RGBW mixing

[Nathan Harald]

When I use RGBW as a colour wheel parameter, i can't seem to control the white?
My Colours look pastelly as they have white turning on and spilling into the colours?

When I choose from a preset Macro colour (the run the macro and get the rich "RED" and etc.

Is there a setting or somethign I need to consider with RGBW setup?

Thanks

[Mathieu]

Hi,

If you use an RGBW attribute, the white channel is automatically controlled based on the level of white in the desired color. For example, with a hue of 0 and saturation of 100% and an intensity of 50%, you'll get the full red channel active only, without white. As soon as you lower the saturation under 100% or move the intensity higher than 50%, then white is added.

If you want to control the white channel, you need to use RGB attribute with a dimmable effect attribute for the white channel. You need to create a fixture template in this case.

[Nathan Harald]

That's how I've known it to work with (With RGB). But seemingly not with RGBW at this time.
I'll try fiddling with my fixture template to see what I work out.

For my quick fix I did create a RGB with a separate White channel (like you suggested). This did seem to work for show.