I have been trying to give SS a go, I have mainly moving heads and scanners. It seems to me SS is mainly made with RGB capable lighting in mind, washes, up-lighters, color bars etc as it relys on a lot of repetitive colour fades.
As my lights have 8-10ish set colors, most of the auto generated programmes dont look very good, over the course of a 5 min song I may get 2 or 3 different colors if im lucky and I cant see any way to override this and create a more colorful show.
I have seen it run with up lighters and it looks great but it just doesnt seem to work very well with set pallet units short of creating a manual program for each track, am I missing something?
I think you can but I found it didnt make that much difference. I wouldn’t be too bad if there was a variation between tracks but I dont even seem to get much of that, it seems to go with the same handful of colors all the time.
Again this would only show as possibly 2 colours on my lights:
Yeah but you cant set color on attribute cue’s. I basically want the auto-script to create more colorful programs it seems to create them with 4 max most of which dont show on my lights
Have you checked up on that the DMX chart for your fixtures are correct according to the values for the colours?
I had a issue once where I accidently send them an outdated (wrong) dmx chart.
Found the right one, and then they changed it and all my colours worked after that.
You also can Edit the presets in SOUNDSWITCH, so it will auto script with the chosen colorscheme and the selected attribute cues, next time you pick that Preset
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I have given up with it for the time being, my old trusty DMX software Freesyler works much better for my needs at the moment. Will look again in a year or two when they have added more features.
I looked at sound switch six months back and it seemed little more than almost any other dmx program but with ability to get its beat grid tied to primes beat grid
I haven’t seen anything specific but I expect as they charge a monthly fee in some cases it would be under continuous development. Dont get me wrong it is really good software and the ability to create a show for specific songs is great its just the auto script program seems designed with RGB par cans etc in mind, not moving head/scanner type fixtures, so it creates very boring shows in my case.
Keep your head up bro, they just implemented a new “auto-script” skin which is called “lots of colours” … so the autoscript is putting in definetly more colours now, could be they way to go for you The software is getting better in better since they are really close to the community.
The software is getting better in better since they are really close to the community.