Instruction manual

Palettes
Page 82 ORB Operating Manual – Issue 1.0
Palettes
The ORB desk provides you with four sets of 1000 palettes. The
palettes are stored under the nominal headings of Position, Beam,
Colour and Effects.
Palettes may contain any combination
of Intensity, Colour,
Beamshape, Position or Effects parameters. For example, a colour
palette may include intensity and colour, a beamshape palette could
include beamshape and position etc.
What are Palettes?
Palettes on ORB are small pieces of information which define to the
desk how to create a particular look on stage. For example,
palettes may be created for colours Blue, Red and Yellow, positions
Downstage Left, Centre Stage and Upstage Right, and beamshapes
Gobo 3, Prism In, Rotation, etc. Having palettes created before
commencing programming of cues speeds up the creation of the
cues as instead of having to continuously move the fixture wheels
to adjust parameters, you only have to enter the palette reference.
Recording Palettes
Programming a palette is simple and similar to recording a cue. Set
up the fixture outputs as required, ensuring that the correct fixture
parameters are tagged, and then enter the following command:
RECORD COLOUR n ENTER
To record the fixture data as a beamshape, position or effects
palette, simply replace the COLOUR part of the command with
BEAM, POSITION or EFFECTS respectively.
Hints on Recording Palettes
If you wish to record attributes, other than the default one for the
type of palette being recorded, then select the required attributes
on the Record Options Window on the monitor before
pressing the
ENTER key.
When creating Position palettes, use Highlight (SHIFT + HOME) key
to grab a fixture in open white. Set the position as required, then
turn the Highlight off before recording the palette. This way you
won’t have to untag the intensity of each fixture.
Naming Palettes
Palettes can be named, either as a separate operation or as part of
the recording process, by entering one of the following commands:
COLOUR n NAME {your name} ENTER
NAME COLOUR n ENTER {your name} ENTER
RECORD COLOUR n NAME {your name} ENTER
Outputting Palettes
Select a fixture or group of fixtures and then enter one of the
following commands:
COLOUR n ENTER
Snaps the outputs to the programmed palette values.
COLOUR n TIME x ENTER
Fades the outputs in X seconds.
If any of the selected fixtures are not actually programmed in the
applied palette, but there are one or more fixtures of the same type
that are programmed, the fixture will use the values programmed
for the first fixture of the same type.
If the fixture data in the programmer is then recorded into a cue or
UDK, the desk will record the palette reference number rather than
the actual parameter values.