Operator`s manual
Page 42 – 3. Patching
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• a fader, used to set the intensity of the fixture or dimmer
• a blue Select button which is used to select the fixture
• a grey Palette button which is used to store and select Palettes,
Groups and various other things
The fader and buttons are together referred to as a handle.
There are 4 pages of presets controlled by the fixture page buttons,
located just above the numeric keypad. Fixtures 1-60 are on page 0--
, Fixtures 101-160 on page 1--, 201-260 on page 2—and 301-360 on
page 3--. You can change the fixture page at any time.
If the Fixtures window is not shown, press
View then [Show
workspace window] then [Fixtures].
Fixture buttons can be shown either in pages with Page buttons, or
you can use the scroll bar on the right to show different pages. Use
the [Pages Show/Hide] button on the right of the screen to select
between page buttons and scrolling mode. You can change the fixture
page at any time.
You can allocate fixtures and dimmers to Groups, which allows you to
quickly select a set of fixtures with one button. Groups are described
in the next chapter.
Once you have patched fixtures or dimmers, the Patch View screen
shows you an overview of what is patched where and lets you edit
the patch. See section
3.2.1 on page 48.
3.1.2 Patching dimmers
Each fixture button can control single or multiple dimmer channels.
You allocate a button using the Patch menu (described below) or the
Patch View window (see section
3.2.1).
1> Press Patch (one of the blue function buttons bottom right),
then [Dimmers].
2> [DMX Line=] shows you which of the DMX output lines you are
patching onto. Enter a new number to change the line. [Address
= ] shows the DMX address about to be patched. You can
change this by typing in the new address on the numeric
keypad and pressing Enter.
3> To patch a single dimmer, press a Fixture Select button. To
patch a sequence of dimmers each to its own button, press
[Quantity] and set the number of dimmers then press the first
select button. Alternatively, hold down the Select button for the