I am running 4 ColorKey LED Par 64 on an Element. How can I control each of the 3 colors?

Question

I can bring them each up by address but when I try and assign those addresses to a submaster they all go black and nothing is recorded. 
 
 Also, these 4 fixtures are assigned to 4 channels with 3 addresses per channel. This seems incorrect to me but I am newly back to the lighting scene and am not up to speed on the newer DMX fixtures. Any and all help is appreciated.

Paul Toben · Accepted Answer

A channel on Element can refer to a single dimmer, or a fixture with multiple DMX addresses and parameters. 
 A great place to start is with the ETC Video Library available on Youtube. Here is a link to the Element Tutorial Series: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpM-lUtGbyM&list=PLF269237482F9B97A

ueliriegg · Answer

i think it's important to get the terminology straight: in the shiny world of dmx we have two numbering schemes: one is the dmx addresses that the console uses to the the real world what to do. the other numbeing scheme is the channel number. that's what you use to tell the console which fixture (i.e. metal box that emits light) you mean. 
you only work with the addresses once and that is when you assign the addresses to the channel numbering scheme. this assignment is called patch. with dimmers it used to be what we call 1:1 now which is DMX address 1 (i.e. dimmer 1) also is channel 1. but with stuff that needs more than one address like your led pars you might not want to use channels 1, 4, 7, just because those happen to be the addresses. so you can i.e. use channel 2 to make the console talk to the fixture that uses dmx addresses 4 and 5 and 6. 
 
so whenever you control lights in your console you use the channel number. since fixture like your leds can have different properties (like red, green and blue) you need a way to tell the console which property of a certain channel you want to control. as soon as you select a channel (that you previously patched), the console knows which properties it has. it can show them to you, i.e. if you open the Movinglight Controls display by pressing the button ]ML Controls].