Programming a "Kick" effect

It depends a little on the timing of the fade in and out.

If the fade in and kick up time are the same you could do it with 3 presets - Lowest position (Off), Highest Position (On), Highest Position (Off)

or you could split the timing of the intensity and the tilt with 4 presets -

Lowest Position (Off) - Slightly higher position (On) - Almost highest position (On), Highest position (Off) - 

Take these 4 presets and build a quickie absolute effect with timing that makes sense.

Select your 12 lights in random order and apply the effect.

It is a little tough to build this one because there are  2 different parameters that you want to keep sync'd but they have different timing - and then you want to randomize it from there.  

Hope that helps, 

That's funny, I was just figuring out a similar effect and came to the same conclusion, Absolute Effect mixed with Presets.

That's funny, I was just figuring out a similar effect and came to the same conclusion, Absolute Effect mixed with Presets.

I have played around with this with Intensity and Focus Palettes, but of course if the fade in and out as to happen at the same time as the start and end of the move, rather than before and after, then you would need to use Presets.

Yes - The main reason to use presets is that you can ensure that the down move is in the dark.  No matter what you do with the grouping, randomness or rate the down move and intensity are physically attached - so it never gets messy.

It's also a good way to sync a color move in there as well - start in white and fade to blue on the up move, etc, etc. 

Step times in Absolute effects are going to help in the future with these types of effects.