Advice on ION Console for a Smartfade user

Hey all,

   I've been using a Smartfade for years. I mostly use RGBLED fixtures as the bulk of my rig, setting up sets of RGB/Master groups of four covering most, sometimes all, of the console control. I've ran hundreds of shows doing this. I've recently started working with a church who had someone donate an ION and a fader wing. The problem is, they have 10 dimmers and 6 rgb fixtures (in 2 groups), which currently makes the entire system 18 channels. I grouped them and I've been using them as submaster faders with the fader wing, hardly ever touching the main panel. My question is as follows:

The thing I used on the smartfade was the next mode. I set my faders and crossfaded into them. Is there a way to do that with the Submaster faders, and launching them with the go button? I know there are 'ways' to do it in blind mode, but not something that would horribly slow me down. It's tough right now, because I have 'too much' of a console to be controlling to small of a system. Any ideas?

 

Mike

 

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  • A question that might help us give you the best way. Where do you get your level info? Are you just looking at the stage and winging it? Do you have some set looks on paper that you vary a bit? Something else?

    I would be tempted to try having lots of (blank? preset?) cues that could be tweaked/copied in blind. Then Go as normal. The end result would be a record of the show.

     

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