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Scenes VS. Steps

FM Former Member
I am new to MyDmx (1 week) and have been reading up and watching as much product info as possible. Could someone please explain the difference if any, of scenes vs steps...

From what I can gather, multiple scenes can be linked in sequence to other scenes after a specified amount of time which in turn can create continuous loop of different effects.

Similarly, multiple steps can be looped into a given scene essentially creating the same effect as having multiple scenes looped together.

My question is:
What are the advantages or disadvantages of using multiple scenes with a single step?

What are the advantages or disadvantages of using one scene with multiple steps?

Or using a combination of multiple scenes, with multiple steps?

I hope this is not too confusing. I do understand that these features are very similar and function in almost the same way but, there must be a reason for the redundancy.

Thanks
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S Studio42 (Guest)
What advantages of using multiple scenes with a single step?

No clue. You can use multiple steps within a scene though.

For example, if using moving head fixtures, it would take multiple steps to program the light to do the movement you want.
You can also time the steps to provide different washes after a pre-determined time.

A good example:
I'm going to throw all my LED lights into sound active mode, but I need to rotate my high tech FX lights hanging off dimmer packs at 10 minute intervals. I can have 4 steps, to rotate between the 4 DMX channels on the dimmer pack, each step timed for 10 minutes. Each step will also have my LED lights in sound active mode.

You can't combine scenes with each other. It doesn't work. You can copy and tweak though.

ALSO, with MyDMX, if you want a scene, especially one with multiple steps(such as a moving head sequence), you'll need to copy/paste steps as needed to get the time you want, and/or adjust time per step.


A scene is a single step or collection of steps within a single scene.

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