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  1. Create chase the slows down!

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Just select your 4 spots (order matters) and light them, Effect, pick chase1/4, use encoders to set speed and size to adjust depth of fade. Select Forwards/Backwards as required.

    I’d record that into a new effect palette so you can grab it quickly. (Won’t store the intensity unless you green stripe that option in the record settings).

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  5. Question about Auto-Triggering Playbacks

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi.

    You will probably need to be in tracking mode and be very careful you only record the fixture changes you want in each fade to avoid ‘cross-pollution’.

    You should be able to do this by recording two cues and setting the second with trigger ‘auto-with’.

    Say you have cue 5 already recorded. Play cue 5.

    Set lights for cue 6 with say 10s fades. Record as cue 6.

    Clear-clear and play back cue 5 again.

    Set lights for cue 6.5 with say 5s fades. Record as cue 6.5. Set the trigger as ‘auto-with 6’.

    When you record cue 7 you will need to account for the lighting state that results after both cue 6 and cue 6.5 have run.

    I hope that works!

  15. FLX S24: Problem with Sparx 7

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    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 😬🤣

    4 hours ago, Roland1234 said:

    We tried all the modes of the library and they responds only to the mode 1 - 16 bits.

    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

  18. Unable to create new fixture profiles (IFTs) for Fat Frog using FE v2.6

    in Frog Range MK1

    Posted

    On 11/18/2024 at 5:47 PM, G-man said:

    To Zero88's credit our 2003 Alcora (I still love this desk), the thin Frog and the Fat Frog are still doing amazingly well and are easy to use for all our crew.  Also your support makes them last even longer.  Keeping the faith!

    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’ 😁 (and all bought brand new, except the Elara from eBay!).

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  21. FLX S24: Problem with Sparx 7

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    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. 

  24. Default value not working

    in FLX

    Posted

    26 minutes ago, Charlie Newman said:

    Yup @kgalleninteresting that shows in %, personally I'd rather 1-255. Thanks for the help!

    Yea weird. I wonder if there is a desk setting for that. I know it’s a topic that comes up every now and again. Like you I would have expected the raw value for all parameters except intensity. I’ll have a dig through the ZerOS release notes. 

  25. Default value not working

    in FLX

    Posted

    OK give this a bash. On channel 3, I've added detail (which I made up). 0-4 is "Closed", 5 is "Default", 6-255 is "Open".

    Ch1 default (Dimmer [Intensity])=255, Ch2 (Wheel [Colour])default=0, Ch3 (Strobe [Beamshape])default=5

    These are the "Details" for ch3:

    image.png.e2b1b6bb6d4e78da5717f1f741103920.png

    Let's see what comes up for the Strobe channel by default...

    Put this on a USB stick and just use "Load" to get it in the desk. Then you'll have to patch, Manufacturer="Charlie", Fixture="Followspot 3ch"

    Charlie_FS.ift

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