Cartwall
The cartwall is the strip of buttons under the players. Each button, a cart, plays one sound instantly: jingles, effects, spots. Carts play on their own outputs, independently of the players.
Using it
- Click a cart to fire it. Click it again to stop it.
- Stop all (right end of the bar) stops every cart that is playing, on every page. Its label shows how many are playing, as in Stop all (2); with none playing it is dimmed and shows no count.
- While a cart plays, its border turns red, a red bar shrinks as it plays, and its time counts down.
- Carts overlap by default: firing a second one does not stop the first. A cart set to Stop other carts when fired stops every other cart on air first, on any page.
- A cart set to Loop starts again from its cue-in when it reaches its end, without a gap, until you stop it.
- Right-click a cart for more options:
| Item | Action |
|---|---|
| Pre-listen on CUE | Play it on the cartwall’s CUE output (dimmed when the cartwall has no Cue output apart from its Main one) |
| Stop | Stop it |
| Edit… | Open it in Settings |
An empty cart’s menu has Edit… only, to choose its file.
- Pages: the tabs next to CARTWALL switch pages. A red dot shows that a cart on that page is playing.
- Click CARTWALL to collapse the strip or expand it again.
- When the window is short, the buttons shrink (down to a minimum height) so that all the configured rows fit; the cartwall scrolls only when even the smallest buttons do not fit.
| Button look | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Violet dot | Jingle |
| Amber dot | Effect |
| Grey dot | Spot (commercial) |
| ↻ after the type | Loops |
| ✋ after the type | Stops the other carts when fired |
| File with a cross / warning sign | The file is missing / cannot be decoded; hover the cart for the reason and the path. A missing file is looked for again every 30 s (tuning.missing_recheck_ms). |
| “Empty”, dimmed | No file assigned |
Carts use the same markers as tracks. They start at their cue-in and end at their cue-out, which you can edit on a player’s waveform when the file is loaded there.
Keyboard
By default F1…F12 fire carts 1–12 of the page shown, and Ctrl+Space stops every cart (the same as Stop all; it also stops a cart you are pre-listening on CUE, even when no cart is playing). See Keyboard to change them.
Setting up carts
Go to Settings → Cartwall:
- Pages: create, rename, delete (the last page cannot be deleted), and set the grid size (rows × columns). A smaller grid is refused if it would drop carts that have a file. A size typed into the box next to a slider applies when you press Enter or leave the box; Escape cancels it.
- Import… / Export… save a page to a
.cartpage.jsonfile and load it back, for example to share it between studios. Relative file paths are resolved against the file’s folder. - Carts: click a cart in the grid, then set its name, file (Choose… or Clear), type, Loop and Stop other carts when fired. A cart with a file also has Exclude from normalization and Trim, its track’s loudness normalization settings, with the measurement under the label.
The cartwall’s own Main and Cue outputs are in Settings → Audio outputs (the Cartwall row).