Fixture request

I can't use the manual overrides because they are not linked to scene's and aren't synced to the music.

I'm looking for a way to control a laser, which isn't supported.

I've done a test by using the (Led tape red 1ch), green and blue, channels to patch them to the laser and it worked really well, how ever the problem is that the rgb channels are scaled by the master fader, and the channels of the laser aren't supposed to be scaled.

My hope is that the rotate and gobo channels aren't scaled by the master fader. Since my moving heads don't utilize those channels I can use them for the laser.

I know this is a hack, but having a 1 channel fixtures would allow me to patch together fixtures that aren't currently supported.

I hope you can help me out, by adding those two generic single channel rotate and gobo fixtures.

You said the fixture has only "rotate" -- you could easily control that with manual functions in rekordbox, and assign it to MIDI control for value manipulation.

I would like the laser to be controlled by the scenes, like any other light. So that it is automatically controlled based on which scenes are assigned to a given part of the song. That in certain parts of the song the laser is off, in others it is on and it may pulse to the beat, change colors, and so on.

As far as I understand midi allows me to control it manually, which is great, but not the solution what I'm looking for.

As long as rekordbox is not supporting more complicated fixtures, having single channel fixtures would allow people to patch together their own mappings and use that as a hack to control un supported fixtures or custom build rigs.

The approach that I'm suggesting here is that I would assign a single channel rotate fixture to DMX address 244, which corresponds to the pattern of the laser, and in rekordbox assign this to say moving head 1 (my moving heads don't use rotate). And then I would do the same to DMX address 248 that corresponds with the color channel (1-20 is  red, 21- 40 green, etc) and assin that to moving head 2. Now in the macro editor I could program the rotate channels of those fixtures (moving head 1 & 2) and have the laser respond to it.

Lasers are not supported fixture types - I'm trying to offer a work-around.

I understand that you are trying to help me out, thank you for this suggestion, I consider it my last resort.

It would be great though if you could answer my question if it is possible to add a single channel fixture. Because that would pretty much solve it for me. And I guess other people can benefit from it to.

Sorry, I understand what you're asking for but I still feel the best solution would be the manual overrides as a single-channel fixture wouldn't necessarily have the correct information from the lighting sequence.

Can you please help me to understand why the rotate or the gobo information would not be passed on thru a single channel fixture? It works perfectly with red, green or blue.

I've tried this suggestion:

Why not use the manual lighting overrides? There are 9 of them available in rekordbox.

But the problem is that in the recordbox interface, while DJ'ing, only 3 are available on screen. I found that the pads of my DDJ800 can have DMX direct control assignment, yet the buttons don't give feedback if a DMX direct control is enabled or not, the buttons remain grayish so this makes it pretty much useless.

I have an important gig in two weeks, can you please help me out.