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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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    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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    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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