Hi, I am considering purchasing Compu Show and have a question about show programming. I currently use Pangolin Quick show for my laser and DMX control however, after hitting over 150 DMX channels, it has become very cumbersome to use.
To build shows, I would create a page for each fixture type e.g. I would have a page for my QSpot 160's, and another page for my mania SCX 500's.(very similar concept to Compu Show). Then I would build a bunch of scenes JUST for that fixture and save it on the fixture page. I would do this until I had approx 60 scenes per fixture. Then I would use the timeline feature to mix and match scenes from various fixtures to build a new scene based on multiple fixtures and I would layer the scenes so that more than 1 set of fixtures would be on at the same time.
So my question is, is this a good practice? It seems like it would be. And can Compu Show do something similar?
I know you can save scenes on each fixture page. But I can't find a way to layer scenes from multiple pages together. If it's not possible, how should I be building my shows diffidently? When you have so many fixtures, it becomes extremely time consuming to try and create a single scene utilizing multiple fixtures.
I also tried cycles, but it only allows you to play/record 1 scene at a time so that won't work.
Thanks for any advice.
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