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Edward, thanks again for your reply. What you have suggested would work fine for the chase over a red wash (my stated colour choices were for example sake), however i hoped to be able to apply the same chase (same PB) over another colour wash for the same effect, rather than having to have multiple effect playbacks to cater for different colour washes. I am assuming that this is not possible now having looked deeper into it? The console is used in an education environment, and i am putting together a standard patch / show that can be used by students to busk music events etc... It was my intention to have a few pre programmed chases that could be triggered over any stage wash colour, allowing my "blue"(or any other colour) chase to trigger regardless of the current wash / state on stage. I understand that this inst really normal practise, but in a busking scenario it would be useful.

Hi Edward, thanks for the reply. Ive actually done exactly as you have suggested, however this doesn’t really solve me issue. Having looked closer I’m not sure it’s actually possible... i have programmed my 3 step chase, and using LTP the chase does indeed run over the top of my other playbacks. But what I require is almost in between HTP And LTP. I’m not sure if I’m able to explain this effectively, but I’ll try. My pb1 is a red wash. My pb2 is a blue chase. The chase is programmed with all RGB tagged. When I raise pb2 over the top of pb1 for my chase I get the following... - bar 1 goes blue, bar 2&3 go dark - bar 2 goes blue, bar 1&3 go dark - bar 3 goes blue, bar 1&2 go dark what I want, is the following -bar 1 goes blue, bar 2&3 stay on red from pb1 -bar 2 goes blue, bar1&3 stay red from pb1 -bar 3 goes blue, bar1&2 stay red from pb1 i know I could achieve this by programming the red wash into the chase pb, but ideally I’d like the chase to run over the top of any wash. If I program the chase without G and B tagged, the chase gets mixed with my red wash (making magenta)... does this make sense? Thanks, Olly

I'm in a similar situation myself... But I'm not sure the built in effects are the answer for my scenario unless i'm missing the point? My situation is as follows I have a colour wash (say red) on stage using RGB pars across 3 bars. I then want to run a sequential chase changing the colour of single bar at a time. For example, Step 1 would make bar 1 blue (with bars 2+3 still in red from another PB) Step 2 would make bar 2 blue (with bars 1+3 still in red from another PB) Step 3 would make bar 3 blue (with bars 1+2 still in red from another PB) How would i go about doing this? At the moment, if i tag RGB in each step of the chase, i just get a red chase and the previous playback is overwritten. If i just tag blue, then i can get an additive chase where the blue chase will mix with the other playback, but i cant seem to get the chase to momentarily replace the existing playback on a step by step basis. Any help is appreciated. Olly

That makes a lot of sense. I hadn't considered the fixture profile default settings. You suggest that these values can be changed? how would you do this? With the 7.9.5 OS, i have discovered that i can remove the "release" option when a fader is at 0. This prevents the default 100 values returning when the fader is down, however i still need to use a UDK to bring down the RGB values on startup or after programming a PB. Thanks for your reply Erics

First post, so please excuse the naivety... We have recently purchased an FLX for use in a educational performance space. My questions relates to the way the FLX has to be set up for LED RGB Colour mixing. Using the guides above i am able to make this work easily, but my questions is more about why this is necessary... Specifically, the need to use a latch button to ensure intensity is at 100 and the RGB channels are at 0 unless triggered by a programmed PB? For example, I have PB 1-3 recorded as Red, Green, or Blue for a set of LED pars. I have recorded just a single colour parameter (R, G,or B ) and intensity of the fixture to the PB and set the fader to allow for colour control. If i then select all of the fixtures, and bring manually bring down the RGB levels to 0 using the touch screen, I can mix RGB using the PB's. However as soon as a fader hits 0 (<5%) the colour assigned to that playback with defaults to 100. I understand that recording the colour values at 0, and the intensity at 100 to a UDK allows me to work around this, but why is this step necesary? Why do the colour parameters default to 100%? Sorry if this is a daft question. From exhaustive googling, i realise this seems to be t he only way to achieve this, but my mind keeps asking why... Kind Regards Olly