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Tutorial 2 : Soft Buttons & Encoders
This tutorial explains how the soft buttons and encoders around the edge of the main MagicQ window work.
• Click on the “All Mac 250” Group in the Group Window to select the Mac 250 moving light heads. Note that the
title bar of the Group Window shows you which heads are selected.
• The window that is highlighted controls all the soft buttons around the window – the top12 buttons are generally
used for menu items – whilst the 4 on the left and the 4 on the right are for controlling parameters on the encoder
wheels.
• Press the LOCATE soft button to bring all the attributes of the Mac 250 heads into the programmer at their default
values and with an Intensity of 100%. Note that the status window reports “Heads Located”.
• Click on the “Cone” Palette in the Beam Window. The Beam Window now becomes the highlighted window and
the encoders control the different Beam attributes of the Mac 250 moving light heads including “Shutter”, “Gobo”,
“Rotate”, “Prism” and “Focus”.
• Notice that the Beam Window has 5 different pages of encoders which can be selected by the top soft buttons –
Beam Page 1 has the most commonly used attributes, whilst Beam 2 to Beam 5 are used for more advanced
attributes.