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I have 42 LED Par 64 cans. I want to use these for my band and basically just create a bunch of different scenes that can be changed manually via keyboard keys. THE CANS ARE 5 CHANNEL dmx as follows:

Channel 1 - 0 Close 1-255 Strobe Speed
Channel 2 - 0 Close 1-255 Brightness
Channel 3 - 0-255 (R) Brightness Red
Channel 4 - 0-255 (G) Brightness Green
Channel 5 - 0-255 (B) Brightness Blue

Can anybody steer me in the right direction as to how to set up Freestyler to control these. I have already created the fixture profile and am pretty sure its correct. I don't know how to set up lights into differet groups and get the colors to change and dim. I sure would appreciate all the help I could get.

Many Many Thanks in Advance....

bucwheat wrote:I have 42 LED Par 64 cans. I want to use these for my band and basically just create a bunch of different scenes that can be changed manually via keyboard keys. THE CANS ARE 5 CHANNEL dmx as follows:

Channel 1 - 0 Close 1-255 Strobe Speed
Channel 2 - 0 Close 1-255 Brightness
Channel 3 - 0-255 (R) Brightness Red
Channel 4 - 0-255 (G) Brightness Green
Channel 5 - 0-255 (B) Brightness Blue

Can anybody steer me in the right direction as to how to set up Freestyler to control these. I have already created the fixture profile and am pretty sure its correct. I don't know how to set up lights into differet groups and get the colors to change and dim. I sure would appreciate all the help I could get.

Many Many Thanks in Advance....

0. Add all fixtures to FreeStyler using the Setup->Add/Remove fixtures menu. Make sure you configure the DMX channels as you configure them on the fixtures. Then click Close.
1. Play around: Test if your fixture is indeed correct. Select 1 (or more) fixtures, a slider window at the right side appers. It should have 5 sliders, each with the same operation as the channel description you gave above. Set brightess to 255, and make some color using the Red, green and blue sliders.
2. Play around: Look at the toolbar in the top of the screen. Press the color button, here you can select some color.
3. Work: Create sequence. Turn off all lights, then start the "Create sequence" window from the toolbar. Now you can make presets with multiple steps. See the help file for more info.
4. Save the preset to a file and assign it to a cue.
5. Make a 2nd preset, save it and assign it to the 2nd cue.
6. In the FreeStyler preferences, you can assign keyboard keys to cue's. Lets try assigning key "1" to cue 1 and key "2" to cue 2.
7. Now you can press key 1 to start cue 1, and key 2 to start cue 2.

All other info can be found in the manual.

Thanks a bunch! I appreciate the help