gt gt buttons 26 Teatro User Manual Pause The preset i e all currently playing sounds will be stopped but the sounds will not jump back to their start position The actual position can be altered with the lt lt and gt gt buttons and then the playback can be continued with the Continue button To start a preset from the top you must use the Recall button Repeat If a new playback position was selected with the lt lt and gt gt buttons you can always restart from that position with the Repeat button Additional functions for the Preset Memory When the mousecursor is within the Preset List rectangle you can open a context menu with the right mousebu
55. ist or remove them if needed IMPORTANT Do NOT add other playlist files to the list because only the first playlist will be relinked see below when you decide to restore the archived files to a different location path or folder later Start Backup You must select a filename and a folder for the archive file before the backup begins Restore List Archive Before you can restore an archive you have to select an archive file with this button and the contents of the archive will be listed in the File List window The leading checkmark decides which files are going to be restored to disk Deselect files if you don t want them to be restored Restore Location The are two options you can select from to restore files back to disk 53 Teatro User Manual e Restore to original folder All files from the archive will be restored to the locations path folder where they originally came from IMPORTANT If the original folders do not exist the restore function will throw an error message stop the process and inform you about the missing folders You have to create the missing folders manually before you can launch the restore process again It would be no problem to create these folders through the software but we think it s better if you have the option to control and decide which folders are needed Chances are good that you decide to use the following strategy e Restore to other folder After selecting thi
56. itional two or four weeks After installing the Teatro software please open the Options dialog with the Options button and select the subcategory License 1 Program Options E Program Interface License Playback Audio Name Company R O S Software Location Berlin System No 1 System ID 819058879 Install Date 27 03 2007 01 36 License Key FAY775 8756C7 4E6FY4 CA1FDC X Keys USB Device 1 Status Teatro is registered on this system Output Devices Soundlist Playlist Log 5 Control RS 232 Remote USB Remote GPI O Setup Assign Monitor Display FIP Most of the entries in this dialog will be empty after a fresh installation of the software The only entries you will find are System ID Install Date and Status Please write down the System ID and send us this information by e mail or fax If you have bought a Teatro license pre viously we will then send you the licensing key file by e mail or floppy disc Copy the licensing key file into the Teatro program directory or a directory of your choice Use the Load license button to navigate to the key file and load the key file The licensing process will be successful when the System ID in the key file is identical to the System ID mentioned in the License Details dialog Teatro User Manual PC hardware requirements The following minimum PC hardware is recommended for Teatr
57. k Playlist files are using the file extension tea and they can be stored in any folder on your PC harddisk Save 05 New playlists must be saved to disk with this button You will be prompted to apply a new file name for the playlist 25 Teatro User Manual Preset Memory The preset memory holds and stores the settings of the 32 sound channels Each preset defines which sound is to be loaded into each channel and which playback settings the sound uses A playlist can hold up to hundred Presets Recall All parameters from a preset will be recalled which means that every channel strip will load the sound that was defined for that preset If the Autostart option was selected for one ore more channels the corresponding sounds will start to play immediately Entries in the playlist can be selected with the mouse but in this case the Autostart setting will be ignored This will make it possible to select presets just for control purposes check the settings etc without firing sounds all the time If you want to start the selected preset use the Recall button The Recall function also acts as an Undo function As long as you haven t used the Save Next Previous or Add functions all changes within the actual preset will be recalled from the preset memory Add This will add a new preset to the playlist The default name for the preset is always New Preset When the new preset is g
58. lect and highlight one of them for playback The names of the sounds can displayed in two different ways Only the name of the sound like MySound WAV or the whole path of the sound like C MySounds WAV MySound WAV The desired display style can selected in the Options dialog Load Sound This button must be used for loading additional sounds into the Sound List Sounds may be loaded from the internal harddisk or via network from an or the MediaLink server e licking the Load Sound button with the left mousebutton will open the standard Windows filedialog e licking the Load Sound button with the right mousebutton will open a special filedialog which you can use to audition sounds before loading them into the channel RLB F Checking this option will enable the Rollback Roll forward function and the lt lt gt gt keys More information about the Rollback option can be found in the Preset Memory section Autostart When this option is checked sounds will immediately start to play when a new playlist was loaded or when the next Preset was selected in the Preset Memory This feature also works in combination with Jump to next If you don t want sounds to fire when a new playlist is loaded you can change this behaviour in the Options dialog Group Play The Group Play selector puts two ore more channels into a playback group These sound combinations can be played and stopped with the PLAY b
