Generally speaking it's not easy to combine 2 different DMX consoles. This means that you can use your PADS to load new CUES for tracks that don't have any special programming mapped on them. Also, with both plug-ins it is possible to use custom buttons (or remap a button on your controller, or even create a dedicated pad page) to control Freestyler CUES from within VirtualDj. On your scenario, if a "new" track has no FS data stored in it, Freestyler will keep running your lights with the last CUE activated by the previous track. As long as a CUE is active on Freestyler your lights will keep operating based on the instructions of the CUE. That being said, Freestyler can run your lights no matter what data you send to it via a plug-in (SBDJ's Freestyler8 plug-in or my own Freestyler MRC) What you need to do is to program a few CUES on Freestyler. Your thinking is wrong: Freestyler is more or less a software based DMX controller.
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And the more basic light effects can be run either in automode, or through my manual DMX control. For example, the strob and a few lasers can be done from Freestyler to add effects timed with certain drops in tracks or similair. Another way is to let Freestyler control a few of the lights and the manual control the rest. So my wish is to use my manual light controller for certain tracks.
So if playing a request without any DMX data added, the lights will not get updated anymore. I won't get any 'automatic' functionality so to say. Let's put it like this: If using Freestyler only, I will have to program the lights completely on all tracks that I am playing. Even if I understand the DMX protocol and how to add this functionality, I am not certain how to combine my manual DMX control with the Freestyler plugin. I am updating my lighting rig and going from a pretty basic stand alone / auto working lights to a DMX based one where I want to control lights either from a generic DMX controller and the freestyler DMX plugin.