Touchscreen-friendly submaster

[basvanoorschot]

Hey!

I have been using freestyler for the past 3 to 4 years now. However, this is the first time I am actively using this forum.

My current use of Freestyler is kind of an odd one, so I have realised. Since I am an mobile DJ, it is convienent for me to have complete shows at the touch of a button, so no combining of different sequences. In order to do this, I have made sequences wich include every aspect for my entire setup. (I know this is not the correct way to do this, but at the time I started programming, I didn't knew any other way. I just figured out that this can also be done by means of submasters... ) In the sequence creator. I have placed these shows in three different cuelists and named them slow, middle and fast. In this way, I can switch between different (kind of) shows with just one click of a (touchscreen) button.

I am currently trying to improve my lightningshow to a more proffesional level. One of the parts of this improvement is making my lightshow a little bit more dynamic and original. With my current kind of programming, I can only use about 60 different preprogrammed lightshows, which is kind of holding me back. To make my lightshow a little bit more dynamic, I want to start using submasters, like most people do. I want to devide the dimmers, colour, movements, etc. of my entire setup in the submasters. After a bit of puzzling, I found a way to do this, but there is still one part that is buzzing me. When I am using the submasters with my touchscreen or my controller/keyboard, I can only switch between different cue's by means of the Go/Back buttons. This takes up quite a lot of time and we all no that time is limitless when running lights. A solution to this would be to set up all of my colours/dimmers/prisms/etc. as overide buttons and my movements as cues. In this way I can switch very fast between different options, but I lose the 'Run All' feature, since these kind of buttons start immediately. (I don't think 'Run All' is an actual FS feature, but it is easily programmable by means of keyboard/midi shortcuts.) I would realy like to keep this feature, since it can come in handy when you want to suddenly change your entire show (for climaxes or drops for example). Note that in my current way of programming all of my lightshow aspects always change suddenly, unless fading is enabled ofcourse.

So, I am searching for a feature/button section that enables me to quickly select a different sequence in the submaster, especially in the touchscreen mode and in combination with shortcuts. Furthermore, I want to keep the 'Run All' function. Is there such a function? If not, it might be something for further updates.

Thanks in advance,
Bas

[Spirit]

Hi,

i'm a beta tester and do ligting for a vue for fun. but not with FS but with Avolight.
so as you can gues i'm not a DJ but lighting guy.

i do understand you problem but i think its hard to solve.
you dont have time for lights but you like have a nice dynamic lightng show.

Submasters are realy made for lighting guys like me. most profesinal lighting desk work the same as FS.
you have playback faders (submasters (SM)) and each SM holds a atribute from the lights.
as you sad Dimmer, color, gobo, movements, parcans/ledpars and on.....
but this way you realy need to be on top of the desk. which gives you allot of flexibility.

the only thing i can come up with is. you must make Premade thema's with the Cuelist buttons. (theater style)
but if i'm correct you can still use the SM with them.
but you must be very carefull how you programm everything.
this should be working on LTP so Latest Takes Precedence

so when you create a Cuelist button you must have as example:
Dimmer on line 1
color on line 2
gobo on line 3
prism on line 4
and on.....

and on the Submasters you add:
Dimmer on 1
color on 2
gobo on 3
prism on 4
and on.....

so when you press a cuelist button that thema comes up.
but you still can change stuff the way you like with the SM.
because each atribute has its own sequence line on the "cue"panel.
https://www.freestylersupport.com/wiki/ ... e_relation


and i allways have 1 step Sequences on overridebuttons. like color, gobo, prism, strobo, frost, but also prism gobo rot low mid high, prism rot low mid high.

and just a nice effect make your gobo rotate CW and your prism rot CCW this looks nice.

[basvanoorschot]

Hey!

Not really the answer I was looking for, but thanks anyway!
My statement that I am a mobile DJ might be a little beit confusing. When we go out on a gig, we are always with at least two people. Most of the time my colleague is DJ'ing and I'm running lights, so there is plenty of time to control the lights. I was just looking if there was a way to make the submasterbuttons in the list a little bit bigger.

Bas