I'm sorry if this post is long. I have been migrating my Daslight4/mydmx3 show file over to mydmx 5 and have been at it for over 150 hours and 1/2 of that was dealing with terrible ssl2 files and adding 22 new moving heads to the rig.
Request #1: I'm using a Mac Studio with a 34" screen and it sucks that the Touch Tab screen is designed for the resolution of tablets only. I think it would be nice to be able to have an option to use tablet resolution or have a second tab for Monitors. When I go full screen the Touch tab ignores half the screen. and if i zoom in the buttons are way to large (Will Suggested that I detach Touch screen and have multiple screens open but if you could make a touch tab for monitors that had a larger grid that would be much appreciated.)
Request #2: Can they possibly make the fixtures index based? Im finding a lot the fixture profiles are poorly created for some lights and half way thru programing my show file I migrated from mydmx 3 there was a few issues with a fixture profile and i had to download a new one and then had to redo all of the settings in every scene that used those fixture profiles. Or when I add more fixtures or replace with newer versions to my setup and whant all the fixtures in dmx order you can't do that without having your patch schedule look like a 3rd grader patched it with gaps and all of the same model fixtures on 2-3 different universes. Even if it just kept the values when replacing a fixture. Pan and tilt channels are pretty much the first 4 channels of most fixtures and with my lighting rig setting positions is the most time consuming.
Request #3: Add a option for a few rate/speed masters when doing a bunch of banks of movements, dimmer Fx, chases it would be nice to be able to have say 5-10 Rate masters so you can assign everything in that bank to the same speed fader/encoder. I have to map 20+ scene speeds to the same fader and it's time consuming and if you could assign all your movements in one bank to say rate master 1 and all your dimmer fx to rate master 2 and so on.... it would be so much less work and easier. or just have a Bank master speed fader.
Request #4: its hard to tell when you are in Live mode or edit mode based on the little green edit indicator. could they make all the scenes slowly blink the outline or have the background change color or something more prominent than just a little green edit button at the bottom of the screen. I've found myself live adjusting a bunch of settings only to look down and find I've been in edit mode for who knows how long and have to go back and undo or close and open the last saved show file and redo some things.
Request #5: It would be nice to have a selected parameters only settings for each bank. Maybe have a window below the Advanced properties section that has check boxes next to the attributes you want to store in that bank? for example when I'm programming colors all i want to be able to add to each scene is colors and when I'm programing positions i only want pan and tilt and focus values. It would be great to be able to select only the values that the bank will save to the scenes. When I'm programing positions and I want the dimmers and shutters on i either have to exit out of edit mode and go turn on the shutters and dimmers then go back into edit mode so I can see where I'm pointing the lights. and sometimes when I'm setting positions on 30+ moving heads i want to dim other moving heads to see the beam to adjust the focus without turning on the shutter channel or dimmer channel in that scene and when I'm setting colors some of the ssl2 files don't have icons for the split colors only a fader to scroll thru them so i have to see what colors are at what slider value.
Feature Requests
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MusicMasters
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Re: Feature Requests
Hello,
Thanks for your comprehensive feedback! This will all be logged and taken into consideration for future updates. I will address each point below, as I do have some follow up questions and information for you that might be useful:
1) No notes - this suggestion will be logged.
2) There seems to be 2 separate points in this section - one about updating/replacing fixture profiles but keeping the programming, and the other to do with the fixture order. Regarding the updating/replacing fixtures point- this is something we already have logged and will consider for future versions. Regarding the fixture order issue, I'm not 100% sure I understand the description here- perhaps you could send over a quick screen recording showing the steps needed to reproduce?
3) This is actually already possible! When creating a mapping (i.e. Touch or MIDI), you can go to the mapping settings, then change the Target value to Bank. This means that the mapping will control all 'Speed' dials for every scene within the Bank.
4) This is something that we have also been suggested before, and a solution will definitely be considered going forwards!
5) Just to be clear on what you are requesting here- is it that you want an extra way of setting faders which is essentially cleared whenever you select a different scene? I understand when programming a colour or position, you want the Dimmer and Shutter to be open, but not necessarily stored within the scene- but how exactly you are envisioning this working is less clear to me. My initial thought is to add a feature where you can (for example) hold Ctrl+left click drag a fader to create a 'Preview edit', which is cleared whenever you select a new scene and/or jump to Live mode. This means that you can create a scene, open the Dimmer and Shutter using a 'Preview edit' then adjust the colour channels as you like. Alternatively, if you didn't want the 'Preview edit' values to be cleared- we would need to add some sort of toggle to show/hide 'Preview edits'. It could get messy, but if done right I can see the value in it. I'll make a note of the idea and log it for future versions, but it will need some thought to get it right (if you have any specific ideas on how it could work- that would of course be appreciated also!)
Kind regards,
Will
Thanks for your comprehensive feedback! This will all be logged and taken into consideration for future updates. I will address each point below, as I do have some follow up questions and information for you that might be useful:
1) No notes - this suggestion will be logged.
2) There seems to be 2 separate points in this section - one about updating/replacing fixture profiles but keeping the programming, and the other to do with the fixture order. Regarding the updating/replacing fixtures point- this is something we already have logged and will consider for future versions. Regarding the fixture order issue, I'm not 100% sure I understand the description here- perhaps you could send over a quick screen recording showing the steps needed to reproduce?
3) This is actually already possible! When creating a mapping (i.e. Touch or MIDI), you can go to the mapping settings, then change the Target value to Bank. This means that the mapping will control all 'Speed' dials for every scene within the Bank.
4) This is something that we have also been suggested before, and a solution will definitely be considered going forwards!
5) Just to be clear on what you are requesting here- is it that you want an extra way of setting faders which is essentially cleared whenever you select a different scene? I understand when programming a colour or position, you want the Dimmer and Shutter to be open, but not necessarily stored within the scene- but how exactly you are envisioning this working is less clear to me. My initial thought is to add a feature where you can (for example) hold Ctrl+left click drag a fader to create a 'Preview edit', which is cleared whenever you select a new scene and/or jump to Live mode. This means that you can create a scene, open the Dimmer and Shutter using a 'Preview edit' then adjust the colour channels as you like. Alternatively, if you didn't want the 'Preview edit' values to be cleared- we would need to add some sort of toggle to show/hide 'Preview edits'. It could get messy, but if done right I can see the value in it. I'll make a note of the idea and log it for future versions, but it will need some thought to get it right (if you have any specific ideas on how it could work- that would of course be appreciated also!)
Kind regards,
Will