User Guide

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Contents
1. IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTE FOR THOSE INSTALLING THIS
SOFTWARE FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION. ............................................... 4
2. EXTENDED MEMORY............................................................................. 4
3. TRACKING AND TABLET SETTINGS.................................................... 4
4. SHAPE GENERATOR.............................................................................. 4
4.1.1 Softbutton A Toggle Size...............................................................................................5
4.1.2 Softbutton B Toggle Speed ............................................................................................5
4.1.3 Softbutton C Toggle Merge .......................................................................................... 5
4.2 Number of shapes................................................................................................................. 5
4.3 Increasing the number of shapes when loading a show from April 98 software................5
5. BUILT IN PERSONALITY FILES............................................................. 5
5.1 Installing built in Personality files....................................................................................... 5
6. DISK SYSTEM ......................................................................................... 6
7. SCRIPT FILE............................................................................................ 6
7.1 AUTORUN timecode and run if same................................................................................. 6
7.2 BLACKOUT........................................................................................................................6
7.3 Edit On the Fly .................................................................................................................... 6
7.3.1 Softbutton C [Sort Steps by Timecode] ..........................................................................6
7.3.2 Softbutton D [Play]........................................................................................................ 7
7.3.3 Softbutton E [Pause]...................................................................................................... 7
7.3.4 Synchronise................................................................................................................... 7
8. MIDI.......................................................................................................... 7
9. CLOCK..................................................................................................... 7
10. HIDDEN ENHANCEMENTS AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS............. 7
10.1 Battery voltage check...................................................................................................... 7
10.2 Graphics tablet................................................................................................................ 7
10.3 ADD buttons .................................................................................................................... 8
10.4 SNAPSHOT..................................................................................................................... 8
10.5 Changing pages with fades running................................................................................8
10.6 PLEASE WAIT ...............................................................................................................8
10.7 Pearl 97 show disk compatibility.....................................................................................8
10.8 MIDI ................................................................................................................................8
10.9 Channel Select using the keypad..................................................................................... 8
10.10 Shared Focuses.................................................................................................................8
10.11 Bus error handling system...............................................................................................8
11. APPENDIX 1 CHECKING FOR EXTENDED MEMORY ..................... 10
11.1 Software check for Extended memory.......................................................................... 10