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Hi,

I'm running a show on midi-timecode on a pearl 2004. The timecode is coming from a harddisk.
Just recently the band skipped a song from the set for some reason, so the harddisk skipped a few minutes.
I assumed my desk would do the same and go directly to the new time wich it got from the harddisk. But instead it run over all the cues in the timecode really fast, so I had a disco, and moving-lights not understanding what's happening as they got like 20 cues in 1 second or so.

So, is there a way when I skip timecode from eg. 5 minutes to 10 minutes it will directly go to 10.00.00 instead of first running all the cues between 5 and 10 minutes?

Gr
Pim

may be the answer is not as simple as expected because there might be LTP parameter which are changed in the skipped 5 minutes, so, what should the console do ? send them ? analyse everything and send only what is remaining (this is processor consuming)... may be what th console did was the right choice

That's absolutely true. But maybe there should be an option where you can turn on or off if you want the skipped cues to run or not.

I'm also sure that this is not really good for some movinglights when they get like for example 20 colorchanges in 0,5 seconds.

It could notice the timecode is being skipped and only process LTP changes internally. Dimmers off and on again when the right cue is being processed again...

That it behaves like this is quite normal I guess, in the programming they didn't account for skipping cues as you wouldn't expect that normally.