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This came up today while breaking in a designer on the differences between Express/ion and Eos/Ion

The LD desired to be able to write a Group that had channels at varying levels in the group - 1+5@50, 2+4@70, 3@80, all as Group 1, as example. 

This is how Expression would writes groups as it allows values to be recorded.

No big deal on how Eos/Ion does it, and the work around is to record the group as Ch's 1 thru 5, then do the levels and record as a Preset. 

Recall from Preset works easily enough, except that no actual channel levels get displayed UNLESS you hit the Data key and it gets tiring having to press the Data key every time the LD wants to know that the particular channels is something other then "P1".

Would it be possible to allow the Data key to have a toggle state ?, so that one display indicates "P1", while the other state shows an intensity level as well as P1 ?. 

Anybody have a use for this ?.

Steve Bailey

Brooklyn College

 

 

 

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  • Steve, in 1.9, you can define palettes as absolute.  So, when you recall from them, the data is always absolute data and broken from the source palette. This behavior duplicates the old legacy products group functionality.  The best way to use it will be to use Intensity Palettes.

    Hope that helps.

    a

     

     

  • in reply to Anne Valentino

    Thanks Anne

    Can't wait for 1.9 ! and we'll muddle thru till then

    SB

     

  • in reply to Anne Valentino

    Hi Anne,

            Thanks for adding this feature. One small quible. I have a group of orchestra keys that I have set at various levels. On the Obsession I could record these levels in a group and then call that group up at various levels and keep the proportions. I see I can now do this with and absolute preset. This is good but the small quible is(unless I am missing something) it take extra key strokes to accomplish this. ie  Group 10 @IP10 @ 70. Instead of Group 10@ 70. Small thing but when programming extra keystrokes do slow you down. Once again thanks for adding this feature. Am looking forward to using 1.9 release.

                                                                                                                                     Andy

  • in reply to AndyK

    Uhm, depends a bit on what you are doing.   Lets say you do this with Intensity Palettes (although you could use presets, there is no need to).

    If you want to recall the entire palette at its stored level:

    On Eos/Ion ------ [Recall From] [Intensity palette] [1] [Enter] - from the direct selects, just [Recall From] [IP1]

    On Obsession/Express/ion ----- [Group] [1] [full] [Enter]

    If you want to recall at a proportional value, its one extra keystroke:

    On Eos/Ion ----- [Recall From] [IP] [1] [at] [5] [Enter]

    On Obsession/Express/ion ----- [Group] [1] [at] [5] [Enter]

    ??

    a

     

  • in reply to Anne Valentino

    Anne,

         I didn't realize I could just use recall from without first calling up the channels or group. This does make it very simple. Thanks for responding so quickly. This will be so very helpful.

                                                                                                                       Andy

  • in reply to AndyK

    Yep, that's something that a lot of people miss, so I like to bring it up whenever possible!!  :-)  

    Glad it helped.

    a

     

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