Bunch of feature requests

I compiled a quick list of some features I've wanted for awhile. There are more but I had a free night so I decided to write some of them down. Most of these have workarounds but I program a lot and some of these would really help me and other programmers out.

Quick Quality of Life fixes:
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Multiple Fan presses will cycle thru various fans and will auto terminate (i.e. fan fan = fan center, fan fan fan = fan reverse) kind of like how "time" works. On Gio and Ion having to press fan, hold softkey 1 enter is a little cumbersome. I have it assigned to a macro most of the time but I'd like the default to be simpler.

Highlight auto terminates (or double pressing highlight terminates the command).

Mark mark cycles thru mark states (mark mark = mark earliest)

Cuelists available in Direct Selects

Recording Snapshots default to current screen instead of all screens

Medium Level Improvements:
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Ability to lock softkeys on for Gio and consoles by quickly double pressing MoreSK, or shift moreSK or something.

Pan Tilt xy axis as a magic sheet object for effect visualization

A way to visualize color scan/spin mode in magic sheet objects, even if it's just an asterisk, something noticable. Yes it's avoidable but I've accidentally screwed myself by having one color wheel on spin while the magic sheet shows the active color from colorwheel 1

Current gobo or prism as a magic sheet object display field, like link color or intensity

Blind magic sheet shows color of fixtures and effects like live mode does

Programming wing and Ion Xe faders assignable to submasters (or something useful)

Ability to get rid of tab 1 and 2 (psd and live table).

Ability to press live and not have Tab 1 and 2 rise to the top.

Live and Blind state available to record into snapshots

A way to remove channel data from live from a cue. I feel like this one is already possible and I just don't know what it is, I always go into blind spreadsheet

Ability to tap out follows (i.e. the console will automatically measure the time between GO's and auto record that into the follow time of a cue)

More configurations of displays (i.e. a stack of 4, or completely customizable (add row, add column)

Ability to reorder encoder positions. Instead of having red green blue white on one page, I might want red green blue Amber. The move to command code be used.

Shift-effect it would be nice if I could see the XY pan Tilt (or any parameter) axis while adjusting parameters. Adjusting the rate eliminates the channel selection from ML controls so you cant see your adjustments live until you reselect the channels.


Major New Features:
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New tabs by double pressing of a key (preset preset for example) can be a pop-up instead being a permanent tab for a quick edit, which is mostly what I use them for. Like the pop-up magic sheet and snapshots. Preferably not in the CIA

It would be nice if offset was a hard key, maybe instead of path. Offset offset cycles thru offset states. In lieu of a hardkey replacement, or having it replace key 821, it would be nice if double pressing group would cycle thru offset states.

Would love if the CIA went away entirely. File and setup could be their own tabs instead of having to clumsily scroll thru the menu. I spend far too much time collapsing certain menus to find the showfile I'm looking for under one of many menus (merge, open, save as) and also setup is buried beneath all of that.


Displays should always bring up the file menu in the CIA. It doesn't if About is toggled on.

Direct Selects can have an image pressed upon them. I know, just make magic sheets but it would just remove one degree of difficulty

Best, 

-Michael Kozachenko

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