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Hi @Tassal Thanks very much for emailing your show file to us. I have replied to your email with an explanation. As a brief summary for the forum, it looks like effect data had accidentally been recorded into cues whilst these fixtures were @ 0% intensity. This could have been due to the cues being copied, and then pasted with unnecessary data. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks very much for emailing your show file. For reference, this has been logged as ZOS-11991.

Hi @Tassal It sounds like the house light LED PARs have been accidentally recorded into a cue in the Master Playback. If you can email a copy of your show file to support@zero88.com, I can investigate further. If you email your show file, please include as much information as possible, such as the fixture/channel numbers of the LED PARs, and the number of the cue in the Master Playback that seems to be causing the issue. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Hi @delicolor To achieve this behaviour, these playbacks would need their buttons configured to "Go (Fade)" behaviour, rather than the default flash behaviour. With the playback buttons configured as Go buttons, I am unable to replicate this behaviour. Even if a playback has already been triggered, the playback's GO button can still be used to go into the cue again, and therefore fade the fixtures to the recorded values. Please ensure that Fader Controls Colour is not enabled on these playbacks. If it is, the cue colour fade times of these playbacks will be ignored upon pressing their GO buttons. This is very interesting to hear that you saw different behaviour in ZerOS 7.14. This behaviour should not have changed between ZerOS 7.14 and ZerOS 7.14.2. Please email a copy of the show file to support@zero88.com, to allow us to investigate further. ZOS-8696 is specifically related to triggering/releasing playbacks from a cue macro. This is not related to triggering/releasing playbacks manually using playback buttons. Our "ZOS" system is not public, but we do provide reference numbers for tracking purposes. That would be great if you could. Thanks very much.

Hi @fischchen Welcome to the forum. You wouldn't be able to patch this fixture onto multiple channel faders. This is because the fixture contains "master" parameters, which affect/control both cells. If the fixture did not have master parameters, and the parameters in the fixture belonged to one cell or the other, then you could patch the individual cells as separate fixtures. You could however record the separate cells of the fixture into separate playbacks. You could therefore have a single playback that controls the intensity of the first cell, and a second playback that controls the intensity of the second cell for example. Please let us know if you have any questions.

There's a colour temperature slider in the Colour Picker. Please see the link below for more information... https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/controlling-fixtures/colour/picker#temp

Did you initially update the cue with “cue only”? If so you won’t be able to use track forwards to “repair” the cue, as the cue will now already include colour data you don’t want. So one option is to remove colour data from the cue that is incorrectly changing the fixture colour. See the link below for more information… https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/updating-cues/update-options#remove The other option is to simply add a colour delay to the cue that fades out the fixtures. This means the fixture won’t start changing colour until after the delay time has completed.

Hi @SKLSKL Most common cause of this behaviour, is if you did a Cue Only update, when you should have done a Track Forwards update. Let’s say you update cue 10 “cue only”, to add in some new lights in a colour. Press Go to go into cue 11, and the lights that you added into cue 10 now do a weird colour transition into cue 11. This is because when you updated cue 10 “cue only”, the console also had to update cue 11, to ensure cue 11 reverts the fixtures back to the exact same values they had when the cue was initially recorded. This means upon transiting to cue 11, you see the console “undo” the changes that were made in cue 10. Therefore in this instance, you should have updated cue 10 “track forwards”. This would allow the colour data you’ve added into cue 10, to track forwards into cue 11, meaning you won’t see values changing as you transition to the cue. Hope this helps.

Thanks very much for the update. Please keep an eye on this. If the issue happens again, this could suggest the console's internal battery is going flat. In which case, we can provide instructions on how to replace the battery.

Hi @Trapdoor When you switch on the console, the custom desktop layouts that were present when the console was last used should be recalled. Please rearrange your desktop layouts how you'd like them. Then tap SETUP twice to enter and exit Setup, which will force the show file to be saved to the internal storage. If you then switch the console off and on again, are the custom desktop layouts recalled?

Pour abaisser le fader d'une lecture et revenir à l'état d'éclairage sous-jacent, vous pouvez activer les « Contrôles du fader » pour cette lecture. Pour ce faire, maintenez SETUP et appuyez sur le bouton de lecture. Cliquez ensuite sur les attributs sous « Contrôles du fader » pour lesquels vous souhaitez effectuer un fondu enchaîné avec le fader de lecture. Cliquez sur OK et vous devriez constater que vous pouvez désormais effectuer un fondu enchaîné de ces attributs avec le fader de lecture, plutôt que de les accrocher lorsque la lecture est relâchée. J'espère que cela t'aides. To lower a playback's fader, and transition back to the underlying lighting state, you could enable "Fader Controls" for this playback. To do this hold SETUP and tap the playback's button. Then click the attributes under "Fader Controls" that you would like to be crossfaded with the playback's fader. Click OK, and you should find you can now crossfade these attributes with the playback fader, rather than them snapping when the playback is released. Hope this helps.

Bonjour Jean-Stéphane, Si vous souhaitez passer d'un état d'éclairage à un autre et vous assurer que l'état d'éclairage précédent est "désactivé", vous souhaiterez peut-être enregistrer deux cues sur une seule lecture, puis utiliser le bouton Go de la lecture pour basculer entre eux. Cela garantira que vous n’aurez jamais les deux états d’éclairage actifs en même temps. Hi Jean-Stephane, If you want to transition from one lighting state to another, and ensure that the previous lighting state is "deactivated", you may wish to record two cues onto a single playback, and then use the playback's go button to switch between them. This will ensure you never have both lighting states active at once.

