User manual AVOLITES DIAMOND II REV 3.01

[. . . ] AVOLITES DIAMOND II OPERATION MANUAL SOFTWARE VERSION 3. x revision 3. 01 Useful phone numbers:Avolites England sales and service (+44) (0) 181 965 8522 service out of hours (+44) (0) 831 17 88 88 fax (+44) (0) 181 965 0290 modem/bulletin board (+44) (0) 181 961 4838 Avolites America sales and service fax (+1) 615 938 2057 (+1) 615 938 2059 The latest version of this manual (in Microsoft Word 97 or PDF) and Diamond II Software can be downloaded by modem on the above modem number You can also download the latest personality disks. No Liability for Consequential Damages Avolites has a policy of continuous product and documentation improvement. As such the detail within this manual may not match the operation of the Diamond II or other products. In no event shall Avolites be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages or loss whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, business interruption, or other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use or inability to use an Avolites product even if Avolites Ltd. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. DIAMOND II OPERATORS MANUAL CONTENTS 1. [. . . ] A sequence created with animate may be edited with unfold as required. OFF Pressing this turns all attributes selected to the wheels to the OFF state. UNTOUCH This clears the programmer of any changes on the instruments selected, as if they had not been selected. DEFINE THE STAGE File d2man. doc Revision 14 05/12/2001 page 2 9 AVOLITES DIAMOND II OPERATORS MANUAL This selects a menu that allows the stage to be defined to enable the moving light tracking system. 50. USING ANIMATE Animate is a simple function allowing the most complicated sequences to be automatically built allowing you to try out ideas. Enter Animate by pressing [ML MENU] from the program menu, then pressing the [ANIMATE] soft button. You are then presented with the following options:[A] CIRCLE [B] MEXICAN WAVE [C] BUILD [D] ALTERNATE [E] BALLY-HOO USING CIRCLE To create a circle on the stage you place the beams on two points on the circumference of the circle. Tips:Make the PAN movement and the TILT movement equal to draw a perfect circle, otherwise an ellipse will be drawn. BUILD Build moves the instruments from one position to the next in turn `building' on the last step. For example, if the first position had all instruments pointing down stage and the second position has all the instruments pointing up stage then step 1 moves the first instrument up stage step 2 moves the second instrument up stage , leaving the first instrument pointing up stage and so on. The order you select the instruments in determines the order in which instruments will move in. Tips:Delete the final step and use bounce to move reverse the sequence. ALTERNATE Alternate is the same as BUILD except each step 1 moves an instrument and step 2 moves it back. Again the order you selected the instruments in is used as the running order. This is very fast and easy if you UNFOLD the sequence. File d2man. doc Revision 14 05/12/2001 page 3 0 AVOLITES DIAMOND II OPERATORS MANUAL 51. CHANGING CHANNELS ON AN INSTRUMENT FROM FADE TO INSTANT LTP channels can be selected to fade or be instantly output. This is because some parameters you may not wish to fade, for example GOBO whilst others such as colour mix channels should fade. Different lighting designers prefer different combinations of options and some instruments can also control internally the fade using a speed channel. It does not make sense for internally controlled channels to be faded by the desk. It is easy to experiment and decide how you would like each channel to respond. TO SET A CHANNEL TO FADE OR BE INSTANT:· · · · · · Clear any selected channels or instruments by pressing [CLEAR] twice. Press the ON/OFF button associated with the channel to change its mode. If when you press the button fade/instant does not change there is a table under that channel. Press EXIT to finish. · 52. HOW TO TURN 'ON' AND TURN 'OFF' CHANNELS ON, OFF, TOUCHED and UNTOUCHED We have used a number of terms to describe a channel status. [. . . ] As the first fader is moved above zero to 50% the channel will fade to 50%. Now the second fader is moved to 50%, the channel will fade to 75% since it started at 50% and its final destination state is 100%. As the second master is moved down to zero, the channel will fade to 50%, its starting value. To fade the channel to zero, you must program a memory with the channel ON AT 0%, and fade this memory up. File d2man. doc Revision 14 05/12/2001 page 5 1 AVOLITES DIAMOND II OPERATORS MANUAL 73. HELP Help loads the file HELP. D2 from the system disk, this is an ASCII text file and you may customise it as you wish. [. . . ]