User Guide

1. Setting up the console - Page 113
Pearl 2004 Manual v1 - 27th August 2004
fixtures, and to set chase speeds and fades.
• The Menu softkeys (labelled A – G) are used to select control
options. The display next to the buttons shows what each one will
do. The options for each key change depending on what the
console is doing. Softkey commands are shown in the manual with
square brackets like this: A [Chase Parameters]
• The Numeric keypad and other control buttons are used to enter
values and change controls on the console.
• The Fixture Page buttons are below the keypad, which select 4
pages for the Preset Faders.
• The blue Command buttons are used to carry out functions such
as storing memories, copying, saving to disk, etc. These buttons
have lights on to indicate when they are active.
• The Attribute select buttons are used to select which attributes
of a fixture (e.g. colour, gobo, pan, focus) are going to be
controlled using the Control wheels. The buttons have lights on to
show you which attributes are active. The bottom (red) button
allows you to reduce the intensity of a fixture if it loses position
during a show.
1.2.4 View screens
The Pearl can display a wide range of different information screens on
its inbuilt LCD and on the external VDU screen.
LCD views
• Channel Output: Press
View then Softkey A.
Shows the output of the
selected attribute for each
handle. You can change
the attribute by pressing a
different attribute button
(Dimmer, tilt/pan etc).
The display only shows the
first 30 handles, press the
current Pages Of Fixtures
button to show 31-60.
• Fixture attributes: Press
View then Softkey B.
Shows which attributes of
the currently selected
fixture are allocated to
wheel A and wheel B. The
view will be blank if no
fixtures are selected.
• DMX Patch: Press View
then Softkey C. Shows
which fixture each DMX output channel is patched to, the attribute
of that fixture, and the actual DMX value being output on that
channel. Use the arrow keys to show different pages of the patch.
• Fixture Patch: Press View then Softkey D. The top part of the
display shows a list of handles with the fixtures patched to them.
An arrow shows the active fixture; some fixture types will display
Softkey functions
Message area
Wheel functions
and values
free memory
View
screen
number
Main
display
area
Chase
info