User Guide

Avolites Pearl 2000 Operators Manual - page 156
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• Preset Faders only control Intensities. Using the Pages of Fixtures
principle above, you can access Intensities of all patched Fixtures and
Dimmers. You can swap pages at any time. Intensity levels are
maintained when pages are changed. You have to match levels with the
existing Intensity of a Channel before you can control it when you
change page.
• The link between the Banks of Attributes and the Preset Faders has
been completely broken. No matter which Attribute Bank you are in,
you will always have intensities on the Preset Faders. Hence, you can no
longer patch odd Dimmer Channels onto unused Attribute Banks. The
Wheels control all the LTP functions.
• Wheel A controls intensities for all Fixtures and Dimmers, regardless of
where they are patched.
• There are now 120 Preset Focuses.
1 – 30 live on the grey Preset ADD buttons as usual.
1 – 60 are accessible from the Graphics Tablet as before.
1 – 120 are accessible by typing in the number of the Preset Focus.
• There are now 120 Groups.
• There are up to 40 Attributes on 20 Attribute Banks available per
Fixture. (Attribute Bank buttons 1 – 10). Attribute Bank 11 has become a
Shift key to access the second page of Attribute Banks. No Fixture at
this time has any Attributes on the second page, but it can’t be far away!
Attribute Bank 12 is still the Reduction Bank.
• The fact that Dimmer Channels have been separated out of the Attribute
Banks means that Reduction Channels have been simplified, and no
longer ever need to be patched. Attribute Bank 12 temporarily puts all
the Preset Faders into Reduction mode.
• Shared Preset Focuses. This allows you to select one Fixture and use it
to program Preset Focuses that then get copied automatically into all the
other Fixtures of the same type. You can therefore use one Fixture
before a show to program a whole bunch of Preset Focuses before a
show, or save yourself a load of time if you add extra Fixtures to an
existing rig.
This also saves a lot of memory space in the desk. The Preset Focuses
that optionally load when you patch a Fixture are of this type.
• New button functions on the top row of grey buttons over the keypad
numbers are (from left to right):
- CHANNEL. This allows you to access Fixtures to be selected and
controlled by entering numbers. A Fixture can be referred to by type
(eg. Cyberlight 2, Intellabeam 12) regardless of the number of the Handle
it is patched to. You can easily select ODD and EVEN Fixtures from a
Selected group of Fixtures.
- FOCUS. Allows access to all Preset Focuses including those that are
not allocated a grey ADD button (Preset Focuses 31 – 120).
- INCLUDE. Include function has moved, and has enhanced features.
See below.
- NEXT SCREEN. Allows navigation through the Screens. The old VIEW
CURSORS, which allowed navigation forwards and backwards through
the Screens, are gone.