User Guide

Light Show
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14.Light Show
The controller has a complex automatic light show system. When
you press the Light show button, the controller will begin to
generate its light show. The light above the button will come on to
indicate that this is happening.
Note: You can’t select Light show while you are in the middle
of recording scenes or chases.
If the controller is idle, in other words you haven’t selected any
heads, scenes or chases, then it will produce a full light show using all
the connected effects. (You can turn off all selections by holding
down the Cancel button). If you want an ‘instant’ light show, or you
don’t have a lighting operator available, Light Show mode will give
you the best results - a fascinating ever-changing display. In fact, once
you’ve watched the automatic light show, you may decide not to
bother doing any programming yourself!
You can change the speed, crossfade or sound activation of the Light
Show using the sliders and sound button, as you would for a chase.
You can stop the light show by pressing the Light show button
again or by pressing Cancel.
You can also select the first 16 pre-programmed chases instead of the automatic Light
Show, by pressing one of the numeric keys.
However, the light show mode is much more than just an automatic show. You can
use it together with your own scenes and chases to add variety to your programming.
You can combine a scene, a chase and manual control of heads with the light show;
any values which you don’t set (which are zero) will be replaced by the light show. So
for example you could program a chase consisting of only mirror movements and have
the light show mode fill in the colour and gobo settings (see page 27 for how to
program a chase like this).
Light show setup
The light show will use all the heads that are connected, and divides them up into four
groups. It is up to you to allocate the heads to the groups; you do this using the Head
Setup mode (see section 4.3 on page 16). You will find that this works best when you
allocate similar types of effect to the same groups, perhaps splitting them left and
right. The four groups will perform synchronised actions, perhaps using contrasting
colours or blacking out alternately. If you use Enhanced mode, make sure you set any
unused heads to ‘Off’. Enhanced mode is described below.