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Awesome, thanks for all your help everyone! 😀

Yes, this is exactly what I was trying to do. Thank you, this helps (though I think for the next show now - I've just recorded about 120 cues and 30 playbacks!) Does this put it into Tracking Mode? Just so I know exactly what's going on.

Ah ok. Can you point me towards some info on those settings? Do they need to be set before you programme the show?

Hi Thierry So I think it's 1b We have a show programmed using Memories, advanced with GO. We have a number of RGB fixtures and 4 moving heads. It's a musical, so things like Chases, Effects, Strobes are much easier to programme on a Submaster fader (is this what seems to be called 'playbacks'?). So lets say in a song: I have various front spots and washes for the scene. Lets say PARs 1, 2 and 3 are warm white. When the song kicks in, I want the moving heads to be a certain colour, beamshape and a set of colours. Lets say Movers 1, 2, 3 go to gobo 2, move up and down, in red. I find the best way to do that is to programme it as a chase onto a submaster and bring it in at the right point. But I want this to be additional to the scene. In other words, bringing in the submaster only changes Movers 1, 2, 3 without affecting PARs 1, 2, 3. At the moment, when I programme the submaster, it records both Movers and PARs even if I don't touch the PAR attributes. What this means is if I'm in a different scene where the PARs are now green. Bringing in the same submaster will not only trigger the cycle I want, but also switch the PARs to white. So I have to now have two submasters, one for each scene, even though the Movers chase effect is the same. Hope that makes sense! EDIT - from your previous thread is looks like the answer is "no, you can't really do that easily". Though it's not quite the same issue. Because I don't want one sub to be colour and another chase. It's more "include these fixtures in this chase with colour, beamshape, position etc, but don't change anything to do with other fixtures".

Hi I'm an enthusiastic amateur that programmes school productions on a Solution desk. I'm basically self taught and fairly proficient but there's one thing I can't work out which I suspect should be possible. So at the moment, recording something to a submaster works the same as recording a memory cue. It records the entire lighting state for all fixtures. There must surely be a way to record only particular fixtures? So essentially bringing up a submaster will trigger only the chase or change in the ones you want, which layer on top of whatever is already set on stage via a cue. For example, a disco type chase which can be added to any scene. Or a pair of spotlights that are needed frequently. As it stands, if I save something as a submaster I need to build it on top of whatever scene I'm using it in. In the show we're doing we need some stuff to flash at different points. It would be great to have a single flash that I can keep using rather than one for each background scene I'm using it in. Hope that makes sense. Can anyone offer some tips?

Thanks David! I do love doing it, and like to think I can do it pretty well (at times). I'll keep experimenting and looking for sure!

It does help, thanks so much! Really excited about getting stuck in again and working out the show lighting (and insert/delete is going to change my life).

Ah brilliant. How do you set auto after? Never used that.

Hi Edward Thanks for the reply. All good on Insert and Delete, it seems our software was newer than the manual! Regarding the moving head. This is fine for going from a cue where the fixture isn't on, into one where it is. My query is more when the light is pointed to one place, then needs to point somewhere else. In this case am I right in doing three cues: 1. Scene with moving head 2. Fade out moving head but keep everything else the same 3. New scene with new position and intensity As we only have one fixture at the moment, it might well be going some heavy lifting in the next show so is likely to be on in different places in consecutive scenes. Then when I run the show I can just quickly tap through cue 2 and 3.

Hello I'm a complete but enthusiastic amateur using a Solution desk at a school. I've been playing around with the desk for about 4 years and am basically ok with it. We've slowly been building up our capacity and have now got an Infinity Furion s402 moving head spot. I'm just getting to grips with how to use it and have a question. One of the wheels on the desk under Beamshape is "Control" which allows me to set Pan/TIlt Blackout or not. However, it seems like this is a general setting and now available for each cue, is that right? So either the light will track to the next position every time, or it will blackout before moving every time. My question is, how can I get control of this per cue? Most of the time I'll want the light to be off before it moves, but sometimes I won't! Is the best way to do this to create an identical cue but with the furion off, then set the next scene with it on but in a new position? This seems a bit of a bodge but provided I'm thinking ahead when I program the show it should be ok! Speaking of which, there are two function that I can't get to work on the desk. I cannot Delete a single cue. If I press Delete and Go, it deletes the entire stack. Secondly, I can''t insert a cue in between two others. The insert button does nothing. As you can imagine, both of these things are really useful when programming (especially if I **** up the moving head position as above!) I'm in Non-Tracking mode on the desk because a) I've no idea how to change that and b) Tracking mode scares me a bit, as the manual says I work by setting a whole scene as I want it, then pressing record. EDIT - I WISH I'd found this forum three years ago! I can now Insert and Delete cues to my heart's content.