The Lighting Controller

I have made a number of scenes with my ADJ tri7x lights that fade nicely. As soon as I set them to manual BPM the fade goes away and they hard switch to the next color or step. I would like to keep the fade, any ideas?

This is not possible.
In "BPM" mode, there is no other choice to snap to next steps, as soon as the next beat is coming.

I'm not following you. I don't want them to snap on and off I want them to fade.

To keep the fade, the scene speed must be set to "Manual Speed".

This functionality would make life infinitely better. Is there a reason fades cannot be translated in "Manual BPM Mode", from a programming (coding) perspective?

If works like this presently: each new beat snaps the next step. The next step can no be faded, because the software does not know when will be the next beat.

check if you can configure internally in the fixture the fade time...

@zkflow: Configuring the fixture to the fade time could be a work around, but then that fade time would be the same fade time for all the fades.

@support: I understand how much goes into the ongoing development of software, and I appreciate all that you guys do. I do have a suggestion that may be worth some thought.

If you could get the integer of the manual tempo and, the selected time signature (1/1=1, 1/2=.5, 1/3=.33, 1/4=.25, or 1/8=.125), and the number of steps in the scene; you could divide 60 by the tempo to get the seconds per beat. Then you could multiply that by the number of steps to get the total duration of the scene. Then multiply that by the selected time signature to get the seconds per step. Then the software will know when the next beat comes. Or just change the step duration of the scene.

60 / manual BPM = Seconds per beat
seconds per beat * number of steps = scene total duration
scene total duration * Time signature = time per step

The users would have to understand how to time their steps with the time signature in mind to get the desired result; but I could be a start.

I don't even know if that would implement with what you guys have already, if it'll process fast enough, or if I am missing something. I'm just offering suggestions... I would really love to have this functionality.

Regardless, thanks for all your hard work!

FYI : viewtopic.php?f=73&t=4676#p19239