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Magic Sheets and Effects

I work at a school and i am building magic sheets for the students to play around with effects. I would like to be able to build a base effect, lets say a color palette effect doing a rainbow chase, that I will target as effect 1. That i can do already with the magic sheet. What i have a question on is how to alter that effect's speed without having to write a new effect. Is there a way to build a button to target a Beats Per Minute (BPM), Rate, or Time of the base effect? Ideally i would have an UP and a DOWN arrow to speed up or slow down the base effect. 

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Jason

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    I don't think the tools are in place at this time to do exactly what you want.   A rework of the Effects Status display is scheduled for the not too distant future and part of that is to work on Effects workflow issues.    This situation wasn't specifically on the list - but is in line with some thoughts that are out there.

    Where it makes sense if +% and -% keys were available to the Effect overrides you could write Macros that look like :

    Effect Next Last Rate +% 

    This would raise the rate by whatever your default +% amount is.   This assumes that these macros always affect whatever effect was most recently accessed.

    You can currently make most of the above macro - just insert a specific Rate or BPM.  So you could make a small array of Macro buttons with Rate 25, 50, 100, 200 &500 for example.

     

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    Just a quick thought. Could you get away with building a macro for effect status and place it on the Magic Sheet. When you select that it will open the effect status display and you can click on whichever effect is running then using the wheels control the rate and size that way.

    I would think that would be a little better because it is possible to have more than one effect running and it would need to know which one you want to change.

    Would this get you by for a while?

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