redbandit599 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Hi all Like many of us we've got some led flat pars for band lighting. Also like many getting the best out of them live proves tricky. I've got a normal dmx controller currently, Chauvet Obey 40 which works ok but is too much faff live whilst playing. So, I was interested in seeing the Chauvet Foot-c come out but it's left me with a few questions too. The foot-c is a 6 channel controller rgbawu my ledj 7q5 pars have 4 and 7 channel options. 4 being rgbw and 7 being dimmer, strobe, rgbw and macro. The built in macros on channel 7 are too pale for my liking anyway but the dimmer and strobe are handy. One question is if you plug a 7 channel fixture into a 6 channel controller does the controller just ignore the 7th channel? Any tried anything like this? I just want to have a few different scenes at different speeds and colours available but having tried and seen a few systems just doing their own thing, I do want to be able to program stuff in and just switch easily. Midi looks no use, no backing track stuff to sync with, and software applications still seem to require a pc and would leave me without foot control. Any suggestions welcome! Cheers Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 (edited) I haven't seen the foot-c yet but usually the 6 channels would refer to the number of channels on each page. That means that if you set your fixture to address 1 you use channels 1-6 on the foot controller page 1, then channel 7 will be the first one on page 2. Ideally you would then set the next fixture to address 13 and the foot controller would then control that fixture from 13-18 (page 3) and 19 would be channel 1 on page 4. That should keep it more simple. Hope that makes sense. Usually fixtures are 6 or 12 channel. I would set the fixtures to 4 channel mode and get the Footc to do the fade and strobe. Each fixture then fits on one page. . Edited February 20, 2016 by TimR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbandit599 Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 Cheers Tim - I suspect that try it and see will be the best way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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