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Some (big) ideas

Hi there!

I am a huge fan of the GrandMa desks, so my ideas to the Hog3 are kind of a copy of what the GrandMa already does. One thing that would be great are of you could have more options for the masters. Like being able to tap the rate of a chase. Or setting the rate and/or size of an effect running on the master. Also, it would be great to be able to have have more than one master per list, and use these for different parameters of the list. (Like executor size in GrandMa. As i said, very inspired)

I would also be able to put fixtures on the masters, for controling the intensity of these fixtures (instead of selecting and using encoders to program). I want to select a fixture, and then store it under a master, and then that master becomes a fader for that fixture (or group if so programmed). So this is similiar to a feature in GrandMa where the channels (not fixtures) is put on the faders, but with the difference that i my self can select which fixtures or groups to put on which faders, in which page. Would be absolutely great when programming ie theatre with a lot of dimmers.

I want a manual timing feature (to put on one of the masters). Also like the manual feature in GrandMa, but with the ability to pause everything before it's executed (so i click pause for the timing fader, do the changes in the programmer, select the fade time on the fader clicks "play", and then the thing in the programmer executes in the selected time).

And of coarse, all this in combination with a new playback wing with motorised faders, and quick buttons to access the different pages. That would make especially busking a lot better on the Hog3. (As for now i would never choose the Hog3 for busking, GrandMa is my no1 choice there)

Of coarse i don't want the Hog to become a GrandMa-desk, but these features would make this disk so much better.
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    Gildebrand.

    The MA term for this is "Phase"....on H3 it is called "Offset".

    I know what you are talking about in terms of the "Channel" functions on MA as well as the "multiple fader spread".

    For the benefit of anyone on the forums here who is not familiar with the MA desks:

    - MA has a function where you can assign a single Cuelist (called a Sequence on MA) and "spread" it across multiple faders....that is have more than one fader, flash key, etc controlling the same List at the same time. This way you could have one flash key behave as a flash, and the second behave as a SWOP or Solo. One fader could be intensity only and the other could control speed of a chase or effect, etc.....essentially it is a way to have more physical buttons and faders do more things to a single cuelist than would normally be available on a single fader. These "spreads" can be up to 5 faders or buttons across.

    Once we get some of the existing requests implemented for rate wheel and master options we will be able to do this on H3 as well, but with much greater speed and efficiency.

    - MA also has a function where a "Channel ID" can be set for each unit in addition to a "Fixture ID" (what we on H3 call a User Number). These "Channels" can be brought up in numerical order on their own Pages (as opposed to normal Cuelist/Scene pages) to quickly control intensity only. This mostly get used in shoot environments (TV, etc...).

    Personally I don't find this any faster than simply typing the fixture numbers, or grabbing a Group to adjust. Or even setting up inhibitors or HTP masters. It is one of those things I feel that MA has made uneccessarily over-complicated (it does that a lot ;)).

    Hope this helps. :)
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    Gildebrand.

    The MA term for this is "Phase"....on H3 it is called "Offset".

    I know what you are talking about in terms of the "Channel" functions on MA as well as the "multiple fader spread".

    For the benefit of anyone on the forums here who is not familiar with the MA desks:

    - MA has a function where you can assign a single Cuelist (called a Sequence on MA) and "spread" it across multiple faders....that is have more than one fader, flash key, etc controlling the same List at the same time. This way you could have one flash key behave as a flash, and the second behave as a SWOP or Solo. One fader could be intensity only and the other could control speed of a chase or effect, etc.....essentially it is a way to have more physical buttons and faders do more things to a single cuelist than would normally be available on a single fader. These "spreads" can be up to 5 faders or buttons across.

    Once we get some of the existing requests implemented for rate wheel and master options we will be able to do this on H3 as well, but with much greater speed and efficiency.

    - MA also has a function where a "Channel ID" can be set for each unit in addition to a "Fixture ID" (what we on H3 call a User Number). These "Channels" can be brought up in numerical order on their own Pages (as opposed to normal Cuelist/Scene pages) to quickly control intensity only. This mostly get used in shoot environments (TV, etc...).

    Personally I don't find this any faster than simply typing the fixture numbers, or grabbing a Group to adjust. Or even setting up inhibitors or HTP masters. It is one of those things I feel that MA has made uneccessarily over-complicated (it does that a lot ;)).

    Hope this helps. :)
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