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I've done some reading in the set up macros and have done some searches, but it's all a little over me right now.
I have some LED, RGB bars that I have set up with the fixture creator and they work great! Red, Green, Blue, and white are all on separate channels.
How can I set up a macro, so that a single fader on my midi controller could be used to step through some color pallet? It wouldn't have to fade nice, just step though a few colors.
My main goal it to have one fader for color, another for master intensity and another for strobe control (which is another color).
I can set up the strobe and master intensity faders, just having trouble running all colors on a single fader.

thanks

i doubt you will be able to use a fader for what you are wanting. you will need to create sequences for the scenes you are wanting then you could use buttons to step through them

But, isn't one of ideas behind a macro is to be able to control more than one channel at once?

You cannot make 1 slider control multiple sequences or macros. You can create a sequence with multiple steps that have all the colors and you could run though the steps but you still cannot do it with a fader. Does your midi controller not have buttons? Macros are ways of adding shortcut buttons to your fixtures. Macros cannot contain steps.

Yes I have 12 buttons, 4 slide faders, 3 rotory potentiometers, a rotory encoder with push button and a toggle switch for the shift function.

So... Maybe I could create a sequence with a list of colors and scroll through them with the rotory encoder?

nope, they work the same way as fader. just use 2 buttons, + and - then you can scroll through sequences by various means

Hum...my encoder has lots of steps or detents and works like I'm pressing a button really fast...
I'll give it a try!
Thanks

Sweet! It works!
Rotory encoder set up on the midi page to manual trigger.

Ok... Now how do I set up one of my faders to control ch.5 of my led bars ( intensity ) ?
Is that a sub master function?
How does that work independently of my other lights, adj pocket scans, running their own cue list?

Make a midi to dmx channel

I read the wiki for midi dmx channels and don't see how it would be assigned to a specific fixture. I just gives a dmx value.
For example this fixture is at value 80, channel 5 is intensity.

I did make it work, but it's kinda funny. I made a scene with two steps, one being 0 intensity the other at 255.
I assigned the fader to submaster 1 intensity and put that scene under that submaster.
The funny thing is that I have to start the scene 1st and it's slowly fading in and out, then tell it to respond to steps instead of just playing, so it pauses.
It's just a work around... I think the midi to DMX assignment would be far better.

You would midi to dmx channel 84

Ah ha! Thank you