LEDs fade intensity to white then change color

Hi,

New hog III user here, running through the manual and trying to build my first show. I'm wondering if somebody can help me with a problem I'm having with LED wash lights.

I'm trying to create a simple set of color cues @ 100% intensity with a 2s linear fade. I've managed to write them in CMY so they fade nicely with no ugly white transitions between them, however when I activate or release the cue they first turn white before fading on or off.

Ideally what I'm hoping to do is have one cue for colors, the next cue for intensity effects on these lights. Is there a better way to set this up? How do I get rid of this white intensity fade?

Thank you for any assistance!
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    Since I'm here asking newbie questions, maybe somebody can help me with more questions.

    I come from a background of using Ableton as a lighting console via ENTTEC DMXIS as a VST plugin (I don't use Ableton for music at all, strictly lights). One feature of this is I can literally tap in the BPM of a band's music in Ableton and all my effect waveforms automatically stretch or compress, falling into perfect time. Is there some way to approximate this sort of behavior in Hog? I'm a big fan of running tight patterns based on beats - how would you approach this if you were trying to set up Hog as a busking console? Can you get so precise that all your effect changes happen perfectly on beat without knowing the BPM you're going to be working with beforehand? Is there a quick way to change your global effect BPM on the fly, or something similar? Maybe trick the software into speeding up or slowing down it's idea of what 120 BPM means (which is basically what I've been doing in Ableton) - then subdivide to 60/30 for halves/quarters, etc.?

    I hope this makes sense! Trying to wrap my head around how to actually use Hog for my purposes. I'm on my 3rd 14-hour day... :)
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    Since I'm here asking newbie questions, maybe somebody can help me with more questions.

    I come from a background of using Ableton as a lighting console via ENTTEC DMXIS as a VST plugin (I don't use Ableton for music at all, strictly lights). One feature of this is I can literally tap in the BPM of a band's music in Ableton and all my effect waveforms automatically stretch or compress, falling into perfect time. Is there some way to approximate this sort of behavior in Hog? I'm a big fan of running tight patterns based on beats - how would you approach this if you were trying to set up Hog as a busking console? Can you get so precise that all your effect changes happen perfectly on beat without knowing the BPM you're going to be working with beforehand? Is there a quick way to change your global effect BPM on the fly, or something similar? Maybe trick the software into speeding up or slowing down it's idea of what 120 BPM means (which is basically what I've been doing in Ableton) - then subdivide to 60/30 for halves/quarters, etc.?

    I hope this makes sense! Trying to wrap my head around how to actually use Hog for my purposes. I'm on my 3rd 14-hour day... :)
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