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I wouldn't know physically what you can do about this, but maybe cranking up the brightness and contrast for the LCD might help? sp

I think he means actually changing the colour of the text. :? sp

Yeah maybe I'm approaching it in a completely inefficient way, I don't know. Another suggestion, being able to lock a few subs so they don't change when you change submaster page? sp

Would it be possible to lock a submaster value when you move off of its page? For example: Say you have a bar of parcans page 1 sub 6. You raise them to 80%. Then you go to page three and you see an effect you want that's also on sub 6. Obviously you can't have both as its HTP (this wouldn't be a problem for LTP). My suggestion would be that when you leave page 1, if you lower sub 6, the parcans stay how they are. Now you can use it on page 3 to control your effect. Then when you return to page 1 to lower the parcans, you raise the sub to 'pick up' their level, and you have control over them. All the while leaving the effect running happily on page 3. Then return to page 3, pick up the effect level, and so on. I appreciate that the new desk has more functionality for submasters, but would this be feasible for this series? I know its focused on generics working HTP, but there are many of us who just use these with the desk. sp

Yeah that's a good idea, because then it would correspond to what is written on the desk panel. sp

On the Phantom Frog, why are the Preset B faders shown as 'Preset B 2' 'Preset B 3' etc. when they are, for a bullfrog, labelled on the panel as '50' and '51'? It makes finding a particular preset fader difficult, as you have to work out what actual preset number it is, to correspond with what is shown on the monitor. sp

If you wanted a certain effect in time to the music, as opposed to a random output, then you could create a chase and select the bass drive modifier. This could then be transfered to a submaster, so that the sound-driven chase could be activated simply by raising the sub. sp

Just realised, if you make a mistake, you can just press Up and type the correct letter. sp

What you could do with the 'presenter' is to have a scene that makes the stage look good while they're talking, and have it easily at hand (i.e. regardless of submaster page). I do the following: 1. Create a scene that dresses the stage while the presenter's talking. You could also add the presenter's spot to this. Set a nice fade up/down time (3 sec). Put this scene on memory 300 (or somewhere out of the way). 2. Now on memory 301 put no generics at all (and take your presenter spot down), and again put a nice fade time. Set the Jump to memory 299. 3. Set the Next memory to 300, and put the Playback X up. 4. Now it's a doddle to use. When you want your presenter, just hit the Go button. They'll fade up, and you can forget about it - no worry finding subs or anything. Meanwhile you can plan your next act, set-up presets, whatever. Then when the presenter's finished, just hit the Go button again. They'll fade down and you're ready for the next act. Setting the Jump to 299 means that when you want the presenter again, you can just hit the Go button again - no hassle. The outcome - Go puts the presenter on, Go turns 'em off again, everytime. sp

Oh right 8O So if I apply 10 volts to pin 2 (pin 1 as 0v) then the hazer is triggered? sp

Hi, quite an urgent question. We've got a Neutron S*T*A*R Hazer by Le Maitre. It has a DMX socket which is 3-pin. I've converted it to 5-pin using the method suggested by Haytech. The problem is, how do I know what DMX address it uses? We don't have any instructions and there are no dip switches that I can see. Any ideas? sp

Cheers sp

Just a little thing, when you're on 'memories' you can type in a memory number on a keyboard, and select it very quickly and easily. This doesn't work on submasters, could it? sp

So what would that make ' Frogsupport ' or ' Fat Frog ' ? sp

Yeah shame he can't really, make it a lot easier. sp

Yeah at the moment the LTP value isn't affected when you go below the trigger, only above. By firmware update I presume you're making a suggestion for a future update? This sort of thing has been discussed a lot on the forums I've noticed, for example here and I think the upshot is, it's too difficult to acheive this sort of thing. The submaster faders really are designed for HTP. May I ask, if you've only just got this desk and you had lots of dimmers to use, why did you choose this instead of, say, a Leapfrog? I suppose the only thing would be to program all of your scenes (i.e. using the wheels and controlling the dimmers LTP to get the desired look) and then transfer them to submasters. Then you could adjust the LTP fade time to effectively adjust the fade time for the scene - it really isn't ideal though, and doesn't solve your problem of 'flashing' your dimmers. sp

Right now, first I'll apologise :oops: I somehow thought you said you were using a Leap Frog. Well the only way on a Mambo is to process the value LTP, because each fixture can only have one brightness parameter unfortunately. This topic is along the same sort of lines, Click here. All I can say then is my suggestion posted above, with the 1-shot chase. The guys at Zero88 might have some suggestions on Monday. Sorry about the confusion. sp

My suggestion would be to make a simple little chase, step 1 being 'on' 255 and step 2 being 'off' 0. Now set it to auto drive and set the speed to quite fast. Now set the 'shots' parameter to 1. Now transfer this chase to a submaster. When the sub flash button is pressed, the LTP value will flash on and go off once after the speed you set the chase. The disadvantage of this being that the flash will always be the same length I'm afraid - i.e. holding the submaster flash button won't make any difference to the flash length. Well that's just one idea you could try, not perfect but all I can think of this late sp

Hi Is there a particular reason for putting your dimmers on the desk as fixtures, and not as one normally would? Putting your dimmers on the desk as fixtures makes very hard work of things I'd say. :? Can you not patch each dimmer channel to a preset channel on the desk, and use it as HTP? Anyway, in answer to your description, this is to do with the fact that the LTP on the desk is designed to work 'Latest Takes Precedence,' as you describe it to work in your post. If you do still insist on keeping the dimmers as fixtures, you could try my suggestion below. Edit: I realise that this is not relevent to a Mambo, see my third post. sp

For example: Chase A: Snap Attack, Auto Drive Chase B: Snap Attack, Manual Drive Say you're running chase A on a sub, and you've modified it live so that it's now using a fade attack and a bass drive. You didn't know this beforehand, so you couldn't have programmed it. Then you raise chase B on another sub, and you also want that as a fade attack & bass drive for this particular act. The problem is, you have to keep pressing the Attack button until you get to fade again, so that chase B fades as well. Then you have to keep pressing the Drive button so that it cycles down to bass, all the while messing up chase A. My suggestion is to have a chase 'update' button. When you modify a chase live, the relevent drive/attack settings light up on the desk, right? So if you had this function (I suggest F1), the settings already set could be given to all current chases, instantly. This would, most importantly, be a one-touch operation. Currently I think F1 has to be held down for the 'monitor lock' function, so it could possibly be used for this. Personally this would be really useful, sorry about the long post, couldn't think how to explain it any shorter sp

Do you actually need 24 individually controlled fixtures, or could some fixtures work identically? sp

Yeah sorry I guess I meant attack then. I know what each attack modifier does and how you can adjust their speed, but what about the actual fade time for the '^' attack? Can that be adjusted, or is it just based on the speed you set the chase? e.g. have a chase with 10 secs between the steps, but with a quick fade. sp

When you use the fade drive for a chase, how is the fade time between steps determined? And can it be adjusted? sp

Just select the memory on the stack > F2 > Memories > Enter Type in the name > Enter And for a submaster F2 > Submaster Flash Button> Type name > Enter sp

but didn't you write the manual? sp