Hi Folks. I’m the Technical Director for a community theater troupe. We decided to buy our own portable lighting system rather than renting. It turns out, I was able to buy for about 1.5 times the rental cost.

We have a Scene Setter 24. I find the manual and DVD to be lacking…
I successfully used the Scene Setter on one show. I programmed different scenes as a single step chase and assigned each scene to a slider. This worked fine but I understand that the machine is capable of total programming the shows lighting transitions where all that is needed to step through the lighting transitions is to push a button.

What I thought I could do:
- program the lighting transitions as a chase and assign the chase to a single slider.
- I could also program the speed of the transitions.
- Then, when in production, I would start the chase in a manual stepping mode…

- at the start of the show I push up the slider which opens scene 1.
The machine holds step 1 and does not advance further on it's own.
-When I want to transition from step 1 to step 2 in the chase, I would press a button and the transition would happen. Then the machine would hold that state.
- Then when it's time to transition to step to 3, I push the button again.
- And so forth. Manually stepping through the steps in the chase at my command.

Do you know if this manual stepping through the chase is possible?

Thank you.

Hi Tane and welcome to the forums.

It sounds like what you are looking for is a cue stack. Simply put, that is a list of scenes/looks and you hit a button to advance those scenes/looks. Depending on console, you can add chases into the cue stack and advance step by step.

Correct me if I am wrong Jim and/or John, but Elation to my knowledge doesn't have a console with a cue stack. They have consoles with shows in them, which are like chases, accept you get fade time and delay time for each step/scene/look. This might give you some more control that you are looking for, because you can set times in between steps/scenes/looks and fade to the next one. Or you can go to a different show with a tradition chase if you need that for a scene. A Magic 260 can do the shows and has handles to adjust times on the fly if you need to. No faders though. A Show Deisgner 1 will give you handles if you want those.

You might want to look at a Scene Setter for a cheaper option. You can make scenes vs having to manually set the lights for each scene/look. It also still has the chases, but you can't put those scenes on a show so they are all on one button.