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tryggve:

  Anne slapsTryggve in face twice

t. 

 OK, this is the hands-down winner for "most unexpected, laugh out loud" comment.   Only twice?  Anyway, what you are suggesting is actually a great idea.  So, the beatings will have to be postponed. :-)   Will go on the list.  

Thanks much!   

a 

- you know; when you are running a well known show without a cuemaster, it is important to have cues that are difficult to ignore...  ;-)

Hey,

 I have not had a good play on the console, except offline and at a few trade shows... this may or may not be all ready in the console.  This is something that i found very useful during my time on the virtuoso in a theatre environment, and have not seen it on many other consoles.   It was great when a mover was not working correctly or a set piece did not come on stage etc. We also used it during the show to load inhibs that may be needed as the show went on.  A macro cleared these at appropriate places as well

It involves inhibits on the console, and the ability to create an inhibit on the fly using the selected channels.

 On the Virtuoso, i would select the channels, then run a macro which would load these channels as a channel select and then turn a sub (i used sub #5, as it wasnt used during the show) into an inhibit.  I then turned the sub on, and faded down what the light(s). 

I also had a macro that removed the inhib.

On the eos, i can imagine that the macro could include the motorised sub going to full straight away should it be at the bottom.  The only thing is we used to not include the select key, so as to act as a on/off switch for the sub... there may be a way to use the play key associated with that sub as a on off key???

 I think that makes sense... :-)  Love some feedback on this idea?

 Mylesie

I would like to see a Select active on the ION.
 

I was thinking that  the Select Last Button work in such a way that if you hit it once, it selects the last fixture selection, but if you hit it twice in rapid succession, it selects the active fixtures on the screen.  This is much the same way that if you hit the 'Time' button once, it is the up time, a second time and it's the down time, a third time and it's the focus time and so on....

Just a thought. 

I'd find it very useful if there was a way to latch the rate wheel on.  Quite often if I'm running through cues and there is several cues with long fades, I like to be able to push them through, and it gets a bit frustrating having to keep pressing [rate][load].

Is there a way to do this already?

Cheers 

There is currently no latch for putting the level wheel into rate mode.  It is something we will look into...I agree that it can be frustrating.

-D 

Being able to latch the level wheel into rate mode on ion would be smashing, as would being able to latch the rate wheel to remain in rate mode on the eos.

Cheers Doc

I'd like to throw something in, Because I'm dumb and have been jumping between an MA and the Eos which is another topic entirely, can I add in an argument for the {copy to} button in that hitting it and then selecting say macro 4 and then hitting macro 40 so that it will copy macro 4 to macro 40... Syntax = {copy to} {macro 4 ds} {macro 40 ds}. Makes moving anything in the direct selects easier... Anne you can beat me later for using an MA...

This may be a duplicate - apologies, I'm still making my way through this thread... -  but is selecting addresses/channels on the patch screen with the mouse/touchscreen on the list yet? It seems intuitive, going from a tombstone screen, where channels are selectable, to another screen, where there's a similar list of channels...

I'd also LOVE to see labels popping up in the tombstones for Palettes, instead of FP 1, or CP3, or... - It would also be nice to see these when Data is held down though.

JHarpur said:

I'd also LOVE to see labels popping up in the tombstones for Palettes, instead of FP 1, or CP3, or... - It would also be nice to see these when Data is held down though.

If I understand you correctly this feature is, and has been available for quite some time.

If you are currently seeing Palette numbers you can go into Desk Settings>Displays and Enable 'Show Reference Labels' which will allow you to view palette/preset labels.

You can also hold down the Label key to temporarily toggle the view.

Graham

*leaves off reading the forums, starts reading the manual again.*

...And thanks, Graham!

So after a nice long session of programming today, I was thinking about what would make my programming easier.

Two ideas:

I love the idea of having an assignable key. I was thinking I'd make mine macro. But right now, I have a designer using macros a lot. I have been using the key on the right of the CIA. But it's really hard to see and hit keys over there. (I have my little lights bent almost all the way down to the keypad to reduce spill). It would be great if the macro, snapshot, display, etc. keys to the right of the CIA lit up or had a designated light to see them better. Then I wouldn't need a key to make using macros easy : )

2nd Idea. I think some sort of flexi feature would be great for direct selects. Right now the left touch monitor on my console is macros, effects, presets, and groups.Each displaying 20 numerical options. But I have a designer creating non numerical presets. He is doing All Act presets in 1-99, Act 1 Presets 100-199, Act 2 200-299 Act 3 300-399. But we probably only have 20-40 presets. If it could all display on 2 pages, that would be great. Not even for selection so much. But love watching my presets light up when I select a channel : ) And it helps after a long quick session of programming to figure out what went where.

Just thoughts. Love my Eos.

Thanks!

Alex

alexphillip85 said:

2nd Idea. I think some sort of flexi feature would be great for direct selects. Right now the left touch monitor on my console is macros, effects, presets, and groups.Each displaying 20 numerical options. But I have a designer creating non numerical presets. He is doing All Act presets in 1-99, Act 1 Presets 100-199, Act 2 200-299 Act 3 300-399. But we probably only have 20-40 presets. If it could all display on 2 pages, that would be great. Not even for selection so much. But love watching my presets light up when I select a channel : ) And it helps after a long quick session of programming to figure out what went where.

I wholeheartedly agree.  Most of the designers I have worked with have put their groups, presets, and colors as the starting channel (or gel color number) which makes the direct selects impractical during a heavy programming session.

Another feature request - graphical channel layouts (like the Congo line, I believe). I know I spend a whole lot of time paging through my paperwork just trying to figure what fixture is patched to a channel, and where that fixture is located...

Even some sort of channel organization on a blank screen, literally dragging channels around, the top of the screen is all the way US, and the bottom is DS.