Elation Professional 1.15 manual Select Home Scene, PAN and Tilt Invert, Modify Fixture

SELECT HOME SCENE

This menu selects a home scene that will be called automatically whenever you use the “clear all” function. A “clear all” is done by holding down the blackout switch for 2 seconds. This resets all of the channels and empties the scene record buffer. After the clear all is finished, the home scene is then called. This can be used to call up a default lighting configuration for creating new scenes. For example, all beams centered, full intensity at white is useful for building a new scene. Use the menu switches or data wheels 1 and 2 to select the desired page and scene number then press “enter”. You must of course first create the scene and save it before you select it as the home scene. You can use any saved scene as the home scene.

PAN AND TILT INVERT

This menu allows you to invert the output of any of the pan or tilt channels on moving light fixtures. With this menu displayed, use the + and - switches or data wheel 1 to select the fixture then use data wheels 2 or 3 to set the invert states for pan or for tilt. You must press “enter” to save the selection.

MODIFY FIXTURE

This menu lets you modify some of the channel attributes of a fixture. These attributes are automatically set when you select a fixture from the library. There are fifteen fixture attributes that can be modified. The attributes are: fixture name, number of channels, black channel, black value, dimmer channel, shutter channel, grand master channels, crossfade mode, pan channel, pan fine channel, tilt channel, tilt fine channel, cyan channel, magenta channel, and yellow channel. Use the cursor switches to move the underline cursor to the fixture number or use data wheel 1 to select the fixture you want to modify. Next move the cursor to the “attribute” which is displayed immediately to the right or use data wheel 2 to select the attribute. Next move the cursor to the “value” line of the display or use data wheel 3 to select the value for the attribute you are changing. You must press “enter” to record the changes you make to an attribute. The message “DONE” will appear in the display when the change has been recorded. The fixture attributes that can be edited are described in the following paragraphs:

Name is the fixture name that appears whenever you select a light fixture. You may want to modify this attribute on each of your fixtures to show fixture purpose or location. Use the cursor and wheels to enter each character or use an external keyboard.

Channels is the total number of channels used by the fixture. This can be any number from 1 to 32. When you change the number of channels, be aware that other things such as fixture addresses and number of multi fixtures can be automatically changed when you do this. Fixture attributes such as black channel, pan or tilt will also be automatically disabled if you select a number that is smaller than the channel numbers that are already assigned to those attributes. For example if you already assigned pan to channel 8 and you reduce the total number of channels for the fixture to 4, pan will automatically be set to “none”. Likewise if you increase the number of channels from 8 to 9 and you had previously set up 4 multi fixtures using all 32 channels, the multi fixture setting will automatically be reset back to 1.

Black Channel is the channel that will be affected when the blackout switch is pressed. You can choose any available fixture channel or “ALL” which forces all channels to the black value. Normally you would choose the shutter or dimmer channel for this.

Black Value is the DMX value that will be used for blackout on the selected black channel(s). This will help accommodate fixtures that use the gobo wheel for blackout using a value other

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