As some of you know I am debugging manually through my Live.ini file and I realised as I am going through it all that that there may be an easier way to deal with layering. For example let's look at this Live button from the .ini file:
[page6_button1]
line = 1
column = 2
name = 250 Scene.mac
title = Go!
beats = 0
color = 16777215
speed = auto_bpm
macro = RGB Mode 1234 #1|ds wash@2|Preset Gp 1@2|Preset Gp 4@2|USP RWB Chase@6|11 Colour Preset@4|12 Colour Preset|13 Colour Preset@8|14 Colour
Preset@4|15 Colour Preset|16 Colour Preset@8|98 1 Dmr@5|98 2 Dmr@6|98 3 Dmr@4|98 4 Dmr@5|98 5 Dmr@6|98 6 Dmr@4|11 Preset@7|12 Preset@7|13
Preset@7|14 Preset@7|15 Preset@7|16 Preset@7|Pan Saw 250 x6@5|1-6 Strobe Preset|SR SL Merge #3|FL RWB Chase@5|
In this Macro-
macro = RGB Mode 1234 #1|ds wash@2|Preset Gp 1@2|Preset Gp 4@2|USP RWB Chase@6|11 Colour Preset@4|12 Colour Preset|13 Colour Preset@8|14 Colour
Preset@4|15 Colour Preset|16 Colour Preset@8|98 1 Dmr@5|98 2 Dmr@6|98 3 Dmr@4|98 4 Dmr@5|98 5 Dmr@6|98 6 Dmr@4|11 Preset@7|12 Preset@7|13
Preset@7|14 Preset@7|15 Preset@7|16 Preset@7|Pan Saw 250 x6@5|1-6 Strobe Preset|SR SL Merge #3|FL RWB Chase@5|
You can see I am calling a number of scenes from all over the place in my Live pallets. And I have ordered my Live pages in ascending and left to right order to deal with conflicts in layering various features. Most of the time it works as I have planned but occasionally I have to really fiddle with it to get the results I want. And that had me wondering if there could be made a way where I could say right click a Macro and see what scenes I am calling and reorder them so that layering conflicts. If I call for a spot cue with a mover I have the colour wheel active and forced to NC. But sometimes I wish a spot cue that is focused pre-show in a different colour, that call in the Macro must be after the spot call. What do you think?