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Issue In Patch - EOS

I just attempted to patch 32 LED fixtures into 8 channels on my EOS (1-4 at channel 601, 5-8 chan 602 etc).

I went into patch and typed 601-608 type Generic RGBA

The started patching patching with 601 Address 5/1+5 + 9 + 13

This created 4 additional parts for channel 601, made them dimmer and left part 1 as an RGBA with no address addigned.  

When I type 601 type RGBA it only modifies part 1, so now since I can't select multiple parts of a channel I need to go through and manually change parts 2-5 to RGBA and delete Part 1. 

Is there some different way I should be going about this to make this quicker?

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  • I gotta ask the question....why not just have each channel 'set' of LEDs addressed identically??

     You are not gaining any extra control by having them addressed seperately but patched to the same channel. And it would mean the syntax 601 thru 608 Address 5/1 would patch all your units sequentially as you want them.

    Or have I missed something?

    W

  • in reply to warrenl

    I can't speak for Bryan, but I know for myself, in one venue I work in, we have 20 scrollers that are "permanently" individually addressed to something up in the 400's. Then depending on how they are used in the show, if we have a couple we want to control together, its easier (at least to me) to just patch them together than to actually re-address the fixture and worry about someone changing the label on the back of the unit. While scrollers aren't that bad to address, I can imagine if you are working with a bunch of ColorBlasts / iCove etc... you'd rather want to patch them together rather than re-zapi them every show.

     

    Just my personal thinking.

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  • in reply to warrenl

    I can't speak for Bryan, but I know for myself, in one venue I work in, we have 20 scrollers that are "permanently" individually addressed to something up in the 400's. Then depending on how they are used in the show, if we have a couple we want to control together, its easier (at least to me) to just patch them together than to actually re-address the fixture and worry about someone changing the label on the back of the unit. While scrollers aren't that bad to address, I can imagine if you are working with a bunch of ColorBlasts / iCove etc... you'd rather want to patch them together rather than re-zapi them every show.

     

    Just my personal thinking.

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