Specifications

Avolites Rolacue Operators Manual - page 61
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A clever use of Preset Focuses is to align colours on analogue colour
changers. Different changers may require different levels to go to the same
colour. You can make up Colour Preset Focuses to compensate for this. If
you have to change out a colour changer simply correct the Preset Focuses
with the new unit and the Memories will be correct.
Preset Focuses can contain more than one Attribute. You could make up
Gobo Preset Focuses, which not only store a gobo, but the optimum
Sharpness value for projecting it clearly.
8.3 Organising your Preset Focuses
Preset Focuses are stored on the Preset ADD buttons. Hence the Pearl has
30 Preset Focus buttons and the Sapphire has 60.
Each ADD button is capable of storing a Preset Focus for each Attribute of
each Fixture.
Unless you need a lot of Preset Focuses, we recommended that you try to
store different types of Preset Focuses onto different ADD buttons.
eg. Use the first 10 ADD buttons to store Colour Preset Focuses, the next to
store Gobo Preset Focuses and the last 10 to store Positional Preset
Focuses.
This reduces the opportunity for error when updating Preset focuses with the
wrong Focus Mask set. If you accidentally store an updated Positional
Preset Focus position while in the Colour Preset Bank, you will actually store
the Colour information currently in the Fixtures. If that Preset Focus button
didn’t have a Colour Preset Focus on it, you will just create a new Colour
Preset focus. You won’t affect the programmed show.
8.4 The Focus Mask
The Focus Mask defines which Channels or Attributes will be recorded into or
replayed from a Preset Focus while in a particular Preset Bank.
8.4.1 Using the Focus Mask when storing a Preset Focus
When storing a Preset Focus, the Attributes to be stored in the Preset Focus
for that Preset Bank are determined by the Focus Mask.
Using the Focus mask, you can store different Attributes for each Preset
Bank by selecting the appropriate Attributes to be stored while selecting the
Preset Bank.
For example, you may be in the Colour Preset Bank. If you have Fixtures with
a Colour Mix facility, you may want to use the values from the Magenta, Blue
and Yellow Attributes along with your Colour Wheel positions when you recall
a Preset focus from the Colour Preset Bank. You need to set the Focus Mask
by selecting Preset Banks 4, 9 and 10.
In the Pan and Tilt Preset bank, however, if you recall a Preset Focus you
probably only want to recall Positional information, so you would only select
Preset Bank 3.
Each Fixture has its own set of data stored in a given Preset Focus. This set
of data consists of one value per Attribute. The Focus Mask simply controls
access to the Attributes. This means, for example, that storing a change in
value for the Magenta Attribute from the Colour Preset Bank, changes the
Magenta value that will be recalled from the Magenta Preset Bank.