Special Functions

Frequency Analyser (Sound to Light)
Sunrise and Sunset Information
Direct Access Panel (Touch Screen) on this Computer
Direct Access Server for remote connection (2532 - Remote Touch Screen or Net Player Software on TCP/IP Serial)

Frequency Analyser (Sound to Light)


To work with the Frequency Analyser Plug-in, first of all you must start ProScenium

You have now 4 frames for Sub Bass, Bass, Medium and Treble.

In each frame you have two sliders: the vertical one is for the trigger level (from 0 to 100), and it is represented by a green line.

The horizontal one is for the digital gain of each frequency group.

If you select Auto Gain, the software will automatically adjust the gain level in relation with the volume received by your sound device (Microphone, CDPlayer and so on). Working on these two sliders you can auto generate hundred of different lighting situations

The bar you see on the Analyser are the levels (from 0 to 100) of the first 10 groups/cues/chasers of ProScenium, that you can fill as you want.

Every bar has a 3 buttons to direct the frequency activity :

1) Gro sends the level of the bar directly to the group number : band1 -> Group1 and so on. The level you will get is the level between the threshold and 100%

2) Cue sends the label of the bar directly to a cue number : band1 -> Cue1 and so on.

3) Cha sends activity of the bar directly to a chaser number : band1 -> chaser1 and so on. Every time that the level pass the threshold, you will go to the next step in your chaser.

Every bar has a mute check-box to enable/disable the group activity.


If you don't see any output in the bars, please check your recording mixer selection in Windows (Play Control/Options/Proprieties/Recording, and be sure that you have selected the right input (Microphone, CD-Audio, Wave file...)
If you have the bars in the Analyser, but ProScenium Doesn't trigger the output, please click twice the <Start Triggering/Stop Triggering> button.



Sunrise & Sunset Information

The first time that you wish to use this function, you must select the System Location in the Sunrise and Sunset Calculator.

To open up the Calculator, you have to access the fader screen (The Main Menu) and then select "Special Functions" -> "Sunrise and Sunset Information".

Once you open up the Sunrise and Sunset Calculator, you need to click on the "Change selected city location" button to see a list of the major cities in the world.

Click on your city, or on the location nearest to you to give the ProScenium the latitude and the longitude of your location.

If you wish, you can edit the file "Sitename.txt" with a text editor to include missing entries to the list.

To make a cue to be triggered at Sunset or Sunrise, in the recording panel just click on the combo box "Multi media options to activate with this cue" and select "Start at Sunrise" or "Start at Sunset". Note that this option will call your cue "Start at Sunrise", do not modify the cue name, as it is needed by ProScenium to trigger this Cue.


Direct Access Panel (Touch Screen) on this Computer

ProScenium has integrated a Direct Access panel. We call this panel "Touch Screen panel", because this direct access window is perfect for use with Touch screens, in interactive applications, because no mouse or keyboard is needed. of course it is possible to use this application with a normal screen and a mouse or trackball also.

This application is very powerful : Imagine having a light and sound jukebox in which you can load as many different commands, songs, light effects, videos you want.

Imagine in an application like a bar, where the end user doesn't have any experience with the software. The only action he/she has to carry out is pushing the correct button.

The idea is to divide your computer screen in a customisable number of buttons (1 to 100).

Each button can have it's own colour, text, font size.

Each button is associated with an action. Actions are simple ProScenium MCI Commands. You don't need to know the syntax of commands because a pop-up menu helps you in the construction of the commands.

For a complete list of MCI command look at the "MCI command examples" section.

The main screen automatically sets it's dimensions according to your monitor resolution.

You can select the number of rows and columns in which to divide your screen.

To access a button by keyboard, in the text menu, add the character "&" before the letter to underline, for example &Go will give a button "Go". You can access this button by keyboard just typing Alt+G (Alt + the underlined character). To write the normal character "&" you must type "&&".

To uset this screen in a public space (museum, bar...) you may need to disable editing by the user, by differentiating between the installer/programmer and the end user.

