After starting back looking at getting my show going I had what I think is an innovative idea that I have not seen on pixel controllers before.
Since my MegaTree this year is changing from a standard led string based tree to Smart Strings I Will need alot of work on the seqences to make them work. Since only one channel controlled the whole string before I have to copy the data to all the nodes on the new strings to do the same.
Of course I could put the SSC in String mode but I would then be limited from adding some cool effects to the shows to show them off
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Then the idea, How about a Third mode I would call Hybird Mode. It would give you all of the nodes as individual control but add three additional (fantom) channels to the beggining of the string.
So if the string was 50 nodes instead of being ( 50 nodes x 3 channels) = 150 channel it would be 153 channels.
These first three (fantom)channels would control the string like the String mode but the next 150 channels would control it as individual nodes. This way you could use them both ways. When the first three (fantom) channels are off then the 150 channels work as nodes and if you turn on the first 3 (fantom) channels then the string then is controlled as a string.
I could copy the channel for each color from my current sequences to the correct channel of the first three. Then add advanced stuff new in the 150 channels to control it on a pixel level.
Wonder what the thoughts on this idea is?