The DRS 2006 Virtual Cart Machine (03/22/2002)
The DRS 2006 Virtual Cart Machine is a basic radio automation module. You use the virtual cart slots just like the cart slots in the On Air Studio.

There is only one, but important difference. You have the ability to use the 'Automatic Fade'. This means, if you have checked the 'Automatic Fade', the cart machine will fade from one slot to the other. You can define the 'Fade Speed' on the bottom. The number you edit here is the time in seconds which every slot will fade out with. Each slot will indicate that it is fading out with a red LED in the right top corner.

If a slot is playing and you start another slot, the playing slot will fade out and the new activated slot will start immediately. Like already mentioned this only happens if you have the 'Automatic Fade' checked. If you check 'Manual Fade', no slot will fade out automatically. You can manually fade them out by left clicking or you can simply wait till the end of the title. The slots now react like the slots in the On Air Studio.

If a slot is empty, you can put any item of the database in this slot by left clicking on it. Now the already known Database Search Engine appears and you can use it like in every module of DRS 2006. After you have an item in a slot, the slot turns teal. You can activate it by left clicking on it once again. While the title is playing, the slot will be green and the display will count down from the full length to 00:00:00. If you click again on this slot, it will fade out with the defined fade speed. Now the LED in the right top will be lighted. A slot will stop automatically after it was played once and the background will turn to gray. Now you can remove this item if you click on it with the right mouse button or you can start it again with a left click. You can also load a new item from the Database Search Engine by left clicking on a slot after the item is removed.

There are also keyboard shortcuts for the first 10 slots (left stack). Use the keys F1 to F10 on your keyboard to toggle the cart slots or press the buttons 1 to 10 of your DRS 2006 Remote Control Panel.

We also added a new feature in version 1.51 and greater. You can now load and save special cart stacks. This might be useful if you always use the same jingles for a special show. Simply use the 'Load Cart' or 'Save Cart' buttons to do this.