I am very new to the ION console after many years of programming and operating an Express 48/96. Our theater actually bought the ION a few months ago, but after hooking it up and trying to get started, we ended up plugging the Express back in - as the task of learning the new board seemed too daunting to deal with at the time.
We have a simple show opening in a few days, and figured that now would be a good time to jump in a learn how to use it.
The missing "Release" key had be baffled for a while, but I have that figured out now (Sneak)
My biggest questions at the moment have to do with adding fixtures that are not in the library. We have a couple of old Martin Roboscan 518's. There are lots of other Roboscan models in there, but the 518 is missing. I tried creating my own fixture personality, but failed miserably. Does anyone know where I might find a personality for the 518? Or, what parameters to use in order to make my own?
The next question is about color scrollers. Do they need to be added as fixtures? We have two kinds of scrollers. The first kind is an old Chroma Q. It only takes one channel of DMX, so a 1 to 1 patch works just fine. Would it be better to add them as a fixture?
The other scrollers that we have are fairly new. They are Apollo MXR's. They have two gel strings and take 3 channels of DMX. (Two for the strings and one for the fan) I could not find this fixture in the library either, so I tried to create my own. Every attempt ended up with CMY attributes in the encoders. I just need control of the front string, the back string, and the fan. So...can anyone help a poor ION newbie with some rather basic stuff? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
