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Yep, that's right. As I said... And Edward said...

The functionality you’re describing here is what enabling “Position” under “Fader Controls…” would achieve. “Fader controls” can be found in Playback Settings > General. The “Manual Fade” fader function options are used for manually controlling intensity crossfades in cue stacks.

When releasing a playback from a cue release macro, the playback will release over the fade down time of the cue releasing it… https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/cue-settings/cue-macros

Hi @Hummel & @Davidmk Apologies that I am a bit late to the party on this topic, but this is a great thread - loads of good tips and workflows. I'll add the following: As well as the "Mixing Playbacks and Running the Show" video, check out this video too if you haven't already... A playback's fader and playback's button cannot be split into separate playbacks. The fader and button are simply two controls for the same data on the playback. If you press and hold a playback's GO button, you can then type the cue number you wish to go to on an external keyboard, and then let go of the GO button to go into the cue. If you are going down the OSC route, this would be a more elegant solution of jumping to a cue. FLX S48 consoles do not have remote switches (and therefore do not have the Ctrl+F1 - Ctrl+F8 hotkeys). "Inhibit" is an "Intensity Mixing" option in a playback's settings, and therefore is not applicable to parameters such as Pan & Tilt. To achieve what you are after, you could use "Fader Controls", to configure a playback's fader to crossfade to/from the recorded position parameters for example. FLX S consoles do not have Blind mode. If a playback is released over a time, values will crossfade back to the previous playback's values. Playbacks can be released over a time using cue release macros, or Programmer Time. More information here... https://www.zero88.com/storage/downloads/c4034f20-af9a-4531-b8f6-f8c2c5330fc4/ZerOS-&-OSC-(“Open-Sound-Control”)-v2.0.pdf The "Manual Fade" options in Playback Settings > General > Fader Function, can be used to manually crossfade intensity values between cues. Attributes will continue to use their cue fade times when the Fader Function is set to "Manual Fade". As cues are advanced by the playback's fader movement in "Manual Fade" modes, the GO button is temporarily disabled. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Not how I do it and I don't think it would operate as you think it would. An inhibit is normally used with intensities and acts as a top limit on their values. For example, in my set up I have 4 playbacks each setting the intensity of a group of PARS. I could add a fifth one controlling the intensities of all the PARS but if any of the others were at a higher level then that is the value that would be used. However if I made the 5th one an inhibit then the value of that would become the maximum intensity for all the PARS and taking it to zero would black them all out, regardless of the values of their group playbacks. An inhibit applied to, say, a zoom parameter would have no effect at full but, if lowered, would reduce that parameter to zero. Possibly useful but probably not what you had in mind. The way I do it is this... I like to have two moving heads on each performer to act as spotlight and back light. I don't have enough to do all of them but I can usually cover the front line. Lead singers have a tendency to move around so I set theirs to the minimum size and as far down stage as I think they will go. Having an FLX with UDKs I save all these "default" values on a UDK (fixed, latch and no release) - you don't have this luxury. You could use the custom fixture defaults or, if like me you don't want to mess with these, a playback (you can just use one for all defaults you want for a given show). Having got this base position, & size I then select the lead singer's moving head, zoom it out to maximum, refocus it and save to a playback (making sure I only record Beam parameters for that one fixture). In the playback fader controls I select Beam. Then I position the fixture as far upstage as I need and record that (only the pan & tilt parameters) and select Position in the playback fader controls. Note that this usually involves both Pan and Tilt - it is possible, but messy, to put tilt on one playback and tilt on another (your default position needs to be to one side and you must record only Pan on your pan playback and Tilt on your tilt playback. It isn't easy to use (as the pan fader goes up and down when your brain is thinking left and right) and I've found a combination of zoom and tilt is usually enough.

There are probably more busking tricks than there are people in this forum but a, non-exhaustive, list might include... Only use playbacks for the intensities of fixture groups, do the rest in the programmer. Practically limitless but difficult to keep track. Look up programmer time if you go down this route. Whether using the programmer or not, use palletes for LED colours, positions, beam & shape. Much easier to amend and makes them easy to apply when busking in the programmer. Record cue stacks and use go cue no. (hold the go button, type cue no. - on an external keyboard since it is S series - release the go button). Economical with playbacks but looking up the cue no. takes time does mean you can go from one cue directly to the next. It's in the manual with S48 selected but the text only refers to FLX so not sure it works @Edward Z88 will advise I'm sure. Use colour mixing for LEDs. Always a good choice but don't try to use playbacks or programmer for LED colours if you've set up colour mixing. Don't record full "looks", instead for (e.g) moving heads have some beam, shape, position & effect options on different playbacks so you can mix & match. Don't forget you can have playbacks that control a single parameter (like pan, tilt, zoom, etc.). Get into OSC sooner rather than later. I used to use midi (on FLX) but OSC is more flexible, uses less playbacks and available on S series. If you want more help with OSC contact me by DM. There are remote switches on FLX but these can also be triggered by ctrl/F1 to ctrl/F8 on the keyboard. These don't appear in the S48 manual so not sure if you have them or not. Again @Edward Z88 will advise. All I can think of quickly but I'm sure you will get other's offering their take on the subject. My own set up uses 18 playbacks as follows... 1 thru 6 contain cues setting LED PARs fixtures grouped by location and odd/even to one of 13 colours. 7 is the same 13 colours but for a small number of LED moving head washes. 8 thru 10 are positions, zoom settings and P/T effects for these mh washes. 11 is colour wheel settings for DS (non LED) moving heads, 12, 13 & 14 positions, gobo & P/T effects for these fixtures. 15 thru 18 are the colours, gobos, positions & effects US non LED mh's On another page I have the intensities for all the above fixtures, grouped similarly and a few LED colour effects like rainbow and sparkle. Finally, a tablet running TouchOSC (full one, not MK1) and a control surface I designed and coded myself to trigger the cues. This is customisable and I am willing to share it with a few people (because I couldn't support a big userbase). I'd have to write a user manual though. Have fun!