Macro / Macro editor

The macro engine seems quite primitive to me, is there any work being done on this part of the software?

If I manually record a macro and adjust the timings to speed up the macro sometimes the desk does it correctly and sometimes not. The only solution is to slow the macro down. The desk should be able to "follow" each step in a macro by itself instead of just waiting a preset time after the previous step started.

To me it seems the desk gives some other processing a higher priority, which is fine, but the other processes running shouldn't have influence on the end result of the macro.

If I could just put all the wait times to follow I would be shure each step has been executed.

Also adding and moving steps in the macro editor isn't possible?
You can record manually and ad steps to the end of a macro but if I just want to add a line in-between in the editor I can't seem to find how to.

For me it would be the preferred way to completely make a macro, no manual recording but typing it in line by line.

There's also limited acces to functions, if I want to record and replace a pallet or a cue I have to add screen down and screen up steps in the macro while it should be possible to just ad an option "merge, insert, replace,..." after the record step.
This would bypass the pop-up.
I know you can select that option just after you pressed record to bypass the pop-up but that still involves screen down and screen up steps.
The screen up and screen down functions are the most annoying because the macro has to recall view to be sure these functions work good.

But while I'm busking I don't want my view to change, even if I recall my busking view at the end of the macro.
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  • Just fondled around a little bit with the merge function and what I didn't expect was that I had to select my fixtures. (because the colour pallets I want to merge are global pallets)
    This is probably why that didn't work yesterday. (I had never used merge on pallets before)

    Anyway that seems to work now but still with the same problem of it being keystroke macro's.
    I have to slow the macro down to work reliable. (like in 0.06 total time per step, which adds up fast)

    If there could be something like real command macro's (not keystroke) that would be really useful. More like a scripting language.


    This is an example I would like to have working faster for my "busking" setup.

    colour pallet 21 (Bump), 22 (Base 1) and 23 (Base 2) are pallets used in cuelists.
    colour pallet 1 thru 20 are my colours I make before the show, not used in cuelists straight away.

    I have 3 rows of macro's with 20 columns
    1st row sets one of my 20 colours as Bump colour
    2nd row sets one of my 20 colours as my Base 1 colour
    3rd row sets one of my 20 colours as my Base 2 colour

    Pressing any of the 60 Macro keys should ideally set that colour to be one of my 3 busking pallets almost instantly (not half a second later)

    Other Macro's I like to use don't have to be that fast as I use them in preparation for the show. (making cuelists automatically from groups I make by hand with the fixtures I have that night)

    Edit:
    Just got my old Hog 1K out of it's case to see what desk would do the busking colour macro pallet quicker. Guess what... The 1K does it faster dan my own Nano Hog and the RoadHog4 I currently have here.
    That's something that could be improved.
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  • Just fondled around a little bit with the merge function and what I didn't expect was that I had to select my fixtures. (because the colour pallets I want to merge are global pallets)
    This is probably why that didn't work yesterday. (I had never used merge on pallets before)

    Anyway that seems to work now but still with the same problem of it being keystroke macro's.
    I have to slow the macro down to work reliable. (like in 0.06 total time per step, which adds up fast)

    If there could be something like real command macro's (not keystroke) that would be really useful. More like a scripting language.


    This is an example I would like to have working faster for my "busking" setup.

    colour pallet 21 (Bump), 22 (Base 1) and 23 (Base 2) are pallets used in cuelists.
    colour pallet 1 thru 20 are my colours I make before the show, not used in cuelists straight away.

    I have 3 rows of macro's with 20 columns
    1st row sets one of my 20 colours as Bump colour
    2nd row sets one of my 20 colours as my Base 1 colour
    3rd row sets one of my 20 colours as my Base 2 colour

    Pressing any of the 60 Macro keys should ideally set that colour to be one of my 3 busking pallets almost instantly (not half a second later)

    Other Macro's I like to use don't have to be that fast as I use them in preparation for the show. (making cuelists automatically from groups I make by hand with the fixtures I have that night)

    Edit:
    Just got my old Hog 1K out of it's case to see what desk would do the busking colour macro pallet quicker. Guess what... The 1K does it faster dan my own Nano Hog and the RoadHog4 I currently have here.
    That's something that could be improved.
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