Specifications

Avolites Rolacue Operators Manual - page 3
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1.3 Overview of the desk
1.3.1 The Preset Area
This is the upper half of the desk, and includes the LCD Brightness and
LCD Contrast controls (see Section 1.2.2 Seeing the Screen), the Sound to
Light control (Section 9.7 Sound to Light on the Pearl) and the Key. The key
determines whether the desk is set to System, Program or Run. The
different positions determine which functions of the desk are available to the
user, and the key is removable to allow the desk to be locked.
There is a desklamp socket, and a fairly self-evident three mode switch for it.
The Pearl consists of 2 banks of Preset Faders which can be used for up to
controlling sixty individual Channels in Single Preset or Wide mode (120 for
the Sapphire,) or up to thirty individual Channels in Two Preset mode (60 for
the Sapphire).
The level to which these Preset Faders can raise a channel is determined by
Master Fader A in Single Preset mode and Master Faders A and B in Two
Preset mode. Master Fader A sets the maximum level for the bottom row of
Presets and Master Fader B sets it for the top row.
There are thirty Preset SWOP and Preset ADD buttons. You may know
these as Flash buttons.
In Two Preset Mode, there is obviously a SWOP and an ADD button for each
Channel. In Wide mode these are associated with Channels 1 to 30.
The Preset SWOP function solos a Preset Channel, killing all other playback
or Preset Channels.
The Preset ADD buttons add the Channel to the output of the desk.
In Normal Run Mode the level to which Channels are output is controlled by
the Swop Master Fader and the Add Master Fader
1.3.2 The Playback Area
Memories and Chases are recalled from the twenty Playback Faders on the
Sapphire and fifteen Playback Faders on the Pearl located under the Roller.
Each Roller Facet on the Roller is lettered A to J and there are three Roller
Pages available allowing the Roller to be filled with three separate banks of
data per Roller Facet.
The Roller Page is set on the Sapphire by pressing Softbutton G followed by
a numeric 1, 2 or 3. On the Pearl there are three Roller Page buttons
located to the left of the Roller.
The Sapphire has a maximum of 600 different Chases and Memories whilst
the Pearl has a maximum of 450.
Each Chase can contain any number of steps, subject to the availability of
storage memory within the desk.
There are Playback SWOP and Playback ADD buttons associated with each
of the Playback Faders. These operate in a similar manner to the Preset
SWOP and Preset ADD buttons, and allow a Playback Channel to be recalled
either solo, (killing all other Playback or Preset Channels), using the Playback
SWOP button, or added to the desk output using the Playback ADD button.