LeeStoddart Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 In the brightness Program Window I have an extra channel fader displayed and it is out of position. In the channels section of the window there is a fader which is labeled as if it is for Channel 5 but it is shown almost (but not quite) on top of Channel 2's fader. Clicking on the spurious channel 5 is registered as clicks for Channel 2 Strange!!! I just upgraded to version 1.1 of the ML software and I don't think the display looked that way as I started work on my next show - I think it happened as I went through assigning channels and fixtures. Quote Lee Stoddart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nine Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 That is strange :? Not heard of that before. If you could send me a copy of your show file, I will have a look here. Have you by any chance been unassigning and then reassigning channels ? With the Illusion 500, the default is 120 dimmer channels: I normally start from the default, remove any excess dimmer channels not required (for example, our demo room has 48 channels of dimming, so I unassign channels 49-120) and then assign and patch the fixtures we have in the rig (various MACs and scanners) Quote K-Nine : Technically Advanced Roving Dog In Space Bran Media | Myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeStoddart Posted February 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 If you could send me a copy of your show file, I will have a look here. On it's way to you. Have you by any chance been unassigning and then reassigning channels ? Yes I have. This show is in a theatre with 116 dimmers and I am doing a soft patch to re-organise the dimmers into a "logical" sequence of channels. I wanted to get all the lanterns doing one function in a consecutive sequence. There are also a small number of channels with duplicates. So I unpatched all the channels then worked through defining the 94 channels, assigning the dimmer's DMX addresses as I went along. During that process I made some mistakes :oops: - for example when I defined channel n I inadvertently assigned n as the DMX - later I wanted to use DMX n for it's correct channel and got the error saying something like - "already assigned do you want to unassign the other channel" - to which I said yes then went back to channel n and assigned it's correct DMX address. I can't remember if I made a mistake on channel 5 specifically. I think I made a couple of mistakes like that. Quote Lee Stoddart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nine Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Just unpatching and repatching dimmer channels should not have any affect, I was thinking more of actually unassigning the channels (ie removing them from the list of 'active' channels) and then later assigning them again. I have loaded the show onto a desk here and the brightness section of the program Window looks fine with 94 dimmer channels and 4 fixtures :? Edit: After switching the desk off/on several times, I noticed that there were some spurious characters displayed in the Brightness section of the PW just above the bar graphs for channels 49-72 :shock: Quote K-Nine : Technically Advanced Roving Dog In Space Bran Media | Myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeStoddart Posted February 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 During last night's editing session the strange fader didn't make an appearance :? The board had been off for a number of hours during the day but I did do a number of power off and on re-cycles during Sunday to see if it would clear and it had not. As we say - strange one :!: Quote Lee Stoddart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Nine Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Illusion Reference No 4768 - Corruption of Brightness Section of PW - to be investigated. Quote K-Nine : Technically Advanced Roving Dog In Space Bran Media | Myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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