If you’re plugged in, launch it in primary, not offline.
Always have a warm, open and cold wash programmed in at the top or bottom just in case, and a blackout.
Label your cues
If you missed a cue and need to go back you can add decimal points (e.g. cue 1.5)
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Key
A- at (in patch its address)
C- copy
F- full
O- out
Q- cue
T- through
R- record
G- group
N- sneak
S- sub
CTRL + G 1 – go to cue 1
I- time
U- update
F1- live
F2- blind
F4- format
SPACE- go
CTRL + SPACE- stop/back
E- recall from
ALT + E- effect
C- copy to/move to
BACKSPACE- clear
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Patch
Open- new
12 patch tab (or just ;)
Back of each light there is a number
Pick a channel
Click 1
Select a type of light
Address no. on light (or just put 1), it’ll take up 1-5, then change the no. on the light
Channel 2 (deselect 1)
Select a type of light
Address 6 (match it up with the no. on the light)
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Cues
Click 1 (this will select channel 1)
Or 1 t 2 (this will select channel 1 thru 2)
A is @
Intensity is in %
Chan 1 + 2 @ 50 (1 t 2 A 50) = 50% intensity
Colour picker
Chan 1 @ (then pick the colour) – (1 A)
Then RECORD CUE 1 = R Q 1
CTRL G = go to cue
Space bar will take you to the next cue
Time = I (Cue 4 Time @)
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Live table colour stuff
On the live table the numbers will be different colours depending on stuff
Red – means the value has been changed manually
Blue – means the value has gone up from the last cue
Green – means the value has gone down from the last cue
Purple – means the value has been tracked from the last cue. This means that the value is the same as the last cue, therefore the light is not recorded at that value, it’s just being told “do what the last cue did”
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Extra stuff
Follow = starts the same time as the cue you start (e.g. cue 3 + 4 at the same time)
Hang = starts the next one straight after
(Cue 2 hang 5) = starts five seconds after
H – REMDIM which is when you want everything to go off other than one light
(channel 1, H- then everything else goes off)
N – sneak. So it casually changes the lights, not sudden.
(Cue 3 copy to cue 6) means that cue 6 is the same as cue 3.
Group: chan 1 thru 2 record group 1 (1 T 2 R G 1 ENTER)
Meaning instead of programming cues for chan 1 t 2 you can programme it got group 1
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sound
Spotify down
Pixabay
Audacity
Export as wav
Its now a file
Yay
Vlc or itunes for media output
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Effects
Alt E E to open affects
Then click alt E to make a new
Pick a number
Press enter
Action is like your cue
Perameter is what you’re changing (e.g. intensity)
Time is how quickly
Grouping is how many lights are involved at the same time (e.g. 1 group measn all the lights do the same thing at the same time)
If nothing is in parameter it will presume intensity
Cycle time, small number means quick, long number means long
Duration, time it lasts for, infinite means it will keep going forever