ETC Ion & Chroma Q Color Force

Hi Moose,

For question 1:

If you are looking for individual control of each "cell" within the unit, I would put the strip in Mode 8, and then on the Ion patch 8 x Mode 4 devices. Mode 4 is just RGBA with Intensity. This will increase your channel count, but I find it much easier get the control you want / apply effects easily etc...

Question 2:

This has been brought up several times with several different ways to solve it. The most recent can be found here. If you still need help, feel free to ask back in this post and I'm sure people will be willing to help.

Good luck,

Awesome, I'm not as far off as I thought i was, I'm guessing you meant mode 9 for patching (8 is 3 ch RGB Magic Amber 9 is 4 ch RGBA)? I started with mode 4, and eventually patched 8 x generic LED fixtures. Then I kinda went, this can't be right, little did I know.

I think I read that post after my post and noted I'll need to try it when I get my office back.

Thanks for the info, I'm smarter then i think.

JG

I'm sure I'll have more questions down the road, getting a handful of mac 350's, a few atomic 3K, and a few sets of the ETC Fire & Ice. very excited. Chroma Q's look amazing though.

Moose

Sorry. You are correct. Mode 9. I have yet to actually understand how Magic Amber works. I'm sure its overly simple and I"m trying to make it more difficult than it actually is.

Good luck,

-Ben

Question, if you have 6 fixtures to cover your cyc, would you address them all the same, or alternate 2 numbers? or everything its own? considering the fact each will in theory have 8 cells

Sort of both:

I would address them individually but patch them together. That way I can re-patch if I want something else, be it alternating or center-outside groups or whatever. Patching is quickly changeable on a show by show basis.

I'm confused.  You want to use each unit divided into 8 cells (increasing your individual control), but then address multiple fixtures the same (decreasing your individual control)? Why would you do this?

-Tim

One notable advantage to having individually-addressed cells is that it makes the fixtures easier to use as pixel map outputs. You can control them by channel for normal cyc-wash looks, but also be able to use the VMS to very easily create movement effects and color gradients.

I would do this because I've never worked with pixel mapping but suppose now its an option to look into?

The handling of this is on the development list but it hasn't been got to yet. (Every feature cannot be developed at the same time)

At some point there wont be a need for a workaround but until there is support for this in the console you will need to use these.

Tom

Has this issue been addressed or is the mode/patch workaround still required?

Yes Multi cell is now supported. You will find fixtures in the library showing the number of cells and this means you can control the cells individually.

Thanks Tom. Somewhere after V2.5 the multi cell was added. I checked the console at my Home theatre(V2.8) and saw that it had support. I had to update the ion software( V2.5) at the theatre I am working at this summer to V2.8 and got it all working now.