Hi @noteningenieur Welcome to the forum. I believe I have replied to your email about this today. Please let us know if you have any questions.

That is correct - when you record a palette, by default only that attribute's parameters will be included in the palette. More information here... https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/palettes/advanced-palettes More information here... https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/palettes/recording-palettes

If you would like to see what options there may be regarding front panel metalwork, please send us an email to support@zero88.com including your console's serial number.

That is correct. There is, but it is a little more involved. You could do this by recording each of the colour steps of the chase as single cues on separate playbacks. You would then need to record a chase onto a separate playback, that includes no colour data (it could include the fixture's intensity data). Each step of this chase playback, would then trigger one of your "colour step" playbacks, and simultaneously release the previous. This would allow you to run a colour chase "over the top" of any existing colour. You may want to temporarily change the default cue fade times to 0 if you'd like to do this, to make things easier. As an example, you could have the following playbacks: Playback 1 - fixture 1 blue Playback 2 - fixture 2 blue Playback 3 - fixture 3 blue Playback 4 - fixture 4 blue Playback 5 - 4-step chase, with the first cue triggering playback 1, releasing 4, second cue triggering playback 2, releasing 1, and so on. Playback 6 - fixtures 1 thru 4 in red Playback 7 - fixtures 1 thru 4 in yellow

Not quite. If you want to run a green chase, over a red base colour, you will need to ensure that fixtures are recorded with red @ full in each step where they are not green. The key thing to remember is that colour levels will not mix Highest Takes Precedence.

When you raise your "base colour" playback, it is the latest instruction for the lights, and so they change colour. If you then raise your chase playback, it then becomes the latest instruction for the lights, so the lights will be controlled by the chase, and will no longer be controlled by the "base colour" playback. The "base colour" playback will not take back control, unless it is re-triggered.

Bonjour, Veuillez jeter un œil à cette vidéo pour des informations détaillées sur les options d'enregistrement... Veuillez consulter cette section du manuel pour plus d'informations sur les options d'enregistrement... https://www.zero88.com/storage/downloads/2f885eff-adc0-4525-8859-1803970c6fb5/ZerOS-Français-7.9.9-V-3.51a.pdf#page=101 Veuillez consulter cette section du manuel pour plus d'informations sur le blocage/déblocage des lectures... https://www.zero88.com/storage/downloads/2f885eff-adc0-4525-8859-1803970c6fb5/ZerOS-Français-7.9.9-V-3.51a.pdf#page=134 J'espère que ça aide. Hello, Please take a look at this video for in-depth information on the Record Options... https://youtu.be/--EeATsqH-o?si=LwLVMvYaEDw2ms2o Please see this section of the manual for information on the Record Options... https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/record-options Please see this section of the manual for information on Blocking/Unblocking playbacks... https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/cues-playbacks/playback-settings/advanced I hope this helps.

Hi @thierry If you are having difficulty performing the software update, please factory reset the console (Setup > Clear Options > Factory Reset). Then, download a fresh copy of ZerOS 7.14.2... https://vari-lite.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/software-firmware/ZerOS-7.14.2.exe Please then install this in the usual way... https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/setup/load/zeros-software Please let me know how you get on.

Hi @thierry Please take a look at this show file: SHOW 31-01-2024 ESEdit.zos Playback 87 (Page 3, Submaster 27) is all LED PARs @ full in white. Playback 88 (Page 3, Submaster 28) is the LED PARs running a blue chase. The key here is that every fixture is recorded into every cue of the chase - each cue contains 1 fixture in blue, and the rest of the fixtures in white. Playback 88 does not contain intensity information, as this comes from playback 87. Does this achieve what you are after?

Hi @SanCarlino Please follow this guide to obtain a fixture file to control your fixtures… https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/patching/add-fixtures/missing-fixtures If you’d like us to create a fixture file for you, please email a copy of the fixture’s English manual to fixturesupport@zero88.com.

Hi @thierry Thank you for sharing your show file. The show file is from ZerOS 7.14.1 software. If you haven't already, I would recommend updating the console's software to ZerOS 7.14.2. I am looking at playback 45 "scene chase". Move On Dark is enabled for this playback. To disable Move On Dark for this playback, hold SETUP and tap the playback's button to open the playback's settings. Then choose Move On Dark at the top, and disable Move On Dark. Please then run this chase, and you should find this improves how it mixes. In step 3 of the chase, fixture 111 is @ 0, with Red @ full. If you wish to set Red to 0 in the step of this chase, hold SHIFT and tap the playback's button, to snap into step 3 of the chase. Then select fixture 111, and set Red to 0 using the encoders. Then tap UPDATE, and using the Update Options, disable SmartTag (so it has a blue stripe), and enable Track Forwards. Then tap the playback's button to save the changes. Red will then be @ 0 in this step and future steps up until Red is next told to change value. Please try this and let me know how you get on.

Hi @thierry Apologies for the delayed response - I've been on holiday. Please could you email a copy of your show file to support@zero88.com? We can then investigate further. If a chase has a colour fade percentage, all steps of the chase should fade by this amount. The last step will fade back to the first using this percentage. Please let us know if you have any questions.

The requirements of ZOS-5803 were partially change during development, and this issue did not end up covering enabling the Go button with the “Manual Fade” options. At the moment, there are no plans to enable the Go button when a playback is set to “Manual Fade”. This means cues are only advanced using the fader movement, rather than a mixture of both fader movement and go button press.