Multi-select faders

[lordGoldemort]

I have a fixture with 99 channels : 10 LED lights with RGBW sliders and a bunch of LED strips - and when I switch it on all the channels flip on and I have to spend a long time dragging all the faders down to 0 individually. Surely there's a faster way than that?

[willm]

Hello,

What is the exact fixture you are using? In this case I would recommend either selecting only the specific beams that you want to turn 'on' before pressing the Beam On button, or on the flip side you could turn all beams on then select the ones you want to be off and press the Beam Off button. Failing that, you could simply not use the Beam On button at all and instead drag the faders manually to the desired levels.

Kind regards,
Will

[lordGoldemort]

Hello,

What is the exact fixture you are using? In this case I would recommend either selecting only the specific beams that you want to turn 'on' before pressing the Beam On button, or on the flip side you could turn all beams on then select the ones you want to be off and press the Beam Off button. Failing that, you could simply not use the Beam On button at all and instead drag the faders manually to the desired levels.

Kind regards,
Will

Thanks Will. Perhaps this could be a feature request? In Cubase there is a "Q-Link" feature on the mixer, which has a similar layout to the DMX channel controls. Basically you ctrl-click (pick single ones) or shift-click (select a range) of the sliders you want to adjust, turn Q-Link on and then every slider move you make gets replicated over the selected set. It can do clever proportional control that preserves the relative levels as much as possible. You then turn Q-Link off again and the sliders go back to normal.

Also a nice touch (again borrowing from audio mixers) is the idea of a VCA-Slider. This is a single slider you can add that controls the (relative) levels of a fixed group of sliders. My fixture is an LED light bar. There are 10 individually controllable LED RGBW lamps on it with a set of small LEDs down either side with full colour control. I can sort of see how groups could help here, but it would be neat do have a "meta" slider that controlled all the lamps or all the border LEDs.