59. me 0 00 4 F4 8 F8 Helicopter Phone Ring Length 0 40 Time 0 00 Length 0 03 Time 0 00 Preset List Overture Scene 1 Scene 2 The alternative screen is normally displayed in white on black for technical reasons this graphic is inverted black on white While the main screen offers a lot of parameters and options you may find that you don t need most of these functions during a Live show or a performance situation Therefore we have introduced the alternative screen This screen offers only the information that you need for playing sounds and selecting presets or playlists during a show You can switch between the main screen and the alternative screen with the lt gt key Use the lt and gt left right arrow keys to switch between channels 1 8 9 16 17 24 and 25 32 When the alternative screen is visible you can use all usual keyboard commands for playing and selecting sounds presets and playlists see list of key commands on previous page 59 Teatro User Manual Structure of a Teatro Playlist The Playlist contains the data for the Presets and path information of the files used within a Preset but it does not contain any sound files wav mp3 etc Playlist contains Data for Presets 1 100 Filenames of the sounds for the 8 channels Filename of the text document displayed in the Text Reader Overview Layout Settings Loading
60. me sample rate setting in the Layla MIA mixer application which can be accessed from the Windows taskbar Set Preferences Sample Rate Lock to Locked Rate lt same as above gt If you don t see the mixer application in the taskbar go to My Computer Control Panel System Open the Device Manager and select Sound video and game controllers Open the item Layla MIA by Echo Properties Settings and check Show console on taskbar Teatro User Manual Main Screen The main screen contains similar to a remote controller all elements for Teatro s main functions Pd Tabs for Option switches x 7 E The selction of channel for various sound uses a start i layback modes offset red indicator L Teatro 3 6 1 rs n 1 IN 36 03 QUT IRestart Horses Loop Rain and thunder PLAY Pause Train pass by Play hold rand Finale Channel Info 1 L Jumptonext y 11 1 Helicopter 4 Play button 2 IN 38 D3 OUT O C0 starts stops the pisei dnd Sc Music Loop v Loop M Sound playback PLAY Children play Pia hold Church bells y while Coach drive by Channel Info 2 C Jump to next Doa bark 3 IM 407E3 OUT 0 C Q Restart a 00 00 01 Marsh Atmo L Loop E Helicopter 22 Info field PLAY Pause Position file Shot for additional Play wh
61. mem pio us pdf For the USB cable version CD drive VIO Installation ush mempio ds usb pio us pdf IMPORTANT Teatro can only communicate properly with the USB PIO hardware if the original drivers supplied by the manufacturer are installed These drivers can be found on the Teatro installation CD CD drive VPIO Installation install drivers exe 50 Teatro User Manual Touch Screen The Touch Screen dialog is used for setting display features and screen placement adjustments for the touch screen hardware J Program Options Program Touchscreen Interface Play Buttons Dual View Setup License Playback Display Numbers and Names Touch Screen Position Audio O Display Names only Output Devices Soundlist ops Select Font and Colour Set Playlist Log Control RS 232 Remote TFT Resolution USB Remote 800 x 600 GPIJO Touchscreen 1024 x 768 MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Show Touch Screen on start up Display FTP Display Numbers and Names The play buttons on the touchscreen will display the number of the playback channel plus the name of the selected sound in that channel Display Names only The play buttons will only display the name of the selected sound Select Font and Colour The font for the play buttons can be changed The following parameters are available Font Size Bold Italic and colour Show Touch Screen on start up When lau
62. n be found in the separate documentations for these devices Teatro User Manual GPI 0 Hardware and Setup All major TEATRO program functions can be triggered controlled via optional GPI inputs TEATRO itself can control optional GPO outputs with its program functions The 6 1 0 are realized through a GPI 0 device which comes as a USB box or a USB cable device The USB device must be connected to one of the PC s USB Ports e MEM PIO USB box version supplies 24 In Outputs e USB PIO USB cable version supplies 24 In Outputs The Pin assignment of each device is as follows Pin assignment of the 25Pin Sub D connector PortA 25Pin Sub D connector Port C PortB MOWRUN o NONAUNIO NONANO Ground More information about the PIO cards and some application examples can be found on the TEATRO installation CD under lt D drive gt P10 Installation GPI 0 Settings In the GPI O dialog you can activate or de activate the GPI O interface and you can select whether the GPI O configuration will loaded from the Windows registry global or from the playlist m Program Options Program GPI O Interf i ee Port Line Direction Function Invert Interval Duration status License in msec insec Playback 2 IN START STOP Kanal 2 o Audio 3 IN START STOP Kanal
63. n the Overview table This can be done while moving the column header to the left or right while holding down the left mousebutton A grey vertical line indicates the new position for the column All column positions changes will be saved in the current playlist Editing fields and parameters Every field or parameter within the Overview table can be edited while clicking the desired parameter with the mouse Teatro User Manual Touch Screen The Touch Screen page shows all 32 channels on one page and together with a touch sensitive hardware screen it serves as a remote control for the Teatro software 9 25 Preset ETE PTS Barbers Adagio For d lt Adagio For Stop Strings Strings 1 8 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 26 Stop Jingle 2 9 16 0 00 0 00 19 27 St Jingle 1 Marsh Atmo Marsh Atmo A 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 28 25 32 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 Barbers Adagio For Strings Stop All 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 22 30 Marsh Atmo Jingle 1 Phone Ring Laughs 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 0 00 Barbers Adagio For E i E E Strings Playback S d Additional parameters and n function keys 2 N progress indicator Le V a Play buttons for sound playback Ln Teatro can be
