User Guide

Avolites Pearl 2000 Operators Manual - page 63
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• Press the flashing SWOP button of your Playback Channel to record the
step. The prompt line on the Screen tells you your next step number.
• Repeat the previous two directions for as many steps as you wish to
record. There is no limit to the number of Chase steps provided that there is enough
storage memory left in the desk.
• Press the CHASE button again. The Chase is now recorded. The LED on the
Playback Channel will light to indicate it has something recorded on it and the LED on the
CHASE button goes out.
• Press CLEAR to release Channels from the Programmer.
⇒ If the Playback Fader is not at zero, you must lower it to zero before you
raise it again to recall the Memory.
It is very important to get into the habit of pressing CLEAR, to ensure
that you do not end up recording Channels into your next Memory or
Chase that are not intended.
7.3 Connecting a Chase
You can alter aspects of the Chase by CONNECTING it.
• Turn the Roller to select the Roller Page of the Chase you wish to
Connect.
• Raise the Chase Playback Fader above the Trigger Point. This is the point
at which the Chase will start to run.
• Press the blue CONNECT button in the Sequence Control area. The LED’s
of all the Chases on this page of the Roller will flash.
• Press the SWOP button of the Chase you want to Connect. The Chase
LED’s stop flashing.
We say the Chase is now CONNECTED.
7.4 Adjusting the Speed and Crossfade of your Chase
Connect the Chase. You can now control the Speed and Crossfade times
of your Chase using the two Wheels.
• Connect the Chase as described in Section 7.3 Connecting a Chase.
• Move Wheel A, the Speed Wheel to speed up the sequence. The Speed is
displayed on the LCD Screen in the Wheel A Screen Wheel display box.
Move Wheel B, the X fade Wheel to change the crossfade between
each step. The crossfade percent is shown in the Wheel B Screen Wheel display box.
⇒ User Setting 13 selects the display to show Beats Per Minute or time in
Seconds. See Section 12.13 Setting 13. SPEED IN SECONDS / BPM.
A 0% crossfade means the steps will snap and FF% means the steps will
Crossfade, such that at the end of the fade the next step will immediately
start.
7.5 Stopping and Starting your Chase
The STOP and GO buttons stop and start a Connected Chase.