Quick Controls
Master DMXDesktop's Quick Controls: flash buttons, fog overrides, and fog timers
The Live Control Settings, or "Quick Controls" are accessible via the cog icon in the Live Control panel. Alternatively, you can access them via the keyboard shortcut CTRL+Q from anywhere within the app. From these controls you can make on-the-fly changes to some of the core settings, which are useful to make rapid changes during a show.
Flash Buttons
Flash Buttons allows you to change the behaviour of the buttons in the header and in the mobile app, you can set them as either Toggles (Latching) or Momentary. You can also change the order of how the buttons appear in the app. From v1.0.52 the flash buttons can be operated remotely as well, including group flash from the mobile remote and connected apps.
Strobe Settings
Strobe Settings allows you to alter the default strobe rate, and enable/disable strobe options. Force strobe at max (overrides even the master dimmer), use dedicated strobe channels when available, or Dimmers if not available can be used.
Blinder Settings
Blinder Settings lets you add a limit to the Blinder, choose its key colour (RGBWAUV) and give it a fade in or a fade out with adjustable timing. Two things changed in v1.0.52. The fade length was being read in the wrong units and ran ten times too short, so a fade you set now lasts as long as you set it. And the blinder releases back to the cue instead of pulling the whole rig to black for the length of its fade, which on automated paths could turn a half-second flash into a five-second near-blackout with nothing pressed. Fade speed also reaches under a second now, on a logarithmic slider so the short end stays usable.
Fog Settings
Fog Settings allows you to override all fog channels Toggle On value, this is useful if for example you have a Hazer and you want to adjust its output rate for some time. You can also enable the Fog Timer, which allows you to set an auto-off time for the Fog, anywhere from 1 second to 6hours (set in seconds).
Dark On Silence
Dark On Silence allows you to set the minimum sound level at which it is activated, as well as to set the floor level for the channels being set dark, so that you may instead have them dim rather than blackout for example. Note that Live Wire does not use this setting: it has its own "When the music stops" control on the Live Wire tab, with a choice of staying lit, fading to black, running a cue or raising your own Live Edits, and that supersedes Dark On Silence whenever Live Wire is running. Live Edits are not affected by Dark On Silence at all, which is what makes them a dependable standby look while it is switched on.
