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Please forgive me if this has been answered in many ways, I have trolled through the forum, but am still stuck.

I can get DMX400 working fine, and have a number of working sequences that I can transition through.

BUT.. when I start Sound to Light, I get that annoying Blue triangle with an exclamation mark that indicates an override, but override to what? I just want a scene change in DMX400 to the next colour step in the sequence.

Instead all my lights go off until I hit and Release All and Disable buttons, after I have killed S2L.

I am clearly missing some part of the logic, but I am yet to get my step changes to be timed to every 2nd or 4th Beat from the music. S2L is working well on sending the beat.

Is what I am trying to do impossible? Can S2L be used to step between scenes in a chase sequence?

Have I just got the logic all wrong or the wrong version of the software?

I am using FreeStyler 3.5.5 Sound to Light 1.01.11, with ENTTEC OpenDMX USB, running on Windows 7 64bit with Intel i7 930 with 12Gb RAM. Sound is coming into input slot from remote Traktor setup on seperate PC. Apart from the S2l issue, I have lights working as expected (except Matrix LED 7871) as I can't get that unit's inbuilt chases sorted in Fixture Creator. I do struggle when switching from DMX400 running to running sequences and back again. Some lights do not work as expected for a while.

Quick update.

I have removed all of my programmed overrides, and I can get what I want.

Now how do I re-instate overrides? I want to be able to tell Sound 2 light NOT to send override button 1 flash, or at least alter the levels for this function.

Figured out the lights working as expected when changing modes. If I switch off a chase and return to DMX400 some of the functions that individual lights were on when the switch happenned are retained. So some lights may be strobing therough colours in DMX400 when others are fading as the strobing lights were strobing when the button was pressed.

I've had trouble with S2L since the 3.5 line. I've wanted to set up a dedicated send for the sound feed, but just haven't had the chance. Weird problems that admittedly might be related to the mic on my laptop.

What you want to do is set your sequences to either cancel or not cancel overrides, depending on what you want to do. Also, it's critical to select which fixtures your sequences affect. If you have two sequences (including override sequences) which are suppose to control the same fixture, then you'll run into problems. Make sure that sequences aren't "running over" one another.

/KDub