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Handling patch on a touring console

Hi All,

Question for anyone else out there touring with an Eos/Ion that are having to re-patch daily with every venue.

Here's my delema. Every day, I'm in a new venue with new patch info. To clear the patch, I used to just type channel 1 thru 500 at enter.

While this would clear the patch, it would leave intact any parts on on the channel. When I go to patch new info into a channel, rather than using an empty part, it just adds yet another part. So after a couple days of this, my front light channels and house light channels have 30 or 40 parts. So, I discovered the reset patch under the clear menu. Ok, so this solves my multiple channel part issue.

Now, what if I want to label channels with what they are. So Wrm Fnt SL, Wrm Fnt CS, etc.... if I assign the label before I patch anything, as soon as I add address info, it creates a part 2. Part one will have no type, but will have the label , and part 2 will have the address and be a dimmer, but no label. Not really an issue as I reallly don't need to know that every part in the channel is warm front light. But,  back to my above problem. If I'm having to reset patch every couple days to get rid of all the parts, I end up losing my channel labels.

 

I am really looking for the channel labels for all the extra city specific channels I end up having to add. Sponsor logos, multiple house light channels, partially dimmable isle lights, the lobby chime, etc etc... Whlie I've added channels to my paperwork for the basics, I would love to have labels in the board for the less common ones so when I'm 20 cities down the road, and I see that channel 427 comes up in 3 cues during intermission, I know what it was, why it was there and if I should keep it.

 

Make sense? Am I missing something basic?

Thanks

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    Hi all,

    I am facing the same challenge as described by Benjamin Travis. In the Netherlands, where I'm based, touring productions make up for 80-90% of all productions in the country.

    Furthermore, I am not able to use the 'clear patch' function because my touring show is made up of a mix of lighting fixtures, partly a consistent rig of fixtures brought by my own theatre company, and partly houselights from the different venues I visit from day to day.

    To keep these apart, I use 1 or 2 universes to address my own rig (same patch and labels every day) and 1 other universe to address houselights. This last universe has to be unpatched and repatched every day and the cluttered view in patch after a week of shows makes it very hard to work with.

    In my opinion, this is a crucial negative selling point for the Dutch theatre lighting control market. I hope it is an issue to be resolved soon.

    With all the best,

    Mike Evers

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    Hi all,

    I am facing the same challenge as described by Benjamin Travis. In the Netherlands, where I'm based, touring productions make up for 80-90% of all productions in the country.

    Furthermore, I am not able to use the 'clear patch' function because my touring show is made up of a mix of lighting fixtures, partly a consistent rig of fixtures brought by my own theatre company, and partly houselights from the different venues I visit from day to day.

    To keep these apart, I use 1 or 2 universes to address my own rig (same patch and labels every day) and 1 other universe to address houselights. This last universe has to be unpatched and repatched every day and the cluttered view in patch after a week of shows makes it very hard to work with.

    In my opinion, this is a crucial negative selling point for the Dutch theatre lighting control market. I hope it is an issue to be resolved soon.

    With all the best,

    Mike Evers

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