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Emulation Manual Emulation Workflow Welcome to the Emulation User’s Guide. This manual will describe the Emulation software by guiding you through the software.
Emulation Manual Overview Grand Master & Black Out Main View View Menu Selection Programmer Chase Tempo 2 Playback faders
Emulation Manual 1 Install the CueCable Driver Emulation on Mac OS Just connect the CueCable to a free USB port on your Apple computer and go to “Set Options” on page 8. Mac OS doesn’t need a specific USB driver. Emulation on Windows: 32-bit or 64-bit? CueCable Installation of the Cuecable differs for the 64-bit and the 32-bit version of Windows 7.
Emulation Manual Driver installation on Windows 7 32-bit Step 1 Step 2 Connect the CueCable to a free USB port on your computer. Click “Locate and install driver software (recommended)” Step 3 Step 4 Click “Don’t search online” Select “I don’t have the disc. Show me other options.
Emulation Manual Step 7 Step 8 Click OK and press “Next”. When this warning appears, click “Install this driver software anyway”. Step 9 Step 10 Windows will install the device driver software.
Emulation Manual Driver installation on Windows 7 64-bit Step 1 Step 2 Make sure the CueCable DMX interface is unplugged Unzip the cuecable_win64_drivers.zip in the Program Files/Elation/Emulation10213/drivers/win64 folder, by right-clicking on the file and selecting “Extract All”. When finished, click Finish to show the extracted files. Step 3 Step 4 Right click on install.bat, choose Run as administrator You can trust ‘Jungo’; this is the name of the supplier of the driver.
Emulation Manual Step 7 Step 8 It should display class ‘Jungo’ containing item ‘Windriver6’. Plug in the CueCable DMX Interface Step 9 Step 10 Check your Device Manager. In the class ‘Jungo’ it should now also show item ‘CueCable’. Run Emulation and check in the ‘Options’ -> ‘Hardware’ that the CueCable is detected.
Emulation Manual 2 Set Options Before we start using Emulation, let’s tweak some settings and configure the system. Open the OPTIONS view: You can choose a language for the software’s menus Emulation is updated regularly to provide you with new features, bugfixes and new or improved personality-files. To check for updates, click CHECK NOW Emulation has optimized user-interfaces for several screen resolutions. For example, the 1280x1024 version provides you with 8 extra playback-buttons in 8 banks.
Emulation Manual 3 Create the Patch The PATCH view allows you to setup the DMX fixtures which are connected to Emulation. Adding fixtures Click ADD to open the Add Fixture dialog. Browse the manufacturers list, and choose the MANUFACTURER of the first fixture you would like to add. To quickly find a manufacturer, start typing the name of the manufacturer you’re looking for on your keyboard. While typing, the list will jump to the correct manufacturer in the list.
Emulation Manual Rename fixtures in the patch To give your fixtures a more clear name, select 1 or multiple fixtures and press RENAME. Type a new name for the fixture and click OK or press . If you’ve renamed multiple fixtures, Emulation will automatically add 01, 02, 03 etc. to the name you’ve entered. Address fixtures in the patch Emulation automatically sets the DMX address when adding fixtures to the patch, by finding the first available DMX channel in your configuration.
Emulation Manual 4 Make Groups The GROUP menu enables you to create groups with fixtures and or subfixtures. This makes selection of groups or (sub) fixtures easy and allows you to use submasters per group (chapter 8).
Emulation Manual 5 Program a Cuelist A lightshow in Emulation consists of Cuelists. A Cuelist is a sequence of one or more lighting scenes which are called Cues. To create a Cuelist, follow the next steps. Make sure you’re in the main GRID view. To close any open menu, click the highlighted menu-button again. 1 Select fixtures by clicking them in the GRID view, or use the SELECTION buttons at the bottom left of your screen.
Emulation Manual Wizard Instead of recording a simple chase that consists of one attribute for several fixtures step by step, Emulation offers you the Wizard. Open the CUE menu and click Wizard to start the Chase-wizard. Select the fixtures and/or subfixtures you would like to use in the chase and move them to the MEMBERS list. Click NEXT. Choose the attribute to use in this chase. Enter the HIGH value and the LOW value and choose an order for the chase.
Emulation Manual 6 Modify a Cuelist To change an existing cuelist, open the CUE menu. Select a Cuelist and click EDIT to open the Cuelist editor. Here you can edit the properties of the CUELIST and the individual cues.. Cuelist Properties The following properties can be set for the cuelist: Fader Start With Fader start enabled, the cuelist will automatically be triggered when the corresponding playback fader is being moved up or the flash button is pressed.
