Elation Rayzor Q7 questions, not etc, but...

ok, the strobe is easier so i answer that first.

Strobe is part of the Form category. press the Form button in the top right hand corner of your Ion. one of your encoders reads Shutter Strobe. press and hold the encoder, your softkeys will repaint and one of them will read Mode. press this softkey once. you're now in Strobe Mode. turning the encoder (maybe combined with the shift button) will regulate the speed of the strobe.

the cells are a bit more complicated because there is a software limitation in the eos family. the limitation is that we only allow one color picker per channel. but what you ideally would want is four color pickers so that you have one for each one of your cells. to work around there are two methods. both involve editing the fixture profile in patch and need the Extended fixture mode.

version A (less work but less comfortable to work with): go to patch, softkey Fixtures, arrow keys to the q7, softkey copy, softkey edit. navigate down with the arrow keys, you will see multiple sets of Red, Green, Blue, White. you want to change that so the second set is Red2, Green2, Blue2, White2, the 3rd one with Red3, and so on.
this is less comfortable because to change the color of cells 2, 3, 4 you have to either use encoders or the virtual ribbons in ML controls, but you can't use the color picker.

version B (more work, but you can use the color picker for all four cells afterwards): as i said before, you only get one color picker per channel. so if you want to have more than one color picker for a fixture this means that you want to split your fixture across multiple channels. you would have one "mother channel" and multiple "child channels". mother would include everything that applies to the whole fixture plus one cell, the 3 children would just be RGBW.
because of how the different parameters are allocated to DMX addresses within your fixture type, this editing needs some creativity. if you want to go that path i will write some more stuff down.

so far so good?

ok, the strobe is easier so i answer that first.

Strobe is part of the Form category. press the Form button in the top right hand corner of your Ion. one of your encoders reads Shutter Strobe. press and hold the encoder, your softkeys will repaint and one of them will read Mode. press this softkey once. you're now in Strobe Mode. turning the encoder (maybe combined with the shift button) will regulate the speed of the strobe.

the cells are a bit more complicated because there is a software limitation in the eos family. the limitation is that we only allow one color picker per channel. but what you ideally would want is four color pickers so that you have one for each one of your cells. to work around there are two methods. both involve editing the fixture profile in patch and need the Extended fixture mode.

version A (less work but less comfortable to work with): go to patch, softkey Fixtures, arrow keys to the q7, softkey copy, softkey edit. navigate down with the arrow keys, you will see multiple sets of Red, Green, Blue, White. you want to change that so the second set is Red2, Green2, Blue2, White2, the 3rd one with Red3, and so on.
this is less comfortable because to change the color of cells 2, 3, 4 you have to either use encoders or the virtual ribbons in ML controls, but you can't use the color picker.

version B (more work, but you can use the color picker for all four cells afterwards): as i said before, you only get one color picker per channel. so if you want to have more than one color picker for a fixture this means that you want to split your fixture across multiple channels. you would have one "mother channel" and multiple "child channels". mother would include everything that applies to the whole fixture plus one cell, the 3 children would just be RGBW.
because of how the different parameters are allocated to DMX addresses within your fixture type, this editing needs some creativity. if you want to go that path i will write some more stuff down.

so far so good?