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  1. what am I doing wrong?

    in FLX

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    I have replied directly to Simon as I will be at his venue in 10 days time - and looking forward to using the FLX and the new waterproof LEDs.

     

    Reading between the lines and imagining what Simon is trying to achieve and why he wishes to have the LEDs colours on individual playbacks, I think I can see the potential issues. This "need" is something I appreciate as I would use this on most of the shows I do - especially ones at his venue.

     

    The scenario is this................ Shows that need a standard theatrical cue stack that has been programmed (usually very rushed) to get basic states into the desk (possibly including movers) and then additional states "busked" over the top to be either recorded as the improved state during the first performance or simply used as "live effects". On modern desks, using LEDs as fixtures will not easily produce the same effect as having each colour produced by a stand alone "parcan" in a primary colour on a separate generic dimmer, which is the effect we are actually after (I think this is the root of the question).

     

    The "luddite" solution is to patch the LEDs as a series of individual channels and then using playbacks and groups to mix the colours as required. This way, during the show you can easily creep in the colours you need subtly and re-record if needed.

     

    I have tried the fixture route with the FLX (and the competition) and whilst I would love to be corrected, I think Kgallen's reply above probably sums up the difficulty in getting all the parameters and settings correct.

     

    If there is a way of achieving what Simon and I are after, I would love to hear it.

     

    Thanks

     

    Alan

    ok, so I have loaded your file Alan and it seems to be working in the way I expected although not the way I wanted as each playback pulls down the level of the previous one. If you have 2 faders at 60% say and bring one of them down, the colour remains fixed so it doesn't leave the single playback active.

     

    There sems to be an issue with the way I am plotting the playbacks as the ones in your file operate straight away whereas mine need the flash button to load them which is what is grabbing the colour. If I clear that playback I get control of yours again but not mine until I press the flash button again.

     

    So I'm back to my original question - 'What am I doing wrong?'

     

    I've attached the file with both types of playback recorded.

     

    Thanks

    Minack default v3.isf

  2. what am I doing wrong?

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    All I did with the 3 PB's was start with a clear plot and select all the LED's via a group. I put the intensities at 100 as nothing seem to be stored if I didn't.

     

    So the first PB was with all LED's in red. I then pressed 'clear' twice and repeated the process with blue and green.

     

    When trying to play back the colour remained as the last selected even after pressing 'shift clear'

     

    This is all being done with primaries at the moment but I can't how it will be different if I plotted a day state and a night state on 2 separate playbacks.

     

    What I'm really trying to achieve is what was possible on the Solution as submasters before it went wrong!!

  4. what am I doing wrong?

    in FLX

    Posted

    I'm running 15 RGBW pars and if I plot a state in cue stack 1 that has all in blue and then a state in stack 2 that all are red, the cue stacks don't recall the colour. If I select them and change colour so say green and then clear everything, the cue stacks just bring them up as green.

     

    Why is the colour not being recalled with the cue stack?

  11. LED colours on submasters

    in Jester Range

    Posted

    Hi, I have a Jester ML48 in as a temp desk as our Solution is having a service.

     

    I have got my LED fixtures set up but want to be able to put each colour onto a submaster so they can be mixed live but when in run mode the colours just snap change at 5%. I want them to work like the dimmer channel. How can I do this?

     

    Thanks

  13. remote

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi, sorry if this has been covered before but a couple of questions on remote:

     

    has the password issue on the solution remote for PC been sorted yet?

     

    is it going to be possible to recor, edit and playback cues from the remote?

     

    Thanks, Simon

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