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Some question regarding RB Lighting Mode and RB-DMX1

Hi,

I started to use RB Lighting mode and RB-DMX1 and I am planning to migrate completely to it, at this moment I was able to use several features and also to map the Lighting Panel functions to my AKAI APC Mini Controller and the things are going well, there some nice to have features that I am looking for and also some important such as map via MIDI the new feature Dimmer.

Anyway I am happy with the progress I did in the last 3 weeks and I would like to clarify some points/questions: 

1) Fixtures Categories and Predetermined Positional Relationship

According with the picture below from Lighting mode manual, if we use the fixtures categories and predetermined positional relationship as described we will have the optimal configuration because we will very close of of the way the predefined scenes was created.

In some gig's I have to use 8 or more moving heads or par led's, I like to combine it adding for example 2 in Moving Head Category 1, 2 in Moving Head category 2 and so on.

My question is if this setup make sense or should I use category the Simple that in Rekordbox manual is stated "*Simple category You can use Simply category for Par Light, Bar Light and Moving Head.
When you select the Simple category, the pre-set scene is applied which is optimized when there are 2 lighting devices assigned to each category"

Should I put 2 moving heads in Moving Heads categories 1 to 4 or should I use Moving Head Simple category ? What is the optimum setup ?

Second question if I use simple category how should be the "predetermined positional relationship"

 

2) Lasers

There is a statement that RB-DMX1 and Rekordbox Lighting does not support Lasers, but in Fixture Library there is the Laser Category and I saw some persons requestiing some laser show fixtures such as L1WRGB. My question is RB-DMX1 and Rekordbox Lighting can control lasers or not ?, if yes which functionalities are supported from these fixtures ?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Sérgio

sbherculano

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Regarding lasers, you're running the beta -- that product category was just recently added, however I don't believe any units currently function with that selection.

As for placement / numbering, I number fixtures similar to how you show in the diagram; left to right in increasing range. For cases where there's duplicates, I will either just run it twice from left to right, or mirror the setup (1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1).

I always use the regular fixture profiles, not the SIMPLE ones, because I'm always using at least 4 of each.

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Hi Pulse,

You are so fast !! Thanks for the answer ..

I will this one, I think this is an important point because I saw some colleagues that not paied attention to this Predetermined Positional Relationship and they were not getting a good result, after made some changes the light show was much better !!

Sérgio

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The nice thing about the software is you could set any fixture to any profile and it won't affect your macros. In some cases, I've used only a pair of moving heads, and instead of using them as 1-2, I tried 1-3 or 1-4 to make for a better show.

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Hi Pulse,

Great !! I will create some venues in the Software making some combinations to see the differences in the light shows.

One question, are you combining Moving Spot and Moving beams together in some positions ? I have 8 moving spot and 8 moving beams so to know what you are doing would be very helpful for me as well.

Sérgio

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I'm typically using 2 moving wash and 2 moving spot, so I use them ordered:

Wash - Spot - Spot - Wash

The wash have RGB colour mixing, but the spots are colour-wheel, so it's not a perfect match, especially when there's any smooth colour transitions.

When we dealt with larger numbers of fixtures for the trade shows, we've typically just paired them up - for example, two vertical sticks of trussing would have the fixtures numbered the same on each side, either by DMX or by fixture profile number.

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