Emulation Manual Cue properties The following properties can be set per cue: Label The label is the name of the CUE for your reference. Condition The condition specifies when the cue will be triggered. There are 3 possible Conditions: Halt: The cue will be triggered when you press the GO button. Follow: The cue will be triggered as soon as the previous cue has finished fading. Wait: The cue will be triggered immediately after the previous cue has been triggered.
Emulation Manual 7 Edit a Cue There are 3 ways of editing a cue. Add or change values in a cue To edit the cue, first make sure the cue is outputted by activating the cuelist and stepping to the cue you want to edit using the PLAY button. Select the fixtures you want to change, and change the attributes in the Programmer. You can also add other attributes by changing the attributes for the selected fixtures.
Emulation Manual Cue Editor A cue can also be edited in the Cue Editor. Open the CUE menu, select a Cuelist, click EDIT, select a Cue and click EDIT. Insert Use Insert to add an attribute to the cue Delete Use Delete to remove an attribute from the cue Change Select one or multiple values and click Change to change the value.
Emulation Manual 8 Playback assignment To assign cuelists and groups to playback faders and buttons, you can use the PLAYBACK menu. Open it by pressing the PLAY menu button. Switch between managing the playback faders or the playback buttons To clear a playback, select the playback by clicking on the corresponding cell in the table with banks/playbacks. Then click CLEAR To assign a playback to a cuelist, select the playback in the grid and click SET CUELIST.
Emulation Manual 9 Loading and saving Shows The DISK menu allows you to save the current show to a new file or to load an existing show. Click NEW to create a new empty show Open an existing show file by clicking OPEN and selecting a show in the file-browser To save the current show to a new file, click SAVE AS and type a new name. TIP: Emulation automatically saves changes every few seconds. Therefore, manually saving the show is not required.
Emulation Manual 10 Globals On the main screen of Emulation, you’ll notice 3 GLOBALS for FOG, STROBE and BLINDER. These buttons can be instantly used without programming individual cuelists. BLINDER: All fixtures in the group “blinder” will flash at 100% intensity as long as the button is pressed. Because Emulation doesn’t know to which dimmer-channels the blinders have been connected, you have to create a group with the name “blinder” and include the dimmer-channels or fixtures you wish to use.
Emulation Manual 11 Stacks Using stacks live To trigger multiple playbacks at the same time during live operating, press the STACK button and click on the PLAY buttons of the playbacks you want to trigger at the same time. As soon as you press STACK again, the selected playbacks will trigger at the same time. Recording stacks If you want to repeatedly trigger the same playbacks, recording to a STACK in a STACKLIST comes to use.
Emulation Manual 12 Chase Tempo All Cuelist with property CHASE enabled, are synced to the Chase Tempo. You can find the controls for the Chase Tempo on the bottom left of the Emulation window . Using the TEMPO button below the tempo display, you can tap to the music to change the chase tempo in Emulation. You can also click the tempo display and drag up (tempo UP) or to the right (tempo DOWN). Click the BREAK button below the tempo display to pause all chases. Click again to continue all chases.
Emulation Manual 13 MIDI Controllers Emulation offers Plug and Play support for a list of MIDI Controllers. You can quickly setup your MIDI Controller on the MIDI page of the OPTIONS view. To setup Emulation for use with your MIDIcontroller, go to the MIDI page and select the INPUT DEVICE.
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Emulation Manual Behringer BCF-2000 The Behringer BCF-2000 is supported Plug and Play: However, for optimal use we’ve included a Sysex-file that can either be found in the “Sysex” folder or at the forum (http://forum.visualproductions.nl). The Sysex file can be uploaded to the BCF-2000 using one of the following (free) tools: - Midi-OX for Windows: http://www.midiox.com - SyEx Librarian for Mac OS X: http://www.snoize.
Emulation Manual Novation Launchpad playback buttons r p ta te m po gl ob a lb lin de ls tro be gl ob a lf og ob a gl ec tio n ne xt pr ev tio n ec se l se l l al tio n ec se l se l ec tio n cle ar io us The Novation Launchpad is supported Plug and Play. select bank Do you want to use a MIDI controller with Emulation that is not displayed in the MIDI MAP list? Then please request the MIDI Map file on the Elation Forum (http://forum.visualproductions.
Emulation Manual A iPhone Remote The Emulation Remote allows you to view the patch including addresses and dipswitch settings per fixture in real-time from your iPhone, and it even allows you to trigger the playback-buttons remote! To use the Emulation Remote on your iPhone, follow the next steps. Make sure the computer running Emulation and your iPhone are connected via WIFI (for example via a simple WIFI router as displayed. In Emulation, go to Options -> Remote and enable “’Enable Remote Control”.
