Stand Alone not playing with DVC4 gzm

[beathousepro]

I will admit, this is my first time trying to use the Stand Alone Mode, however, I've watched the tutorial video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zzh7Lu2lvY

I feel like I've followed everything correctly, however, I don't want to do time triggers. so I didn't do that part. Everything appears to 'write' correctly to the DVC4 gzm.

Programmed 4 pages. After programming, I go to "test" mode. Cycle thru A-D turning them all to 01. (A01, B01, C01, D01).
My expectation is that after I turn on A01 and B01, that all my lights should be on. A01 = All lights Dimmer AND B01 = All lights White.

Also noting that all scenes are set to loop. Not sure if that's required or not. Currently programmed with the Current Release Version: Daslight Official Release 23rd April 2019

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Please advise...I can attach the showfile if that's necessary to diagnose.

[beathousepro]

I do see that when I flip on page "B" from 01 to 00 to 01 really quickly, I can see the lights flashing on...but they immediately turn off.

[Macarena]

Hi.
An interesting question recently appeared with my colleagues who were interested in Das4. Is DMX or any MIDI Input in standAlone ?

[TomHat]

Hello,

Sadly not. Only "port" and "time" triggers available for these interfaces.

Regards,

[beathousepro]

I've noticed that you cannot play scenes from multiple pages at the same time.

For instance, I've configured two pages.
And Let's pretend my light has the following DMX Profile: CH1 = X Axis, CH2 = Y Axis, CH3 = Bulb/Dimmer

Key to programming below - (CH1 | CH2 | CH3)

Page 1 (Movers Movement)
-Movement 1 (255| 127 | OFF)
-Movement 2 (127 | 255 | OFF)
Page 2 (Bulb/Dimmer)
-Blackout (OFF | OFF | OFF)
-Full On (OFF | OFF | 255)
-Strobe (OFF | OFF | 127)

I would expect that I should be able to turn 1 item on from each page, however this appears to not be the case.

Desired Result:
Page 1 (Movers Movement)
-Movement 1 - (255| 127 | OFF)
Page 2 (Bulb/Dimmer)
-Full On - (OFF | OFF | 255)

Resulting DMX Values should be:
Movement 1 + Full On = (255| 127 | 255)

However, only the last touched values are being output.

So if I flip on Page2 Full on, the DMX output is (OFF | OFF | 255)

If I go back to Page1 Movement1, the DMX output is (255| 127 | OFF)

How do I get a combined output of (255| 127 | 255) ???

[TomHat]

Hello,

Sorry but in Daslight4, you can't. D4 is a LIVE-oriented software and has been optimised towards that aspect. The Standalone feature will allow you to do simple triggers for your scenes, no complex transparency/merge/dynamic editing or anything like that.

Regards,

[beathousepro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zzh7Lu2lvY <-- This demo from DasLight 4 says you can play up to 5 scenes at the same time. 1 per page. Is this not correct anymore?

See 2:35 of the video for reference.

[TomHat]

It is still true. But this doesn't mean that you can set your fixture to be spread accross several pages.
If a scene affects one channel of your fixture, the page will contain the full fixture, not just the channel.

Regards,