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2 questions for Ion Uses.. Finding if a channel is used and taking everything to half

Dear Ion Users,

I have 2 questions that I have not been able to find easy answers to.  I am new to using computer boards and am just a little frustrated with entering cues digitally vs analog using actual physical faders.  Needless to say, I set many levels using the wheel.

So, here are my questions.

1. Often, I need to know if I have used a particular channel in any of the cues that I have written. Short of executing every cue and watching a particular channel on the display, how can I quickly determine if I have used a channel in any of the cues I have written?

2. This seems like such a stupid question, I almost hate to ask it but I just can't figure it out.  I have set 10-15 levels and various channels.  I want to take the whole look down by say 50%.  In an analog world, I would just take the master down to half and that would be that.  How do I do this on the Ion? The only way I currently know is to individually take each channel down. See what I mean. This should be so easy to figure out and I am stumped.

Thanks in advance for any help or guffaws I am about to receive.

 

Lance

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    thanks for the new word guffaw in my vocabulary :) looked up (but of course didn't do it).

    EDIT: sk8rs_dad beat me to it, sorry for any redundant information

    1: eos-family consoles have several ways to achieve that: one is About. it has a dedicated key. press it and you will see it populate the CIA. now select the channel you are wondering about, click on the tile {Usage} and the console will list if it has been used in any cues (if any). the other way would be Group Cue 1 Thru Enter (or whatever your first cue is). the desk will insert the last cue by itself and select all channels that have any intensity value > 0 or any Non-Intensity-Parameter. so whatever is not selected now has never been used.

    2: the fastest way to select everything that has output right now is SelectActive, that doesn't have a dedicated key on the Ion. to get to it use Shift+SelectLast and then press the Softkey {SelectActive} and after that add "@ / 50 Enter".

    does that help?

     



    [edited by: ueliriegg at 11:54 AM (GMT -6) on Fri, Oct 11 2013]
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    thanks for the new word guffaw in my vocabulary :) looked up (but of course didn't do it).

    EDIT: sk8rs_dad beat me to it, sorry for any redundant information

    1: eos-family consoles have several ways to achieve that: one is About. it has a dedicated key. press it and you will see it populate the CIA. now select the channel you are wondering about, click on the tile {Usage} and the console will list if it has been used in any cues (if any). the other way would be Group Cue 1 Thru Enter (or whatever your first cue is). the desk will insert the last cue by itself and select all channels that have any intensity value > 0 or any Non-Intensity-Parameter. so whatever is not selected now has never been used.

    2: the fastest way to select everything that has output right now is SelectActive, that doesn't have a dedicated key on the Ion. to get to it use Shift+SelectLast and then press the Softkey {SelectActive} and after that add "@ / 50 Enter".

    does that help?

     



    [edited by: ueliriegg at 11:54 AM (GMT -6) on Fri, Oct 11 2013]
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