Some channels altering their default intensity "by themselves"

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I've had an odd thing happen twice now running 8.0.0. We use the desk to busk a number of looks from the subs and wings with static states on the UDKs, with program changes very infrequent and generally done by me.

Last week I had a report of some lights being on unexpectedly and when I looked into it a number of fixtures had picked up default values of 69%. (Not the fixtures complained about however!) I saved the show and reset the values, doing some minor tidying up of default and home levels. However I reloaded the show I originally saved and all was as expected.

Today I got another call and a different set of lights were sitting at 92% with all faders down (ther than GM, which still controlled them). A restore of my tweaked showfile put it back to normal.

I'm thinking two possiblities here, firstly maybe the 2032 needs swapping out, or secondly someone new is driving the desk and they are more "experimental" in playing back the looks, having discovered an obscure bug in the process. Has anyone else encountered something similar?

[Davidmk]

I don't think I can actually help here - beyond asking dumb questions on the off chance you haven't already asked yourself them.

So it's the actual default value, as in showing 69% yellow in the outputs window, the channel fader showing zero in the faders window (in channel mode), the UDKs released in the fader window (in playback mode)? What about in source mode - does the channel show D?

Given how difficult it can be to set defaults (and get them to stick) deliberately, its hard to believe they got set accidentally (although a macro could do it). Is it, perhaps, down to dodgy faders - have you done a test mode start up?

Then again, they didn't get parked somewhere along the line (red background)? (I did say dumb questions.)