Live Button fades

[jkeefauver]

I am confused by the operation of the buttons. Let's say I have a scene that simply fades in and I want it to fade out when I turn it off. I only have one step in my scene because I don't know how long I want it to last and I need to be able to manually trigger it when I want. So let's say I have a scene that is set to smooth transition. When I click the button, the lights fade in but when I click it again, the lights go off suddenly. How can I accomplish having them fade out?

[Niffo]

You have to create 2 scenes : one for fade in and one for fade out. In Live you can use a "chase" page to put your buttons.

[jkeefauver]

Do I then make them solo buttons with no loop so the fade out doesn't happen until I unclick the fade in?

[Niffo]

Yes, sorry i wanted to say "solo button" and not "chase"

[jaxx00974]

Fade in would be one scene with 2 steps - Step 1 = the desired fade then step 2 hold the fade for something like 30 minutes.
Fade out = one non looped fade out.

How we do it.

Lee.

[tomrbland]

support, is there a feature here? If a scene is set to fade could it fade out as well as in?

[Niffo]

In fact, the best way to do that is to use single step scenes. In this case you must not use the "No_Loop" option on the Live buttons. Live will naturaly fade from the precedent value to the desired value.
(see attachment scenes for the "Demo_Show_600")

[support]

If a scene is set to fade could it fade out as well as in ?

We do not see any easy way to do this, because of scenes can have more then one step.
The easiest way is effectively to insert "one step" scenes in a "solo button" page.

[digitalperformer]

Erik, it would seem to me that you should be able to have the lighting controller recognize a single step program for a dimmer channel that the curve fades in and out for a single scene. I undrstand it would be much more difficult as multiple channels, and it may have to be hard coded as a dimmer fixture only specifically for dimmer packs. I have seen many requests for this across many threads. This is a popular feature on many other consoles. if they have figured it out, why cant we have it too. I would think a ramp approach would work. Especially in the live controller. making the user create a 2nd program is bs, this is a programming issue I have that makes me use this controller as a last option only. even my nsi 24 channel board knows to auto fade out a fade in

[support]

It is very easy for Live-Buttons to do fade in and out between scenes.
We recently published a demo lightshow for this.
Please read this: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1131