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    Pat Immel
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Soft patch with scrollers

Hello All,

 

Getting ready to load in a production and have a question.  We have new color scrollers and am wanting to see if I can soft patch them (on the EOS) when I do everything else.  I am using VW 2010 sp2 and have the scrollers inserted into the plot as accessories.  I want the scroller and the source 4 to be patched as compound channel so that when I bring up the channel for the S4 I'll also have the color scroller on an encoder.

I am probably forgetting some other real important bit o' information, but this is all I can think of at the time!

 

TIA,

  • Hi Pat,

    If you are asking how to simply patch scrollers into compound channels, I can help, I think.  Here is what works for me:

    The power supplies of our scrollers are set up to use the addresses 201 through 296.  Generally we use them in the 2nd or 3rd universe, so on the Eos, that would be 2/201 > 296 or 3/201 > 296.  When I begin patching, I start by taking that range of addresses and select Type, then choose the fixture (ours are Wybron Coloram II's).

    Next I just patch as normal.  Say your scroller channels are 1 through 5.  The dimmers for the lights are 101 through 105.  Patching by address, I go [101 @ 1 Enter.  2/201 @ 1 Enter]  This puts the Intensity of channel 1 in Part 1 and the scroller in Part 2.  I suppose you could also go [101 + 2/201 @ 1 Enter].  The only thing that I pay careful attention to is keeping all of the scrollers in the same channel part, as I've encountered some unexplained weirdness when some are in Part 1 and some in Part 2.

    Hope this helps, B

  • Pat

    Not sure if you mean the steps to patch scrollers as multi-part addresses to channels with conventional fixtures as well as an attached scroller, or how to get Vectorworks to configure an ASCII patch file that will have your scrollers automatically assigned as compound channels in Ion, via a patch import.

    If the later, I don't think any version of VW deals with compound channels period. 

    I just spent an hr. with LW5 and couldn't figure it out there either, but I'd be surprised if there isn't a method, as compound channels are used in Strand consoles as well,

    I understand the desire as well, as there can be a LOT of scrollers to have to configure in the Ion patch and it takes a bit longer then ML's.

    Let's see what others have to add

    Steve Bailey

    Brooklyn College

     

     

     

     



    [edited by: Steve Bailey at 7:31 PM (GMT -6) on Tue, Jan 19 2010]
  • in reply to Steve Bailey

    Yup Steve!  Correct.  I am wondering if there is a way to generate the ASCII patch out of VW, then edit it manually.  I don't know.

     

    Thanks to Mr. Smith for his kind (and accurate) response!

     

     

  • in reply to Pat Immel

    Well I wondered why you were so proud of your brand new Volkswagon...

    kidding

  • in reply to BSmith

    Don't laugh, sometimes it seems like Vectorworks costs nearly as much as a Volkswagon !

    SB

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