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Trying to record three subs using a Chauvet TriTour led fixture; sub 1 led red, sub 2 led green, sub 3 led blue. Reason: teaching a middle school class very basic lighting including very basic rgb blending. Have a middle school student sitting at the console so don't want them controlling led's using the ML controls virtual wheels or selecting the fixture and using the encoders (to much for them to grasp). I want them to be able to bring up sub 1 to show the whole class red in the fixture, then bring down sub 1 and up sub 2 to show them green, then bring down sub 2 and up sub 3 to show blue and off again. 
 Next I want them to bring up sub 1 and slowly add sub 2 to show how the colors change while adding green to red. I take them through a couple of other combinations and end with all 3 faders up showing white; ugly agreed, but at least to show them basic rgb = white. 
 I've tried all the settings for subs I can think of but no matter what setting they don't respond in that fashion. They seem to all have individual control. I know i'm missing something. 
 I don't want to switch the console to channel mode because I have other demonstrations on subs for other things. 
 Any suggestions?

jselander · Accepted Answer

Jeff, 
 I attached a file with this post that has a single led fixture in it, I wasnt sure which Colorado you were talking about so I just used a LED RGB fixture. To make this work I did the following: 
 In Live. select the fixture and put the color parameter values at 0 and the intensity at Full. So what you should see is RGB all at 0 and Intensity should read full. Record this into Q1. Next go into Blind and create Sub 1. Select the channel and press the Red parameter tile then full. This puts only Red at 100. Do the same for Green and Blue. 
 If your cue is still playing back, you should be able to add RGB in with no issues. Please take a look at the showfile and let me know if this still doesn't make any sense. If you press go in the file, the Intensity should turn on and the Color params should all go to 0 thus allowing the faders to take control.

Jeff Toussieng · Answer

Coupla things: 
 I recorded both an individual sub with intensity only then three subs with red, green, blue on each. Still brings up red, green and blue individually but does not ADD green to red, or ADD blue to green, etc. 
 I recorded red, green and blue on individual subs including also intensity on each sub so I didn't have to have an individual intensity sub and got the same problem. 
 As I watch the spreadsheet, bring up red and red goes to 100. Start adding green and red goes down proportionally as green is being brought up. A cross fade of colors. 
 I tried as many combinations of ltp, imaster, background, etc. choices as I could come up with in the sub list and could not get the subs to add/mix rgb using any setting. 
 Something is still missing. Ehhhhh