Spent about 4 hours yesterday with Rekordbox Lighting Mode and found a bunch of more bugs while I was trying to set up some light shows in Macro Editor.
1. in Macro editing, erasing a pattern for a moving head (right click, then delete) actually takes away the dimmer controls for the whole song. To get the movers lit up again, you need to change the mood to something else and then back again.
2. On certain tracks, when loading macro editor, dimmer curves are completely missing and can't create them. Lights behave as if dimmer curves are present, however.
3. In macro editor, if you move the phrase the associated DMX data doesn't move with it. For example, phrase analysis missed the chorus by 4 beats. If I manually move this in macro editor, it doesn't move the dmx patterns. So to move it, I need to switch to performance mode, then move the phrase then enter lighting mode (and have it populate the DMX database for 15 secondS) then go back to macro editor and now it's lined up correctly!
4. Standard OS level shortcuts for copy/cut/paste/delete don't work! Makes it tedious to say copy a dimmer chase to multiple pars.
5. Inability to select multiple lighting fixtures in macro editor mode. Eg. If I want to do a color change on multiple fixtures, I can't CTRL-click or SHIFT-click I need to change them one at a time.
6. In the Macro Mapping Mode, how can we decide what macros to use if we can't auditon them first? Clicking one of the dozens of lighting macros should do a real-time preview with the lighting fixtures so we can see what fits best.
7. In Macro Mapping mode, should be an easy way to copy a built-in scene to a user scene so we can modify it as we please. Some of them are quite good but would love to modify if rather than create one from scratch.
That's it for now but will keep posting as I come across more issues.
This gives me flashbacks to when Rekordbox DJ was released and i submitted close to 20 bugs and happy to say all were fixed. I have a lot of hope for this product and see it as a game changer if usability is addressed as well as these and other reported bugs. Thanks
Many of these issues were on my list from day zero - there's a long list of things that need improvement and we hope that our lighting team is able to prioritize them and make the updates and changes in a timely manner. Thanks for your feedback and patience.
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Ohhh Great that you have invested your time to test RB-DMX1 and provide this information to Pioneer, these are really basic bugs that should be fixed.
Thank you for your input, let's look the Pioneer feedback.
Sérgio
Pulse - great mind think alike. RB Lighting is starting to grow on me. I'm sure once some of the usability issues are fixed and the features are fleshed out a little more it will be a killer application. After another few hours of tweaking, I have a short 2 hour gig coming up next week and will try using it to control my lights (4 movers, a LED bar, and 6 pars).
@Chase > Our engineers have added items 2-7 on the updates, but are unable to replicate item 1. They've provided this info:
If you drag and select only the PATTERN area and right click and choose "Delete" there, you can delete only the Pattern without deleting the dimmer controls for the whole song.
I'm not sure if that answers your issue?
After watch some videos of @Chase I decided to buy RB-DMX1 and I am ok with the results I got so far, there are a lot of to be improved but I am happy to be able to use just one computer with everything in just one software, with this I do not need anymore to be all the time taking care of the lights as I used to be when using my old DMX interface DMXIS.
I just saw that a 5.4.4 beta2 with 2 new features was just launched specially possibility to adjust the brightness is really very welcome.
I still have a couple of questions specially regarding the fixtures categories but I am going deep in the manual and doing some tries.
Let's see how it progress and I am planning to use RB-DMX1 in April when I am going to have a Gig.
I guess I was very critical mainly due the many problems I faced when I bought my DDJ-RZX, after one week playinbg with RB-DMX1 and lightning mode we know there are some improvements needed but I can say that Rekordbox Ligtning and RB-DMX1 is a great product and fits very well to my needs.
Sérgio