64. nching Teatro the display will be switch directly to the special touchscreen display Otherwise the usual Teatro main screen will be displayed Dual View Setup Teatro can be used with a single monitor touch screen or it can be used with a monitor and a touch screen together When using a touch screen only and the touch screen display is visible the Teatro main screen is hidden under the touch screen display If you need to make any changes on the Teatro main screen you must close the touch screen with the Close button After making the changes you can open up the touch screen again with the Touch Screen button on the Teatro main screen It may be much more comfortable to use Teatro with a normal monitor and additionally connect a hardware touch screen for the usage as a remote controller In this case the following settings are necessary e PC must be equipped with a second graphics card or a Dual Head card e g Matrox to connect a second display 5 Teatro User Manual e Windows desktop must be extended to the second display i e the touch screen This can be done in the Windows setup dialog for the display and monitor settings It is sufficient to set the second display to a 800x600 resolution because that is also the size of Teatro s touch screen display e n the setup dialog for the Dual Head graphics card it is necessary to set the graphic mode to Dual View The following settings must be done in o
65. nnel Assignment Channel 1 OY Ov A 11 12 13 14 15 16 IN Note 36 38 03 40 4 43 63 45 47 3 48 C4 50 4 52 E4 53 F4 55 64 57 4 59 4 60 5 62 05 IN Channel Active OUT Note 36 38 03 40 41 43 63 45 47 3 48 4 50 04 52 4 53 F4 55 64 57 4 59 4 60 5 62 05 SIRS KI R KI KT K K R R KT K KT IST C Note number selects sound Close OUT Channel Active i KI KI K KL IK m RKR RK RK RK K K K K L1c3 60 This will selects the MIDI channel number on which a MIDI Note will be received Active This will select if incoming MIDI notes will control the playback channel or not OUT Note Selects the MIDI Note number that will be sent to the MIDI output when you start and stop a sound in the playback channel OUT Channel This will selects the MIDI channel number on which a MIDI Note will be transmitted Active This will select if MIDI notes will be sent to the MIDI output 42 Teatro User Manual Note number selects sound When this option is selected the value of the received MIDI note number determines which sound in the Sound List will be selected and played The value of the MIDI Note field is the basic number for the first sound in the Sound List If MIDI Note is set to C3 and TEAT
66. o operation 1 8GHz Pentium 4 Processor 512MB RAM Standard AGP or PCle graphics card 32MB 40GB internal S ATA harddisc 100MBit Network card e g Intel Pro 100 or 3Com DirectSound compatible 2 channel soundcard or multichannel sound device DirectSound 9 x drivers for Windows on the Teatro CD Rom you will find the latest DirectSound installation file Monitor with 1024 x 768 resolution MIDI Interface with Windows Multimediasystem drivers MFX hardware requirements The MFX must have the PCI upgrade kit installed a network card and the networking software must be present The connection between PC and MFX must be done with category 5 twisted pair cable and a switcher hub or you can also use a special cross wiring cable Function Pin Pin Function Screen resolution Teatro has a built in resize mode which makes it possible to use lower screen resolutions of 800 x 600 or higher resolutions of 1280 x 1024 When Teatro starts all elements on Teatro s main screen will be resized to fit different resolutions The resize mode can be switched on off in the Options dialog if necessary Teatro s main screen and all objects on this screen are designed and optimized to work with a 1024 x 768 screen resolution Although it is posibble to use smaller or bigger resolutions you should be aware that some elements of the main screen will not displayed properly Therefore we recommend to use Teatro with a resolution of 1024 x 768 only
67. oard While using the Insert function it is possible to paste the sound back to another position in the Sound List It is also possible to select a different channel strip for the paste operation Copy The path information from the selected sound will be sent to the internal clipboard While using the Insert function it is possible to copy the sound to another position in the Sound List It is also possible to select a different channel strip for the paste operation Insert before The sound path information in the clipboard can be pasted in before the selected sound in the Sound List Insert after The sound path information in the clipboard can be pasted in after the selected sound in the Sound List Insert new sound before With this function you can insert a new sound before the selected position in the Sound List The sound must selected with the usual file dialog from the harddisk or from the network Insert new sound after With this function you can insert a new sound after the selected position in the Sound List The sound must be selected with the usual file dialog from the harddisk or from the network Add Same function like the Add button Remove The selected sound will be deleted from the Sound List but its path information will not be sent to the internal clipboard Remove all Removes all sounds from the Sound List Set Start Offset Opens the Offset dialog Remove Start Offset A star
68. offsets for the same sound using unique description for every playback position The time position displayed in the Time field is just rough indication of the actual offset position while internally the offset will be stored with sample accuracy The Save Preset button stores the offset to the actual preset The sound name must not be typed in manually because the name will be copied automatically from the channels soundlist on the main page as the preset name The Load Preset button will copy the start offset from the preset to the currently selected sound channel A Preset can be removed from the preset list using the Clear Preset button Copy and Paste The Copy and Paste buttons in the channel selection field can be used to copy a start offset from one channel to other channels Jump to changed offsets Everytime you select a new start offset using one of the above mentioned functions the sound jumps directly to the new position and continues to playback from there If this behaviour is not needed you can uncheck this option Autocue The Autocue function sets the start offset exactly at the position where the audio reaches the dB level previously selected with Cue When using the left mousebutton the function always searches from the beginning of the soundfile and when using the right mousebutton the function searches the next consecutive position where the audio level rea
