I just finished programing a show using 4 VL3000 spots and 2 VL3500 spots as well as some other intelligent stuff and a lot of conventional fixtures. The first question is if I was just using the wrong profile's for the fixtures or if that's just how the profile's are written. I chose what I thought was appropriate out of the standard library for these fixtures. The problem's I run into are when I try to grab control of all of them and use the cmy feature. since the 3000's have Magenta Amber and Blue for options but the 3500's have Cyan Magenta and Yellow I cant control all of the color mixing of all the lights together. I also noticed this problem in the beam palate with the zoom and focus features but this wasn't as big of a deal. Another problem I noticed was at the end of the day when I went to shut down. In order to lamp off these fixtures I need to go to the devices menu and hold enable and lamp off then hold enable and lamp idle in order to turn the lamp off. On the 3500's for some reason I was not able to use the fixture reset feature although it worked fine on the 3000's. One other small quirk I found well programing the show was using the follow feature in the main sequence list I could not write a follow of 18.4 seconds but only 18 or 19 seconds however I was able to write a 8.6 second follow on a different cue in the show and was wondering why that is? I do enjoy programing in this board even though it is different than what I have used in the past I am getting used to it. Some improvements I would like to see in a future software update are fixes of the profile's I listed above as well as maybe a .00 time stamp for the cue's and not just a .0 time.
