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Subject: Re: [LCtalk] LCX problem
From: Fokko van Duin
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:05:38 +0100

At 01:46 +0100 17-03-2004, Fairplay wrote:
21 1 / 53 74 / 86 17
recalls cuelist 202.17
This has worked fine with the old Lanbox LC. With the LCX, it works, as long as the data is coming into the LCX slowly. Sending the commands out of Logic by hand will set the LCX to the according cuelist - but sending the same data as part of the midifile in the same speed that has always worked fine for the LC will make the LCX stumble - mostly it will just ignore the cuelist change and will just call step .17 of the current cuelist, sometimes, in an higher engine, it will even call a wrong cuelist.

AFAIK this has nothing to do with speed, but not keeping together controller messages 21, 53 and 86 when you use multiple MIDI channels (layers).

As the LanBox-LCX and LCM have dynamic layering (you can change the layer order on the fly), keeping these controller messages together is far more critical then for the old LC+.



Two more things I wonder about:
If I add a static text in the fixture definition, the intensity indicators are not available anymore ?? Why ??

Intensity must be the first panel, see also tutorial.


I understand, that making a group will merge panels as far as possible - quite often that´s a handy feature. But sometimes I would rather have the chance to see e.g. two fixtures in the controlwindow with individuel panels: e.g. I have two Robocolours, that dont always work parallel. It would be a lot more convinient to programm them if I could see both of them with individuel panels in the controlwindow. So, is there a command to show two or more fixtures in the controlwindow without merging the panels ?

Yes, but it is an unsupported, secret, feature! (tip: in the group setup panel option (alt) click below the left list, and a popup will appear. Try "concatenate" ;-)


Fokko van Duin,                     Creators of the LanBox-LC
CDS advanced technology bv,         DMX lighting controller.
http://www.cds.nl/                  http://www.lanbox.com/

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