69. oing to he created the settings of the selected sound from each channel will be stored in the preset Changes which have been made within the actual preset will be saved before the new preset will be created New The actual playlist will be erased from the preset memory and a new and empty playlist is going to be created Additionally you can select if you want to keep or delete all sounds from the channel strips Select No if you want to use the existing sounds for the creation of a new playlist Additionally you will be asked if you want fo delete the list of all recently used Playlists Previous Selects the previous preset from the preset memory if there is one Sounds with Autostart enabled will start to play Changes which have been made within the actual preset will be saved before the the previous preset will be loaded Next Selects the next preset from the preset memory if there is one Sounds with Autostart enabled will start to play Changes which have been made within the actual preset will be saved before the the next preset will be loaded Global Playback Control Rollback lt lt gt gt These buttons are used to control the Rollback function All sounds which have the RLB F option enabled will be rolled back or forth by a predefined value The default rollback time is set to 30 seconds but can be changed in the Options dialog Sounds can only be rolled back if their actual position
70. on R 0 S Software Germany www ros software de email info ros software de Fairlight MFX3 MFX3 and FAME are trademarks of Fairlight ESP Pty Limited Australia Windows 95 98 ME Windows2000 XP Vista Windows 7 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Teatro User Manual Contents Software Installation Installing Un installing Teatro Updating DEA oot eodein dettes mti aet Software Updates via Internet Software Licensing PC hardware requirements MFX hardware requirements Screen WindowsXP Themes RN RR NBI uicem idtm nmm eism eie eee D General soundcard setup Soundcard Setup Echo Layla and MIA Main Overview Screen Overview screen settings SARIN NR RR RR REP Loading sounds into channels sssssssscsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssususssssssnsnsnssscessessssssecesssnusssssssssnsnasesesseeseseee Playing sounds Playback parameters Channel Control Multichannelsound Playback DSP Preset Global Playback Control
71. one of the channels into the IN OUT or OFF mode all other channels in that group will also be switched to the same mode Selects the program function Inverts the GPI O signal Status display Open for the GPI or GPO Closed for every channel y Program Options Program aparece Port Line Directiol Function Invert Interval Duration Status Aj License msec in sec 5 Playback 2 IN START STOP Kanal 2 Audio 3 START STOP Kanal 3 Output Devices 4 START STOP Kanal 4 Soundlist DENS IN START STOP Kanal 5 Selects the Playlist 6 IN START STOP Kanal 6 3 Lo 7 IN START STOP Kanal 7 direction for a 8 IN START STOP Kanal 8 each of the 3 RS 9 OUT START STOP Kanal 1 Hold Hold Open ports USB Remote OUT START STOP Kanal 2 Hold Hold Open GPI O 11 OUT START STOP Kanal 3 Hold Hold Open Touchscreen 2 12 OUT START STOP Kanal 4 Hold Hold Open MIDI 13 OUT X Keys F1 Hold Hold Open Setup 14 OUT X Keys F2 Hold Hold Open Assign 15 OUT 5 Hold Hold Open Monitor 16 OUT X Keys F4 Hold Hold Open v Display FTP Activate GPI O Interface GPI O cgfnfiguration Sy lobal Q off Playlist Activates the GPI O Interval settings for the Duration settings for control GPO s the GPO s Switches between global or playlist configuration 4 Teatro User Manual
72. or the Logging function The key combination CTRL L can be used to switch the logging on off The state of the Logging function on off will be displayed on the Log tab When using the sound preview function within the FTP dialog no logging information will be written into the log list Teatro will remember the last state of the Logging function on or off and will switch to this state when the program is launched the next time e Fixed path error when saving a playlist in the default playlist folder Version 3 0 2 licensing mechanism enhanced 63 Teatro User Manual After the evaluation period has expired the licensing dialog will be opened where you can check your PC s system ID or load a license key Logging funktion enhanced Log entries will now be created immediately after a PLAY button has been pressed Previous versions have created a log entry after one second The log list will now scroll to each newly created entry which will be helpfull with very long lists of log entries Version 3 0 1 Licensing for the new X Key remote controller has been integrated into the license keyfile as well Version 3 0 0 Teatro is no longer using a dongle it must be licensed using a license keyfile Changes in the audio engine Audio files can now be used in 24Bit and 32Bit float format Audio file format aif MFF has been added Sample rates 96KHZ and 192KHz can also be used All Bit and Sample rate formats can
73. orward e Auto e Play Group e Stop Group e Volume e Pan e Varispeed e Start Offset e End Offset e MICStart e MIC Stop e MIDIIN e MIDI OUT e GPI 0 In GPI 0 Out PLAY e PAUSE e STOP REW FWD e Info Zf Overview 258 Ch Info PLAY PAUSE STOP REW FWD Sound Duration Position A 1 Channellnfo1 Marsh Atmo 00 02 11 00 01 00 2 Channellnfo2 M Birds 00 00 01 00 00 00 3 Channellnfo3 Wood Door 00 00 02 00 00 00 4 Channellnfo4 gt Helicopter 00 00 40 00 00 00 5 Channellnfo5 gt Train pass by 00 00 01 00 00 00 6 Channellnfo gt Rainandthunder 00 00 01 00 00 00 7 Channellnfo7 gt Children play 00 00 01 00 00 00 8 Channellnfo8 Wm Phone Ring 00 00 03 00 00 00 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 J Overview table with larger character set i e font size Teatro User Manual Overview screen settings The style of the Overview table can be changed to match the specific requirements of each user The available options can be selected through the menu at the top of the window Save Layout Normally the layout and the user defined changes of the Overview screen will be automatically saved within the actual playlist But if a specific layout will be used in other playlists as well it is possible to save the current layout in a separate file using the file descriptor ovl Load Layout
