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    Andrew Riter
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Elation colour 5 profile unit, or Ion, or User in Chair

So I'm demo-ing an Elation Colour 5 profile LED colour Leko, with my Ion.  Regardless of the patched profile (5, 6, 8, 19 addresses), I can't get the Lime LED to turn off when using the colour picker.  I can dial the Lime down or off with the encoder wheel, or park it somewhere, but when choosing gel colours, it is always at full (ruining any colour output).

Is it the patch profile?  is it another setting somewhere else in the Elation's menu?  any thoughts as to what I'm missing?

Thanks.

Andrew

  • This is probably a limitation in the color picking code. (There isn't a generic model for a RGBAM fixture in the library, so it doesn't grab control over the Lime/Mint emitter). It seems a bit odd that Lime gets set to full though... standby.

    Thanks!
  • in reply to Hans.Hinrichsen
    Andrew - it may be worth trying defining the Lime/Mint emitter as white. The console does have a generic color model for RGBAW, and the mixing should be a lot closer.

    If you keep it assigned as Lime/Mint, you'll be able to edit the fixture profile to have the emitter homed at 0 to keep it out of color mixes. I patched the 5 channel version of the Color 5 Profile, and I'm seeing that the mint emitter isn't captured by the color picker at all. This way you can at least mix it back in where needed but not have it blast away any deep, saturated colors. :)

    Long term, if the fixture is color-calibrated, we'll be able to incorporate mint into the mix on those profiles.
  • in reply to Hans.Hinrichsen
    Hi Hans.

    I ran into this again today, but while demo-ing a Chauvet Ovation E190FC vs. the coloursource. The Ion wouldn't grab the Lime for the colour swatches. I could dial it down. The Martin program on the sales guy PC was running the lime fine (or, it's home position was 0%). either way, currently I would need to build my own version of the lamp profile (moving lime to white, or homing lime off), and also edit/re-create a bunch of colour palettes, by dialing the white/lime in by eye, or using someone's colour chart numbers.

    that doesn't sound like much fun.

    Andrew
  • in reply to Andrew Riter
    Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for following up and the feedback. I agree this isn't optimal.

    Outside of the white/lime workaround, for proper control of the lime emitter, we'd want to have a fixture (ideally, one that is color and intensity representative/middle-of-the-road for that particular fixture) come in for color calibration (either here at ETC in Wisconsin or out to London). Once that occurs and it's built into a fixture library, the console will be able to control all color parameters on the fixture.

    Thanks!

    Hans
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