Thanx a lot! How do I separately show the lights in the 2 D viewer when they are connected to a dimmer with 4 channels - and every channel has a separate light (in my case a LED strip)? (and of course, I do have more multiple of these 4-Channel-Dimmers)
Hello So you only have two options here and it all depends upon how you set up the LED strips in your fixtures tab. Lets take one LED RGB strip for example: You could list it as one fixture with 4 DMX channels: 1-Dimmer, 2-Red, 3-Green and 4-Blue. In this example you would only be able to display it as one light in the DMX monitor but it would display the changes in color. So if your Dimmer, Red and Green channels were at 100% you would see a yellow light. The other option would be to enter the 4 DMX channels as simple dimmer channels in the fixture tab. For example the dimmer channel could be generic dimmer 1. The Red channel could be generic dimmer 2. The Green channel could be generic dimmer 3. And the Blue channel could be generic dimmer 4. Now these would show up as 4 separate lights in the DMX monitor. These would be displayed as white lights since they are just generic dimmers. You could fix that by clicking in the "Gel Color" box and selecting a color when you are placing your lights in the 2D grid. Hope this helps Ed Richards
I ran into a problem, so, I have a 12 channel dimmer, and the dmx monitor says it has twelve heads(cause its 12 channels) now when I add it into the dmx monitor it adds the 12 channels as a group, but I would like to seperate it, to correctly represent the lights. Any advice on that?
I assume that you are talking about a 12 channel dimmer pack and you are plugging incandescent lights into each of the channels? Instead of setting this up as 1 fixture with 12 heads, just set it up as 12 generic dimmer channels with the DMX addresses matching the channels of your dimmer pack. That way you can position each light as you please in the DMX monitor. Can you tell me the model of your dimmer pack? Send it to my email address: ctltech2@outlook.com
Thanx a lot! How do I separately show the lights in the 2 D viewer when they are connected to a dimmer with 4 channels - and every channel has a separate light (in my case a LED strip)? (and of course, I do have more multiple of these 4-Channel-Dimmers)
Hello
So you only have two options here and it all depends upon how you set up the LED strips in your fixtures tab.
Lets take one LED RGB strip for example:
You could list it as one fixture with 4 DMX channels: 1-Dimmer, 2-Red, 3-Green and 4-Blue. In this example you would only be able to display it as one light in the DMX monitor but it would display the changes in color. So if your Dimmer, Red and Green channels were at 100% you would see a yellow light.
The other option would be to enter the 4 DMX channels as simple dimmer channels in the fixture tab. For example the dimmer channel could be generic dimmer 1. The Red channel could be generic dimmer 2. The Green channel could be generic dimmer 3. And the Blue channel could be generic dimmer 4. Now these would show up as 4 separate lights in the DMX monitor. These would be displayed as white lights since they are just generic dimmers. You could fix that by clicking in the "Gel Color" box and selecting a color when you are placing your lights in the 2D grid.
Hope this helps
Ed Richards
I ran into a problem, so, I have a 12 channel dimmer, and the dmx monitor says it has twelve heads(cause its 12 channels) now when I add it into the dmx monitor it adds the 12 channels as a group, but I would like to seperate it, to correctly represent the lights. Any advice on that?
I assume that you are talking about a 12 channel dimmer pack and you are plugging incandescent lights into each of the channels?
Instead of setting this up as 1 fixture with 12 heads, just set it up as 12 generic dimmer channels with the DMX addresses matching the channels of your dimmer pack. That way you can position each light as you please in the DMX monitor.
Can you tell me the model of your dimmer pack?
Send it to my email address:
ctltech2@outlook.com
@@edwardrichards7722thanks for the answer, great tutorial btw, I will send it tomorrow if I dont forget