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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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    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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    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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