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Jon's departure post says this is the official contact email address to use: Conversely, the Vari-Lite website (https://www.vari-lite.com/global/support/technical-support) says to use support@zero88.com - I imagine this redirects somewhere new now...

Both fixtures are already in the fixture library. Is your desk currently running the latest OS? (which will mean it will also have the latest fixture library).

Rem Dim (or Remainder Dim) is a feature common on most lighting desks which dims all active outputs to 0%, and sends all channels you have selected to 100%. This feature is particularly useful during focusing sessions or rig checks. E.G. Dimmers 1 thru 12 are at 50%. You want to specifically pick out dimmer 6 to allow you to focus it better. Select channel 6 and 'Rem Dim', channels 1 thru 5, and 7 thru 12 go to 0% and channel 6 goes to 100%. In ZerOS, channels affected by Rem Dim are shown in Yellow as @kgallen has pointed out earlier. I don't believe Rem Dim is a feature that is enabled on the FLX S range consoles, and is exclusive to full FLX only (unaware of other legacy consoles). On review of the ZerOS Shortcuts (https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts?filter=1) "Shift + F" enables Rem Dim on FLX but I have tried this on Phantom and it doesn't work for FLX S. This may be an error that this feature works via an Apple Watch (unable to test this unfortunately!) You do have access to the 'Highlight' feature (Shift + Home) on FLX S range. Highlight allows you to temporarily bump the intensity of a selected fixture up to 100%, which again can also be useful during focusing. During testing on Phantom ZerOS, both Rem Dim and Highlight can be 'CLEAR CLEAR'-ed. Hope this is of some help! Good luck!

Ah yeah you're probably right. I remember 10 or so years ago programming Joseph's Tech Dreamcoat on the Jester and had an excel spreadsheet with all the RGB values required for each colour. It was red, and yellow, and green, and.... 😄 (spoilt rotten with the colour picker on FLX now!)

Fixture editor available here if you don't have it already : https://www.vari-lite.com/global/products/zeros-software (under Latest ZerOS Library > Zero 88 Fixture Tools 2.6) Good luck!

I've not touched a Jester for a long time, however I've fired up the old Zero88 Fixture Editor tool, and it is possible to assign Hue, Saturation, and Intensity, against the colour parameter, so this could be possible if you've got some time to test it!

Hear hear... Where's the downvote button when you need one ⬇️ I wonder how long until the FLX S is canned - I had slight optimism at the ZerOS 8 launch that it sounded like FLX S would be hanging around for a while (https://www.vari-lite.com/global/news/releases/zeros-8-0) - perhaps not much longer with the 'core' Z88 team all gone now. Still wonder if we'll ever hear from our new Vari-Lite admins on this forum? (it's not too late to introduce yourselves, we don't bite! Would be great to get some of your insights on the future of FLX to allay our concerns!) Signed - a loyal Z88 user

Firstly I would double check your patch, if memory serves correctly, unless you have a fixture(s) patched onto Uni 5 (as an example) I don't think the desk will spit out Artnet beyond what it has been patched to. Secondly some nodes can start on Artnet Uni 0, which is then Desk Uni 1, Artnet Uni 1 which is Desk Uni 2 - so this may also be a contributing confusion factor! Good luck!

Spam seems to be getting worse on the daily! Perhaps some sort of user verification is required?

You may get a reply from Vari-Lite if you're lucky! Try Graeme at https://ultralightsound.co.uk/service-repair-maintenance/

Darren @DMH, Ryan @RJP any thoughts on the matter, is this a bug? I also cross posted to the Facebook group, someone called Bobby who also appears to work at Vari-lite left me with no solution either. Disappointed at the new 'service' level!

Update as promised: Using the personality in the desk, and when viewing the DMX Output charts under the Z Key, the values corresponding to CMY remained on '0' even after changing colour parameters, or running colour effects etc. Definitely confirmed it was a personality error at this point. So using the inbuilt fixture editor, I took a copy of the existing personality and amended the CMY control channels to be 'Other Colour' control parameters. This worked and enabled the encoders to control the CMY parameters, however colour palettes or picker didn't work as the desk didn't know what colour they actually were. So I then edited the 'copied' personality, changed the 'Other Colour' parameters back to CMY, which then worked as it should have done so in the first place. I now have full control of CMY, using colour palettes or the colour picker! No idea what was going on, but quite the oddity and an annoying time sponge trying to resolve! Either related or unrelated, I also had the desk crash four times throughout plotting, so will forward on the crash reports to the team after the show is done. Thanks again all for suggestions, research, and the created fixture profile @kgallen

Have fixed.. full update tonight. Thanks both!

Hi all, Hoping our new moderators, or other skilled & experienced users may be able to assist. Ideally need to sort before programming starts tomorrow at midday (GMT). I have hired four Martin Mac Quantum Profiles, running in extended (27ch) mode. I have no control of CMY, but all other parameters work on the fixture. Have tried swapping to 'basic' (19ch) mode, still no control of CMY. The fixture personality looks like it matches the DMX charts in the manual when I got into the edit options on the desk. I have patched 27 standard dimmer channels and have proved that CMY does in fact work on the fixture, leading me to believe there is an error with the fixture personality? Hire company said these fixtures worked fine on an ETC ION only the other week. Any advice what I might be overlooking? Manual here for ref: https://www.martin.com/en/site_elements/mac-quantum-profile-user-guide Thanks in advance, Alex

I'm a big convert of using groups as much as possible! Definitely speeds up programming no end, and as David has mentioned I'm 99.9% sure you can save intensity within a group. (From a FLX user) I've also found sensible fixture numbering really helps (although it sounds like your venue is fairly small) to pick up your Fresnels, PAR side lights, cyc etc. e.g. 1X fixture numbers for Fresnels, 2X numbers for PARs etc (add the hundreds digit as required..!) I'm not experienced on Solution to understand how this would translate, but I'd definitely be looking at doing syntax based control via keyboard if it allows. Copy/Paste of cues is obviously another big time saver for when you're moving back and forward between locations.