Assigning 2 fixtures to 1 generic Dimmer Channel

[wayneebabe]

Hi,

I think I'm missing a trick here, I use QLC for theatre lighting, which consists of both DMX and analogue lighting. I use a number of generic dimmer channels to control my analog lighting, each channel representing a row on my patch board.

As with most patch boards, each channel has at 2 x 5 or 15 amp lines attached to it, which means that each generic dimmer controls at least 2 lamps. If I try and add multiple fixtures on the fixture editor, it immediately increases the channels to 2.

Don't get me wrong QLC is controlling what I want it to as each dimmer channel is on or off and doesn't give a flying fig regards what's attached to it, but if I want to get the full benefits of the stage modelling that version 5 will bring then I need to associate a number of fixtures to a single generic dimmer channel.

Is there a way to do this?

[mcallegari]

Nope, both v4 and v5 don't allow overlapping channels.
V5 however, allows to add "linked" fixtures, so you can preview separate items as it is in the real world

[GGGss]

for the visual purpose, you could make use of dummy-fixtures. (Use an offset of f.i. 300 to identify the dummy vs real fixtures)
The only extra thing to do is to 'apply-all' the settings of the real fixture to the dummy ones.