User Guide

3. Controlling dimmers and fixtures - Page 17
Pearl 2004 Manual v1 - 27th August 2004
3.4 Using groups
If you’ve got several units of one fixture type, you often want to select
them all at the same time. To avoid lots of swop-button-pressing, the
Pearl allows you to put fixtures or dimmer channels into groups, which
you can then use to select all the fixtures just by typing the group
number. If you are using the graphics tablet you just press one button
on the tablet and all the fixtures in the group are magically selected.
Making a group
Î Select the fixtures or dimmer channels you want to put into the
group
Î Press the ML Menu button, then E [Record Group].
Î Type the group number 1-200 on the numeric keypad and press
Enter.
Once you have created a group, you can then quickly select all the
fixtures in the group:
Selecting a group of fixtures
Î Type the group number on the keypad
Î Press A [Recall Group].
Î The fixtures in the group are selected, all other fixtures are
deselected.
If you are using the graphics tablet, you can save and recall groups
with one touch of the pen. This is described in more detail in the
Graphics Tablet chapter.
3.5 Copying settings from other fixtures – Align
If you’ve set a nice colour on one of your fixtures, and you want to
copy it to all the other fixtures of the same type, the Pearl’s Align
function can do that. You can also use it to make all pan and tilt
positions the same for a range of units or to make dimmer levels the
same.
Copying settings from other fixtures
Î Press an attribute button to select the attribute you want to copy
Î Select the fixture or dimmer channel you want to copy from
Î Select the fixtures or dimmer channels you want to copy to
Î Press the ML Menu button, then D [Align <attribute name>]”.
Î Or you can press C [Align Fixtures], to align all attributes.
3.6 Fan mode
Fan mode automatically spreads out a selected range of fixtures to
produce a fan of light beams, like rays of sunlight. The first and last
fixtures of the range are affected most, and the central fixtures are
affected least. The amount of fan can be set using the wheels.