I have an opportunity to programm a festival coming up and I have a good base knowledge of the hog 3. I recently have been introduced to the concept of busking and creating playbacks for different parameters and being able to play them back at any time rather than trying to think through every cue. My problem is trying to implement this with the hog. Given I will have only 9 or 10 playback faders how do I get all the different parameters that I would like to access on one playback bus. I've seen talk about about virtual playbacks of the forum but what is a virtual play back on the hog where do you access that. For busking certain parameters I thought I heard pallets were a good way to do this or is that not ok. Also is it possible to use play back faders as effect rate modifiers? The festival isn't very complicated about 60 par cans on a down stage truss and 1K2 movers on an upstage. I'm assuming there needs to be different looks for color washes and chase patterns for the par cans but I would like to do some interesting stuff with the movers. Any tips any one has would be helpful I'm new to this forum. I would really like to learn an efficient way to program a busking type of show.
If you open any cuelist to view the cues, you have the cues listed with columns for cue number, name, fade time, delay time, mark, path, comment and on the right hand side (by default) is a 'Macro' column. This allows you to add 'comment' style macros to any cue. Tapping the macro box for any cue and pressing Set will bring up a list of available commands and their descriptions. You can add multiple commands - seperate them with a : symbol.
E.g. to release lists 1 through 12, as Jon said above, you can use the macro command 'RL1>12'.
You can take advantage of this by recording an empty cue into a new cuelist. The cue won't control your lights as you didn't program any data into it - but you can add a macro command to the 'Macro' box to have it automate your desk by mass releasing (or playing, halting, goto-ing, etc) your lists, changing pages or views, etc.
The Hog 3 manual has a great explanation of Macros and is available within Hog3PC (top left of the right hand screen).
If you open any cuelist to view the cues, you have the cues listed with columns for cue number, name, fade time, delay time, mark, path, comment and on the right hand side (by default) is a 'Macro' column. This allows you to add 'comment' style macros to any cue. Tapping the macro box for any cue and pressing Set will bring up a list of available commands and their descriptions. You can add multiple commands - seperate them with a : symbol.
E.g. to release lists 1 through 12, as Jon said above, you can use the macro command 'RL1>12'.
You can take advantage of this by recording an empty cue into a new cuelist. The cue won't control your lights as you didn't program any data into it - but you can add a macro command to the 'Macro' box to have it automate your desk by mass releasing (or playing, halting, goto-ing, etc) your lists, changing pages or views, etc.
The Hog 3 manual has a great explanation of Macros and is available within Hog3PC (top left of the right hand screen).
