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Thanks Marty and Phil for your contributions to this thread.

As most of you have experienced first hand the DP2000 in dmx processor mode can actually handle the kind of workloads Dennis described in playback and in quick value edits in the programmer, but where the DP2000 really starts to bleed is when using encoders to change values on more than about 75 fixtures at once. That kind of real time processing is something the DP2K processor can handle but unfortunately can't refresh fast enough and as a result result dmx output gets choppy, making the fixtures look slow to respond. You will notice that if you just select the 432 RGB fixtures and put them at full and back at zero that the response is actually really good. But if you use an encoder to dial from 0 to full you are gonna see some pretty nasty dmx refresh dropout during the encoder turn.

Ultimately the DP8000, the Full Boar, and Road Hog Consoles were built to solve this kind of real-time processing problem. And as everyone has already mentioned, the DP2000 in art-net mode is a great way to utilize the processing power of the Full Boar to make those DP2Ks shine again.

Thanks Marty and Phil for your contributions to this thread.

As most of you have experienced first hand the DP2000 in dmx processor mode can actually handle the kind of workloads Dennis described in playback and in quick value edits in the programmer, but where the DP2000 really starts to bleed is when using encoders to change values on more than about 75 fixtures at once. That kind of real time processing is something the DP2K processor can handle but unfortunately can't refresh fast enough and as a result result dmx output gets choppy, making the fixtures look slow to respond. You will notice that if you just select the 432 RGB fixtures and put them at full and back at zero that the response is actually really good. But if you use an encoder to dial from 0 to full you are gonna see some pretty nasty dmx refresh dropout during the encoder turn.

Ultimately the DP8000, the Full Boar, and Road Hog Consoles were built to solve this kind of real-time processing problem. And as everyone has already mentioned, the DP2000 in art-net mode is a great way to utilize the processing power of the Full Boar to make those DP2Ks shine again.