Specifications

Avolites Rolacue Operators Manual - page 35
rq96man 19/09/1996 18:30
Firstly you can run double the amount of Dimmers you control to 60 on the
Pearl and 120 on the Sapphire by patching in the LAMPS bank onto both
SWOP and ADD buttons, so you have a different Dimmer Channels on each
bank of Preset Faders. The SWOP and ADD buttons will only act as Flash
buttons for Channels 1 - 30 on the Pearl and 1 - 60 on the Sapphire and you
will no longer be able to run in Two Preset Mode satisfactorily.
If this still isn’t enough, you can go one step further. It is not really
recommended because it is confusing, and there are other Avolites desks
better suited to the task, but it will work, provided you do not exceed the 512
DMX Channel limit.
Having patched 60 (120) Preset Channels onto both sets of Preset Faders in
the LAMPS Preset Bank, go to Preset Bank 2, (which normally controls
SHUTTER and IRIS functions of Intelligent Fixtures), and patch another 60
(120) Channels in the same way. If that isn’t enough, you can go to Preset
Bank 3 etc. To access these Channels you will have to change to the correct
Preset Bank.
5.22 Advanced patching
5.22.1 Adding more Dimmer Channels around Intelligent Fixtures
This is for experts only!.
If you have patched 30 Dimmers alongside your Intelligent Fixtures on a
Pearl (or 60 on a Sapphire) but you have more Dimmers that you would like
to get onto the desk, you can patch them onto any location on any bank that
is not already occupied by another DMX channel.
For example, if you have to patch 100 single par cans and 20 Intellabeams
onto a Pearl, you can patch all the Intellabeams and 40 of the par cans onto
Preset Bank 1. You will have 30 pars on the top Preset Faders and another
10 on the bottom Presets not occupied by Intellabeams.
As the Intellabeams do not have Speed Channels, so you could patch the
other 60 Dimmer Channels onto Preset Bank 8. You will have to go to Preset
Bank 8 to access these lamps.
5.22.2 Using Generic LTP to fake a Personality File
In an emergency, you can fake a Personality File by patching a Generic LTP
Channel with the correct DMX number onto the same Handle on appropriate
Preset Banks.
The Fixture should work, but all of its Channels will not be recorded in
Record by Instrument mode, because the desk thinks that they are all
different Fixtures. See Section 6.1 Recording Modes.
Some of the other desk functions will not work with ‘faked’ Personalities, for
example Locate Fixture.
5.22.3 Customising Personality Files to put Intelligent Fixture Attributes onto different
Preset Banks
It is possible to make special Personality Files which allocate Attributes to
vacant Preset Banks.