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Aha! Gottit! Turns out ALT+ESC just toggles whether the soft keys are shown on screen. The function key that corresponds to the desired soft key is the one that wants pressing. Problem solved completely. Thanks guys! This will be incredibly useful.

@derekleffew, That's pretty much bang on. I've been having a look at the OLE and it seems to be perfect. I'd need to buy a floppy drive (or persuade the school to get one) but I think this is exactly what I was looking for. The web browser was a thought on how I could achieve this without...

Ah, thanks. Sounds like it's definitely possible then. I thought the whole remote laptop thing would probably be a bit overly complex. Thanks for the starting points. I'll be looking into both of those now.

At my school we (as students) generally manage the whole technical side of things ourselves. We design and plot the lights and then operate the desk during the performance. Although I couldn't be happier about this it does pose a slight time problem. The drama department keeps the keys for the...

Ah, right. I may just have to do it manually then. I may need another hand or two though... Thanks ever so much for your help. 0d085d

Ah, clever. What about in one scene mode? Would that have anything close to the effect I wanted? Thanks for all your help so far - this is becoming clearer all the time. 0d085d

Okay, I kind-of see what you're saying... So when I move the X1 playback faders what does that actually do?

icewolf08: Thanks for the reply, I suppose you're right - I'm not going to get the exact effect I was looking for. I'm still confused as to why I can't get [2 SCENE 24 SUB] or even [1 SCENE 24 SUB] to work. I've tried the examples in the manual but the X1 playback faders don't appear to have...

Sadly the channel faders only reach up to channel 12, all of which are behind the stage pointing at the audience. The theatre has a good 100 lights which I use for this performance anyway. Having read the console manual again I reckon that the X1 playback faders contain some version of the...

Thanks for the quick reply: I don't think the 300 does have a hold feature - but it's certainly a good idea. I think that's what the [2 SCENE 24 SUB] is supposed to do, but I can't for the life of me get it to work. 0d085d

Hi, My theatre uses a Strand 300 console with 24 submasters (two sets of twelve). I've been trying to set it up so that I can set up a scene with the top row of submasters, set up another scene on the bottom row and fade between them. I gather that there is a two-scene preset mode: [2...