Color Pulse Absolute Effect Issues

It’s the grouping (right hand side at bottom of screenshot) that is set to spread that will mean the effect is  spread over the fixtures rather than them all starting together.

BTW you might consider using background instead of one of you CPs as that gives you more flexibility with colour effects (only mentioning it as I missed it for ages and ended up building way more effects than I needed)

The main issue I see here is that your first action has no time... it bumps to a color in 0 seconds and holds that color for 0 seconds.... This action may not playback at all.  Each action should have some time element in it.... If you want it to bump to the first color then fade to the second I suggest adding a dwell even if it is just 0.5 or 0.1 seconds.

Thanks for your reply. After testing, the grouping does not have any effect on the issue. The lights still flash from Color pallette 800 to 0R, 0G, 0B for the first few times.

Also this is my secondary system for making color effects, I already have 300 effects that are a color-background effect, I made this system to be able to choose different waveforms or adjust timing & grouping on the fly but still be able to change colors without having to reinput rate/grouping adjustments. Have I also built way more effects than I need right now? Yes. Would I rather build them now, in my free time, than during a tech week with people waiting on me? Definitely.

Thanks for your reply.

After trying various timings, I've found that a dwell time of 0 causes no problems. Changing the fade time of the step did make progress through. Instead of fixing itself light by light over the course of several minutes, the effect fixes itself after one cycle. Messing with the entry or entry time also did not have any effect.

An improvement for sure.

You just need to change the grouping on the effect setup,  that is the button on the far right that almost certainly says spread,  click that and change it to 1 and then all the fixtures the effect is being run on start the effect together rather than being spread across them,   If its set to spread then you effective create a chase if its 1 then they all fire together.

I have just tried this with my standard effects setup which is similar to yours (other than 2 colour pallets and background and a bunch of buttons for the "waveform") and it definitely works.

BTW if you want even more flexibility add a button to your sheet that is a command button with offset typed into it, and then you can select your light group,  click offset, click the option you want and click your effects button and then you can run chases in reverse/random/group in multiples etc rather than needing dedicated group buttons for this etc.

The issue ended up being a combination of timings and step order.
I was able to solve it by moving the pulse step(referencing CP 801) to action 1 and giving it an fade time of 0.01s.