Sequence Locks on programs and strobe [SOLVED]

[Jeremy Lembo]

Hello and good day;
I have a DJ Light Supply LED PAR 64. It's a RGBW fixture and its an 8 channel DMX unit. 1 red, 2 green, 3 blue, 4 white, 5 speed/strobe, 6 programmed colors, 7 programs, 8 programs/sound active

Essentially, I can create some cue's and have many of the color switching patterns play great. as part of the sequence I wanted to have some fixtures go sound active. When I make a sequence that is sound active and insert it into the sequencer, I can play the color change ones and then when I click on sound active it does play sound active but.... when I click on the other color change sequences, it continues to play sound active and will not start the color change. I have to manually drag the channel 8 fader over to 0.

in order to fix the issue, I need to restart freestyler and click on the color change cue's.

do you think this is a problem with the creation of the fixture or is this something common with using the internal programming of fixtures?

[spud1511]

In all your other sequences you need to set channel 5,6,7,8 to zero - or whatever default you need to turn off sound active, strobe, etc. and make sure they are selected by choosing the dmx value of zero but also setting the button beside the values to 'SNAP' instead of off.
Otherwise you have turned on sound active by giving a value on these channels, but left the channel transparent on the other sequences that start so they don't know to turn it back off again.

[Jeremy Lembo]

Thanks, I will give it a try n see what happens.

[Jeremy Lembo]

So, I am still having issues and could use the help

I created a few sequences and updated the fixture file. I changed the snap/fade/off and transparent to static settings. Here is an example.

I have 2 PAR 64 LED fixtures. Fixture 1, address 1 and Fixture 2, address 9.

I created a few simple sequences and one more complex.
Sequence 1 - Fixture 1 fade open to a solid color, Fixture 2 Off
Sequence 2 - Fixture 1 10 color change/fade every second and Fixture 2 Off
Sequence 3 - Fixture 1 10 color change/fade every second and Fixture 2 Strobing with a color macro.

I can play back sequence 1 and 2 and 2 and 1 with no issues. When I play sequence 3, it plays just fine but, when I click on sequence 1 or 2, Fixture 1 does what it needs to do but, Fixture 2 stays on the Macro. In order to get Fixture 2 to stop strobing and changing colors I need to manually drag over the fader for the strobe and the macro and then I have the Override icon showing.

Do you think this is normal or is there an issue with the settings for the fixture file so it resets?

[Nathanrs93]

Hi
Could you upload the fixture file in .pff format and the manual as a .pdf, so we can take a look for you?

Regards
Nathan

[Spirit]

hi

oke i think i see the issue your having.
first of all look is this feature is enabled.
http://www.freestylersupport.com/wiki/s ... references "Cue Multiselect always enabled"
with this featue you can playback more then one Sequnece at the time.
now delete seq. 3 and only create seq. 3 with Fixture 2 (Strobe and Color macro) do not add fixture 2 to it.
also enable http://www.freestylersupport.com/wiki/p ... k_sequence "Restore DMX values when sequence stopped" (its a Arrow that point back the fift one) now if you stop a Sequence the DMX channels will go back to the default setting "0" and therefore it will stop strobing.

PS: dont use Channel 6,7,8 this only makes everything much harder. why use Color marcos if you have a RGB channel. just set Channel 6,7,8 to SNAP Value"0" on every Sequence you make.

and the above example is from your example.
i would just create a override button and disabled or enable Strobe from a button. makes it way easyer.

[Jeremy Lembo]

Cool deal... I will look at this later on today.

I will try and post the fixture file, and pdf and sequence later as well.

appreciate the help. This is a cool program, even for a guy that is not a big DMX guy. very easy to use.

[spud1511]

From your description it is almost certainly just a case of making sure sequence 1 and 2 have the channels I mentioned before set to 'SNAP' value of zero. It sounds like you have done this successfully with first light, just need to copy those snap to zero values onto light 2, etc.

If you imagine a line of faders, one for each channel of each light, then when you launch sequence 3 it pushes the faders for strobe or whatever up. When you launch sequence 1 or 2 it needs to push them back down to turn strobe or preset back off. This is why all the fixtures need to be set with the preset stuff snap to zero. This is also why it works between sequence 1 & 2 as if they don't push the faders up then they don't need to go back down, but it's still a good idea to tell them to, just to make sure they go down if they need to.

If you think you have set this then in the sequence editor deselect all fixtures and only select one light at a time, then deselect that and select the next one, to see if this is actually the the case.

[Jeremy Lembo]

Well.... It looks like the Override buttons win! Woohoo!

I double checked all the settings and I had the multi-select enabled along with the restore default value. That setting was already enabled. The sequence works in the Cue when I played it but.., in the sequencer itself, those macro and strobe functions would just latch on. Once I created the Override buttons it immediately started working properly and the override buttons work as described. Talk about Relief from Frustration!

I did a test run with 2 pars and a motion light. All with 3 different addresses and everything seemed to work just fine. There were some glitches at points in time but, hit the Override and BAM! fixed.

Thanks a ton! now to create more sequenced.

Thanks a lot you guys for the help!