Ion Palettes

Hi Joanna 

From what you say there may be more to this than first presents itself. You should as you say be able to break the reference to an Intensity Palette by giving the channels a manual value. i.e [Channels][@][Full][Enter] 

I havent used the fixtures you mention but I believe ETC has a fixture personality ready made in the console for this unit. Are you using this Personality or have you made a custom fixture? 

Have you tried using Make Absolute to remove the Palette reference from the selected channels? or Sneak to return the channels to background levels, if you have manually sent the channels to a reference palette Sneak will return the Attributes to their background values i.e the last cue played back or a sub-master with a higher priority. 

If all this isn't responding in the way you expect I suggest either using the standard ETC personality if you are not already and/or contacting ETC technical support. 

Hope that helps. 

Sabr.

Joanna

After you set the channels to a new level are you updating your cues?  If you are updating after changing the value of something that is already referenced data (ie an intensity palette) and using update all this will update your channels in the intensity palette to now be the changed value.  This is a good thing if you want to bring that level up or down in all of the cues that that palette is used.  Not so good if just want to change the value in a single cue.

You can avoid this either by selecting those channels and using the make abs softkey to make them a hard value instead of referencing your palette and then update the cue.  Or by selecting the make absolute button in the update screen when you update the cue.

Hope this helps.

Jenn

Hey Jo,

What was the syntax [keystrokes] you used??

WITH RECORDED CUES: I'm fairly sure if your referenced data is recorded in the cue you're in, the only way to release that information is to assign it a hard value like Sabr said.

ON THE FLY: To release any information on the Ion, the hardkey [SNEAK] is your best friend. [Channel] [#] [SNEAK] [ENTER]. Or if you want to retain the intelligent parameters, but just sneak the intensity, and sweet cheat is [Channel] [#] [Sneak] [Sneak].

Hope that helps,
-T-Rex 

The Syntax Chan x Sneak Sneak - will sneak All NP's (all Non Intensity Parameters) and leave intensity as manual.

Thanks for the prompt responses.

I wil give them a go.

to give some more info of my problem:

I had not even started writing cues yet.  I was in the initial stages of setting up the palettes so that I could build a number of effects that I needed.  In this instance it would have been more efficient to be able to start from a "clean slate" (At Full) state and ammend to create what I wanted rather than starting from the last or other palette previously created.

I will try the sneak advice later this morning. 

Cheers and thanks again.

JP