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RGBA Control on Faders

We do quite a few dance recitals in my venue in May and June. This means a lot of busking. For our cyc we are now using the Altman Spectra Cyc 100 which is a RBGA LED fixture.

Is there any way I can put each colour on an individual fader and use them to mix the colours? When I try it now, I can get the colours on a fader, but one fader will cancel out another.

The colour picker and encoders work fine, but they just aren't fast enough access for what I am looking for in a dance recital situation. 

Thanks!



[edited by: ckaiserca at 2:09 PM (GMT -6) on Thu, Apr 21 2011]
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    Charles,

    Take a look at http://community.etcconnect.com/forums/t/7316.aspx for info on putting parameters on faders.

    In general, if you record the submaster with only a single color parameter (Red or Blue or Green or Amber), then the other parameters won't be affected.  If you're recording all of the color parameters in to the submasters, then the latest fader to move will cancel out the others.

    -Todd

     



    [edited by: tdrga at 1:43 PM (GMT -6) on Thu, Apr 21 2011]
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    Hi Charles:

    The simplest and fastest way to do this would be to patch the RGBA's as Dimmers rather than as fixtures. So if you were happy to have the whole cyc acting as one, then the following patch would be 'quick and dirty'

    Set all of the units to the same address (lets assume 001)

    Assuming then that these LED's are DRGBA (so - Dimmer; Red; Green; Blue; Amber) you can park the dimmer channel (001) at full, and then patch DMX 002 to Channel 102, 003 to 103, 004 to 104, and 005 to 105.

    Record the dimmers to individual faders, and hey presto - finger level control over the flavours of your cyc. 

    Like i say, that's a very un-sophisticated method, but it would work quickly.

    Now, given the way the Eos works, you could feasably just record the colour information for each channel onto a fader and it should work quite well, however this would require some care in programming the main stack, and the avoidance of storing additional parameters into your colour faders.

    Cheers

     

    Smiffy



    [edited by: Smiffy at 1:47 PM (GMT -6) on Thu, Apr 21 2011] Addendum ref storing colour faders.
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    It's definitely possible, but requires a bit of fudgery (at least, using the method I've worked up).

    Record colour palettes with each of the colours at full, and modify the recorded palettes in Blind by selecting the non-key colour attributes in each (so in the 'red' palette, everything but red and intensity in each fixture), and clearing them using [at][enter]. [example included below] The 'spreadsheet' view is quite useful for this. Then put one palette in each sub (in your case, there should be 4 subs used for this). Done! Sort of.

    As an example, say your cyc lights are channels 101 through 110, and you'll be recording them in 4 colours in subs 17 through 20, in order, RGBA... You've already recorded the colour palettes in the 4 colours, you just need to clean them up:

    [blind][color palette][x][enter]      <selects the red palette, number x

    [101][thru][110][enter]             <selects your cyc fixtures

    [MlControl][blue][green][amber][saturation][hue][at][enter] <clears 'unwanted' attributes - click on the attribute header in [MlControl] to select them

    To stuff what you've done in a sub:

    [blind][sub][17][enter]

    [101][thru][110][enter]

    [color palette][x][at][full][enter]

    [live]

    Rinse, repeat.

    You will also likely need to modify the fixture's profile so its home colour values are zero for this to work correctly.

    I'm not near a console right now, so I may have misplaced a keystroke or two in there.

    Jonathan

     

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