Favorite Effects and Presets

These are two quick-access panels: the effects and presets you need most, right at hand so you don’t have to hunt for them during a show. The panels appear automatically as soon as you mark at least one effect or preset as a favorite.

📍 Where: Live → the center-right zone, above the scenes grid: the “Favorite Effects” and “Favorite Presets” blocks.

Favorite Effects

Quick launch of saved effect variants (waves, rainbow, strobe patterns, etc.).

  1. To add an effect here, go to the “Effects” tab, right-click the variant you want → “To favorites (Live)”.
  2. In Live, click the effect button — it launches. A running effect is highlighted in amber.

On the button: the colored dot is the variant color; the name is the parent effect.

Favorite Presets

Presets from the Programmer — prepared head positions, color schemes, gobos.

  1. To add one, press the star ★ next to the preset on the “Presets” tab.
  2. In Live, clicking a preset applies it to the selected fixtures (or to all of them if nothing is selected).

The star color hints at the preset category: color, position, gobo.

💡 Tip: keep your 5–10 most-used effects and presets in favorites — this is your “quick kit” for the show. Everything else is always available on its own tab.
Fig. 07.20.1 — The favorite effects and presets panels
Fig. 07.20.1 — The favorite effects and presets panels