Smooth to Fades Level

[Yodlei]

On v5.6.8 Pro using LED/mini lights. Can someone explain what this is under the Sequence section in the Sequencer? I tried searching but only 3 topics came up & was turning the level off when people couldn't see a difference with very small change. Thx!

 

Edited August 22, 2023 by Yodlei
added LED/mini lights

[k6ccc]

What that does is that if there are VERY tiny level changes (for example 99 to 100 %), it will be ignored.  There are situations where you need it to not ignore those tiny changes, so one setting or the other forces it to not ignore those tiny changes.

 

[Yodlei]

26 minutes ago, k6ccc said:

What that does is that if there are VERY tiny level changes (for example 99 to 100 %), it will be ignored.  There are situations where you need it to not ignore those tiny changes, so one setting or the other forces it to not ignore those tiny changes.

 

I assume for bulb brightness maybe? I see many discussions mentioning percentages but so far, I haven't had any reason to do this or where this would apply. Maybe I'm not understanding. Just noticed that option when trying to research 1 of my other ?'s. Sounds like maybe more helpful if using pixels or where would this apply using LEDs?

[PhilMassey]

Have you ever thought about quiet portions of the music as lower light levels and louder climactic moments being very bright...... 

[Yodlei]

12 minutes ago, PhilMassey said:

Have you ever thought about quiet portions of the music as lower light levels and louder climactic moments being very bright...... 

Yep. Good explanation. I have a musical background so I get it now.

[Yodlei]

Wish I could mark you both as solutions since you both helped.

[k6ccc]

4 hours ago, Yodlei said:

I assume for bulb brightness maybe?

Here's an example.  During my year round landscape lighting, the front porch steps are a very dim white.  That means that the blue is 2%.  When someone walks up to the steps, they ramp up to a brighter white.  At that time the blue is 4%.

 

And another example.  There have been in the past issues with some controllers / firmware combinations that if a controller never saw any lighting changes for a channel, it would eventually turn that channel off.   Again during the year round landscaping lighting, there are some lights that are turned on and never changed.  I would end up with lights off because the controller had not seen a lighting command for that channel for hours.  Solution was to ramp that light from 100 to 99% and back at least every few minutes.  You will never see a 100 > 99 > 100 lighting change on most lights, but it prevented the controller from timing out the light.