Elation Professional 1.15 manual Factory Programmed Presets, Creating and Recording Presets

or “no”. If you press “yes” the scene will be erased. You can then select additional scenes to be erased or you can press “record” to exit record mode.

PRESETS

A preset is a simple collection of channel settings for a single light fixture or group of fixtures. Presets are used as building blocks for scenes and provide fast and easy programming by giving you instant access to colors, beam settings, etc. Presets can save memory because many scenes can reference the same preset. For example, if a preset defines a pan and tilt location for several scenes, only the preset needs to be edited in order to modify the pan and tilt for all of those scenes. If you want to use the same color or gobo for a group of fixtures, use a preset instead of setting every channel for each individual fixture.

Show Designer 3 allows you to record up to 24 pages of 48 presets for a total of 1152 presets. For your convenience the words “color”, “gobo”, “focus” and “effect” are printed next to the 4 rows of number switches. These types of presets can then be recorded on the corresponding rows if desired. Unlike scenes, which save the look of the entire stage, presets are used to record only several channels worth of information. This is useful for recording things like color, gobo or beam position. Presets can then be recalled and layered to make a scene.

FACTORY PROGRAMMED PRESETS

In addition to the 24 pages available for the presets that you create yourself, there are 4 pages labeled “F1” through “F4”. These pages are for factory presets. These are presets that are already programmed for you when you install a fixture profile. They typically control colors, gobos and effects and their functions will match the row labels along the left side of the number switches. Some controllers refer to these as palettes. Refer to the chapter on fixture profiles for more information on how to install and use them.

CREATING AND RECORDING PRESETS

Before recording a preset you must first do some preparation. In order to be able to view certain moving light channels like color or gobo you will first need to raise the dimmer levels and set the pan and tilt positions in order to see the color or gobo selections. Do this by selecting the fixture or fixtures to be used and then position the beams and turn up the dimmer levels. These things will not be recorded into the preset if they are done before pressing “record”.

To begin recording a preset press “record”, its LED will flash. Next press “preset”, its LED will also flash. The page display will show the current page and any number locations that already contain presets will be lit. Adjust the channel or channels that you want to include in the preset. These adjustments will be recorded into the preset so take care not to change any channels that you don’t want included. You can use the flex faders in channel mode, the joystick or the channel wheels to select the channel levels to be included. Press the fixture switch to enable the channel wheels and to select the fixtures to include in the preset. Turn the fixture switch LED off before saving the preset.

Note: When recalling a preset, if some channels are affected that weren’t intended to be part of the preset, chances are that a fader or the joystick was bumped, accidentally adding them to the preset being recorded.

At any time while recording the preset you can enter a preset name. Use the cursor switches to move the cursor in the display under each character then use the + or - switch or the data wheel to select characters. You can also use an external keyboard.

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