Linking BPM Masters II
Posted: 30 Aug 2021, 16:17
Hi all,
I'm trying to vary the speed of all of my P/T effects (in one go) in relation to the speed of my dimmer and colour effects, which are all linked to BPM Master 1. Sometimes I want them to run at the same speed, and other times I want the running at 1:4, 1:16 or even 1:64 ratios. I need to change all of my P/T effects simultaneously.
I'd like to achieve something similar to what c-j-y asked back in March, but the solution kindly offered by niclights isn't what I'm looking for. Like c-j-y, I'm looking to make one BPM master a slave of another, so that the slave has the same BPM but allows me to set a different divisor. For example, BPM Master 1 would be the master, and I would tap on this. BPM Master 2 would slave to BPM Master 1. This would allow me to link all my dimmer & colour effects to, BPM Master 1, and all my P/T effects to BPM Master 2. This in turn allows me to set a different divisor for each type of effect.
I have lots and lots of dimmer, colour, movement and beam playbacks, and changing the values of the speed multiplier for individual playbacks manually while busking isn't an option. It would be so much easier to slow all my movements down by changing just one multiplier/divisor.
Other solutions I've explored are to just use a separate BPM Master, but this makes it difficult to keep everything in sync and takes up another fader (which I don't have enough of anyway). I find it far too satisfying to keep movement it sync with the music!
Another solution I've tried is, for each effect, to replace a normal playback with a cue list with three items. Each item contains my effect (with effect tracking disabled), with divisors /64, /16 and /4 respectively, and a fade in time to give me smooth transitions. I can then select the appropriate divisor by pressing the playback button the appropriate number of times. I can include a forth item, with the same effect and divisor as the third, but which also fires a macro to release the cue list. This has proved to be a fairly elegant solution, but involves a lot of work (and a macro) for each effect, lots of extra key presses, and prevents me from using the same technique to store a selection of effects on a single button.
I would be very grateful to hear of other possibilities which I could explore.
I've not yet been able to find the time to launch into macro programming other than the simple key stroke recorder programming native to the console. I'd be grateful to know if this might hold the answer to my problem. If so, I will endeavour to go down this track.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Andy
I'm trying to vary the speed of all of my P/T effects (in one go) in relation to the speed of my dimmer and colour effects, which are all linked to BPM Master 1. Sometimes I want them to run at the same speed, and other times I want the running at 1:4, 1:16 or even 1:64 ratios. I need to change all of my P/T effects simultaneously.
I'd like to achieve something similar to what c-j-y asked back in March, but the solution kindly offered by niclights isn't what I'm looking for. Like c-j-y, I'm looking to make one BPM master a slave of another, so that the slave has the same BPM but allows me to set a different divisor. For example, BPM Master 1 would be the master, and I would tap on this. BPM Master 2 would slave to BPM Master 1. This would allow me to link all my dimmer & colour effects to, BPM Master 1, and all my P/T effects to BPM Master 2. This in turn allows me to set a different divisor for each type of effect.
I have lots and lots of dimmer, colour, movement and beam playbacks, and changing the values of the speed multiplier for individual playbacks manually while busking isn't an option. It would be so much easier to slow all my movements down by changing just one multiplier/divisor.
Other solutions I've explored are to just use a separate BPM Master, but this makes it difficult to keep everything in sync and takes up another fader (which I don't have enough of anyway). I find it far too satisfying to keep movement it sync with the music!
Another solution I've tried is, for each effect, to replace a normal playback with a cue list with three items. Each item contains my effect (with effect tracking disabled), with divisors /64, /16 and /4 respectively, and a fade in time to give me smooth transitions. I can then select the appropriate divisor by pressing the playback button the appropriate number of times. I can include a forth item, with the same effect and divisor as the third, but which also fires a macro to release the cue list. This has proved to be a fairly elegant solution, but involves a lot of work (and a macro) for each effect, lots of extra key presses, and prevents me from using the same technique to store a selection of effects on a single button.
I would be very grateful to hear of other possibilities which I could explore.
I've not yet been able to find the time to launch into macro programming other than the simple key stroke recorder programming native to the console. I'd be grateful to know if this might hold the answer to my problem. If so, I will endeavour to go down this track.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Andy