Strobe in fixtures set as snap, why?

Question

Hello, 
 after my colleague ask me how to put a strob of a fixture on a sub, i gave up. 
 A few day later now, i figured it out. 
 But to be successfull, i needed to edit the fixture. 
 I recognised that every fixture seems to have the strob as 'snap' programed. 
 I don't know why... 
 But with the snap attribute on, it isn't possible to increase the function with a fader step by step. 
 Any ideas on this?

ChrDuda · Answer

All the fixtures you mention have a virtual "Shutter mode"-channel. The solution to your problem is the one you found yourself: Untick snap for the "Shutter Strobe" parameter. Whether or not this makes sense is up to you I guess. Some people (me included) like to have a fader to activate the strobe with a specific preset speed. Snap does exactly that. If you want to have the speed control on a fader, you have to change it in patch, as you already found out. Both configurations make sense and can be a hindrance at the same time, depending on the situation. 
 That being said, I have to admit, that the behaviour of parameters with snap on, when recorded to a sub, seemed a little strange to me at first. I too expected the values coming from a sub to behave like values coming from the on-screen wheel in the MLcontrol.