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Evening all, I have been looking for a few months for another FLX desk as a back up to my existing desk. There are a few advertisements from various companies however digging down they are consistently out of stock. Just wondering what the direction of travel is for them. Anyone have any clues please....??

Hi Tim, I hope this may be some help and thanks to Google translation. Question 1 - I have my moving heads programmed in 2 ways. I have a set of Playbacks on MFF's covering each attribute of the mover i.e. 1 - Intensity & Focus, 2 - Colours, 3 - Gobos, 4- Prisms. I have recorded them each into a cue stack on the Playback so can set each up before bringing the intensity up. You can play with the effects and set speeds, the prisms rotate speeds etc and just record onto a cue. For your position changes to be less abrupt you then go into the cue stack and change the posn speed. The default is 3s which I find covers most requirements but you can of course lengthen or shorten that period. I also have them set up in Palettes, covering all the attributes again. But going between positions using the palettes it will be a very quick change and uncontrolled. Question 2 - Again I would say this is down to the Posn timing set in the cue you are triggering. Hope this helps. Rgds Mac

Hi SimonH, I am pretty sure they will only work in FAT32 format as opposed to NTFS. Have a go in that format if your stick is currently NTFS. Unsure on size but as Jon mentions it should read it but just take longer to index the larger sticks.

Just offloading my kit and took the opportunity to test control via Artnet and DMX. I just set up minimal fixtures on the addresses in the show file. Both setups produce solo. Really weird as it does not work when I have all rigged and using 2 universes???

Thanks Ed, a copy of the show file is attached. All the solo looks I use are on MFF buttons on Pages 1 & 2. The Playbacks are named with the caveat 'SOLO' When applying SOLO, no fixture blacks out on any of them. The look appears but no black out on the remainder. This is indeed set to 'Disabled' Thanks again for your help, much appreciated !! UnReal Festival 2023 - V0-12 - LIVE DAY 2.zos

Hi, I sought help with this issue a few months back and just had another festival last weekend and the same thing is occurring. Ed very kindly had a look through the show file and did not see any issues. It also works just fine on Capture. I had this working without any issue for years on many cues but for some reason there is an issue now. The only thing that has changed since using it successfully on my whole live rig is I am now controlling it via Artnet as opposed to the two DMX desk outputs. I checked this via the DMX outputs before the last event and everything was fine. The exact result is the fixtures I trigger do what I have asked but the remainder do not black out. Any help most welcome please....??

Thanks Kevin, worked a treat and will have a read up on the links a little later. Much appreciated !!

Afternoon all. I have a bunch of movers and have recorded all the attributes (posn, colour, effects etc) on a number of cue stacks. What I would like to do is add and remove some fixtures (movers) so I have groups of them independent of others but can still use the attributes I have recorded on the cue stacks. I have tried updating a single cue by getting it to output selecting the group of fixtures I want to for this example remove, hit remove on the update options but no joy unfortunately. I also cannot fine anywhere to find and read about the 'Update Options' to fully understand what I can and cannot do with them. Thanks again in advance.

Thanks David, every day is a learning day.

Thanks Kevin, much appreciated

Thanks Kgallen, you are absolutely right. I also have been using groups and position palettes for quite some time and never noticed the points you bring up. I just cracked on and used them. Only this time I seem to have got myself into a real tizzy. Thanks for your and Davidmk's help in clearing the fog. I will now go away and lie down in a dark room with a cold cloth. My apologies !

Yes those are the ones although I deleted a whole more to get this fixed first. The problem seems to happen with any spec mover though. I will have a look at the Capture file although it is not really needed for this. When even selecting one single Hybrid all position palettes highlight....??

OK, and thanks...... UnReal Festival 2023 v0-1.c2p UnReal Festival 2023 - V0-3 - MOVERS GROUP ISSUES.zos

Thanks KGallen, I have deleted the groups and palettes and built them again using and not using SmartTag. Same issue I am afraid. It is probably some finger trouble on my behalf (hopefully) and not a bug as I have some programming to do for next weekend. Keith is getting Ed to have a look at this when he comes back from holiday.

Thanks Davidmk, sent you over a message with a Dropbox link to the files.

Davidmk, could I ask a favour please. Can you confirm if the issue I have does not occur with you, or anyone else who reads this. I will then be able to suss out if the issue is down to my finger trouble....??

Morning, I trigger cues via Midi but I am pretty sure you cannot triggers numerous cues in a stack. I will await some more knowledgeable folks to tell me if I am wrong. Here is a link to where this was discussed...... https://www.zero88.com/forum/topic/9029-flx-control-via-midi/

I certainly will

Thanks matey, I knew what you meant. Hopefully Keith will show me the error of my ways pretty soon therefore wont need workarounds 😉

Thanks Keith and sent over.

Hi Davidmk, I have given that a go and I am afraid I still have the same issue. I did as you said and was using Multiple selection in Groups so change to Single. Also when recording both groups and position palettes deselected Snapshot and Smart Tag. I am using Capture as a visualiser. When I select each groups it is clear only what I selected is correct as displayed. Unfortunately when doing entirely different position palettes for them both are illuminated if I use any of the two groups. I have cleared everything out of my movers groups and position palettes until this is resolved. These movers are all the same spec and I have a different make/spec set up in groups and positions with no issues.

Thanks very much Davidmk, I will give it a go this aft

Afternoon all, I wondered if anyone can help e with this please. I have set up two clearly distinct groups for my movers. One on a rear truss set the other on a front truss set. I am setting up position palettes for both separately. Unfortunately if I select a group and a position I have set previously including the fixtures in that group, it also affects the movers in the other group i.e. they move to this position also. Another thing I note when experimenting is that despite saving two groups of movers if I select either when going to the positions palettes both are highlighted. I have no idea why I have hit this issue but any help would be much appreciated. PS..... forgot to add I am using Phantom. Not tried the desk as yet.

Good morning all. I was wondering if there is any way of getting a comprehensive picture of the DMX addressing and associated channels used across all universes. I am aware of the DMX Outputs picture on 'Z' however that does not give me the info I need. Ideally the kind of info you get when adding fixtures i.e. the 512 channels picture colour coded to used and free channels. Thanks in advance.

Evening all, I was wondering if anyone can please let me know if show files built on the FLX are compatible with the S24/48.