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Virutal Devices and Feedback
AlexArtist
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I use virutal devices plenty for mimicking hardware, but not for panels.
Recently i had a gnarly scenerio where one panel needed to connect to other panels in the room depending on what the user chose, and so i tried using virutal devices to represent panels.
Basically i setup 9 virutal panels. Room1, Room3... Room9
And if a panel wanted to display what the Virtual Rooms were controlling, i'd combine Real panels to these virtuals. (i only used 1 port of the real panel and less than 400 channels) The Problem is the Feedback on the Virtual Panels was messed up. sometime it would display, most the time it wouldn't. I made sure i set my virtual channel and port count correctly. I eventually gave up and used the real panels with dev array, and that works.
I'm just wondering if anyone else had similar problems and how they solved them? I would like to use virtuals panels but i need to understand them better. Are there any good rules to follow when making virtual panels and them combining real ones to them? After doing some tests i found when you combine a new panel to an existing virtual, it doesn't always clear out the feedback the panel had prior to the combine, that's pretty annoying.
Anyway, any good advice on this one?
Recently i had a gnarly scenerio where one panel needed to connect to other panels in the room depending on what the user chose, and so i tried using virutal devices to represent panels.
Basically i setup 9 virutal panels. Room1, Room3... Room9
And if a panel wanted to display what the Virtual Rooms were controlling, i'd combine Real panels to these virtuals. (i only used 1 port of the real panel and less than 400 channels) The Problem is the Feedback on the Virtual Panels was messed up. sometime it would display, most the time it wouldn't. I made sure i set my virtual channel and port count correctly. I eventually gave up and used the real panels with dev array, and that works.
I'm just wondering if anyone else had similar problems and how they solved them? I would like to use virtuals panels but i need to understand them better. Are there any good rules to follow when making virtual panels and them combining real ones to them? After doing some tests i found when you combine a new panel to an existing virtual, it doesn't always clear out the feedback the panel had prior to the combine, that's pretty annoying.
Anyway, any good advice on this one?
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Jeff
Yup! There were 9 slave masters but they didn't controll feedback on the virtual panels.
All virutal panel "Sends" and "Feedback" were done on the Primary Master.
I beat my head into a wall for a couple hours before I found this out
Jeff
Jeff