To disable editing select the "Start Without Pop-up menu on right button option" on right button. To activate the menu again, just plug in the keyboard and type any key.

To write more than an MCI command in a button, you must before write a Macro file (a text file with several MCI commands on each line), and after this, call the Macro file from a Touch screen button.

If Martin ProScenium is not active this application will first open ProScenium.

From the "Mode Menu" within the Touch Screen Panel Page, you can select the connection mode for this application from the following :

1). Local (on the same computer of ProScenium)
2). Connected to ProScenium by serial cable (null modem RS-232 cable)
3). Connected to ProScenium by Network (TCP-IP)

To use modes 2 and 3 you must :
  • Start the Direct Access Server application from ProScenium
  • In MPSClient you have to choose the type of connection and the settings (for serial port)
  • In your remote touch screen application you have to choose the type of connection and the settings (for serial port)
  • If you have selected TCP-IP you have to give the TCP-IP address of the computer in which Martin ProScenium is running for example (250.250.1.1 or 1.1.1.1) look at the network applet in the configuration panel to know the TCP-IP address of your computer.


    Direct Access Server for remote connection (2532 - Remote Touch Screen or Net Player Software on TCP/IP Serial)

    First of all select the "Direct Access Server for remote connection" option in the Special Function menu.

    The Direct Access Server has these modes:

    a) TCP-IP Server of one or more remote MPS Touch Screen (TCP-IP)
    Use this function to collect data coming from one or more touch screens connected on a network

    b)TCP-IP Server of one or more remote MPS Touch Screen (TCP-IP) followed by a CR
    Use this function to collect data coming from one or more touch screens connected on a network
    When the version of the touch screen panel is higher than 8.30

    c)TCP-IP Server of NetPlayer software (TCP-IP)
    Use this function to collect data coming from one or more NetPlayer software connected by network

    d)Serial receiver of a remote MPS Touch Screen or NetPlayer software (RS-232)
    Use this function to collect data coming from one touch screenconnected Point to point by RS-232

    e)Serial receiver of a remote MPS Touch Screen or NetPlayer software (RS-232) followed by a CR
    Use this function to collect data coming from one touch screenconnected Point to point by RS-232
    When the version of the touch screen panel is higher than 8.30
    f)Serial receiver of a Martin 2532 Direct Access Keyboard (fixed configuration)
  • The "Bank" and "Latch" Buttons give a matrix of 7x8 combinations. This will start Cue 1 to Cue 56 in MPS.
  • The 8 "Flash" Buttons toggle chasers 1 to 8 on/off
  • The first 8 "Special" Buttons on the Left side increase the level of group 1 to 8
  • The first 8 "Special" Buttons on the Right side decrease the level of group 1 to 8
  • "Special" Button 9 on the Left is the crossfade button (GO)
  • "Special" Button 9 on the Right is the "Back" button, to go back to the previous cue.
  • "Black-Out" Button toggles Black-out on/off.

    g)Serial receiver of a Martin 2532 Direct Access Keyboard (custom configuration by the way of Touch Screen software)
  • The "Bank" and "Latch" Buttons give a matrix of 7x8 combinations. This will start the button 1 to 56 in the touch screen software panel
  • The 8 "Flash" Buttons start button 57 to 64 in the touch screen software panel.
  • The first 8 "Special" Buttons in the left side increase the level of group 1 to 8
  • The first 8 "Special" Buttons in the right side decrease the level of group 1 to 8
  • "Special" Button 9 on the left is DISABLED
  • "Special" Button 9 on the right is DISABLED
  • "Black-Out" Button toggles Black-out on/off.


    Before the 2532 Direct Access Keyboard may be used with ProScenium it needs to be configured.

    Select the 2532 as Direct Access Device and then select the correct serial port of your computer
    (COM 1-COM 4).

    NOTE : The 2532 must have at least version 3.0 software in order to work with ProScenium.



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