[SML] Ion rant (was: LD for Crazy...)

[Jacob Blumberg]

ETC light boards are like photoshop there are millions of features and you
use 1%. However they just put up a new video series where they show you
lots of stuff on the board that gives you a solid foundation and the rest
can be learned by their forums.

Jacob

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 9:36 AM *Hobbit* via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Mention of "knowing Ion inside and out" jogs me to de-lurk and post
> some of my own rudimentary findings from a recent weekend, when
> I managed to learn some more programming subtleties on one.  Now,
> I sort of cut my teeth on Hogs and have at least did a little reading
> on other ML type boards over time, so I've got that bias going in ...
> but the more I find about Eos/Ion the more I just go "wtf?" as
> the design feels like it's just twisted basic concepts all out
> of whack.
>
> I needed to do a bit of busking setup, e.g. separated parameters
> I could bring together on the fly at playback but which wouldn't
> stomp each other across submasters/cuelists, and got some good
> hints from a colleague who wasn't dead certain about the steps
> but got me going in the right direction.  I still don't think I
> had the optimal procedure, but I wrote up what I discovered:
>
>    http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/pix/a18/part03.html
>
> The "deep Ion geekery" bit is in an offset box near the beginning,
> and I'd love some commentary on it and what I did wrong.  The rest
> of the page [and the other parts] is probably of less interest, but
> is all part of the ongoing series of tech "debrief" writeups on our
> local SF convention that I've been working for a decade-plus.
>
> _H*
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