Future features

[BartKrap]

@samwise309

Yes, I saw that video and actually responded; "oh my god, I've been looking for this for so long"

[Pink LD]

"• The ability to designate a button as "DO NOT INCLUDE IN MACROS". For instance, if I want to have my house lights button active while programming Macros, but don't want that button actually included in the Macros I'm creating."

THIS! OMG! THIS! When I have taken over the entire house and I am still programming but the house lights still need to be on. The weirdest things can happen. I had to sit for an hour doing live programming and updates during a show prep because a wedding party needed to be taking pictures in the house during soundcheck.

My workaround is to delete the house lights button after programming so it it lost to all macros. But I remember this one time in mid show the house lights came on because it was in a macro. The glares I got from the band from the stage...

I love having exclusion buttons for release all bottons, but an exclusion button from Macro updates would be nice.

[Hecktique]

If some of these are already available, please set me straight, but this is a list of things that would help me out immensely. I have a long list of things that I would like to see.

THE STEP EDITOR:

• UNDO function... It's 2017... every piece of software should have multilevel UNDO.

• ACTIVE/DISABLED CHANNELS DEFINABLE PER STEP... I'd like to see the ability for to have disabled and active channels configurable per each step of a step scene. For instance, I'd like to create a cue that will slowly dim out a moving fixture (over 3 or 4 sec), in any XY position, move it to a desired location, then fade in the dimmer again. I know many moving fixture have a black out moves feature, but I want to do this manually. Essentially, I want to be able to set up a panel in Live mode that has a bunch of radio buttons... that I can click on in any order... and when I do, it will dim the fixture first in it's current location... move the XY location to a new position... then fade back up. If I could create a steps scene, where the first step ONLY accessed the dimmer channel to 0 and ignored everything else, then on the second step accessed the other channels for XYpos, then on step 3 dimmer intensity back to 100%, I could do this.

• VIRTUAL PROGRAMABLE MASTER DIMMER CHANNELS... for RGB fixtures with no master dimmer CHANNELS. (Like LED Strip Tape DMX decoders). This way, any and all master dimmer FX can be achieved quickly and easily with these fixtures.

• VIRTUAL ADJUSTABLE DIMMING CURVES to help in matching dimming when using conventional and LED fixtures.

• IMPROVED COLOR SELECTION... A better color selecting wheel palette, and the ability to quickly save and access frequently used colors.

• Timing directly selectable up to .001 seconds a step... and In General, make it easier to directly type in small time values.

• The ability to apply curves to XY location paths between steps... currently the only path between steps is a straight line... I'd like to see selectable curved paths, like in the Generator.


The GENERATOR:

• The ability to add and remove fixtures after starting a new Generator cue... also create a fixture order randomizer in the Generator.

• Manual BPM in Generator scenes


LIVE MODE:

• The ability to designate a button as "DO NOT INCLUDE IN MACROS". For instance, if I want to have my house lights button active while programming Macros, but don't want that button actually included in the Macros I'm creating.

• The ability to include Macros inside of other Macros... essential sub-Macros.

• Manual BPM assigned to a button (or step scene)

• IMPROVED BUTTON LAYOUT: The ability to Drag buttons to reposition or and/or an improved and quicker way to customize Buttons and Button layout. Also allow the ability to select multiple buttons at once to change colors/edit parameters.

• More MIDI options, and more definable Faders

• Progressive multi-STEP Buttons... Activate the Button... it plays the first Step... hit it again... it plays the second step... hit it again it cycles to the next step... and so on. It could have a editable parameter that would allow you to define whether it Repeats to the first step when it completes all the final step or deactivates after the final step. With this kind of button, one could tap out a sequence of light changes live in the moment... and would be great with MIDI pads controllers.

• Autosave Live mode


TIME LINE:

• MORE ACCURATE TIMING!!!! I have found timing to not be precise, especially when syncing to media files.

• The ability to CLEARLY see audio waveforms of all supported types of Media files...

• Definable BPM in Timeline

• HIGHER TIMING RESOLUTION... Including a beats and bars option like audio recording software


I'm sure I could think of more... I'm hopeful you'll include many of these ideas in Version 9.


Bob Vandervliet
Columbus Ohio

Most of these would indeed be very useful, particularly LIVE could do with some improvements regarding its versatility. Also in Generator > Steps it would be great if any channels could be switched on and off by each step instead of having to assign any value once these channels are activated. This would be useful for programming "overlay effects" that can be added to any playing chase (for instance like a flash effect) while keeping the original chase intact during steps in which the overlay should have no effect. So far I could only get this to work by programming timeline blocks for the overlay effect, like the strobes in this video (note that the strobes punch in, fade out, then neutralize to allow the colors of the original chase to reappear:

https://youtu.be/IvzJXJmv0zk

The possibility of writing such overlays directly as a steps scene by allowing channels to be switched on and off within the duration of the scene would make programming these sorts of effects far less cumbersome.

[Light_user]

I purchased this product almost a year ago. I have spent hours on this forum, looking for help, asking for future features, reporting bugs, creating en sendings steps to reproduce errors.
Now one year later, nothing has changed. Sweetlight is dead. This product is way too expensive and development of the software is 0.
I bought a Enttec USB Pro DMX interface (130 euros), in combination with [moderate by support].
Sweetlight is just a low-budget side-product of Contest, and it's made just because other brands are also present at the DMX-software market.

[samwise309]

First off- what is Sweetlight and how/why is it different from being labeled as ShowXpress?

Secondly, the last major update was just over a year ago if memory serves me correctly. V8 made a bunch of improvements from V7 and if bugs have come up, the admins have been pretty quick to address them from what I've seen. Features and requests have been made (many from myself) and they have been taking note of them because they are currently working on the next major update TBA. It sucks waiting a long time for updates, but I'm sure its no small task to roll them out. It took MA over ten years to upgrade their console; these things take time. I have high hopes that V9 will pick up a lot more intelligent engine features similar to other programs with SX's own touch.

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