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Scroller added to Submaster

When I initially set up our patch for our new Ion, I separated the scrollers (invidivual channels) from their intensity (one channel for 3 fixtures). I built a submaster for our fader wing to control only the intensity channel.

Someone came through after me and patched the scollers as separate parts under the original intensity channel (pt1->intensity, pt2-4->scrollers).

Now, when we move the submaster on the fader wing the scrollers immediately snap to open white and we have fader control of the intensity. I have tried making the submaster an intensity master, but the color still changes.

Any ideas?

 

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    An I-master controls the intensity and also stores any other attributes. In this case, it is behaving as expected by setting the color to whatever value was recorded.

    The simple fix to this is to go into blind and remove the color information from the sub.

    [Sub]x[Color][At][Enter]

    After that, there is no need for the sub to be an I-master.

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    Intensity Master won't really solve the problem - you need to remove the parameter (scroller) data from the sub. Fortunately, this is relatively easy!

    Go to Blind, then hit [Sub][Enter]. You should now be in a Blind view of the data in one of your Submasters - probably the last one that was created. You can use Next/Last just like Cue Blind. Note that double-hitting [Sub] will give you a list of all of your Subs, and S6/Edit will take you to this exact same display.

    In this view, you can use [At][Enter] to remove unwanted data. So, for example, you could type [1][Thru][5]{Color}[At][Enter] - this will remove all of the Color data from these channels. You could even just say {All NPs}[At][Enter], which will remove all of the non-intensity parameters from the Sub. Repeat this for all of the Subs with this rogue information.

    Hope that helps-

    -luke-

  • 0 in reply to sk8rs_dad

    Incidentally, patching a scroller+dimmer as anything but a single fixture is not really the programming paradigm for an Ion. Normally you would patch the fixture as a single channel with an intensity and a scroller and control the scroller through the color parameter. YMMV.

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