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OK - so i have been battling this for over two years. I started with an Elation Show Designer 1 - decided i need to go to a PC. My brother bougtht ADJ MyDMX. He says no good. I buy Martin Light Jockey. I don't know about you - but VERY clunky and outdated?? SO is Emulation my answer? I have a rig with 40 Par cans (non LED) 8 Martin Roboscans (i know - old) 6 Elation Focus Spots and a few LED fxtures. I need a system to pre-program sequences (bands) . Can I program "presets" with this system? In other words have a location such as "KEYS" programmed for various sequences - then when I get to location "tweak" that location and the sequences will also adjust? ANY suggestions would be helpful - need to buy something now - Light Jockey (they also give you Maxxyz software now) just seems SO clunky. PLUS I OWN AND LOVE MACS!! H e L P! ! ! ! !
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This system you described is called a palette system. Our new program Compu Show. does just that. It lets you program a position palette and you then use that palette in a scene or cue and say you make 30 cues that use that palette. But you have to move the position back like 10 feet. Well with most other lighting programs you would have to go and edit all the scenes that use that position. not anymore with Compu Show. All you do is go into your palette editor and update the fixtures positions on that palette and AUTOMATICALLY every SINGLE scene that had that palette used in it is updated to those new positions. you can create a palette for pretty much anything. I have created focus and positions and color palettes that I used live and they all helped speed up my programming time and editing time. Here is the one caveat for you though. compu Show is a PC only program. However if you were to use boot camp that would work just aswell.
Welcome to the forums. Let me know how I can help some more.
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The UI takes a little getting used too but it is not that hard. Just got to wrap your brain around it. And yes it is completely different from Emulation. It does come with a 3D visualizer that is very useful when offline programming. And yes the midi con works beautifully with Compu Show. If your thinking about compu show you will need either compu cue basic, Compu cue, compu show SD. any one of those interfaces can run the compu Show program. The older model interfaces 1024EC 2048Fc will not be able to run compu show. hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions.
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