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5.7 Programming XStudio

Developing your station's air sound is a creative process, requiring a strong sense of what your

potential listeners will be attracted to, along with some sound judgment. Once you determine what the

"sound" or "format" of the station will be, it's a matter of explaining it to those who will execute the steps

needed to achieve that "sound."

Unless you are starting a new radio station, you probably already have a program format which outlines

the general sequence and positioning of various audio elements, are creating daily broadcast logs

(program schedules) which provide the specifics of execution for a given day, and either staff people or

an automation system of some sort is interpreting this information to produce your on-air product.

For purposes of this discussion, we refer to "Programming" as explaining to XStudio how you want

things done to produce the desired on-air product. In most cases, you already know what you want

XStudio to do - it's a matter of telling XStudio what you want done and when.

In order for XStudio to execute your format properly, you need to complete a few steps:

Update Station Format Clocks. If you already have formats in your music and traffic

scheduling systems, they need to be reviewed and perhaps updated with specific

instructions for XStudio. Such changes may include placing Log Directives in the formats.

Assign Audio Switcher Inputs and Outputs. If XStudio will be controlling an audio

switcher and you will be switching among audio sources, you will need to create an external

resource record and assign it to XStudio.

Create XStudio Tasks and Actions. If XStudio will be performing automated tasks such as

controlling an audio switcher, starting playback of a break or playing specific jingles, the

appropriate Tasks need to be created and assigned to Actions. Subsequently, the Actions

will be connected to a specific input relay on an audio switcher, become a scheduled event,

connected to a hot button or placed on the log for execution.

Produce a daily log. The log needs to have the appropriate content and special XStudio

commands known as Log Directives. Producing a daily log may be as simple as exporting

the log from your traffic system or may involve using LogMerge to combine (merge) logs

exported from your music scheduling and traffic systems to produce the finished on-air

schedule. Most popular music scheduling and traffic systems have export routines to convert

their logs to our generic log format.

dcsTools makes available a number of optional programs and utilities that can be used to accomplish

these and other tasks. See the topic on Companion Programs & Utilities for a additional information.

How does it all tie together?

First and foremost, the broadcast log (program schedule) dictates what audio will be played during a

given day. It is important that the log have all audio content, correctly identified by cart number,

scheduled to play, as well as a general sense of when it is to play.

If you are operating your station as a live operation, with a live announcer running all air shifts, there's

not much more to do than get the log organized properly and available for XStudio to load from disk as

needed. The on-air personality then simply uses XStudio as an on-demand playback device. In fact,

the log becomes more a guide, as the personality can choose to play or not play scheduled items,

move the items around on the schedule, and play other audio not on the log in an ad hoc, on-demand

way.

The reality of today's radio, though, is that it's likely one or more air shifts during the day or overnight

will be some form of "walk-away" programming, where there's nobody in the control room and XStudio

needs to assume the complete responsibility of controlling your air sound. This is when XStudio

operating modes, log directives, audio switching control and Actions come into play.

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