Soundboard

The soundboard is the grid of pads under the Soundboard heading on the Ambience tab of the console. Click a pad to fire it. An audio pad plays for every connected user. It uses the channel of the playlist track it came from, or the Interface channel when no playlist holds its file. A video pad starts its YouTube video, and a Syrinscape pad triggers its element. Stop a playing pad or adjust its volume from the Mixer tab.

Adding pads

Only the GM sees the board-building controls.

• Add pad, the plus tile at the end of the grid, opens the pad dialog.
• Make soundboard pads in an album tile’s right-click menu adds a pad for each track in that playlist, skipping files already on the board.
• Import from YouTube in the Soundboard header opens the YouTube Browser, where Add as pad creates a video pad. See Video.
• Import from Syrinscape appears in the header when the integration is on. Add as pad on a one-shot creates a Syrinscape pad. See Syrinscape.

Editing pads

The pencil button on a pad opens the Edit Pad dialog, and the trash button deletes the pad after a confirmation. Besides Label, Sound file, Color, and Volume, the dialog has:

• Icon, which takes a Font Awesome icon class.
• Start at, which skips that many seconds into the file.
• Stop at, which cuts the sound off at that point. At zero, the pad plays to the end.
• Duck music while playing, which lowers the Music channel for the length of the sound. Video and Syrinscape pads do not duck. Ducking Amount and Ducking Fade on the Settings page set the depth and speed of the dip.

Pack pads

Playlist compendiums can mark tracks as pads. The GM sees these in extra groups below the Soundboard, one per pack album. Clicking a pack pad copies the track into a world playlist and adds the pad to your board.

Make soundboard pads on a playlist with marked tracks adds only the marked ones. See Audio Packs.