Did I mess up?

[Al Saunders]

Hey Guys,

I know I'm late to the S5/S6 party but I'm getting ready to convert from good ole S4 to S6 pretty soon. Before doing so I am making some changes to controllers. I'm replacing one 16 channel controller with two 4 channel controllers due to distance between the elements. I was only using 7 channels of the 16 channel controller. One of the 4 channel controllers will have the same unit id that the 16 channel controller did but the other 4 channel will have a new unit id. I felt the easiest thing to do was to add a 4 channel devise above the 16 channel devise in the grid and then add a 4 channel devise below the 16 channel devise. I copied channels 1-3 from the 16 channel controller to the 4 channel controller with the same unit id and then copied channels 4-7 of 16 channel controller to channels 1-4 of new 4 channel controller. What I did and the reason for my question/post is after making these changes I deleted the 16 channel devise and saved the channel config. After doing so something went off in the back of my head from years ago hearing either one of you guys or the Great Chuck Smith say "NEVER DELETE A DEVICE or GROUP of channels" but I don't remember what it was. Either way, its deleted in the channel config and on 2 of my sequences so far. So did I mess up the "Behind the scene" workings in the software by deleting? 

I'm trying to get the sequences updated and just updated the channels in my Visualizer in preparation for the S6 conversion. Also, in Visualizer it doesn't know or care what channel devise it is does it? Do I have to delete the 16 channel devise and add the two new 4 channel devises? I hope not. :) 

All three of these controllers are regular A/C channel devises, no RGB/Pixel stuff. Thar's fine as is. 

Anyway, thanks for reading this and would love some input. 

Have a blessed afternoon/evening and stay safe.

Thanks,

Al 

[Box on Rails]

I would say never delete anything until you create a copy of the preview/visualizer you want to edit and then make all your changes in the copied file, That way if a mistake is made you can always start fresh with a another copy of the original file. When you make the move to S6 the conversion process from S4 Visualizer to S6 Previews will possibly create a number of questions. you should start asap to convert to S6 so you have a lot of time to learn the new program before the show season starts. Don't worry. We're here to help. also this YouTube channel has a lot of great videos on S5/S6 . https://www.youtube.com/@LuminousHarmony 

[Mr. P]

In earlier versions of LOR, S1-S4, it was always recommended to never delete controllers and always add to the bottom. All programming was done in the sequencer and some controllers have thousands of channels associated with them so when you deleted those channels all the channels below may not move up correctly and throw your sequence out of whack. Not sure if this still holds true for S6 as you add and delete props.

[Al Saunders]

Thanks for the replies and info. I think the easiest thing for me to do in preparation for the conversion is to manually go into each sequence that I'm keeping and make the changes I did already to 2 of my sequences and save instead of importing the new channel config. This way everything else will stay in position and I'm just copying and pasting 7 rows and adding the new 4 channel controllers and deleting that one 16 channel controller. Going forward the new channel config will be the layout. 

Visualizer question: do I need to add the 2 new 4 channel A/C controllers and delete the previous unit id controller? As stated above, the one 4 channel controller has the same unit id that the 16 channel one did. I'm thinking I don't need to remove the 16 to add the 4 channel with the same unit id. Any thoughts? Developer Mike, are you around? 😁

As always, I appreciate the help! 👍

Al

[Box on Rails]

20 hours ago, Al Saunders said:

 

Visualizer question: do I need to add the 2 new 4 channel A/C controllers and delete the previous unit id controller?

what I would suggest is to add the 2 new 4 channel A/C controllers after you make the conversion to S6 in the new preview created in the transfer. Other wise in S4 just add the 2 new 4 channel A/C controllers and leave the 16 channel in the visualizer.