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Chapter 4 Tutorial 4 - 31
Lesson 4
Working with submasters
Submasters allow you to save looks that you use often. They can be
used as building blocks when you create cues or other submasters. For
example, you might create a different submaster for each cyclorama
wash; another submaster might include practicals. Or you might choose
to create a series of submasters for each area of your set. In addition,
submasters are the basis for creating chases. See page 4 - 37 for
information about using submasters to create chases.
MicroVision FX is equipped with six submaster potentiometers, or pots .
You can record a submaster memory in each pot. The pot allows you to
bring up the submaster look manually. The pot's bump switch allows
you to flash the submaster to its full recorded level.
When a slide pot is set at 0, the submaster is at zero percent of its
recorded level. To increase submaster level, push pot up. When pot is
set at 10, the submaster is at 100 percent of recorded level.
If several outputs (timed playback faders and other submasters) include
the same channel, the highest output level overrides all others. This is
called pile-on logic. However, captured channels override submaster
levels.
Each channel may be included in as many pile-on submasters as you
choose.
This lesson includes the following sections:
• Submaster pages
• Recording a submaster
• Controlling submaster fades manually
• Modifying submasters
• Copying submasters
• Deleting submasters
After creating cues in Lesson 2 , you should be well acquainted with
several methods for creating looks on stage. In this lesson, we won’t
trouble you with reading instructions on selecting channels and setting
levels since you already know how to do that. Instead, we’ll concentrate
on how creating submasters is different from creating cues.