Hey guys this is Martin again from SIRS-Electronics.
And today I am going to show you the CUE Server CS-800.
Also known as the CUE Server Pro.
This is a cool device that allows you to record and.
Playback different DMX streams and DMX values.
And it allows you to set them up with button trigger.
Calendar and clock triggers.
And other cool stuff like that.
So today we are going to show you a little bit of.
What it could do with a very basic SIRS-E DMX Strip.
And we are just going to walk you though some very.
Very basic items that you can do with the CUE Server.
I am not an expert on this.
I have been using it for about a week or so now.
I am a little bit familiarized with it.
But it definitely takes a little bit of practice to get use to it.
Once you have enough practice with it, it becomes very easy to use.
So first of all.
What you want to do.
Is make sure you have programmed your computers IP settings.
Within the range of the IP settings of the CUE Server.
Once you have done so.
Then you can connect your CUE Server via Ethernet cable.
To your computer or to a network switch or hub.
Which either way is going to work fine for this specific type of setup.
So once you have done all of that, then you want.
To input your IP address of the CUE Server.
Which is listed on the settings.
On to the browser, you click Go.
And it should take you to the Home screen here.
As you can see here.
I already have some stuff setup.
I already have some triggers configured and what not.
So I am going to show you really quick what I have done.
So the Cue server has 8 buttons on the front.
These are the default buttons.
And you can use them to assigns different cues and triggers too.
So that is what I have done here.
And on my first one I got just a red setup here on my strip.
And my button 2, it kind of releases everything all functions.
And it just turns everything off. Then 3 is blue.
4 is green.
And if you notice, it fades in between each different cue.
And you can change all that here.
I set the fades to about 3 seconds.
So it does take a while to go from one to the other.
But you can always change that.
And also here, I got a DMX stream. And this is really cool about the CUE Server.
Because you can record a live DMX moving show.
And then save it all on to here.
You know so it is very convenient.
And is a very powerful piece of equipment.
So, now that you have seen what you can do.
I am going to show you more or less how to do it.
So we are here on the home screen.
And let say we want to create a new cue.
Ok so first of all you have to connect your DMX cable.
To your DMX source.
Because we are going to be recording from a third-party DMX source.
In this case here.
We are using a Madrix NEO with a Madrix software.
So we are going to hook this up here.
Just like that.
So we have our DMX output here.
Going to our DMX input on our CUE Server.
So now we are going to go to the Madrix software.
And we are going to do something.
Let’s see we could do.
A color chain stream.
So we will record this for you guys.
So if you see here.
I got my different colors changing.
So it is already set and going.
So now I do have DMX output here.
So now we go to our CUE list.
Here on the top.
And right here there is a button that says.
Add a Cue.
We are going to click Add Cue.
And then it will ask you what cue type.
It is either standard or stream.
Standard is if it is like stationary cue.
You know something that is not moving.
Like a solid color or something like that.
Streaming is more for moving stuff.
So now that we have selected Streaming.
It is going to ask you to setup a cue number.
It will just by default setup to the next available one.
So we just leave that alone.
We can name it.
We are not going to name it here.
And follow mode just basically means that.
What you want it to do after it has completed the cue or the scene.
So we are just put next cue for now.
Actually no, just put Loop.
So that it continue to loop on its own.
And repeat the same cue.
Ok, Link cue that is not really important right now.
So now, we go to continue to next step.
And if there is DMX signal coming in.
It will look like it does here.
But if there is no DMX signal.
It will just say No DMX Signal.
So now we are just going to.
Streaming duration we are going to set.
Exactly a time how long we want to record.
We will set it for like 5 seconds.
Then we click start recording.
So now as it is recording.
It will basically record all the DMX values and.
All the changes as it is outputting from the DMX interface.
So while we wait for that to be finish.
Then you want to make sure that everything.
Is still connected and everything is still good.
So now, it looks like it has stop recording.
So now we go to next cue.
Then we click Save.
Ok click Save.
And now here you’ll see that it has already recorded our stream.
It is set for 5 seconds.
And it is looping.
So whenever you play this particular cue it will just continue to loop.
Now we could actually test and make sure.
That it actually recorded what we told it to record.
So now we are just going to exchange this cable.
I mean you can use 2 cables but I just have one for now.
So we are going to connect like this.
Ok.
So now we are going from the output now.
To our strip which has an input here.
And the way that the cue server platform works.
Is by inputting script commands.
Is the CUE Script, that is what they(Interactive Technologies) call it.
So there is a list of commands that you can input in a certain manner.
And it will actually do for you.
There is not a whole bunch of buttons to choose from.
But there is commands.
So once you get familiarize with the commands and how they work.
It becomes very efficient and easy to use.
So now here, we are going to go.
We are going to put Cue, 8, Go.
Ok.
And that should trigger what we’ve just recorded.
So now you see it is a color changing stream.
And it should last 5 seconds and it will loop.
So if you see it jump like that it means that is looping.
Ok.
You know you can always recorded to.
Where like it kinds of loops up on its own.
So it looks like a scene that is looping.
For now we are just doing a quick test.
Ok so now we know that it works.
Alright, so we could just tell it to Cue, 8, release.
So it will just turn off.
And it’ll turn off for now.
So now, we are going to create a trigger on this ok.
We are going to go to function buttons.
And these are the function buttons here on that Cue Server on the front.
We already six of then use so I am going to create a new one.
And it is going to be button number seven. Alright.
I am not going to name it.
But for function I am going to do a preset toggle.
Which mean a certain cue is going to trigger off.
So I am going to put, I believe is a cue 8.
And then on the action you have to write a script which is a command.
So whenever you hit that certain button.
Certain command or cue will go off.
We are going to put Cue, 8, Go. Ok.
And then, function we got to make sure that the preset is active.
Alright.
And all this other stuff you don’t really need it for now.
So we click Save.
Now, if we click button number 7.
That is going got trigger our stream that we previously recorded.
So that is pretty much what there is to it.
But there is a whole lot more to the Cue Server.
Right now I just wanted to show.
You guys a simple thing that you can do.
And kind of what it looks like and how it works.
But you can create calendar triggers.
Clock triggers.
You know you can create shows.
You can create a bunch of stuff.
There is a whole big manual is like 184 pages.
That has a bunch of different stuff that you can do with it.
So pretty much any application as architectural, residential.
You know anything that requires something that is very custom.
And very specific to certain needs.
With the Cue Server you can achieve that.
Using a wide arrange of DMX 512 fixtures.
So, if you guys have any questions, comments, ideas or anything like that.
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