Operator`s manual

Copyright Avolites Limited 2010
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it by pressing View, [Show workspace window], [Groups].
1> Select the fixtures/dimmers you want in the group (the order in
which you select them will also be stored in the group).
2> Press the grey Group button (top right of the numeric keys).
3> Press [Record Group]
4> If you want to, use [User Number] to enter a number for the
group, or [Provide a legend] to set a legend.
5> Press a Palette button (below a preset fader) or touch a Group
touch button where you want to store the group, or press
[Store] to store as a numbered group.
6> Press Clear then repeat from 1 to store other
groups.
• You can also press the Avo button and the Group
button to go directly to the Record Group menu, or
on the Touch Wing touch the button twice to use
Quick Record – on the first touch the button will turn red with a
+, on the second touch the group will be recorded.
• To select all the fixtures/dimmers in a group, just press the
grey palette button or touch the touch button for the group.
• The order in which you originally selected the fixtures when
creating the group is also stored. This takes effect when you
use the last fixture – next fixture functions described in the
next section, and when you use Shapes, Fan mode and Fixture
Overlap functions. You can change this later, see page
80.
• Groups are shown on the heads-up display.
You can also recall a group by its number:
1> Press the grey Group button.
2> Type in the number of the group you want to recall.
3> Press [Recall Group].
• The Group button also gives you facilities on the softkeys to edit
and delete groups.
3.1.11 Stepping through selected fixtures one at a time
If you have selected a range of fixtures, or a group, the Pearl has
functions to step through the selected fixtures one at a time. This can
make it easier to program a range of fixtures because you don’t have
to select each one manually.
This mode uses the Prev/Next/All/Hilight buttons to the right of the
Go button.
1> Select a range of fixtures or a group.
2> The Prev and Next buttons will select the fixtures in the range
one at a time (in the order you selected them).
3> The ALL button will select all fixtures in the programmer
(everything which has been selected since Clear was last
pressed).
• The Hilight function can be used to highlight the output of the
selected fixture (make it brighter onstage), see the next
section.