Sorry for not bringing the point across clearly, I thought this is common practice.
Ok. Lets say I am using 10 Martin Mac 230s as part of a touring rig.
To start off, I am adding only one Mac230 to create colour, gobo and basic movement presets.
That will be my template for all other other Mac 230 that I will ever add.
Future MAC 230s added will allways be clones of this template fixtures.
If I should ever come across other MAC 230s in venues, I can just add them to the patch, clone the template onto this added fixture and have all presets ready to use.
Note: The template fixture will NEVER be patched, so it won’t be bound to cues or other movements (touring rig setup)
Moving on, we repeat this with all fixtures that we have in the rig.
This means, that if you press a colour preset, all fixtures will turn to the value set upon template creation. Example: press “red” preset, all fixtures will turn red.
If you only want to set group of fixtures to red, select the fixtures before you press any preset. That can also be an automatic group of fixtures i.e. fixture Type as asked above.
Maybe I should add that I only have one colour button in total per colour.
Workflow:
- Create a template
- patch fixtures
- clone template on new patched fixture
- use presets on new fixtures or only selected fixtures
Please tell me if I messed up formulating something again.