Relackout

Scenes and fades

Record a scene live, shape its fade times in the Scene Designer, and play several scenes together as layers on a mixer panel.

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In Relackout, a Scene is a look captured live, while the lights are on — the Scene Designer has no “new scene” button. This guide takes you from recording a scene with the Record tool, through shaping its fade times (Default fade, Delay, Fade In, Curve, Fade Out), to playing several scenes together as layers on a mixer panel.

Open the Scene Designer

  1. Open the Scenes card from the home screen.

    Scene Designer screen with two ready-made scenes in the list, Warm White and Blue Night, each row with Edit values, Duplicate and Preview buttons.

Two scenes are already in the list: Warm White and Blue Night. You won’t find a “new scene” button here, because in Relackout a scene is recorded with the Record tool while the lights are on — we’ll do that in a moment.

Recall with Preview and crossfade

  1. Click Preview on the Warm White row; a few seconds later, click Preview on the Blue Night row too.

    Scene list; the Blue Night row is Active and highlighted, the Warm White row has returned to the Preview button.

  2. Click Active on the Blue Night row (turn it off).

    Scene list; the Blue Night row has returned to the Preview button, the scene has faded out.

Preview always plays one scene at a time: when you preview a new scene, Relackout fades the old one out while fading the new one in, and this crossfade uses the incoming scene’s own fade time. To see more than one scene at once, you need the scene buttons and faders on a mixer panel — we get to that at the end of this page.

Record a new scene in Fixture Control

  1. Click Back; click the Fixture Control card.

    Fixture Control screen with the device list on the left, the Controls panel on the right, and the Record tool in the top right.

  2. Click Clear in the top right.

    Fixture Control with nothing playing; device selection and controls are empty.

  3. In the Patched devices list, check Front 1, 2, 3, 4 and Back 1, 2.

    Six PARs checked in the device list, the Intensity and Color sections open on the right.

  4. In Intensity, click 100%; in Color, pick the red box.

    Intensity set to 100%, the color preview box red; all six PARs lit fully red.

  5. Click Record in the top right, then + Step once.

    Record bar active: red recording indicator, 500 ms fade reading, 1 step counter.

  6. Click Decrease fade repeatedly until it reads 200 ms.

    Record bar fade reading now shows 200 ms.

  7. Click the check-mark save icon; in the Save recording dialog that opens, type over the random name in Name: “Red Pulse”.

    Save recording dialog; 'Save as scene (1 step).' note, Name field filled with Red Pulse.

  8. Click Save in the dialog.

    Dialog closed; the record tool has closed and shows the Record button again.

Record a Blackout scene

An empty scene — one with every channel off — is the easiest way to fade to black on your own timing. Let’s record one more scene with everything off.

  1. Click Record in the top right, then + Step once.

    Record bar active with a 1 step counter.

  2. Click the check-mark save icon; type over Name: “Blackout”.

    Save recording dialog; 'Save as scene (1 step).' note, Name field filled with Blackout.

  3. Click Save in the dialog.

    Dialog closed, record tool closed.

Shape the fades: Delay, Fade In, Curve and Fade Out

  1. Click Back; click the Scenes card.

    Scene Designer screen with four scenes in the list: Warm White, Blue Night, Red Pulse, Blackout.

  2. Click Edit values on the Blackout row.

    Edit scene values screen; the Fixture controls tab selected, with Default fade and other timing fields at the top.

  3. Click the Raw channels tab.

    Raw channels view; every DMX channel listed with its own fader.

  4. Type over Default fade (s): 3; click Save at the top.

    Back in the scene list; the Blackout row now reads Default fade: 3s.

  5. Click Edit values on the Blue Night row.

    Value editor open; the Default fade field reads 2.

  6. Type over Delay (s): 1; type over Fade In (s): 3.

    Delay field reads 1, Fade In field reads 3.

  7. Pick Ease from the Curve list.

    Curve selector reads Ease.

  8. Type over Fade Out (s): 4; click Save at the top.

    Editor closed, back in the scene list.

Play as layers in Live Control

  1. Click Back; click the LIVE CONTROL card.

    Live Control screen with the Scene Layers panel loaded: two scene buttons and two faders below them, both off.

  2. Click the “Blue Night” scene button.

    Blue Night button lit; the fader below it eases up after waiting one second.

  3. Wait a few seconds, then click “Blue Night” again (turn it off).

    Blue Night button off; the fader eases down over four seconds.

  4. Click the “Warm White” scene button; then click the “Blue Night” scene button.

    Both buttons lit, both faders up; the two scenes play at once.

  5. Drag the “Warm White” fader to half.

    Warm White fader at mid-level, Blue Night fader still at full.

  6. Click Clear.

    Both scenes off; buttons and faders reset.

  7. Pick Default (1–512) in the layout selector, top right.

    Channel view (1–512) open, showing raw DMX channel faders instead of the Scene Layers panel.

A note on BPM Mode

With BPM Mode on in the bottom bar, a scene’s Delay, Fade In, and Fade Out scale with the live tempo — the reference is 120 BPM: drop the tempo to half and the times double, raise it to double and the times are cut in half. We cover BPM Mode in detail on its own page.

What’s next

On this page you recorded a scene live, shaped its fades in the Scene Designer, and played scenes one at a time with Preview or together as layers on a mixer panel. Up next: Cue lists — lining up several scenes with loop, one-shot, and manual GO.

Updated: October 8, 2026

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