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Hi,

Is it possible to make seperate Sound to Light settings for different sets of fixtures?

For example, I have a few fixtures that I would like to keep panned/tilted at a certain location, but I want them to change colors, while I have some other fixtures that I want to maintain the same color, but to change their pan/tilt and gobos. Is this possible?

I have tried selecting a few fixtures and setting the sound to light for them, and then selecting other fixtures and setting the sound to light for them differently, but they all simply follow the latest setting entered.

Regards,

TalJ

You are looking in the wrong places.
In short: Make seperate sequences, place them in the Cue, enable them so the sequences are playing and set the selected sequence to react to sound.

So, create a sequence with the fixtures you want to react to sound, do some fancy stuff like pan and tilt. Save and add it to the Cue.
Create another sequence with the fixtures you don't want to react to sound, do what you want to do there. Save and add it to the Cue.
Now you have 2 sequences in the Cue window. Here you can enable the one sequence to react to sound, the other not and off you go!

I notice you are asking a lot of questions that almost all getting handled quite obvious in the help file. So maybe its better for you to first read all of the help file (wich really is not that much) and try to understand what is told. Then you've got the most basic knowledge about FS you need to know.
I'd say the help file is a pretty straight forward 'getting started' when you read all contents from top to bottom.

It is actually a great request! Building sequences then running them to sound gets VERY boring but the S2L feature works great. You can only set the channels for 1 light, if you are using different scanners or heads only 1 works correctly with the S2L. If we could select the Pan, Tilt, Color, Gobo channels for each type of light it would be incredible!

Rusty

Partyman wrote:Building sequences then running them to sound gets VERY boring but the S2L feature works great.

If your sequences get VERY boring, who's fault is that?
You made the scenes, so you can make them as nice and NOT boring as you want. Second to that, you can make them run in random mode if you do get bored because of the same order.

I fully understand how the software works! No matter random or not, pre made scenes get predictable and boring. But I am sure yours don't

Rusty

Partyman wrote:I fully understand how the software works! No matter random or not, pre made scenes get predictable and boring.

How in the world can pre made sequences, running in random get boring and predictable?
Explain that to me, because it can't. Especially the predictable part.

But I am sure yours don't

In fact they don't.
I guess I have a different look at sequences, create them and run them in different manners. They really don't ever get predictable.
Unless I want them to.

Lets go back to:

Partyman wrote: ... If we could select the Pan, Tilt, Color, Gobo channels for each type of light it would be incredible!

You already can, through few different sequences, the Cue window and the random function.
But since you seem not interested in learning how to, I can't help you, can I?

I'll give it one more try:
Maybe you can tell what and how many sequences you make, what do they control and how many different steps they have.
Tell me also how many sequences there are active in the Cue window, and wich are running random.
I really think you are missing something to get nice random _unpredictable_ shows. I can do that real easy, so why not you?

You can easily make a sequence that you can make go with the sound... I think the sound to light just looks a mess on any light/software all the lights just doing un-uniform things and just looking a damn mess....

DJ Support wrote:You can easily make a sequence that you can make go with the sound... I think the sound to light just looks a mess on any light/software all the lights just doing un-uniform things and just looking a damn mess....

That is true, but if just using colour changes and in the right place of a song it can be really good.
I must admit I hate it when movement is controlled by sound 2 light, it does look a mess.
Again it depends on the software control of sound 2 light or hardware control of sound 2 light, sometimes the manufacturers control of sound 2 light is spot on.