color bump effect

Question

so im kinda a novice with effects so i came here 
 I want to make my leds using nomad to go bink bink bink one by one change color between red,green,blue,and amber I saw this effect at the girlhood show i did a few weeks ago running an ion

Mike A · Answer

You have two options as to how to setup 
 if you use a step based effect you can almost think of it like a set of cues where you literally select the light or lights in each step and what you want the fixture to do when that step is executed which might be go to color pallets or might be go to a particular intensity, you set the duration of the step so you might set that as zero if you want the colour and intensity to change at the same time. You can set and off value for each step but you may find it easier to set that the same as the on value and then you are just having a series of steps. So you could have a step that set the color of a lamp then turned it on then turned it off then on etc. etc. to go blink blink blink or whatever. 
 Having said that most of us would probably set this up as an absolute effect which is similar except you don't specify the channels just the steps and then when you run the effect you select all the channels and choosing the he grouping you want. To achieve what you want you might then need to include a long off step in the effect if you only want the one lamp on at a time while the others do their bit - it's harder to describe how you set this up without knowing exactly the pattern you want as there a lot of options you can adjust to control the relative timing of the effect being applied to the multiple channels. But if is generally a quicker and more flexible way to build effects e.g. 10 moving heads doing a kind of domino fall one after another is just a 3 step relative effect rather than a 20 step stepped effect.