User manual AVOLITES PEARL EXPERT

[. . . ] Pearl Expert Operator's Manual Pearl Expert Manual V2 - 16th July 2007 Useful Avolites phone numbers:Avolites England Sales and service* Service out of hours* Fax Email Website (+44) (0) 20 8965 8522 (+44) (0) 831 17 8888 (+44) (0) 20 8965 0290 name@avolites. com http://www. avolites. com Distribution of Avolites products in USA:Avolites America Sales and service* Fax (+1) 423 938 2057 (+1) 423 938 2059 *Before contacting Avolites for service enquiry please ensure that you have the product serial number and the Software version. The serial number can be found on the back of the desk and the software version can be found by turning the key to "System" and reading the version from the top line of the display. The latest version of this manual and Pearl Expert Software can be downloaded from the Avolites website. The small print : 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 Pearl Expert. 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 the Pearl even if Avolites Ltd. [. . . ] Press G [Set input to 0-255 / %] to change the entry mode between 0-100 and 0-255. Pearl Expert Manual V2 - 16th July 2007 3. Controlling dimmers and fixtures - Page 133 · · · You can change the attributes to be set by pressing another Attribute button, but then you will need to enter the value again. You can also recall groups of fixtures or dimmers (type group number, then press A [Recall Group]). You can recall palette entries (type palette entry number, then press B [Recall Focus]) 3. 1. 11 Fan mode Fan mode automatically spreads out the values on a selected range of fixtures. If used on pan and tilt, the result is spreading out "rays" of light beams. The first and last fixtures of the range are affected most, and the central fixtures are affected least. As with shapes, the order in which you select the fixtures sets how the fan effect works. The fixtures you select first and last will be the ones which change most. If you use a group to select the fixtures, the order is that in which the fixtures in the group were selected when it was created. The fan effect, while normally used on pan or tilt attributes, can be applied to any attribute. 1> 2> 3> 4> 5> 6> Select the fixtures you want to fan Select the attribute to fan (pan/tilt, colour etc) Press Fan Set the amount of fan using the wheels The display shows which attribute is being controlled by each wheel Turn off Fan by pressing the Fan button again when you have finished Fan mode needs to be used on at least 4 fixtures to give good effects. If you have an odd number of fixtures, the central fixture will not move in fan mode. · It's fairly easy to accidentally leave Fan mode turned on and be very confused about why the wheels aren't working properly, so turn it off as soon as you have completed the effect. 3. 2 3. 2. 1 Advanced options The ML menu and Tracking The "ML menu" (Moving Light menu) button allows access to some handy features for moving lights. If you press the ML Menu button again you will get a second set of options. Option A "Locate Fixture" positions selected fixtures at central position, with light coming out of them. The settings are not placed in the Pearl Expert Manual V2 - 16th July 2007 Page 134 - 3. Controlling dimmers and fixtures programmer, so you need to change the values if you want to save them. The "locate fixture" settings for each type of fixture are defined in the personality file. Option B "Locate Fixture no pan/tilt" turns on the selected fixtures but does not move them to a central position. This is useful if you don't want to disturb the positioning of fixtures but need to light them up. Option C and D "Align Fixtures" and "Align <attributes>" are described in section 3. 1. 7 on page 130. Option E "Record group" is used to group fixtures for easy selection as described in section 3. 1. 5 on page 129. [. . . ] Desk mode in which all Playback functions are enabled, but all programming functions disabled. System that allows Playback to be automated and controlled by Timecode. A Palette in which information is only stored for one Fixture, but is available to all Fixtures of that type. A Chase Step which does not have Individual Step Times programmed into it, and hence will use Global Chase times. [. . . ]