Specifications

12.1 Principles
The Navigator console supports 96 individually programmable
channels. Using the Soft Patch facility these 96 channels can be
patched, or ‘mapped’, to the 512 physical output channels
available on the DMX512 system. Channels that are programmed
into Cues are referred to as Console Channels — sometimes ‘Desk
channels’ — and those that are output along the DMX512 data
wires as Dimmer ‘attribute’ channels.
Each Console Channel can be patched to one or more Dimmer
Channels. Moreover, the relationship between the level of a
Dimmer Channel and the level of the Console Channel driving it
can be set on an individual basis; this is referred to as Proportional
Patching.
12.1.1 Console channel #0
If any Dimmer channel is patched to Console Channel #0, its
output is set to zero. i.e., Console Channel #0 is a ‘dummy’
Channel with a fixed level of 0% (off).
12.2
Default Patches
There are two default patches available, which enable the Soft
Patch to be set to a known state:
– Patch 1–to–1.
– Clear Patch.
Navigator Operators Manual
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