Here’s another example where I don’t think the sound is defaulting in correctly:   1.75″ Gold Chrysanthemum To Silver Time Rain w/ Tiger Tail Single Shot   It draws the silver time rain effect correctly, but no sound .   Regarding your suggestion to add nodes anywhere, do I need to dump this out to a text file first?  When I click the action drop down next to each node, I’m very limited in which ones allow me to put in a blank sound node.  For example, I can add one on a ‘break’ node, but not on a ‘star’ node. When I build this VDL: 1.75″ Gold Peony w/ Time Rain w/ Tiger Tail Single Shot Then I can see a sound node under ‘star’, but I can’t add one manually (or add one in another effect being edited in the effect editor). It does certainly work to change the effect of an existing sound node.   thanks for your continued help.   -Brett

I’m looking for instructions on how to set up G-Flame positions in Finale for a Cobra firing system using the Cobra G-Flame Cue adapters (https://www.cobrafiringsystems.com/harness_gflame). I can’t find any documentation that walks through the steps. I’m assuming they still need to be set up as DMX fixtures in Finale or will they be regular pyro? The connectors use a 3-pin adapter, but they plug into the External fire input and not the DMX input. This is where I get lost. Do I still need to send the safety channel? If anyone has detailed instructions, please send them my way. I’m going to run a few tests now to see if I can figure it out.

Hi Brett, with Dirk’s suggestion, you can add sound effects at any level of the tree. You don’t have to choose between a rising whistle sound, a break sound, or another sound effect for the stars after the break.

HI Drew,   Glad it was helpful. I work for a large software company and hence am always on the hunt for software issues to report :).  Neither of these seem very high priority to me personally for what it’s worth.   I didn’t get a chance to try Dirk’s suggestion, but seems like I’d be picking the whistle sound and losing the shell break – pretty minor stuff in the grand scheme of things, but the ideal enhancement would be to have two stage sound based on the duration of each phase of the effect.   -Brett

  Barehm wrote: I’ve got a pretty easy one – can you add the RGB value for Teal to VDL? I’m shocked how many cannister shells I’m loading into my inventory that use that description. Have you checked out VDL Colors? Are any of the existing colors a good match?  

Quick update: We renamed “Cue Sheet” to “Pinboard Cue Sheet” in hopes of preventing further confusion.    

Hi DB, just keep in mind that even though you’ve restricted a Pin (i.e., Cue) to a single position, another pin on the same module could be used anywhere. In other words, you won’t have wires from different positions that are 300ft apart that need to be plugged into the same pin. But you may have wires from different positions 300ft apart need to be plugged into different pins on the same module. If your shoot site is very compact, this may not be a concern. But if you’re shoot site is larger than the length of your e-match wires, then you may end up in a situation where wires don’t reach the modules they need to be plugged into. I totally get that you’re limited by the number of modules that you own, I just don’t want you to fall into a situation where your show can’t physically be set up.   To learn more about sharing modules across multiple positions, check out this video: https://finale3d.com/video/how-to-share-modules-between-positions/

Hi Brett,   Thanks for the additional info, I was able to reproduce both bugs. The key to reproducing the height issue was knowing that you were creating a cake using effects that had been customized in the effect editor. The bug seems to only apply to custom effects, not VDL effects. For the missing whistle sound bug, the VDL you provided was just what I needed.     Dirk Enders – PyroOffice is absolutely right, you can use the effect editor to add missing whistle sounds. Although, that shouldn’t be necessary, the fact that the sound is missing by default is definitely a bug.

Hi Barehm,   for the first VDL you can try the following effect editor setting:   Hope this helps   Dirk

The closest VDL effect is “Red Strobing Willow”.