So I started a thread awhile back about the subject of Soft Patching and it was considered fixed as of 6.26 Beta but now that I have the theatres patch sheet and my programming it doesnt work right.
Why is the universe at a 1 to 1 patch? I have nearly 300 fixtures that I have written for all over my universe. The theatres 300+ fixtures are all over their dimmer assignments.
So I go patch the programming I have written in Ch11 to their fixture which is on their dimmer at Ch 44. Works just fine, it does what I wanted it to do.
But now I go to the fixture I have programmed in Ch 44 and find that the theatres dimmers have that fixture in Ch 84, perfect. So I patch Ch 44 to 84. And then it all goes wrong.
Now when I engage Ch 11, Ch 84 goes on. That's not right, its now double patched?!?
I need a a 1 for 1 patch to write my programming and utilise it with the 3D Imager, Editor, etc to write the show. But once I walk into a theatre I need the universe to be non-patched until I patch each channel. This is not uncommon. Its a feature I find in any standard professional console.
So here is what it should do, and I believe Marco asked this as well. If I patch the softwares Ch 1 to output to Ch 3 then Ch 1 is still unpatched.
So whatever programming I have written on Ch 3 affects the house fixture on Ch 1 of the theatres universe/dimmers.
Now lets say the programming I have written on Ch 3 in the software is the theatres fixture 503. Then I can patch Ch 3's programming to the house fixture 503.
So the softwares default setting can be 1 for 1 for 3D imaging, using Editor and Live.
But I need a non-patched setting for when I put the softwares programming to the theatres light plot and play the show in Live. At that point I don't need the patch to work with Editor or 3D, I need it to work with the theatres fixtures.
The Soft patch is only half functional and I can use it. But only as long as my programming does not conflict with the theatres fixtures. So in the current theatre I am going into I will have to move all my programming to a channel higher than 400, as that is all the dimmers they use. Fortunately I am only using about 100 of their fixtures so I will readdress all my programming to 401-512 and reprogram. But that is not really how this feature should work.