Problem: Blackout function of Freestyler works not correctly
Posted: September 13th, 2014, 2:25 pm
I observed using Sound2light that the fixtures does not "blackout" if no sound is detected. I analyzed deeper the issue and found that are a lot of mistakes possible on configuring freestyler and the fixtures. With using "Blackout" and "Output" function of freestyler I found the "Blackout" is not working because the fixture profile seems wrong configured. I 'm using fixtures of Showtec (LED PAR56R) with 6 channels. I was not able to resolve the problem over the fixture creator. The reason behaves on the channels of Showtec fixture:
1 Red
2 Green
3 Blue
4 Macro off (0-15)/ Macro on 31 colors (16-255)
5 Strobe off (0-15)/ Strobe on with 16 speeds (16-255) OR speed (0-255) in relation to mode on ch 6
6 Mode (8 types): color on,fadings,chasings,sound action
The fixture of Showtec has no intensity, shutter or separate dimmer channel available!
Did I have understood it correctly that freestyler is handling the blackout only over the shutter settings in the fixture profile? If yes, I see no possibility to get running blackout correcly here, right?
Is there maybe another possibility to change the behaviour of freestyler (freestyler.ini?) for blackout?
It should be a checkbox available (use macro instead shutter settings for blackout) on firs tab of fixture profile which enables an additional tab named Blackout where I can configure a macro to set RGB channels to 0 or maybe the first listed macro is automaticly used for blackout.
Any ideas or workarounds are welcome.
Thanks a lot for every response.
1 Red
2 Green
3 Blue
4 Macro off (0-15)/ Macro on 31 colors (16-255)
5 Strobe off (0-15)/ Strobe on with 16 speeds (16-255) OR speed (0-255) in relation to mode on ch 6
6 Mode (8 types): color on,fadings,chasings,sound action
The fixture of Showtec has no intensity, shutter or separate dimmer channel available!
Did I have understood it correctly that freestyler is handling the blackout only over the shutter settings in the fixture profile? If yes, I see no possibility to get running blackout correcly here, right?
Is there maybe another possibility to change the behaviour of freestyler (freestyler.ini?) for blackout?
It should be a checkbox available (use macro instead shutter settings for blackout) on firs tab of fixture profile which enables an additional tab named Blackout where I can configure a macro to set RGB channels to 0 or maybe the first listed macro is automaticly used for blackout.
Any ideas or workarounds are welcome.
Thanks a lot for every response.