Hello,
I’ve tried for many hours to understand why something is happening in ONYX and just can’t figure it out, so looking here for some help. I’ll try to explain the best I can in text but will try to include a video to help explain better. I’m using the latest formal version of ONYX (v4.8.1244.0)
I have two Chauvet 4BAR Tri USB fixtures in 15Ch mode used for face/front lights. I have 9 standard cuelists controlling these fixtures on faders so I can easily control their intensities manually: 1 fader for overall/master intensity (cuelist 137), and 8 faders for each of the individual cells pointed at the band members (cuelists 145-152). I’ve set these cuelists up to “Block Global Release” and “Stay alive” because I pretty much always want these cuelists active, even if other cuelists “take over” their values momentarily, I want the fixtures to go back to their normal “face lights” when other cuelists are released.
I have another cuelist (#193) with cues programmed for an entire song (Verse 1, Pre-Chorus, Chorus, Verse 2, etc.). The first cue (verse 1) has a fade time of 2s and a macro to release all other cuelists “ReleaseDimmersFirst” EXCEPT CL 193 (the cuelist for the song) - this ensures no other values/FX sneak in from some cuelist I forgot to release, and that cuelist 193 is the ONLY one running to guarantee it looks exactly how I programmed it.
The problem I’m having (and maybe it’s an ONYX bug?) is that when I press GO on cuelist 193, my 4BAR Tri front lights dip in intensity when I don’t expect them to. Cuelist 193 does not contain any intensity values, so why are the intensities dipping?
A recent discovery I have is that if I set the facelight cuelists (137 or 145-152) to 0 or full, there’s no issues during the 2s fade into cuelist 193. However, when I set the facelight cuelists to say 50% and press GO on 193, the intensities immediately drop to ~25% then gradually ramp back up to 50% over the 2s fade in of verse 1. Similarly, if I set the facelight cuelists to 60% and press GO on 193, the intensities immediately drop to ~36% then gradually ramp back up to 60% over the 2s fade in of verse 1. So it’s almost like the intensity values are immediately squaring themselves (50% x 50% = 50%^2 = 25%, OR 60% x 60% = 60%^2 = 36%) before ramping back up to the correct value, even though they shouldn’t have decreased to begin with. So the more I think about it, it seems like this might be a bug in ONYX regarding the release all cuelists macro and cuelists setup to block global releases. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Any help is appreciated! I’ll try to post a video to help explain better 