@lewnworx wrote:
Ok, so before I get into the particulars, here was the intent:
I want to have a fader that controls the rates of RX. In an ideal world this fader would affect the FX rate on whatever fixtures I have selected, and even more ideally would not require having a separate fader for every possible combination of FX attributes (color, intensity, PT, whatever) but would act on the last applied FX to the selected fixtures. I don't even know if this is possible.
So the first attempt was just to record an override cuelist on the global value and make it a q blender so the fader would control the rate. I looked through the forums, online, read the various posts (one of which was on a previous version of the forum and the UI didn't match the current software even remotely). None of the things I've found actually work.
Again, maybe I missed some minor detail that's preventing it from working but this SHOULD be something pretty easy to do. A couple hours later, I still can't get it to work at all.
I set the rate first.
But nothing shows up in the programmer, and recording it predictably puts absolutely nothing into the cue.
The record options were as:
and the result was:
From what I can tell there appears to be no way to record the Global rate into a cue to be used as an override or anything else for that matter. So how the hell does on get that parameter on a fader?
I tried the referenced examples on the forum posts several times with no luck.The next experiment was to attempt to do it via the Fixture Parameters / FX / Speed. From what I can gather this only works if you have fixtures selected. I can get it to "sort" of work, but it only works once. If I either clear the programmer, or release the scene I'd applied the FX to and then come back to it the fader no longer affects the speed.
I set it up like above, later added a second copy of the first que, renumbered the last one to 3 and put the copy at 2, then set the ranges on the fader where cue 1 was active from 0 to 10, cue 2 from 11 to 12 and cue 3 from 13 to 100, the idea being the lowest part of the fader was to act as a stop, then the rest of the travel was the rate. I figured out after several minutes of banging my head against the desk that changing those values in the FROM and TO Fields in the selected cuelist don't take affect until you release the cue and retrigger it. This should be documented someplace.
At any rate, that all worked. ONCE. Only once. If I clear out the programmer, or release my test cue that has the fixtures selected with an intensity that I then apply the FX to, the rate fader on the Q Blender override no longer has any effect. If I delete the entire thing, rebuild it again, it will again work, but only once.
This stuff should be WAY more intuitive. I'm finding I'm spending hours and hours looking for the magic combination of settings to get things to work, and the logical stuff one would think would work simply doesn't.
I just need a silly speed fader that actually works on FX. I'm seriously hoping I dont' need to create a specific override for each combination of fixtures I may apply FX to just to get a rate fader for it. This rig will be used for busking only, everything I do will have to be on the fly so I don't have the luxury of hours of programming for each band. I work festivals. Often times the first clue I have about a band is in the 15 minutes they show up before they go on. As a result I need some generic setups I can use on the fly.
Having what should be simple stuff like this take hours to achieve is not giving me a good degree of confidence at all. I'm sure there's just some key conceptual stuff I'm not getting but after days of lurking here on the forum, reading dozens of posts and pouring over the online "manual" only to find micro tutorials that are based on some ancient version of the SW where the screen grabs are either missing, or no longer even vagely resemble the current version of the software, or that some step that used to work no longer does is proving beyond frustrating. I want to learn to fish as oppose to having a single item spoonfed that may solve that issue but then plow into another show stopping roadblock 10 minutes later.
Any and all assistance in this endeavor will be appreciated more than one could possibly know.
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