Live conventional + moving light control

Hi there -

Changing the select buttons to Device Select should not keep you from controlling your conventionals on your faders. You should be able to use the encoders to control your pan/tilt while the faders are set to Mems or to Int A/B to control your conventionals. What you can't do is have your faders mapped to parameter control for your movers while also controlling your conventional dimmers. Make sense?

Mapping P/T to your independents is a bad idea. :-)

I hope this helps -

Thanks!

Sarah

Hi there -

Changing the select buttons to Device Select should not keep you from controlling your conventionals on your faders. You should be able to use the encoders to control your pan/tilt while the faders are set to Mems or to Int A/B to control your conventionals. What you can't do is have your faders mapped to parameter control for your movers while also controlling your conventional dimmers. Make sense?

Mapping P/T to your independents is a bad idea. :-)

I hope this helps -

Thanks!

Sarah

I used the method above in Sarah's post, in a recent show with conventionals and moving lights on the smartfade ML. Suddenly the dancers were at the other side of the stage than in the rehearsal, so I altered the pan/tilt from the movers with the encoders, while still having control over the conventionals. However this console is a single track-list / cue-list console and you do not want to make a habbit off such things unless you know the console very well.

Thanks, Jeroen.

I have yet to get back to the board to try Sarah's idea.  Though I did give it a "dry run" on smartsoft - Obvious when I opened my eyes and noticed Pan/Tilt was alive and well in the screen right above those encoders!

Our dancers surprised me as well.  Actually, I was doing the whole "talent show" without benefit of rehearsal.

Making that a habit is a scary thing!

Thanks for your input.

GAR

Sarah,

Thanks so much for getting back to me.

I have yet to get back to the board to give this a try.  But I did set it up on smartsoft - felt a little dense as I noticed the Pan/Tilt right there in the display - right above the encoders!  I was assuming I had to go through the param's to do anything with them.

Thanks, again!

On a related issue.  As I remember, trying to move the lights with those encoders was not as smooth nor as wide-ranging as the fader approach.  My challenge was to follow the performers as they took a stroll around the audience - a 360 - from center stage, out into and around the outside aisles of the hall and back to center stage.  Using the encoder wheels, I couldn't get the lights to move fast enough with the encoder wheels to follow them.  I tried switching between coarse and fine and that didn't seem to make any difference in the traveling speed of the light or range of the wheel.  I could do it with the faders, though a bit rough, and that's when, in the param mode, I lost my conventional light controls.  Any way to get the encoders to move the lights further with less encoder wheel rotation?

Another question: is it possible (through computer w/smartsoft) to connect up a joystick to control the pan & tilt?

GAR