No need to resort to that extreme, and I'm not sure it would work in any case. ONE dimmer for two fixtures, each with a moving mirror?
The best way to do this is to make your Rosco Icue personality virtual. In the Head Editor you set View General, Options, Virtual Channels = Yes. This means that all 5 channels now can be assigned DMX addresses separately. You go to Patch, View DMX view to set up all 5 channels. You will have to set the DMX for all 5 channels (when really you only want to set it for the first channel of the Icue and for the dimmer - however I think this is a small price to pay for it all appearing as one fixture.
You can use virtual channels on fixtures that have up to 5 channels total.
The method of patching virtual dimmers to the same head number only works for fixtures that have an RGB element but do not have a dimmer at all (even on a different channel in the patch) - the virtual dimmer then affects the level of each of the RGB channels - so if I put red at 50% but the virtual dimmer is also at 50% then MagicQ actually outputs 25% on the Red channel.
I've added your request to our bugtracker (you can add reuests yourself at www.download.magicq.co.uk) where I've attached a verison of the personality with dimmer.
http://download.magicq.co.uk/view.php?id=3673
MagicQ has a fully flexible output patch - so if you need to you can actually patch any channel to any other channel using the Merge field in the Patch - however for bigger shows this can get a bit tedious, so it is easier to do it with virtual personalities or virtual dimmers as above.
Chris
And don't stop there! We need a dimmer-gobo rotater-iris-scroller-ICue/RightArm/AutoYoke personality, the very personification of The Gafftaper Method.
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