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Exorcist User Manual

The yellow label above the VSA routine allows you to choose a friendly name for

each routine. Just double click on the yellow name, eg: “VSA 1” and change it to a

name that is more meaningful and/or is shorter – like “séance”. When you click Ok it

will take several seconds to record the changes throughout the Exorcist system.

To the right of the VSA routine name is the method that is used to start or “trigger” the

routine. The column is labeled “Play if”. Scroll through the list of possible triggers.

You can see some pretty obvious triggers, like the buttons on the box or the infrared

remote control buttons. For now just select “Input 1 ON”, which refers to the first

button on The Exorcist control box.

After the trigger column is the “Reset if” condition. The reset will stop the VSA

routine and prepare it to play again from the beginning. For practice, set the reset

trigger to “Input 2 ON”. Now your routine will play each time the first button on The

Exorcist Input Box is pressed. And then stop each time the second button is pressed.

NOTE, By default, routines don’t reset automatically even when they end normally,

When a routine is triggered and played then that’s it. It won’t trigger and play again,

unless the reset condition is met.

To test the new “program” you must first click on the “ARM” button at the lower left

of the screen. You must always DISARM The Exorcist before making program

changes and ARM it again before trying out the changes.

When Exorcist “arms”, it loads and prepares all your routines such that they can be

played immediately. To make sure that everything is properly loaded before Exorcist

is armed the Arm process has a 10 second delay built into it,. You can monitor the

arming progress by the progress bar at the bottom of the screen.

ARMED? If so, press button #1. The VSA routine should start playing immediately.

However if there is a period of silence at the start of your animation routine this can be

hard to appreciate, you can verify that the routine has triggered by monitoring the

Rdy/Act/Done flags. (Ready, Active, Done) If yoru VSA routine worked, press box

button 2 to stop and reset the routine.