Gooood morning from icy cold-ass finland
Sorry for the english, i try to make this as pleasant as i can.So, i work as a dj in a small nightclub and recently purchased mydmx as my personal controller. It seems to be very cabable and nice little system, but few annoyances makes things difficult.
1.
I have (yet) four martin mx-1 scanners to order around, and i was happy to set up stage, make lots of nice scenes and so on until this came up. Fourth scanner seems to lose its position in x-axis somehow >:/ No matter if i´m doing a new scene or running a show, suddenly mx4 points off from its course. Every scene, every step same thing. Always mx4 and only channel x. Sometimes resetting the program helps, usually not. At first i thought it was because i was missing a terminator, then made one(430ohm resistor between pins 2 and 3?) but the problem persists. Makes me nuts.
I dont think this is the cause but i am, sadly, using some xlr-cables istead of true dxm (longest cable from mydmx to 1st scan is a real one), and previous controller worked fine.
2.
As said, generating some FX does sometimes only half of the trick. Lets say i want to make a simple scene which contains all fixtures to circle(10 points) + shutter to wave up and down for nice flickering. Everything looks fine and i hit "generate", this makes ~30 steps in a scene. Fine. Sometimes this works, but sometimes for example steps 1-14 work fine, fading time maybe 00:01:00 BUT steps 15-30 have fading time only 00:00:04, which makes the rest of the scene go - go figure -"supafast".
Fewer steps in a FX seems to work often than FX which has more steps. I can always chance times manually but it kinda sucks a bit ´cause i already have to correct some anonymous fourth scan now and then...
Any suggestions?
Thx in advance,
-O