74. program If one is installed on your PC it should normally be located under C Programs If you would like to edit a sound waveform it is possible to launch the sound editor from within Teatro Just select a sound in one of Teatro s sound lists on the mainpage and then right click the mouse to access the context menu for the sound list Select the entry Edit Waveform and the external editor will be launched while loading your selected sound Under Windows XP this was tested successfully with these editors Sound Forge version 4 5 5 6 7 www mediasoftware sonypictures com Wavelab www steinberg de Adobe Audition formerly Cool Edit Pro www adobe com AVS AudioEditor www avsmedia com Audacity Freeware version on Teatro CD http audacity sourceforge net Goldwave inexpensive good editor demoversion on Teatro CD www goldwave com Copy sounds including offsets When copying or moving sounds within Teatro s channels it is possible to copy any existing start offsets as well This behaviour can be switched on off using this option 40 Teatro User Manual MIDI Setup The MIDI dialog defines all settings for sending receiving MIDI signals e Receiving MIDI Note On Off commands for starting and stopping of sounds e Sending MIDI Note On Off commands to external equipment when starting stopping sounds e Selection of pres
75. r Level parameters e f the buffers are too small you will get a stuttering audio playback Preload Size The Preload size defines how much data of each soundfile will be loaded into Teatro s sound memory The standard size of 500msec should always he sufficient but on slower PC s or Notebooks it may be necessary to increase the size to 1000msec or more If the Preload size is too small sounds may stutter for a few seconds when they are played Default Volume When creating a new playlist from scratch the selected dB value will be used as default volume for all 32 channels It is also possible to change the channel volumes of an existing and loaded playlist with the Set function 38 Teatro User Manual Output Devices The Output Devices dialog can be used to make some basic settings for the installed playback devices or soundcards 1 Program Options Output Devices Program Interface License Playback C Dont list emulated sound devices Audio Output Devices Soundlist Playlist Select Output Devices Log Control Oby name 5 232 Remote by number USB Remote QW GPI O Touchscreen Preview Channel MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Output Device List List first stereo pair only Output Device Multiface SPDIF Iw Level Display 6dB Y FTP Close Output Device List These options will control how the installed soundcards and their chann
76. r which contains the newest DirectX version Please make sure that you select the DirectSound drivers for your soundcard because some cards can be used in DirectSound emulated mode which will cause playback delays in Teatro and you must select bigger buffer sizes in Teatro s Options dialog Teatro can be used for example with these cards ECHO Layla24 and ECHO MIA www echoaudio com M Audio Delta 1010 www m audio com MARIAN various models www marian de RME various models www rme audio com SOUNDSCAPE Mixtreme32 Broadcast www soundscape audio de Important There are some important rules for your PC setup when using it as an audio playback device Switch off all Windows system sounds Open the folder My Computer Control Panel and select the Sounds dialog You will find the drop down list Schemes e Select No Sounds and and close the dialog with OK e You should not hear any sounds when you restart Windows or when you open folders etc On slower PC s you should also switch off the window and menu animation in Windows This will make sure that the sound playback will not be interrupted by these gimmicks Teatro User Manual Soundcard Setup Echo Layla and MIA Basic Installation The Layla sound device comprises a PCI Card for the PC and a 19 external rack modul The MIA card comes as a PCI card including In Output The PCI card must be installed in a f
77. rder to make Teatro s touch screen dialog visible on the second display Touch Screen Position The touch screen will be visible on the second display simply because Teatro puts the left edge of the touch screen dialog next to the right edge of Teatro s main page For a proper placement of the touch screen dialog the following settings can be made Main The touch screen will be placed on the same display as the Teatro main page This setting must be used when using only one display Auto Teatro calculates the position for the touch screen dialog on the second display We can not guarantee that this will work in all Windows versions and with all graphics cards as we have only tested this with nVidia and Matrox cards under Windows XP If problems occur please try the Manual setting Manual The position for the touch screen dialog on the second display can also be set manually using the Twips field Iwips is the Windows internal scale factor and converts to Pixel x 15 Twips thus a horizontal resolution of 1024 pixel 15360 Twips in Windows terms The Set button will move the touch screen to the new position TFT Resolution The TFT resolution must be set according to which type of TFT display is used with Teatro A resolution of 800x600 must be set for the 12 1 TFT screen and a resolution of 1024x768 must be set for the 15 TFT screen This setting will scale the size of some of the screen elements such as th
78. ree slot inside your PC You will find all necessary steps for the installation in the Owners Manual which comes with the sound device After the successful installation of the hardware you should consider the following when working with TEATRO Always switch ON the Layla 19 device before you start the computer not necessary for the MIA If you do it the other way around you may discover problems when launching TEATRO The reason for this behavior is that Windows can not initialise the Layla driver during boot up when the device is switch off In this case TEATRO will discover problems with the sound system and may hang during program start Special Settings for Windows 95 98 ME TEATRO will only work properly with the Layla device when the Layla driver version 5 58 or higher is installed Driver versions prior to 5 02 are not DirectSound multichannel compatible These additonal settings have to be made after installing the Layla drivers Hit the Start button in Windows98 and select Settings Control Panel System or My Computer Control Panel System Open the Device Manager and select Sound video and game controllers Open the item Layla MIA by Echo Properties DirectSound Change these settings Enable DirectSound ON Lock DirectSound format ON Sample Rate 44100 Bit depth 16Bit Channels Stereo Leave everything else unchanged and close the dialog with OK Apply the sa
