Templates for LED fixtures

Hi Mark -

If you want to control individual cells of an LED batten or fixture like the one you describe in a way that will not drive you crazy, the best way to do that at the moment is to patch each of those cells as an individual RGB channel, then create a group to control the whole fixture as one big cell (if you ever want to do that). This way you won't have to jump through other hoops if you want to use those cells as pixels in image effects or with dynamic effects.

Thanks much -

Sarah

Thanks for this but I'm not clear on how to address each LED in the fixture.  The fixture menu lets me set it up for 4, 8, 21,48 or 49 channels.  With it set for 8 channels i have a template that looks like 1)intensity, 2)strobe, 3)color, 4)red, 5)green, 6)blue, 7)white, 8)amber.  According to the fixture manual 21 channels will devide the fixture into three sections.  It needs a similar template but with 3 channels each for strobe and the colours.  But when I build that template the result is the same as 8 channels.  All the LEDs of each colour come up together.  What am I doing wrong?

Mark

For 21 channel mode, there are a couple of ways to do it.

It is debatable whether you you need a fixture that includes the master intensity or the effects channel because it depends on whether you need the effects channel. For sake of argument let's say you already have the eight-channel mode fixture defined which it appears you do.

You need to also define 6 channel fixture that consists of Strobe, Red, Green, Blue, Amber, White. 

After you have these 2 fixtures defined.

Put the fixture in mode 3.

Define 1 channel as the 8-channel fixture, and patch to the address of the fixture.

Define the next 2 channels as the 6-channel fixture (Strobe+RGBAW) and patch them to the address of the fixture plus an offset of 8 and 14, respectively.

Clear as mud?

For 21 channel mode, there are a couple of ways to do it.

It is debatable whether you you need a fixture that includes the master intensity or the effects channel because it depends on whether you need the effects channel. For sake of argument let's say you already have the eight-channel mode fixture defined which it appears you do.

You need to also define 6 channel fixture that consists of Strobe, Red, Green, Blue, Amber, White. 

After you have these 2 fixtures defined.

Put the fixture in mode 3.

Define 1 channel as the 8-channel fixture, and patch to the address of the fixture.

Define the next 2 channels as the 6-channel fixture (Strobe+RGBAW) and patch them to the address of the fixture plus an offset of 8 and 14, respectively.

Clear as mud?