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Ability To Access Individual Dim Circuits When Multipatched

This request kinda goes back to old school, but it would be helpful if the H4 user had the ability to select individual dimmer circuits in the programmer when multiple dimmers/DMX addresses have been patched to a single User ID/Desk Channel.

Right now I am patching a show for an LD, who likes her show patched with multiple dim circuits per channel and I would like the ability to both, give her what she wants as well as access a single dimmer within a channel/UserID if needed.

Is this request too far back?

:)

JB
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  • It's pretty typical for early trained theatrical lighting designers to group dimmer circuits into channels. Before intelligent consoles being so common, multiple dim circuits were hard patched in the dimmer racks patch bay. Since I can do the same in a soft patch in the console, I figured I would save the ME the trouble of doing it in the hard patch (Patch bay).

    I know there are consoles that can access both channel assignments, Dim circuits and Fixture #s seperately. One old desk is the expression, a newer desk would be the MA.

    Strike out my statement about the expression and the MA, as I don't think you can save any programming via a dimmer/channel/DMX check.
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  • It's pretty typical for early trained theatrical lighting designers to group dimmer circuits into channels. Before intelligent consoles being so common, multiple dim circuits were hard patched in the dimmer racks patch bay. Since I can do the same in a soft patch in the console, I figured I would save the ME the trouble of doing it in the hard patch (Patch bay).

    I know there are consoles that can access both channel assignments, Dim circuits and Fixture #s seperately. One old desk is the expression, a newer desk would be the MA.

    Strike out my statement about the expression and the MA, as I don't think you can save any programming via a dimmer/channel/DMX check.
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