jim6918 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 This is my first year as most of you know. I have been running tests with controllers and a few light strings, just make sure I am getting power to all channels. So far I haven't hooked lights up to all 16 channels at one time. Yesterday during a test, I noticed that the "twinkle" setting was more like "random." Operating only from the visualizer, I thought that the twinkle would be something more like a slow "shimmer." Thinking back to my sequences, I have quite a few short timings using twinkle, in the area of 2 - 5 seconds. I am wondering if I am going to get the effect I wanted, or I should be looking at changing twinkle to shimmer.Or, do you think I am missing out on the full effect by not having lights to all 16 channels and I should just wait? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 You are correct that the twinkle effect is a random on/off. The shimmer effect affects all included channels identically. In my opinion, twinkle is a bit too slow in the real world. I personally would like to see it speeded up just a bit. 2-5 seconds might be a bit too short of a time for the twinkle effect - some channels might only flash off and back on one time during that span. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim6918 Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 Thanks George. Thats what I was afraid of. I'll sure be glad when this first year is behind me, not only with the start up expense but learning the finer points of how LOR works in real life. I am going to have to go back thru my sequences to see where I used twinkle and think about changing to shimmer; which is really the kind of effect I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iresq Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 I believe that controls for twinkle and shimmer are in the works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 That would be great! I'm fine with shimmer and I love being able to fade it. But twinkle still disappoints me. I'd like very much to be able to regulate the twinkle speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Cherry Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 George Simmons wrote: That would be great! I'm fine with shimmer and I love being able to fade it. But twinkle still disappoints me. I'd like very much to be able to regulate the twinkle speed.2008 was mt first year doing my own choreographed display.After sequecencing all my songs and see the final results in the display, I was concerned about the Twinkle effect and thought using only LED's and Twinkle was not a good match.This year all Twinkle was being removed or modified in all my songs.If the timing is adjustable this year will use that function to correct some of my programming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 I've also removed a lot of twinkle effects after seeing it first-hand last year. Bob says it's unchanged, but it sure seems slower to me than it was even last year. If the new and improved twinkle is gonna make its appearance for this season, it better be soon or else they might as well wait until the spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M Gardner Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I have found that the twinkle effect works great if you have alot of channels grouped up. Example my mega tree has approx 200 channels on it so when I twinkle all of them together it works great however if you are only going to twinkle a couple of channels or channels that are spread out accross your display then I agree it is a little to slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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