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All great info, thank you!

So, yes, my goal is different than yours as I want to fire the strobe on top of/in addition to other playing clips.

Now, I'm not trying to strobe my content, I'm trying to strobe white on top of that content. Strobing the content itself, I have that effect assigned at the per-clip level.

Right, strobe on top and A/S under gives a weird kind of double strobe/flash. Hard to explain but glad you are following.

I'm not even a novice with OSC or MIDI. The application itself with the mapping feature and my OSC editing app have made programming the commands I need much more intuitive.
Yes, piano! I forgot about that. When I get a moment, I'll attempt to reconfigure my OSC commands.

Lol, yeah, I start my strobe at .70 and end at .99

Actually, the bonus reading is quite helpful, thank you! I felt the same pain having to copy the stroboscope source effect to the same layer and column number in each deck (reminder, 25+).

Imagine this - I use clip-level effects too. When I acquire new content, the fastest way I've found to add that new content and maintain the same clip effects is to:

• duplicate a deck
• select about 10 clips at a time in the duped deck
• option drag ten of the new clips on top of the selected clips

The other clips get overwritten by the new clips and the clip effects remain intact.

I'll give your setup a try, thank you. So I understand it correctly...

• L8 is bypassed.
• C1-C7 have a solid color clip each of a different color.
• C8 has Invert RGB effect as a Clip.
• On Layer 8, the Strobe effect is applied...as a Layer effect.
• Here's where I got lost. How do you map the colors?

Yes, not really fun to paste this into each damn deck but if it's on its own layer, the effect you're going for won't be clogging up the Comp fx (still a concern for me). Thanks!

I apply a MIDI key to each of my colors. This is NOT in Piano mode. This way the color is always on. The Strobe fx is also always on. So when I'm ready to strobe the audiences eyes into the back of their heads, All I have to do is quickly press the color I want (typically done 10 seconds before I strobe) and then all I have to do is press my MIDI key that I assigned to the Bypass button on layer 8 (Piano mode). I press and hold that key and adjust the strobe speed via the fader I assigned to the FX parameter.
When I let go of the Bypass button, The color remains active but it is never seen as that layer is bypassed.
** I also have another MIDI key assigned to the actual Strobe fx bypass parameter, this way if I want to tap my own strobe, I can bypass the Strobe fx and just tap the layer 8 bypass key to make my own strobe at my own speed (I have 2 keys that I hotwired to be the same MIDI note so I can two finger tap my own strobe. Did this in Bomes)**

Layer 7 is the exact same setup as layer 8, except instead of the Strobe fx, I have the Chaser fx applied, so I can strobe custom slices to my liking. (Again, I have 2 different MIDI keys assigned to the same note so I can two finger tap my own strobe speed on this one)

OSC should be able to do the exact same thing as MIDI in my mapping style. I would also be sure to swap your start From and To from 0 to 1, to a 1 to 0, this way your fx stays bypassed by default.

Since my layers 7 & 8 are at the top and are identical on every deck, it's out of site, out of mind. Took me 5 min to setup on my first deck, then about 5 min to copy and paste to my other 20 decks.

Good stuff. When I get some time, I'll try to replicate. Currently, I've got up to an 8th layer across all decks. I'll add a 9th and 10th for the strobe. If I hit the wall, I'll be back. Thanks!!

I got it to work! Just the way I intended to, also. The strobes include playing clips from layers below. Excellent.

Now. Column 8 of the layer contains the Invert RGB effect applied to that cell as a clip. It sorta kinda strobes the footage from layers below but doesn't pop them to full black. In other words, the effect kind of makes the playing footage appear to get darker then brighter.

Thanks for the tips!