User Guide

3. Controlling dimmers and fixtures - Page 131
Pearl 2004 Manual v1 - 27th August 2004
As with shapes, the order in which you select the fixtures sets how the
fan effect works. The fixtures you select first and last will be the ones
which change most. If you use a group to select the fixtures, the order
is that in which the fixtures in the group were selected when it was
created.
The fan effect, while normally used on pan or tilt attributes, can be
applied to any attribute.
1> Select the fixtures you want to fan
2> Select the attribute to fan (pan/tilt, colour etc)
3> Press Fan
4> Set the amount of fan using the wheels
5> The display shows which attribute is being controlled by each
wheel
6> Turn off Fan by pressing the Fan button again when you have
finished
Fan mode needs to be used on at least 4 fixtures to give good effects.
If you have an odd number of fixtures, the central fixture will not move
in fan mode.
Press the Fan button again to leave Fan mode. Any effects you have set
will remain in the programmer.
• It’s fairly easy to accidentally leave Fan mode turned on and be
very confused about why the wheels aren’t working properly, so
turn it off as soon as you have completed the effect.
3.2 Advanced options
3.2.1 The ML menu and Tracking
The “ML menu” (Moving Light menu) button allows access to some
handy features for moving lights.
If you press the ML Menu button again you will get a second set of
options
Option A “Locate Fixture” positions selected fixtures at central position,
with light coming out of them. The settings are not placed in the
programmer, so you need to change the values if you want to save
them. The “locate fixture” settings for each type of fixture are defined
in the personality file.
Option B “Locate Fixture no pan/tilt” turns on the selected fixtures but
does not move them to a central position. This is useful if you don’t
want to disturb the positioning of fixtures but need to light them up.
Option C and D “Align Fixtures” and “Align <attributes>” are
described in section 3.1.6 on page 128.
Option E “Record group” is used to group fixtures for easy selection as
described in section 3.1.4 on page 127.
Option F allows you to turn the Pearl’s 3D stage tracking mode off or
on. You can also do this from the graphics tablet (see page 176). When
tracking mode is on, the pan and tilt controls set the position on the