Setup guide

Palette
Helpful Tips and Shortcuts 71
LIGHTING CONTROL CONSOLE INSTALLATION & SETUP GUIDE
• You can drag columns around in the Cue List to suite your needs. Double clicking on column separators will auto-
matically size the column for you.
• You can move any selected channels in a cue to a separate part by pressing the PART softkey and then update the
cue. Move the Blue Box in the cue list to change cue part timing. PALETTE supports 26 different parts plus inde-
pendent timing.
• The Grand Master can either include or exclude captured channels. Choose your option in S3 – HARDWARE
SETUP.
• The NEXT/PREV button moves you through dialog boxes. Use it with SHIFT to move backwards through a dialog
box.
• Read up on SOS Remote Support in the main help files and see if it's right for you.
• You can delete cue parts by highlighting any cell part's line with the blue box and press the DEL key. The channels
in that part can either be moved to the main cue or removed from the cue altogether.
• While you are in a dialog box, the SOFTKEYS will take you to the individual controls. The control that currently
has the focus of the WHEEL, ARROWS or NUMBER KEYS will flash the amber LED on that SOFTKEY.
• Releasing channels works in three stages: First time you press [REL], it activates the Undo feature. The second
time you press it, it releases the last attribute you touched. The third press releases any currently selected (red
background) channels. The fourth press clears all captured channels. Use [REL] with [SHIFT] to make it an
"Oops" key (a three-stage process).
• The first time you press the TOOL key, you must hold it down and use the SOFTKEYS to select the desired tool.
Next time, you can just touch the tools key quickly to toggle the tool on and off.
• Did you know that any cue with zero time (a 'button') will appear bold in the Next Cue column in the cue list direc-
tory.
• To quickly copy a Look Master, touch COPY then the Look's BUMP button, then touch the desired new BUMP
button.
• While in BLIND, moving the Blue Box loads cues.
• To alter the selected channels by 1% instead of 10%, press and hold SHIFT while using the UP and DOWN but-
tons.
• Time Events can trigger based on astronomical events such as sunrise and sunset. PALETTE has longitude and lat-
itude values for nearly two thousand cities around the world.
• PALETTE uses Horizon Control's Abstract Control Model. This very powerful technology allows you to do things
like control color mixing lights in six different color spaces.
• Flash channel (a TOOL) works whether or not you have channels selected before you initialize the tool. If you type
channel # TOOLS|FLASH, that channel will start flashing. You can then type another channel number and press
enter to jump to it. Use the wheel to scroll through channel quickly. Once you close the tool, the last channel will
be selected and ready for you to set its level.
• To make the channels wait a specific amount of time after the GO button has been pressed enter a WAIT time. Do
this by editing the Cue Time box using the WAIT / FADE syntax.
• You can remove any redundant data in your cue list by right-clicking in the cue list and select "Remove Redundant
Data." Alternately, you can do it on a single cue or range of cues by selecting them with the Blue Box first before
right-clicking and selecting "Remove Redundant Data."
• When editing wait/fade times using the blue box, use [FULL] to highlight the Wait time (start of line) and [OUT]
to edit the Fade time (end of line).
• To enter time in HH:MM:SS format, press the decimal key twice to make the colon. This is used for VERY long
fade times or when entering SMPTE times.
• Holding down SHIFT while rolling the WHEEL on any numeric field will change the value by 0.1.