Effect Grouping Offset

Is it possible to adjust the offset of the grouping function in an effect? Currently you click spread (?) or whatever and it evenly cascades the effect across the range of fixtures you selected. Can you however adjust how the effect offsets from one fixture to the next, so that it isn't evenly spread across the range but can be moved tighter together for example.

Dan Duffy over 17 years ago

If you set the grouping to a number, the channels will be divided into that many groups of channels, where each group runs the effect together. So if you had channel 1 > 6 running an effect, spread would cause all 6 to have different levels at any given time, but a grouping of 3 would cause 1 and 4, 2 and 5, 3 and 6 to have an identical value for each pair of channels. Here "identical value" means "starting at the same place in the effect".

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Dan Duffy over 17 years ago in reply to Dan Duffy

You may have instead needed the "trail" key which is the distance between each channel in the effect. So if you have 6 channels and you want them to be at almost the same place in the effect, but not exactly, use a trail of 5%, which would start each channel 5% of the way through the effect. A trail of even makes the channels spread out evenly through the effect which is equivalent to a trail of about 17% for 6 channels (100% divided by 6).
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jabadger over 17 years ago in reply to Dan Duffy

Could this be a function that shows up on the Effect encoder? It feels more natural dialing it in than entering a value.
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Anne Valentino over 17 years ago in reply to jabadger

Good idea. We will be adding it to encoder controls in an upcoming release.
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