Thankyou for your quick response, as for smoke machines in our experience most smoke machines only have 1 channel. We generally use JEM ZR 12 and the JEM ZR 22, both of which use 1 DMX channel, the 1 channel being the output of the smoke machine.
We have created our own fixture for the smoke machines, but obviously if you could create one it would be a lot better than ours. What we would like to know is if you could create a smoke machine fixture that could control multiple smoke machines using the wheel group button and wheels, that way for example 3 smoke machines and 3 haze machines could be controlled from 1 fixture using the wheels and the wheel group button, the only thing users would need to be aware of is that the first smoke/haze machine must be set to the first channel of the fixture and the other smoke/haze machines must follow in sequence.
Thankyou for your advice on our little moving light and generic chase problem, we think its probably just our programming :oops:! But we had this idea of maybe being able to select a sub and let it take presidence over other subs that are running or even memories that are being played back. So could there be a way of selecting a sub moving state to take presidence over a playback/sub moving state? Perhaps by holding the flash button under the sub as you fade it up for it to take presidence? This would probably be a pretty big software update, and i don't know if anyone else would find it useful but it could be used in a variety of different situations and applications. Sorry if that doesn't quite make sense, ask any questions and i'll try and explain lol.
As for the topset idea, we would love this to be developed and introduced to the frog range, I know we would find it very useful, if anyone else thinks so please post a reply or something so maybe we can try and push and get that on the next update.
But we do love the frog range of desks, they're perfect for teaching students on how to use them, they're much better than the Sirius and XLS Series desks that we used to have, and being computer based they fit in perfectly with our curriculum. If there is ever any other equipment we could demo etc it would be perfect for demonstrating the students about a wider range of equipment and technology, it's good seeing how the students adapt to the different desks and equipment and we could get lots of feedback from that and pass that on to you. If there is anything, information, feedback that you would like please don't hesitate to ask or contact us.
Just a thought could we have a nice female voice instead of that bleep when we make stupid mistakes, it would be much more sympathetic , or even a fully voice activated frog with a nice husky female voice?
Thanks again
The guys from Hemel Hempstead Performing Arts College, in association with AB Lighting and Special Effects