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Manual override of cue upfade time

I am using an ION with 1.9.6.  I was running cues on the master fader pair and wanted to control  the upfade time of one cue manually.  While in the cue before the one I wanted to control, I lowered the left hand handle of the pair to zero.  I then pressed GO and the cue ran as expected with no upfade occurring.  When I was ready to fade up the intensity of the fixtures in the cue, I moved the handle  up to 100% but nothing happened.

I re-ran the cue with ASSERT LOAD and the fixtures did fade up.  Later I experimented to see why I didn't get what I expected.  I found that on pressing GO, the Duration column in the PSD changed to red MAN.  If I moved the handle while in this condition, I got a manual up fade as expected.  However, if I waited until the cue timings ran to completion, the red MAN turned green.  Once this happened, moving the handle is ignored.

This seems incorrect to me.  Is it a bug?

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    (I do not own a ION) Although, I would love the answer as I will soon be getting one within the next month...

     I'm experiencing the same problem on my SFML. The way I'm able to run this, although i'm not sure if this will work on the Ion is to bring the fader (handle) to the lowest setting possible. Just under the 1 setting on my console, so the shutters on my Macs are closed. Then I put about 4 layers of tape on that spot, so I dont go below it. I'm able to use the GO button and still manually fade in and out of songs at the theatre without the cue being ignored. The SFML is also being MIDI'd from a Insight3.  So I know where your coming from.

       That being said, I hope it is a bug!



    [edited by: Joe_ML at 12:28 AM (GMT -6) on Tue, Apr 5 2011]
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    Thanks for reporting this Dale, it is a defect.

    It only happens when the cue that you are manually fading also has channels that fade intensity out and then mark for a later cue. In This case, the duration turns green after the intensity fades to show you that a mark is happenning after the cue.

    The defect is that when this happens (intensity move to zero and mark in the same cue), you lose control of the manual fade once the marks starts.

     

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