New to Beam and need a profile

[Luka]

Hi @SpaceDad!

You are always welcome to request fixture profiles. You can also create fixture profiles using Beam’s Fixture Editor (you can find it by going to Window → Fixture Editor). The only situation that still requires manual intervention outside the Editor are aggregate fixture profiles - profiles for fixtures that contain multiple cells / children fixtures.

• Here is the (FIXED!) fixture profile for the 53-channel mode of Elation Colour Chorus 72, along with the component children fixture profiles - place these files into your Fixture Profiles/User folder:
  Elation Colour Chorus 72 - 53ch.sbf (1.8 KB)
  Elation Colour Chorus 72 - 53ch (total channels).sbf (1007 Bytes)
  Elation Colour Chorus 72 - 53ch (red, green, blue, dim).sbf (836 Bytes)

• Profile for the 49-channel mode:
  Elation Colour Chorus 72 - 49ch.sbf (1.9 KB)
  Elation Colour Chorus 72 - 49ch (red, green, blue, dim).sbf (836 Bytes)

• Profile for the 48-channel mode (FIXED!):
  Elation Colour Chorus 72 - 48ch.sbf (1.7 KB)
  Elation Colour Chorus 72 - 48ch (red, green, blue, amber).sbf (870 Bytes)

Working with the 53-ch mode profile

1. When adding the 53-channel mode fixture profile to the Patch, don’t assign a tag to it via the Add Fixtures dialogue just yet. Instead, add it to the Patch, then double click on the fixture and assign one tag to the Total fixture:

   

   And another tag to all the LED Group fixtures:

   

2. In Live, add a Generic device for controlling the Total tag - you can use this device for controlling total Intensity / dim (make sure this is at 100%), shutterstrobe (with certain fixtures this also has to be at 100% or at ON in order for the lights to turn on), program, programspeed and dimmercurve modulations:

   

   Add another Generic device for controlling all the LED Group fixtures:

   

See this video for a demonstration of this process (as well as some workflow ideas) with another similar fixture.

Controlling slot channels

I should also point out - this fixture has some channels (such as the Strobe channel, controlled by the shutterstrobe modulation in the profile above) where different functions are recalled using specific DMX values / slots:

Controlling a channel like this using modulation values between 0. and 1. can be inconvenient. To work around this, you can (currently):

• Use a custom device that allows you to control a modulation with values between a 0 and 255 (make sure there are no Ranges applied to the target modulation in the Patch): Value (raw DMX values).amxd (242.7 KB)

  

• Choose to only use a specific range of the channel, such as 32-96 to control the Variable Strobe Effect SLOW to FAST of the Strobe/shutterstrobe channel above - then using modulation values between 0. and 1. makes more sense. You can set the Ranges in the Patch Editor:

  

• Make a custom M4L device for handling slots of a specific fixture.

Last but not least, thanks for your interest in the beta group, we have added you and will be happy to have your eyes on any new beta versions! However, please note that the new features related to fixture profiles and the extended library are currently not yet available as they are still under development.

Please let me know if you need any further help down the road.

EDIT: Fixed the 53-channel mode profile and added the 48-ch and 49-ch profiles.