OK, I know I'm crazy but I really want to recreate an Effect that I have used for years in the past.
Thirty consecutive channels, in random order, popping on in a zero count, dwelling a short time, then fading in a time about four times as long as the step.
This should be a fairly straight forward task. I ask any of you with five minutes of time to try this and watch what happens;
New Effect #1
Steps 1 through 30, channels 1 through 30.
Step time, 1. In time 0. Dwell time 1, Decay time 4.
Select Forward, Positive, Random Group.
Run this effect Live while holding the Data Key down. If you see what I see, the effect will seem relatively Random at first, but over the course of a mintue or less, you will see the steps become less and less correct. At this point, each step will activate four consecutive channels in what seems to be a snapshot of the non random effect. Also, the decays are not fading in four seconds.
It really quite fascinating to watch a computer progress from randomness to another state, but its not what I want or need.
If I get some people to agree with me that this is a problem, then I can ask for ideas about workarounds. We have discovered that you can't place and Entry time on an Effect without a token dummy Exit time of at least .01 secs. We have discovered that Capture doesn't work correctly if the newly rereleased RFR is attached to your console. We know that you can't use the Fader Page Key in a Macro, and I have recently discovered the same for the Stop Effect Key. I can live with these issues and whatever else we find as long as they are recognized as problems, and I am assured that they are being worked on.
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