x-scan speed

Bring down the fade controller on your DMX controller.

That's what's doing it. It's saying "get your bad self over here RIGHT NOW!" and the light is "YES!!" and that's why. It's not saying "hey, let's mosey on over here, OK?".

So, bring the fade down and you'll be good.

i'm sorry chris but i have to be honest. i don't understand what you are trying to say. the fade controller is all the way down when i am trying to use this. if that is what you are telling me is the problem. and it is not consistent enough to be the fade because it is happening often but not every time in back to back situations. let's say i have a still spot on scene 2 and then go to a slow movement on scene 3 and then go to a faster movement on scene 4. if i am on scene 2 and go to scene 3 it may very well jump around until i go to scene 4. then after slowing down on 4 when i go back to 3 it will be the correct speed. but if i go back to the still scene the whole process may start all over or it may work fine for the rest of the song.
thanks for your input

I don't know what DMX controller you are using.

If I am using a DMX Operator(which I do have), and I move the fade fader up a bit, and I go between scenes(granted, I'm not using any movement, just washes), it will move "not instantly" between scenes. Likewise, if I leave that fade fader up a bit and make changes, then I can expect my changes to NOT be instant as well.

A DMX controller, at the level you're talking about, is not going to know what you want fast or slow. It's going to use the SPEED to figure out how fast you want to move between scenes(delay time), while fade is going to say "how fast we get from point A to point B". I guess if you are going from a scene that is NOT using that fixture, and then hit a scene where it is using that fixture, it doesn't really have much of a choice, it has no previous position to know where to start from, so it can only send that "start" point.

Without knowing your programming or controller, I can't help much more. I do know that with the DMX Operator, you can't program "speed" into the scenes, as well as things like movement. If I want movement or scenes with many steps(say, using my moving yokes to draw circles on the wall with movement), I use MyDMX.

okay, i see what you are saying with that post. there is a speed function on my scanners that allows me to control the pace of movement when i use the auto motions. the x-scan has auto programs on fader 7, on fader 8 is the speed of the auto program. with that setting of the fader of speed/pace is the issue that i am having.
my current controller, eliminator, does not have control for speed or fade on individual scenes. i would like to replace it soon with one that does, so i can control the speed of color changes and gobo changes on my scanners. (if anyone has suggestions for a cost effective unit feel free to input)
again, thanks for any info

Well, gobo chance and color change speed is mostly dependent on "how fast you change that value" as well as how fast that fade fader is set.

The cost effective DMX Operator has both a speed setting(time between scene changes, which can be over-ridden) and the "fade" time which controls how long it takes to fully change from one scene to another. It lacks the ability to directly control programs in a fixture UNLESS the fixture has a channel for selecting programs built into the fixture, as well as a channel for "speed of running the program".

You may wish to check out software based solutions, such as MyDMX. You can copy the scene and then time adjust it to work properly for a slow song, and then decrease the times for faster songs. You can make your own programs and have full control over the speed it executes at by controlling the time between steps.

Going to my Chauvet Q-Spot 150's, which I have to due to familiarity, I can somewhat adjust my gobo and color wheel change speed by HOW FAST I move the fader to get between values. This can also be a function of the "fade time" on a DMX Operator or MyDMX.

I think if you don't need a super amount of crazy features but you do want a lot of control and ability to run your own programs, MyDMX may be good product to perhaps give some consideration to. Download it off the ADJ site and play with it for free.