79. s option you can select a different folder as a target for the restored files This will make it possible to restore all files to the same folder if they originally came from multiple locations Start Restore All selected files from the archive will be restored to their original locations or to the new location you have selected Relink Function After all files from the archive have been restored to disk the Restore function will automatically relink the playlist only if you have selected Restore to other folder which means that all path information in the playlist will be changed to the new path that contains the audio files now because all paths in the playlist refer to the old audio file loactions IMPORTANT The relink function will only process the first playlist file found in the backup archive NOTE The tfa archive files are actually ZIP files You can simply rename them to lt name gt zip and open them with a standard ZIP program 54 Teatro User Manual Tools CD Ripping This function can be used to read tracks from an audio CD and write it back fo the harddisk as a WAV file CD Ripping Drive G HL DT ST DVDRAM G54 4167B vDL13 0 0 0 iv Track List CD Drive Info Archive it la Drive can read CD audio Track 02 05 07 Drive supports Stream is accurate 03 Track03 05 34 Li j CD Rippin 04 Track 04 04 33 Maxim
80. t Memory File functions for Overture Scene 1 the playlists Scene 2 Intermezzo Scene 3 Grand Finale x a List of user defined Presets Preset Functon fan a Lore Next Playlist The Playlist dropdown list contains all previously used playlists since Teatro was launched When using the dropdown list you can load a playlist without opening the Load dialog A playlist contains information about which sounds have to be loaded into the sound list of each channel It also contains the information for each preset entry in the Preset memory Playlists are created stored and saved with these three functions Load This button loads a new playlist from disk into the Preset memory If one or more sounds in the first preset are set to Autostart these will start to play as soon as the playlist is loaded This behaviour can be switched on off in the Options dialog Sounds in the Sound List will be displayed in Red when loading of the sound has failed Important Teatro can load previous old playlists In this case some of the newer Teatro options and parameters can not be set because they are not present in an older Playlist After loading an old Playlist Teatro will prompt you with a message indicating that you have loaded an old format Playlist The Playlist can then be saved in the new format Save This button must be used for saving the user defined playlist from the preset memory to dis
81. t in contact with us to obtain one of the new USB devices The GPI O configuration can now be loaded globally from the Windows registry OR from the loaded playlist Additional safety options for the Logging function when closing Teatro Additional safety backup option for the Log file The most recent Log file path will be remembered It is now possible to load Log files in ASCII text format back into the Log list window Number of Play Groups and Stop Groups extended up to 8 Added setup dialog for the new Preview function Sound preview can now be done using an additional internal channel Added drag amp drop functionality for the soundlist Sound devices can now be selected with their name OR their internal number This will make it easier to use a playlist from one computer on another computer with a different soundcard Bug fix Changing the font in the soundlist will now change the font in all 32 channels e fix Default volume in the options dialog could not be set correctly e Preliminary Windows Vista compatibility We have made some brief tests with Teatro in Vista 32Bit version and have only found some color display problems due to the Vista standard color scheme which we have fixed We can not guarantee that everything in Teatro fully works at this time but so far we don t have found any problems Version 3 0 3 e Added a Pre Buffer settings dialog This will prevent soundstart problems on slow PC s e Enhancements f
82. t offset indicated by a small red line to the left of the Position field will be removed and the sound will start from its beginning Multiple Sound Select After enabling this option it is possible to select more than one sound in the Sound List for Cut and Copy The selection of sounds can be done in different ways 20 Teatro User Manual lick the first sound of your choice with the mouse continue to hold down the mousebutton and drag the mouse until you reach the last sound entry for your sound selection lick the first sound of your choice release the mousbutton scroll the list with the Sound List slider to the point where you can see the final entry for your selection and click this sound with Shift Mouseclick This will automatically select all sounds between your first and last selection e Select each desired sound for the selection with Ctrl Mouseclick With Cut or Copy all selected sounds will be moved to an internal buffer and you can use the Insert before after methods to copy them into another channel of your choice The Multiple Sound Select function must switched on explicitly everytime you need this function because it would be confu sing to have multiple sounds selected during normal operation of Teatro When using PLAY Load Playlist or Previous Next Preset the multiple sound selection will always be switched off automatically Change Font This
