I have ten led fixtures patched to dmx addresses 1 thru 30. In live and selecting [address 1 full enter], will bring up Red on my first fixture as expected. If there is a fixture patched next to the address I currently have selected, Pushing [Next] will jump to the first dmx address of the next fixture, thus turning the next LED fixture Red. I would have expected that it would just sequentially jump to the next numeric dmx address turning up Green on the first fixture instead. This doesn't seem right to me. Feature or Bug?
The address check function is written to only access intensity parameters (we think of it like a dimmer check). If the channel has no intensity parameters, it accesses the first parameter of that channel. We need to make a special case for RGB fixtures to access each of the three outputs.
Not to be difficult, but why? I think far more often than not, if I'm nexting through addresses, it's troubleshooting either the console's mapping, or a fixture's address setting, not doing a dimmer check. Its current function seems absolutely wrong to me, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone in the field sees use for the current function.
Hey Victor.... we've argued it every way from Sunday (and back several times). Like you, we'd be interested to hear input about the feature. We were trying to come as close as possible to the model of being able to next through your rig to find an unpatched fixture as well. So, it seems that there are three functions here:
Dimmer Check
Nexting through a saturated rig to find a specific fixture that might not be patched
Troubleshooting a fixture
Perhaps we are overburdening one feature with all of these requirements?
It was driving me a bit crazy though because I had LED's that were mispatched, so instead of being able to hone in on their first channels, it was stepping (incorrectly) to the first channel of where it was wrongly patched. I ended up just unpatching everything and then using channel check.
It was driving me a bit crazy though because I had LED's that were mispatched, so instead of being able to hone in on their first channels, it was stepping (incorrectly) to the first channel of where it was wrongly patched. I ended up just unpatching everything and then using channel check.
