User Guide

Avolites Pearl 2000 Operators Manual - page 121
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• Turn the Key to System. Puts you in SYSTEM MODE menu.
• Press Softbutton G [UTILITIES]. Puts you in UTILITIES menu.
• Press Softbutton A [SET CLOCK]. LCD Screen refers you to the VGA Screen.
• Type in the time using the 24 hour clock, and the date using 2-digit
format for the day, month and year.
• Press ENTER.
14.2 The CATALOGUE function
This function displays the show name from a show disk on the VGA monitor.
If the disk is not a show disk, the monitor displays the message ‘Show Data
files not found’.
• Turn the Key to Program. Puts you in LIVE PROGRAM MODE menu.
• Press the blue DISK button on the Program Select bank. Its LED lights up.
Puts you in the DISK OPTIONS menu.
• Press Softbutton F [CATALOGUE]. The disk is read, and the VDU displays the
show name if present.
• Press EXIT to continue.
14.3 Personality Disks
Personality disks contain the Personality files. A Personality disk may
contain one Personality file or all of them.
There is a Personality file available for almost every DMX Fixture currently
on the market. Avolites constantly produce new and updated Personality to
keep up with new DMX devices and changes to old ones.
14.3.1 Personality Files
Personality files contain all the information the desk requires to patch and
configure an Instrument including which Attribute Bank will control which
Attribute.
These files are updated periodically and made available on the Avolites
Website (www.avoloites.com), or can be obtained on disk from an Avolites
distributor or Avolites Ltd. in London.
Subject to the information being available to Avolites Ltd., the Personality file
will configure the desk for the optimum operation of a Fixture. It will also
prevent illegal patching operations on the Fixture. See Section 5.17 Illegal
Addresses.
14.3.2 Old Personality files
If you try to use old personality files, the desk will warn you. It is not
recommended that you use them, except in emergencies.