The web interface allows you to easily filter names from the old Gavel Font database and automatically fill titles in XPression with those names.
Visit the page
The URL for a control page looks like this:
https://ktoo.media/gavel/data/names/?station=1&slots=20
- The “station” parameter is an arbitrary ID.
- You can add new IDs as you want, and even have multiple “stations” in one sequencer view in XPression (in retrospect it should probably be called something different).
- The only requirement is that station IDs be integers.
- The number of “slots” only determines how many names/titles you see at once on the web page.
- The more slots you show, the slower the page will be.
- The number of slots is only a setting for how many are shown in the interface. Let’s say you decrease the number from 20 down to 10. Slots 11-20 will still be stored in the database and XPression will still be able to see them. You can view/edit them again any time by increasing the “slots” number in the URL.
Select names
Click a dropdown and start typing. The words you type will search all the names and titles in the old Gavel Font database.
- When you click a name to select it, the XPression title corresponding with that slot in the group you set up will be filled with the name and title.
- Titles will be filled even if they’re on air.
- You usually have to click on the title in the sequence view for it to load new data (you don’t have to take it, just select it).