Use Case: we program laser timelines and use incoming timecode from ShowKontrol to trigger/manage song timelines. To facilitate single-laptop operation, we route SMPTE from ShowKontrol out of the 3.5mm headphone jack into an audio interface input. Liberation is then set to listen to LTC from the audio interface.
Problem: if at any time the global audio settings on Mac OS ‘override’ our ‘Audio Output’ configuration (which happens often–MacOS audio is finicky), the 3.5mm headphone jack will send out audio from the Liberation timeline ALONG WITH the SMPTE timecode. When routed back into Liberation this obviously causes errors because the LTC is not clean.
Additional Consideration: because the creative process for laser programming is inside of Liberation, it is desirable to have timeline volume at 100% so that one can hear the audio when programming lasers. But when we are performing, the safest course of action is to reduce volume on all tracks to 0%. This is time-consuming depending on how many tracks/timelines are built on a project.
Proposed/Requested Solution: a “Global Volume Control” would allow us to set Liberation audio output to “0” for ALL TRACKS when we are in ‘performance mode’, and then return to 100% when we are back in the studio programming.
Just an idea;)