S24newbie

Just to note that I experienced a similar issue when programming a show on a S24 running 7.9.6. (This is a hire desk so I have no previous experience with other zeros versions.) The whole desk became very slow and unresponsive on two occasions and I was only able to resolve the problem with a power cycle. As it happens I also had a USB stick plugged into the front port at the time. I was also using an iPad as an external monitor via a WiFi router (which was also slow and unresponsive). The issue hasn’t recurred again and I wasn’t able to reproduce it at the time but it did concern me that it could happen in a live show!

Sorry I’m struggling to find the latest manuals - the above link doesn’t seem to work?

Hi All, I’m new to the S24 and it’s been a long time since I had any moving heads to play with so bear with me! I’m running a show that has up-tempo musical numbers in between ordinary theatre style scenes as well as a couple of choreographed dance scenes. I’d like to do some music-synchronised lighting effects in each of these numbers. Most of the music is live. I think I have the following options alongside a typical theatre style master cue stack that I’ll be using for the rest of the show: Use effects on single cues within the master cue stack - these are super easy to setup but it seems difficult to synchronise them with the music as I don’t think you can set them to the global BPM, although I think you can alter the speed. Might work ok for some effects. Setup chases on new playback faders and come off the master cue stack for these numbers - these can be synchronised with the global BPM and could just loop around until done. Probably the simplest approach that will work. Setup separate cue stacks for each number and trigger each cue manually with each beat/bar (?) so it’s properly synchronised - I think this is the overall effect I’m going for but will be a lot of work and has the potential to go wrong on the night. What approach would you recommend? Is there a different approach that I’ve missed? In years gone by in simpler times I would probably just have busked it with some groups and mix chases alongside tap sync but that seems impractical with LEDs and movers?! How do you pros generally work with synchronised musical scenes (or bands/concerts etc), especially with moving heads? Thanks all

Ah ok, that makes sense. So unless I want the extra features like stobe or macros etc then it doesn’t actually make any difference? As you suggest though, I’m nowhere near the channel limit (yet!)... feels like I should change everything into 7 channel mode! Really appreciate the help. I’d love to give the S24 a try but I’m struggling to justify the hire cost for our little village panto. I’ve begged, borrowed and cobbled together about 30 LED fixtures though including 4 moving heads so I may have slightly backed myself into a corner! Thanks again.

Hi, I’m considering hiring an FLX S24. I was wondering whether there is any difference between setting an RGBW LED fixture in standard 4 channel more or one of the 5/6/7 channel modes. On a standard desk it is nice to be able to set the colour and dimmer separately. Does it make any difference on the S24? Or does the desk work it all out for you and the effect is the same? Thanks very much.