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3. Controlling dimmers and fixtures
This chapter contains: Selecting fixtures and dimmers for control;
changing attributes of the selected fixtures; using groups.
When you are programming a show, and sometimes when you are
running a show, you need to manually control the fixtures and
dimmers to set the intensity, position, colour, etc. To do this you first
select the fixtures you want to change using the Swop buttons, then
you set the attributes of those fixtures using the Wheels and Attribute
buttons.
3.1 Create
3.1.1 Selecting fixtures and dimmers for control
To select the fixtures or dimmer channels that you want to control,
you use the blue Preset Select buttons (below the preset faders) or
the Fixture touch buttons on the Touch Wing to load the fixtures into
the Editor. You can select fixtures or dimmers individually, or several
at once.
You can control dimmer channels and fixture intensity directly from
the preset fader, or select the channels as described below and use
the Dimmer wheel.
1> Press or touch the select buttons for the fixtures you want. The
select button will light up brightly for selected fixtures (they are
shown in light blue on the Touch Wing and HUD and inverse
text on the LCD intensity view).
2> To select a range of fixtures, hold down the Select button for
the first fixture then press the Select button for the last fixture.
For touch buttons, run your finger across the buttons – a
selection square will draw on the touch screen.
Here are some other things to know:
• Press Locate (red button at the bottom right of the console) to
light up the selected fixtures in open white and move them to a
central position. See the next section for more Locate options.
• You can deselect a fixture by pressing the select button again.
• At the top of the Touch Wing, just above the top windows, the
console will show you which fixtures are currently selected.
• Once you have changed any attribute, pressing a Select button
will deselect all fixtures and start the selection process again.
All previously selected fixtures (since you last pressed Clear)
stay in the programmer. They are shown in dark blue on the
Touch Wing and HUD, and underlined on the LCD intensity
view.
• Press Clear (right of numeric keys) to deselect all fixtures and
remove all changes from the programmer. See the next section
for more Clear options.
• The intensity of the fixture is
shown as a bargraph on the
HUD. In the User Settings you