83. trigger MIDI OUT signals CD Ripping function reads tracks from CD and writes them to disk as WAV file Backup Restore funktion can be used to save load one file bundle that contains all sounds and playlists Template creation is now possible In version 1 x this was only possible when sounds and Presets where loaded Now when you launch Teatro or when you reset the Preset memory you will find that there will always be one Preset in the Preset memory which will make it possible to create and save a playlist template Logging function changed and enhanced Touchscreen dialog and setup functions added for the usage of a hardware touchscreen as a remote controller If Teatro does not find a DirectSound compatible soundcard it closes down immediately In this version Teatro will now show an error message and will continue and try to detect an emulated DirectSound device When using emulated sound devices the sound playback will have a slight delay Therefore these sound devices should only used for testing especially the demo version An additional TFT resoution setting was added unter Options Touchscreen Now it is possible to use 12 1 or 15 touchscreens 64
84. tton Cut Preset The Cut function deletes the selected preset from the Preset List but all information from that preset will sent to the internal clipboard While using the Insert function it is possible to paste the preset back to another position in the Preset List Copy Preset All information from the selected preset will be sent to the internal clipboard While using the Insert function it is possible to copy the preset to another position in the Preset List Insert Preset before The preset information in the clipboard can be pasted in before the selected preset in the Preset List Insert Preset after The preset information in the clipboard can be pasted in after the selected preset in the Preset List Insert new Preset before Using this function you can insert a new preset before the selected position in the Preset List Insert new Preset after Using this function you can insert a new preset after the selected position in the Preset List Add Preset Same function like the Add button Rename Preset Using this function you can assign a new name for the selected preset Remove Preset The selected preset will be deleted from the Preset List but its information will not be sent to the internal clipboard Remove all Presets All presets will be deleted from the Preset List Change Font Changes the Font settings of the Prest List 27 Teatro User Manual Using MIC Cues The MTC Cues
85. um read speed 7 056 Kbps 05 Track 05 03 55 Status 06 0452 jy Control FEX Extract gt Position 28 98 0 Extract Track Always prompt for Filename ie Meu nie Target directory IC CaS a ie dB Progress Volume CD Ripping Track List All tracks from an audio CD will be listed in this window after an audio CD has been inserted into the PC s CD drive Every Track in the list can be auditioned when clicking one of the list entries with the mouse or using the drive control buttons in the Control field The audio will be played on the first stereo pair of Teatro s audio devices see mainpage Output Device CD Ripping Extract Track This button will start the CD Ripping process CD Ripping Target Directory When the option Always prompt for filename is activated a name and location for the audio file has to selected first If this option is not activated the audio file will be created as Track lt number gt in the directory selected under Target directory If the field Target directory is empty the audio file will be created in Teatro s program directory usually C Programs Teatro CD Ripping CD Drive Info Unfortunately not all CD drives mostly older drives are capable of reading audio data from audio CD s therefore Teatro s CD software will check if the CD drive s software supplies any information about its reading cap
86. ur Minute Seconds tlg also z B Log Backup 06 04 2007 16 49 53 1lg 57 Teatro User Manual Keyboard and Mouse commands Key F8 Shift Fl F8 Strg Fl F8 Shift Strg F1 F8 Esc 1 9 Numblock Ctrl 2 numbers Numblock Return Enter a z A Z Page up Page down minus plus Shift and minus Shift and plus Ctrl and minus Ctrl and plus Shift and Previous Button Shift and Next Button Ctrl and Previous Button Ctrl and Next Button Shift and Recall Button lt or gt Space Ctrl Ctrl L Ctrl 1 Ctrl 6 Ctrl V Teatro s playback functions are normally controlled by using the mouse but there are also some shortcuts for the PC keyboard Function Starts the sound playback for channels 1 8 Starts the sound playback for channels 9 16 Starts the sound playback for channels 17 24 Starts the sound playback for channels 25 32 Stops playback for all channels Selects sound channels 1 to 9 Selects sound channels 10 to 32 Recall Preset Typing a character will find the first soundname in the selected sound channel that begins with this character Selects previous Playlist Selects next Playlist Selects previous Preset Selects next Preset Selects previous Preset ignoring all Autostarts Selects next Preset ignoring all Autostarts Selects previous Preset without saving the current changes Selects next Preset without sa
87. used either with a single monitor touch screen or with a normal monitor and a touch screen When using two displays it is necessary two have a second graphics card or a dual head graphics card installed In this case the monitor shows the normal Teatro main screen while the touch screen shows the above screen Please read the section Options Touch Screen for more information on how to configure Teatro for the usage with two displays 15 Teatro User Manual Loading sounds into channels There are different ways to load sounds into a Teatro channel strip Two of them are initiated with the Add button e licking the Add button with the left mouse button will open the standard Windows file dialog box Open Soundfile s Suchen in Clips Zuletzt verwendete D 3 Desktop Eigene Dateien Arbeitsplatz w O e em Cassi i Boing wav C 3zBit float mono wawv 48 amp x Drunfill stereo wav 96 E Grand Finale wav wav pwr Jingle 1 wav Bocs Jinge 2 wav temp wma e el 1KHz Sinewave 0dB wav Modjo Lady hear me tonight mp3 6 Channel 3min wav Music Loop mono wav as Channel way Music Loop wav Applause wav Music wav Barbers Adagio For Strings way el Mysterious Times long wav Bladerunner way el Mysterious Times short wav can Dateiname Marsh Atmo wav Modjo
