Now, compare all those keystrokes above with those of competing consoles to achieve the same result outcome.
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Sure, go ahead !.
Seriously though, if you had a mover, you simply press the Direct Select Group (or the fixtures or group themselves on the new
Magic Sheet in 2.0) on the touch
screen for all the
MAC 700's and type,
Effect 90X (900 series being pre-built effects), Enter, and you have a
Ballyhoo running. So 6
button presses total. In reality, a simple
chase is as indicated, more steps as there's no built in simple
chase for
conventional channels. And there can't be as the
desk has no way to know what channels are in each step. Curious as to how that's different on a Hog or MA.
The complication with the subs is the faders can be a lot of different things besides subs, so some add'l thought to tell the Sub "You're an
Effect Sub now, and the
fader is an
Intensity Master" (it doesn't have to be though). Part of that is trying to be a lot of things for a lot if users, as well as the "Theatrical" legacy of all
ETC desks.
On the other
hand, does a Hog or GrandMA support simple stuff like
ASCII cue support ?. I don't think so and AFAIK. So do I save time loading an
ASCII cue file off some other
Ion or Expression series or
Strand desk ?. Yup, Much more saved time not having to write 150 cues from scratch, so if I occasionally spend some time writing a simple stepped based
chase, I more then make up for it by being able to load those cues right into the
desk, which is something I do a lot !.