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Submaster color

Hello, 

 Whenever I record an LED with a color to a submaster the color never snaps in until the subfader reaches 100% intensity.

e.g. I record an LED that is originally white to red and save it at 100% intensity to a subfader. The LED then only really turns red when the subfader is at 100%. Is there a way that the subfader can just always output the LED to be red?

Sorry if this made no sense.

  • +1

    You need to set the sub as an intensity master (I-master)

    That means the fader only alters the intensity rather than fading all parameters

  • 0

    As Mike suggested, you just need to change the sub from a proportional master to an intensity master. You can do this in tab 15:

  • 0 in reply to Rohan
    I recommend you read up a bit on submasters. Mike and Rohan are completely correct but there are consequences to that change.

    The big issue will be when do you want the light to change color. If it's off it hardly matters, but what if a cue or other sub has it in white or blue? Because white has red and blue doesn't the light may or may not react the same way depending on some of the details. And then there is the 'restore' action. Back to the previous color? Stay red? There is no single correct answer because it can do any of these, depending on what you want. All those buttons shown above are there to give you the actions you want.
  • 0 in reply to RickR
    Rick is 100% correct.
    I was using Timed Submasters for a show and had the same problem.
    Making Subs I-Masters disables the ability to use Timed Submasters.
  • 0 in reply to RickR
    Expanding on what Rick said and perhaps clarifying some of it in case it sounds too hard

    Setting it as an I-master makes it snap to the colour which is what you want for what you asked, it wont get confused by whites and blues and reds as long as the cue and the submaster have the colour recorded into them normally is you adjusted the colour with say the colour picker and recorded it. As they will then have actual values for R G and B. You'd only have it doing different things if you explicitly recorded only say the Red channel in the Sub (which you'd really only do if you wanted to be manually mixing colours on 3 faders and then you would explicitily want the fader not in i-master mode).

    So you dont need to worry about that.

    The comment about what colour does it go back to when you put the fader to zero is that by default it goes back to the colour of whatever was previously controlling it or the patch profile home value which is almost always white unless you've edited it. There is an option you can set on the fader to tell it persist the colour when the fader is back to zero.

    That hopefully clarifies and doesn't make it sound scary as its not :) as probably half the time you'll use faders on subs in i-master mode and half not.
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