88. uttons Mouse or the F1 to F8 Keyboard keys Group Stop The Group Stop selector puts two ore more channels into a Stop group Example If you have Stopgroup 1 selected for channels 1 and 2 you can start the playback of channel 2 while channel 1 will stop playback Channel info field Located below the PLAY button there is a text field which can be used to input some text information for the sound or the channel There are two ways to input text for the info field e Double click with the mouse below the PLAY button opens a text input dialog e Right click with the mouse below the PLAY button opens a context menu with more options Input channel info opens the text input dialog Change color opens a color selector dialog where you can select a color for the text info Remove channel info removes the text information Remove color sets the color of the text to black Reset all info removes the text information for all 32 channels Reset all colors sets the color of all 32 channels back to black All text information will be saved and loaded together with each preset and the playlist Teatro User Manual Additional functions for the Sound List There are some additional Sound List functions you can access with the the left and right mousebuttons Cut The Cut function deletes the selected sound from the Sound List but the path information from that sound will be sent to the internal clipb
89. ving the current changes Select previous Preset but ignore all Autostarts Select next Preset but ignore all Autostarts Select previous Preset without saving the current changes Select next Preset without saving the current changes Recall Preset but ignore all Autostarts Switches between main screen and simple screen Start Stop for Audition function in FTP file dialog Opens the DSP Effects dialog Toggles the Logging function on off Opens the System Messages window Time value input for To jumps Opens the Overview window While clicking Restart Sound Loop Sound Pause Sound Play while hold Jump to next with the right mousebutton you can switch on off this option in all channels at the same time Clicking the Pan or VariSpeed pots with the right mousebutton will reset the value to its default value Clicking a PLAY button with the right mousebutton will stop sound playback when the Restart Sound option is enabled 58 Teatro User Manual Alternative Screen In some situations during a Live show for example it may be useful to switch from Teatro s main screen to the alternative screen 1 F1 5 F5 Train pass by Length 0 12 Time 0 00 Length 0 01 Time 0 00 2 F2 6 F6 Birds Rain and thunder Length 0 01 Time 0 00 Length 0 01 Time 0 00 3 F3 7 F7 Wood Door Children play Length 0 02 Time 0 00 Length 0 01 Ti
90. will be displayed in the sound channels on Teatro s main page MIC active Teatro uses incoming data to control one or more of the 32 playback channels Start Stop playback MTC can only be used when MIDI IN active is switched on MTC Cues for Start and Stop can be set in the MTC Cues dialog Display MTC start cue in channel The MTC start time of the channel can be displayed on TEATRO s mainpage above the PLAY button Colour This will select a different colour for the MTC displays on the mainpage 4 Frame Rate Teatro User Manual Displays the actual MTC frame rate received via MIDI MIDI Program Change Channel Selects the MIDI channel for sending receiving Program Change messages Receive Send MIDI PRG CHANGE Activates the sending receiving of Program Change messages MIDI Assign Here you can select the Note and Channel assignment for sending receiving MIDI notes IN Note Selects the MIDI Note number that will start and stop a sound in the playback channel If you define the same note number for more than one channel you can fire more than one sound with a single MIDI note on off command IN Channel yl Program Options Program Interface License Playback Audio Output Devices Soundlist Playlist Log Control RS 232 Remote USB Remote GPI O Touchscreen MIDI Setup Assign Monitor Display FTP MIDI Assign MIDI Note Playback Cha
91. will open the standard Windows Font dialog which will let you change the font parameters name size style etc for the Sound List Edit Waveform The Audio Software selected in the Options dialog will be launched and the selected sound will be loaded for editing Additional functions e Typing a character A to Z will find the first Soundname in the selected Sound channel that begins with this character e A double click in the channel strips Sound List will fire the selected sound 21 Teatro User Manual Playback parameters Channel Control Every channel strip has its own set of playback parameters These can be changed when a sound is in play or in stop All playback parameters can be stored in the Preset Memory for each individual Preset The control for these parameters is on the right side of the main screen under the Channel Control tab Channel Control Channel 1 lt Channel Info File Bits 16 File Channels 2 Stereo File Samplerate 44100 Output Device Channels 2 Output Device Channel Multiface Analog 1 2 Fades __ Fade In active Time Curve 07 Fade active Curve isec v N gt CPU Load 0 Channel selection Display for various channel and soundfile parameters Surround Destination When playing multichannel audiofiles on a surround enabled sounddevice it is still possible to play mono or stereo soundfiles on other
92. y installed and the TCP IP setup should also be done in which case you are set to go If you are going to set up your own PC from scratch you should be experienced with the Windows TCP IP network setup Connecting the PC to an or the MediaLink server works the same way like connecting two PC s via Ethernet Basic steps 10 or 100MBit network card must be installed on the PC Install the networkcard and drivers as described in the network card s installation manual The network card and their drivers must be recognized properly in Windows Check the Windows System dialog The network card should not be listed with an This would mean that something went wrong during the installation and the card is not working properly The PC must have a unique IP adress in the Windows network setup The IP adress must be in the same domain like the or the Medialink server For example If the MFX has the adress 192 0 010 then the PC can have the adress 192 0 0 2 or 192 0 0 9 The IP adress of the can be found on the startscreen during bootup Teatro User Manual General soundcard setup Teatro can work together with soundcards from various manufacturers but it is neccessary that the card comes with so called DirectSound drivers also known as WDM drivers under Windows XP The PC should have DirectX version 9 installed otherwise some of Teatro s functions may not work On the Teatro CD ROM you will find a folde

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