| |
We Wish You a Merry Christmas,
with Command Center 3.2!
| |  |
With powerful new preview (audition) and crossfade features, pre-settable volumes for every event in your program log, volume boost, song trimming, AAC/MP4/M4a support, enhanced touchscreen capabilities, and many other new features, Command Center 3.2 is the update that will make every broadcaster merry!
TuneTracker Systems is offering a special upgrade bundle that includes Command Center 3.2 plus a spare, compatible sound card for use with the new Preview feature, for $239, or the software-only upgrade for $199. We're also offering a special bundle with sound card for TuneTracker Basic and Pro users, for $599. You can place your order using the order form at the bottom of this page, or by calling us directly at 920-273-0543.
Let's go through some of the new features in Command Center 3.2 in more detail:
- Preview This is the one you've been asking for! Preview allows auditioning of tracks off-air through a second sound card. Just drag any audio event from your program log to the Preview button, to audition it. When you're done, click or touch the Preview button to stop playback. Unlike many automation systems that load their screen up with audition buttons for every event, we've added our Preview function without putting a single extra element on the screen! We just eliminated the big help button, the one that brought up the User's Guide. From now on, you'll get the User's Guide by hitting F1 on your keyboard.
- Crossfader lets DJs do silky-smooth, "artistic" song transitions. Click the large image above to see a full-sized illustration of the crossfader in action. In use, what you do is click-hold or touch-hold on the Start button of the song you wish to crossfade to, and the crossfader will appear. As you drag its slider to the right, the previous song will fade down as new song fades up. When your slider reaches the end, your previous song will be turned all-the-way-down, and when you release your mouse, the previous track is ejected automatically.
- Manual Volume Boost (for quiet tracks). When you click-hold or touch-hold on a volume icon, and the ehanced volume slider appears (see illustration on the right), the standard "full" volume setting is shown at the top of the green section. If you have an especially quiet track that needs a boost, you can now slide the volume above "full," giving you lots of extra push when you need it.
- Volume Presetting (for simpler talkovers when the event begins playing). It's awkward to have to start a track manually, then quickly adjust its volume downward so it's low enough to talk over. Now, with volume control icons next to every song in your entire program log, you can pre-set the volume of any song you wish to talk over, so it will start low; letting you bring the volume up at the proper time.
- Trim Attributes let you remove silences from the front and back of existing tracks. There are two new attributes. TrimStart lets you tell Command Center how far into the song you wish it to start playing it, effectively trimming off anything prior to that without ever having to edit the song. TrimEnd does the same to the end. Great for MP3s and other audio files that were transferred into the system (not ripped in TunePrepper) which have "sloppy silences" or really long, drawn-out end fades. And as with every feature in TuneTracker System, you can do so with millisecond-level (thousandths of a second) accuracy.
- AAC/MP4 file format support. We can now play back AAC/MP4/M4A format files (non-DRM) in addition to MP2, MP3, WAV, AIFF, ADPCM, Ogg Vorbis, and 8SVX.
- Overlay (with ducking) allows stations to schedule IDs or other audio files to play over a long audio event such as a concert. The Overlay command "floats" an audio file over the top of the other audio event being broadcast, turning it down partway or all the way (set it however you like in Preferences) until the announcement is concluded, then turning the lengthy event back up to full. Great for "staying legal" during the broadcast of city council meetings, concerts, and especially, in conjunction with single, large audio files that have not been broken into pieces to allow for insertion of a break at the top of the hour. Overlay can automatically rotate through a group of cuts, cart-style, if you like.
- Real-Time Awareness, for millisecond-level accuracy when rejoining the program log during reboot recovery. With this option checked in Preferences, Command Center will not only reload the program log after a reboot, and find the exact right song or other audio event, but it will also "join" that event in progress, starting playback from the precisely-correct location. This is extremely important at radio stations that broadcast block programming, such as talk shows, satellite music, pre-recorded sermons, etc.
- Force-Exact (shift-spacebar) forces Command Center to the exactly correct event in the program log by using Shift-Spacebar. In the event that you ever need to manually force Command Center to an exact event based on calculated running times, and join it in progress, this feature gives you the power to do so.
- CTRL-R Log Reloading Previously, if you made changes to the program log in a text editor, it was necesssary to open Command Center's program log queue and double-click on the correct day's program log to re-load it with the changes. Now, you can just do CTRL-R on your keyboard and the updated program log is loaded automatically.
- Silence Immunity for the automated "Pause" feature, so the silence-sensor need not be turned off. Previously, it was necessary to schedule a "SS Off" event just prior to a sign-off pause or other silent pause, and a "SS On" following the pause. Now, Command Center is smart enough to do that on its own.
- F1 brings up the User's Guide. Previously, this was invoked using a big button on the interface, which is now put to better use as our new Preview button!
- ELO Touchscreen Support - We now support and distribute the popular ELO brand of touchscreens. We've developed a great driver for ELO that comes with our touchscreen packages. We are so pleased to now be offering this top-quality touchscreen product with our systems!
- Improved Touchscreen Behaviors through enhanced features for our touchscreen stations. Never before has Command Center been so responsive and "touchy." Even finger-dragging operations such as volume adjustments, crossfades, ShuttlePad use, and the new Preview function, are well-supported. Calibration of touches and touch accuracy are improved as well. In addition, we have made several previously mouse-only operations touch-friendly, including...
- Click-Hold/Touch-Hold on any song, to display information about that song in Command Center's scrolling textbox.
- Click-Hold/Touch-Hold to enlarge and shrink the scrolling textbox
Ready to order?
Use the form below, or call us and place
your order by phone.
920-273-0543
|
