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A couple of 1.9.8 questions

Hi all


I was wondering if someone could help a little niggle of mine - I have patched colour scrollers onto 20 or so channels as Part 2 so that I can patch the intensities onto Part 1 when I come to the production week next week. However, when I log off/switch the desk off and back on, the scrollers are now on Part 1. However if I do patch a dimmer to Part 1 then the swap doesn't happen, so I was wondering why this happens?

Also, with the new shift button, would it not be possible to access the grey 'more sk' shortcuts below the CIA by pressing Shift & shortcut key instead of cycling back and forth using the 'more sk' button?

And as I'm here, will ETC ever add a coloured bar to the Playback Status to show which is the next cue to be run upon pressing the GO button as I find when cues are linked out etc it really isn't clear at a glance which is the next cue in the playback.


Cheers.

  • Hi Stu

    Point 1 is a very annoying bug which will hoping be fix in a release next year.

    Nick

  • in reply to Nick Simmons

    Does it matter?

    I'm not mistaken they will operate the same way, unless you specifically call for the channel part. This is the beauty of functional mapping of the addresses.

  • Personally, I prefer to have the scroller/whatever accessory as Part 1, because then it shows up under that name in the live table instead of just saying Dimmer - If you patch VL1Ks with an external dimmer and you make the dimmer part 1, the live table just calls it a "dimmer". But that's just me.

    However, to get around this, I'd just suggest patching part 1 to some high address that's far beyond what you're using - something like 20/400. Then when you get your dimmer numbers, just use [Replace] to put the correct dimmer numbers into Part 1.

    Hope that helps!

  • in reply to RickR

    The only reason I do like to have the scroller patched to Part 2 is it's quite handy when sending out a tour that might not have a production electrician/relighter, to have a sort of blank template show with the scroller (or other fixture) patched to Part 2 so when patching the house dimmer you can just type chan 1 @ address 1/75 (for instance) and it'll automatically patch to part 1 and not remove the scroller off that part in the process.

  • in reply to rochem

    rochem said:

    However, to get around this, I'd just suggest patching part 1 to some high address that's far beyond what you're using - something like 20/400. Then when you get your dimmer numbers, just use [Replace] to put the correct dimmer numbers into Part 1

    Yes that's what I thought I'd have to do - will work as a temp fix and hopefully the bug is sorted at some other point.

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