Hotkey mapping (keyboard)

[mcarthurlighting]

Can anyone give me an example of how they have their keyboard mapped out? I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to be able to run a live show off of hotkeys. I have my groups, blackout groups, all, blackout all, sm's 1-5 go, back, run, stop. Freeze, tap sync, release all, and next gobo and color. Can anyone think of any other hotkeys I might need to use?

How about the most logical way to lay these hotkeys out on my standard keyboard?


Thanks

[BillsGate]

For as far as I can remember by heart:

F1: Par 1(,5,9...) Flash
F2: Par 2(,6...) Flash
F3: Par 3(,7...) Flash
F4: Par 4(,8...) Flash

F5: Par 1(,5,9...) Solo(flash)
F6: Par 2(,6...) Solo(flash)
F7: Par 3(,7...) Solo(flash)
F8: Par 4(,8...) Solo(flash)

F9: Smoke

Q,W,E,R,T => Submaster 1-5 Back
A,S,D,F,G => Submaster 1-5 Go
Z,X,C,V,B =>Submaster 1-5 Toggle (run/stop)

Page Up: Blackout
Page Down: Freeze

Numpad:
0: TapSync
1: Flash Even pars
2: Flash Odd pars
3: Flash all pars (=blind)
4: Blackout all pars
5: Movingheads open and white (followspot)
6: Thunder: movingheads white/blue split, random strobing
7: Movingheads strobe slow
8: Movingheads strobe med
9: Movingheads strobe fast
+: Movingheads strobe fast, led fixtures to dark blue flashing, pars blacked out
-: Laser

[neils]

Hoping someone will still read this older post and help me out. I plan on using a similar keyboard layout as mentioned above, seems logical, to step thru my submaster setup. But I was just wondering. If I am on Page 1-5 of my submasters, with unique keys for Go, Back, and Toggle, what happens when I go to Page 6-10 and use those same unique keys, will I also be controlling Page 1-5 at the same time ? I am guessing yes, and am also guessing that if I have more than 5 submasters, I will need to use unique keys for 1-20 (Run 1-20, Back 1-20, Go 1-20, Stop 1-20). That is a lot of keys to setup. I was really hoping that if one moves from one submaster page to the next, we could use the same keys for 1-5, 6-10 etc....

Also, if I hit run for a given SM, do I have to stop it to move to the next one, or can I just use Go and Back, and if the SM is already running, it will simply change the function immediately ??

Thanks for your time
Neil

[BillsGate]

There are two ways to configure submaster keys:

You can either assign buttons to the sequences (scroll the keyboard shortcut list down about a third). This way you can configure submasters 1 to 20 separately.

Alternatively you can use the submaster shortcuts (about two thirds down in the list). These will run/alter sequence 1 to 5 of the current submaster page. Using my example above, pressing [Z] on page 2 will start/stop sequence 6.
If you use more than 5 submasters, you'll have to change pages. For me, 5 is sufficient.

If I'm right, the submaster toggle works this way:
- If no sequence is running, it will start running
- If the selected sequence is running, it will stop
- If a sequence is running and another sequence is selected, Freestyler will switch to the selected sequence and continue running