Re: X32 Tech Talk
There are a couple of things that one should keep in the back of one's mind whenever working with scenes, and how that might possibly affect the outcome of any action.
- First of all, everything is saved, if a parameter, channel or part of a scene is safe, the settings will still be saved and might be recalled at a later time if the safe settings are changed.
- A bug (or indeed a feature) in the XControl means that parameter safes and channel safes are not saved to the showfile, I haven't tested to see if the console has the same feature. If one opens a showfile with the safes set, that showfile won't affect the parameters or channels that are safe as per the settings in the showfile, thus leaving it totally to chance what settings those parameters and channels might be at after the show has been loaded, so not having the "param safe" and "chan safe" statuses saved with the showfile makes total sense, but it means that after loading a show, these have to be configured manually in order to work.
- It is important that the first scene of a show doesn't contain any scene safes as a scene safe will mean that the show wont initialize to the original settings of that show and be set at whatever (random) setting the console had before loading the show. On can of course exploit this by for instance safing the Output Patch in every scene of the show, using a separate scene file to initialize these settings before the show is loaded, but then it has to be a deliberate and considered action.
