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How do I create submasters for features built into moving fixtures?

Hey All,

I am new to the moving light world and am trying to teach myself how to successfully busk and have run into a few walls when it comes to programming.  I've been in the incandescent world for over 15 years and I feel like a total idiot to be struggling with some of the more basic functionality of programming when it comes to movers.  

The main issue that I'm trying to solve is figuring out how I can have a submaster that controls built-in functions on fixtures, such as a prism rotator.  I have built a ton of macros for this purpose, and while that is fine in certain scenarios, it would be really awesome to be able to configure a fader that controls the speed of the rotation.  I have recorded a bunch of effect subs that have a master fader, a rate fader, and a size fader, but I'm wondering if there is a way to record a sub that controls the speed of rotation from -110 to +100.  There are other features in the fixtures that I'd love to be able to control the same way, and I'm hoping that cracking the prism rotation will make it possible to do so for other features.  The units I'm working with are the Chauvet Maverick MK II Profiles.  Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!

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    You may not be able to quite achieve what you are after as you'd be more likely to control those sorts of things from the encoders.

    The normal thing you would do with subs is record a number of channels and specific parameters into then so a command like

    Group 200 Red Record Sub 100

    which would record just he red value for the group into the sub.   So you could potentially record your rotation into the sub which if it was set proportional then as you moved the link fader up would apply that % of the value recorded in the sub to the group. 

    If you are actually wanting to make it so you can select channels and then control just them, thats probably harder.  You might be able to do a trick with an absolute effect that had just one step in it wit the max rotation value, a very very long step hold time and a size fader.

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    You may not be able to quite achieve what you are after as you'd be more likely to control those sorts of things from the encoders.

    The normal thing you would do with subs is record a number of channels and specific parameters into then so a command like

    Group 200 Red Record Sub 100

    which would record just he red value for the group into the sub.   So you could potentially record your rotation into the sub which if it was set proportional then as you moved the link fader up would apply that % of the value recorded in the sub to the group. 

    If you are actually wanting to make it so you can select channels and then control just them, thats probably harder.  You might be able to do a trick with an absolute effect that had just one step in it wit the max rotation value, a very very long step hold time and a size fader.

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