Submaster dimmer issues
Posted: February 7th, 2017, 5:09 am
I am running 4 moving heads, 16 pars and 2 different effect lights and programmed sequences, saved them into the cue panel and created submasters all according to the Wiki tutorial on submasters. The problem is the submasters where I put the dimmer controls have no effect. Let me explain: for the 4 moving heads, I started with an empty cue list, created a bunch of movement sequences and saved them all in the cue list and buttons and then inserted the cue list into the first submaster window. I made sure during programming that all functions of the light were set to off except the pan/tilt which was set to snap or fade. Next I cleared the cue list and repeated the same procedure for the colors and finally again for the dimmer controls. The submaster window for the dimmer controls contained only 2 sequences inside - Dimmer Off and Dimmer on. I then went to control the moving heads using the submasters. Clicked on a movement and it worked, Clicked on a color, then went to the submaster for the dimmer and clicked on the "dimmer On" and nothing happened. Light did not come on. If I select the light on my desktop and open it's control sliders on the upper right corner and move the dimmer to the 255 value, then it comes on. Went back to submaster controls and the movement window all movements worked when I selected them, color window, all colors worked when I selected them, but then I went to the dimmer submaster window and clicked on Dimmer off and nothing happened. Dimmer stayed on full. I tried the side slider as well but no luck. All functions work in the submaster windows except dimmer control. This was the same for all the other fixtures I programmed as well. During my show last night I had to manually select each fixture and turn its dimmer to full, then after that I was able to use the submasters for all other controls, but when I needed to turn off the fixtures, I needed again to manually select each fixture on the desktop, go into the right side sliders and turn the dimmer off. Any ideas why only the dimmer isn't working? When I programmed the dimmers I moved the slider either on or off AFTER I opened the create sequence window, and if I place those dimmer sequences I created into the cue window, they work fine when I click on them, just not in the submasters.