CK/CQ Color Force profile . . .

No online manual, but you can find more about the fixture at:

http://www.chroma-q.com/products/colorforce/overview.html

It has eleven different operating modes, ranging from 1 to 48 DMX channels, so perhaps you should tell ETC what mode you'd like to operate it in. Then they can work on the other ten later. ;-)

Several of the listed modes for the fixture will probably work as generic fixtures.  The library includes generic rgb, rgbi, and rgba led fixtures.  Those should be 3 channels, 4 channels, and 4 channels respectively. 

When you get to the larger channel modes, most fixtures typically patch individual cells or groups of cells with those same models -- meaning you would normally patch a 48 channel RGBA as 12 RGBA channels so you could control them individually.

Someone correct me if I am wrong. But I don't think you can truly control each cell independently with the current Stock profiles for the ColorForce.

I have an ION and 5 of the ColorForce 72 units and I have found to control them easily and apply effects easily they need to be used in mode 1 with a custom FX profile and a custom profile for each cell's HSI (13 ION channels per unit) This takes up more 'channels' on your ION, but better utilizes the 43 DMX channels per fixture. Using the stock profiles for these ColorForce units in a waste of DMX channels in my opinion, then you might as well just save the DMX channels and use one of the 3 or 4 ch operating modes.

Has anyone had success using the stock profiles and had custom control of all cells without jumping through hoops?

mark

That's the detail Tracy meant above.

If you use the 'stock' ColorForce 72 fixtures, then Ion merges all the colour attributes together to give you a unified colour picker.

You're often better off patching this kind of 'multi-cell' fixture as Ion Desk-Channel-Per-Cell using the stock RGBA/HSI or appropriate fixture template.