Few clarifications. One, even if you do it the "lazy" way you can still make the channels independent and LTP in the Channel Attributes display. Two, the only reason you would want to use the fixture patch is if you wanted to create a personality that included the intensity channel in the fixture. This would allow you to control it like it was one unit. Selecting the fixture would then allow you to control the intensity with the keypad and the scroll on the trackpad. Also, if you had something like a CXI with two scrolls, one could be the X-axis, the other the Y-axis. This makes it easier to control the whole thing as one without having to keep keying in different channel numbers.It's easy to use scrollers on an Express. The right way to do it is by defining a personality and using the Fixture Patch features. The lazy way to do it is to allocate a channel and treat it like a dimmer. If you do it the right way it can be defined as LTP and Independent. If you do it the lazy way you have to be careful about unwanted and unneeded scroller moves.
Few clarifications. One, even if you do it the "lazy" way you can still make the channels independent and LTP in the Channel Attributes display. Two, the only reason you would want to use the fixture patch is if you wanted to create a personality that included the intensity channel in the fixture. This would allow you to control it like it was one unit. Selecting the fixture would then allow you to control the intensity with the keypad and the scroll on the trackpad. Also, if you had something like a CXI with two scrolls, one could be the X-axis, the other the Y-axis. This makes it easier to control the whole thing as one without having to keep keying in different channel numbers.
-Tim
More advanced programmers will use focus points rather than groups. They are similar, but focus points are referenced data, meaning that if you change the levels in the focus point, all the cues based on those will automatically change as well. See the Express' User Manual....A hint I use is to set up groups for the color's I want to scroll to. This lets me quicikly move all of the scrollers to any set of colors I have pre-defined. This is in the category of plan ahead to save time in the theatre.
Basically you set up a group which consists of the channels just controling the scrollers for the various colors you expect to pick. When programming, simply bring the group up and your scrollers all move to the appropriate level. ...
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