Help programming movers and LED cans.

I've had my SFML for around 3 years now and have been really happy with it. I recently bought 2 Chauvet Intimidator 155's and since I knew I'd have to use the personalities with them, I decided I'd get my generic LED PAR's programmed as devices too.

Originally, I made INT A/B "scenes" as such, and programmed them into memories 1-11 (12 being a strobe). This was quick and easy for me originally. For example, INT A, 1 was Intensity for LED PAR 1, 2 was Red for LED PAR 1, 3 was Green for LED PAR 1, etc. 7 was Intensity for LED PAR 2, 8 was Red for LED PAR 2, etc. I have 8 lights that are all IRGBCS and I never used the C (color "wheel"), just programmed in the colours to MEMS 1-11.

I then made chases 13-24 using the MEMS 1-11. I'd use different MEMS PAGES for different chases. MEMS PAGE 12 was for solid colour flashing chases. 13-15 was colour snaps with no fade, then 16-18 was a fast fade, then each bank of 3 were slower and slower fades. That way I could do a good show for every style of music.

Everything was working fine until I decided to do it "properly".

So now I've got all 8 lights as DEVICES 13-20. If I select the devices, and go to PARAM 1, I can control intensity with 1, strobe with 10 and I can pick colours by pressing COLOR and selecting a PALETTE button. I've programmed all the colours I need as MEMS 1-11 (again, I use 12 as a global strobe). They all work perfectly. Until I try and build a sequence.

If I hit REC SEQ, select bump and press my bump buttons, then REC SEQ again, and it records the sequence. Where my problem is, is that no matter what fade times I use (0 is optimal), the steps keep fading and not snapping from step to step. It worked fine when manually programmed via programming the lights with INT, but not as devices.

I need to get this sorted as quickly as possible. I can submit my show file if needed.

Help? Please?

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  • Try calling technical support when you are in front of the console. They can help you step by step - and will probably be at a console themselves.

    I also strongly recommend using SmartSoft, preferably on a computer connected to the console. It also works 'offline' but when online it's an added display area and makes editing a show file far easier. You can see each step in a sequence and all it's timing features. You can also run the sequence and see the overall progress or the direct DMX values. Since computers have a keyboard you can label channels, fixtures, memories, sequences, cues, etc. Those names would then show up on the console display even when the computer is not connected.

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