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Ok good. clear-clear View GO Faders in channel mode Push up some channel faders - I assume you have some fixtures patched! Output window should show values RECORD GO does that work?

No worries @Roland1234. Let us know how you go on!

Oh, @G-man seems I didn’t make a 2810 profile for you. I’ve been doing a few here recently I’ve lost track! Are you still in need or is your one good? I’m out tonight (sorting out someone else’s Frog2!) but I could have a bash tomorrow as you’ve provided the manual.

Ok, great news. Hope your show goes well!

Is there anything to actually record? ie did you actually change an intensity or colour etc There is no record disable. If you press and hold RECORD is SmartTag enabled?

Press the Z key. Make sure in the cue stack window your blue selection box is in the Name column, not the time columns. In Setup you can force Intensity onto the first encoder at all times. https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/z-key/z-encoders?filter=3 https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/selection-and-intensity/intensity-wheel That any use?

Here you go @Roland1234. I made this with the Windows Fixture Editor 2.6, but probably this should be a multi-cell fixture. I don't have any software to make those, so if my file below works well enough then you'll have to contact the Zero88 boys to make you a proper full-featured one. I've put detail behind some of the parameters, but not the long complex ones. Let's see if this as it is gets your light working better. I've made Modes 1,2,3 properly but whilst Mode 4 is in there, I've not done the pixel detail channels, but I've set the DMX allocate so you can patch it as a fixture that consumes 109 DMX addresses. Enjoy. I'm off to the moon now, so I'll not be contactable for a while 😉 BTW "thanks" @Davidmk 😬🤣 Not quite sure what you mean here. All of the modes have the same DMX map for the lower 20 channels. Only the colour segment details change in the upper channels. Pan/Tilt are all 16-bit parameters and in Mode 2 the colour parameters are 16-bit. JBL_Sparx7_Nov24.ift

Yea I ain't doin' Mode 4, I want to go to bed before 4am! 😄 Me and my big mouth... Right, here goes...

Thanks @Davidmk. If I get time tonight I’ll have a bash at building a fixture profile for @Roland1234 to have a play with to see if it matches the function of his light better.

With you there! Bought an Alcora in 2000 as my first own lighting desk. It comes out when I need a ‘little one’. Somehow I also seem to have an Elara… (and a Fat Frog… and an FLX…)! 😆 All still working ‘as new’ 😁.

@Roland1234 do you have a pdf of the manual you could upload here?

@G-man no problem! Wow FrogOS 5.0.1, that’s an early one! I think mine came with something like 9.4 on it, but then I was late to the party at 2006! Glad the ole girl is still running dem shows just nicely! 😎

It sounds like the fixture definition from the library the console has doesn’t match the firmware function of the light. This is a constant problem especially with non-brand fixtures (I’m not familiar with Sparkx7). Firstly: Is the mode set on the light the same as chosen on the console? If you can get the manual for the light you could check it against what the console thinks controls each parameter. If need be you could create a new fixture definition using the tool built into the fixture patch section of the desk using the info in the manual or manual+whatever deviations you found with the light.

Looks like we were talking about it here: So the numbers on the encoder wheel are the raw value but the output window and any syntax uses percentage. Ok, that’s me all confused now!

Well, wadaya know… ’percentages’ https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/desktops-windows/output-window