Stevens R. Miller
Well-Known Member
I've spent a few days trying to find this, and am thinking maybe there's a reason why I'm looking for the wrong thing.
Our Innnovator 24/48 has 48 faders, each of which (as far as I can tell) is permanently assigned to a channel matching its position. That is, fader #1 sends DMX commands on channel #1 (or it may be channel #0). Fader #2 sends commands on DMX channel #2, and so on. The Innovator itself can send a command on any DMX channel, but you have to use the keypad to do it, like this:
107 [AT] [FULL]
That will send value 255 on DMX channel 107.
I can live with only a few faders, but not with having to use the keypad. For our set up, 48 channels happens to be all we need (we only have 48 DMX dimmers). But, for another theater (or if we get more dimmers), I'd like a way to have my faders work in "banks." For example, it would be great if the Innovator had a button labeled, say, "Start At." I'd want to be able to enter this:
[START AT] 49 [ENTER]
After which, I'd want fader #1 to send DMX commands on channel #49, fader #2 to send DMX commands on channel #50, and so on. I've spent some hours looking for a lighting console that works this way, or along similar lines, and can't find one. When that happens to me, I usually end up finding out that what I wanted would not have been as useful as I thought, ergo no one makes what I was looking for.
Is that what's going on here? Or, are there consoles out there that can assign their faders to selectable channels, either in banks (as I've described above) or individually?
Our Innnovator 24/48 has 48 faders, each of which (as far as I can tell) is permanently assigned to a channel matching its position. That is, fader #1 sends DMX commands on channel #1 (or it may be channel #0). Fader #2 sends commands on DMX channel #2, and so on. The Innovator itself can send a command on any DMX channel, but you have to use the keypad to do it, like this:
107 [AT] [FULL]
That will send value 255 on DMX channel 107.
I can live with only a few faders, but not with having to use the keypad. For our set up, 48 channels happens to be all we need (we only have 48 DMX dimmers). But, for another theater (or if we get more dimmers), I'd like a way to have my faders work in "banks." For example, it would be great if the Innovator had a button labeled, say, "Start At." I'd want to be able to enter this:
[START AT] 49 [ENTER]
After which, I'd want fader #1 to send DMX commands on channel #49, fader #2 to send DMX commands on channel #50, and so on. I've spent some hours looking for a lighting console that works this way, or along similar lines, and can't find one. When that happens to me, I usually end up finding out that what I wanted would not have been as useful as I thought, ergo no one makes what I was looking for.
Is that what's going on here? Or, are there consoles out there that can assign their faders to selectable channels, either in banks (as I've described above) or individually?