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Multiple Scenes
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:02 am
by Matteo1310
Hi,
I'm Matteo from Italy and this is my first post.
I have just bought one DVC2 Gold + Virtual Controller 2.
I have a simple question:
How can I play contemporarily multiple scenes (2 or more) on "Live Mode" pushing just one button or with one mouse-click?
Thanks

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:39 pm
by smokeAndMirrors
Answer: you can't. Flip knows why not, you can trigger multiple scenes from a single keyboard key or MIDI event! A scene should be able to trigger any number of scenes, not just jump to a next one. How it would make life so much easier.
I know, I'll write a new front end that CAN do this using the Daslight Remote Controll DLL!... Oh hold on, that's so broken, even their example code won't run properly. And their tech support have given up on me after one try. Now THAT's customer service!

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:21 pm
by Andre
Totally agree with you there smokeAndMirrors, definately need a way of triggering multiple scenes with just one mouse click.
Even jumps from one scene to another does not work properly.
I have also asked for a proper scripting method of creating a list of scenes to be run and if they should be run simultaneously or solo.
Yeah not much happening on the support side of things

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 1:54 pm
by Matteo1310
thanks for the kind answer.
Using this method:
"you can multiple trigger scenes from to single keyboard key"
Something like:
I create with FX generator a scene for 4 mobile heads;
I create with FX generator another scene for 4 scanners;
I create with FX generator another scene for 8 led par;
etc.
and then I assign the same button to all the scenes.
Pressing this button in live mode all the 3 scenes they contemporarily begin.
Have you ever had problems using this way? Is it a reliable way?
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:47 pm
by Andre
Matteo1310 wrote:thanks for the kind answer.
Using this method:
"you can multiple trigger scenes from to single keyboard key"
Something like:
I create with FX generator a scene for 4 mobile heads;
I create with FX generator another scene for 4 scanners;
I create with FX generator another scene for 8 led par;
etc.
and then I assign the same button to all the scenes.
Pressing this button in live mode all the 3 scenes they contemporarily begin.
Have you ever had problems using this way? Is it a reliable way?
Yeah it's reliable, I use it all the time as it's the only way to launch multiple scenes at once.
I have only had it fail once on me and to be honest DVC2 was doing some very strange things that night and after it crashed and I restarted everyting was fine. So I think it was just a glitch as it has not happened since.