I'm don't think either color / cmy or dimmer will be too slow. Color rules out since there's no red/white adjacent. CMY if pretty quick and on these fixtures dimmer / shutter is the same and fast too. So if there is any problem, it'll probably be the white not showing (or not long enough to provide ...

Ok, so if we leave the strobe effect out for now (I'll manage if I get the first one right), that leaves us with RED - BLACK OUT (WHITE) as chase steps, right?? How do you spread that evenly across fixtures? I thought about fixture overlap, but won't that mean the movers will stay in the black out p...

Hmmm, I'm not sure there guys... There seems to be a black-out in between and I'm not seeing a second color on this vid. It seems to be red - off - white - red The fixtures in the movie are Alpha Beams 700 and MAC250 Beams. We have a few MAC beams, so I should be able to reproduce the exact same thi...

It's a common effect seen very often, at least in shows around here... But what's the most easy way of programming this effect on an Expert? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAf4KbRZzmw I mean the one in the first 40 second of this movie. Movers have a basic color, switch off momentarily and then come...

These are both things we are looking at. The release to palette is something we know about but its not easy to do it any other way. The order editing is also in the list to be looked at. The example you gave in your last post would work if it released to palettes. You could try it now by using a cu...

Hi Nic, I'll manage with mode 2 for now, no biggy. Just hope that this will get fixed in a future version, would be extremely nice. Another thing I was wondering. Suppose that releasing to pallets would work, would that mean the following becomes possible: - Create a two step chase, program nothing ...

Nic, do you have any insight on the releasing to pallets issue? Is this something we can expect to change in a future version? That would be great, because I've now switched back to the 'old' mode 2 approach because the release masks are too dangarous; I've ended up homing everything to white & ...

Ah ok, sorry & thanks

Hi Nic, the power of the selection patterns is that we don't have to create groups any longer for stuff like odd/even and all sort of other patterns. I usually try to keep the number of groups less than 10 since you have to remember those. I program a group for every fixture type (i.e. spot, wash, b...

Hi, I've just installed the 3.1 software and once again it's great! I really like the new stuff and improvements made, it's still becoming a better console. I have two things though, I would like to share here. First, I wonder how I should make use of release masks. When I'm busking a show, I extens...

We had similar problems, this had something to do with the back-up battery not being 100%. Return your desk to your dealer, they should be able to fix this.

Certainly seems to be, thanks Olie!

1) As I understand this is by design. Is useful not to place fixture intensity in the programmer when operating preset faders. Use program mode for takeover. After doing another show, I would really like for this option to return. Perhaps settable via user options or something. I use this often to ...

Hey guys, The spread option sounds good. Other approach could be a softbutton "Set spread even" in the shape generator when the wheels are set to spread. Perhaps some other softbuttons could be added to acheive fast programming (some even / odd effects or setting the shape spread across fi...

Hey guys, I'm having difficulties accessing the forum. I've got a favorites link setup which works fine, but as soon as I try to access to forum via the Avolites site or even click on "The Avolites Discussion Forum Index" above, I get a 404 error saying that that page doesn't exist. It poi...