MikeF

Hi I've been using our FLX for 3 years now in our small rural theatre. We have live bands, plays, panto, dance shows, comedians - a wide variety of shows, so am probably a reasonably competent user. Occasionally, when I go to save a new cue, update an edited cue or even save or update a position palette, the command line text turns to red and it will not save the cue or edit. The only way to move forward is to "Clear" and re-create the cue/update/palette or edit all over again and it will usually save/update the 2nd time around. As you can probably imagine, this is frustrating and time-consuming, especially when busy plotting a big show on a tight schedule and it's not always easy to re-create the lighting state you've just spent 10 minutes building! The issue seems to happen more often with more complex lighting states involving movers (we use Chauvet Intimidator Hybrid 140SRs) but it also happens at other times and seems to be happening more frequently now. I suspect the issue may be related to memory in the desk. The desk fails the FeRAM test but, from other posts on here, it seems this is nothing to worry about. Has anybody encountered this issue before? Any thoughts, ideas, help, greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. Mike - Regal Tenbury Wells, UK

Many thanks Edward Ran "Automatically Create Macros" and it did the trick. Kind regards Mike

Hi Not sure whether this should be an FLX or a Fixture post... We were previously using a non-library personality for the above fixture which had a "lamp off" option on the Control encoder wheel (from memory this was around position/DMX 235 on the wheel). Obviously, this is quite important for extending the lamp life on these fixtures. However, when we upgraded the desk to zeros 7.13 recently, we converted these fixtures to the Zero88 library version which seems fine other than we have lost the above "lamp off" option. Various other reset options also seem to be missing which ae present in the lamp spec. I've looked over all the encoder wheels just in case it has moved but can't find the "lamp off" option anywhere. I've attached the show file and photo of the control encoder wheel (2nd press on "Beam" button.) We're using the 19 channel version of the personality. Grateful for any help you can offer. Thanks Mike KERRY GODLIMAN 101122.zos

Many thanks Edward. We're now fully updated to Zeros 7.13 with fixtures upgraded to the latest library versions and enjoying the additional features this has unlocked on the Intimidators. Kind regards Mike

Thanks both (Edward and Kevin) for your helpful responses. I can only imagine that the Colour Palettes had been manually updated previously by others - I'm not sure how to do this. Presumably, if we used the current library personality, everything should be fine? From memory, beam/effects parameters were problematic too, but this was only after re-creating the Automatic Colour Palettes following importing the P36 and ColorSource personalities, which makes sense. Looks like we'll need to bite the bullet and upgrade to 7.13. The Colorsource spot and Intimidator personalities are included in the latest library and I can import the Performer 36 from the legacy library. I'm guessing that upgrading will require full re-patch? Thanks Mike

Hi Edward We haven't upgraded to 7.13 yet (that's a job for another day!) so I imported the personalities for the ColorSource spots and LEDJ Performer 36 LEDs from the legacy fixture library, then auto created colour palettes and both types of fixtures worked as expected. However we have 12 Chauvet Hybrid 140SR fixtures, also running on non-library personalities (i.e. showing in red on the fixture schedule) installed previously by others which we were then unable to change the colours on using the colour palettes and we were also unable to control other features. These worked fine before. I think the interim solution might be to install the latest fixture library. Not sure if I'm being dense but I can't see how to download the fixture library from the website? (I can see the fixture contents file, the Rigsync file and the fixture tools but not a download link for version 3.3 of the fixture library.) Apologies once again for my basic questions! Thanks Mike

Thanks Edward I'm hopeful I'll have time to try your suggestions out tomorrow. I'll let you know the outcome. Kind regards Mike

Aplogies for what is probably a very newbie question.... Most of our fixtures work fine but we have two particular types (LEDJ performer 36 LEDs and ETC Colour Spots) where we can't set the fixture colour using the colour palette, we can only do it using the encoder wheels (RGB). This is ok if you want to save the setting as a cue but not so convenient if you want to change colours on the fly during a live gig. Any suggestions please as to how we can control these from the colour palette? Incidentally, I've noticed these fixtures were patched historically by others using personalities which were not part of the zero88 libarary (as they appear in red in the "add fixture" menu on the FLX console). Not sure whether that would have an impact? Finally, is it possible to view and edit the fixture personalities stored in the console? I've downloaded the Fixture Editing software and can see how to create new personalities and edit those downloaded from the zero88 fixture library on your site (and load them to the console) but can't see how to export fixture personalities from the console for viewing or editing? Grateful for any suggestions. Thanks, Mike