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programming LED to submasters

First off I am running an Element console. I am running 18 LED parcans setup as 4 dimmers each (RGBA) on submasters. This makes it easy for lighting on the fly. I am looking at replacing my conventional lekos with source 4 series 2 LED. I like the ML command aspect of the board for mixing colours for some shows but like using submasters for running the on the fly shows that come in often. My issue is when I switched over my parcans to fixtures and tried to use the submasters I found I lost true mixing capabilities. If I bring the blue fader to full and then bring up the red fader it crossfades rather than adds and I end up with red not purple when both faders are at full and the red fader doesn't adjust anymore till it is reset to zero.

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    this does work, but you need to be careful when recording the submasters. it sounds like on the Red submaster you have Red 100, Green 0, Blue 0. but you should only have Red 100.
    having said that, with lustr you have 7 colors to control and i would suggest that you try working with the color picker or with color palettes. while it certainly would work, you a) need a lot of submasters and b) we all have instincts about mixing RGB, but mixing lime, green, indigo, blue, cyan, amber and red is often confusing...
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    thank you that worked although I had to create a submaster to put the values of all the colours to zero otherwise the default values just caused white light to be emitted. Is there a way to change the default values on the fixtures?
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    There are four ways, you already found one of them. You could set the zero values also from a cue, that would be the second way.
    Third is to change the home values ( that's what we call the defaults) in the fixture personality and forth is the fantastic concept of the home preset. Unfortunately number four is not available on an Element, so I suggest number three: Patch, {Fixtures}, arrow down, {Edit} (unless it's an original fixture, then you copy it and edit the copy), have a look at the Home column of the color parameters. They will be 255 but you want them at 0. return, return. (if you edited a copy, don't forget to change the Type of the respective channels to this new type).
    The downside of this is: when you switch them on, either by keyboard or sub, and forget to set a color, there will be no output, although the Live tab shows intensities...

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