Strand Lighting NEO User Manual page 228

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STEP 1
Open the patching window by pressing the Patch display button or by clicking on the "Patch" icon at the bottom of
the Command Line interface or press the F7 key on you keyboard.
Dimmer Patch Window
STEP 2
Below the label "Available Fixtures" near the bottom of the window you will see a list of manufacturers of lighting
fixtures and devices.
Expand the "Martin" brand by clicking on the small plus (+) to the left of the name. You should then see the complete
list of the Martin fixtures contained in the fixture library.
STEP 3
Click on the fixture labelled "MAC 250 Entour (Enhanced)" and notice that the picture on the right-hand side has
changed to show your selection.
STEP 4
Move the mouse over the "Dimmers" section of the window and notice that as you move the mouse the 18 dimmers
trailing your mouse are highlighted. This shows that the fixture we have selected uses 18 dimmers to control it and
that we should consider these reserved for this light.
STEP 5
Move the mouse over dimmer 26 (our starting address) and click and hold down the left mouse button. Drag the
mouse over to the left hand side of the window and over channel 6.
When you release the mouse button a popup dialog will ask you if you want to automatically setup the palettes for
this fixture. Select "Yes" and the software will automatically be populated with palettes to access the color wheel and
gobos. We will not be using these for this tutorial however you may want to open the shortcut window when you are
finished to see what has been created for you.
In the dimmer patching window you will now see that the details column of channel 6 displayed "MAC 250 Entour
(Enhanced) @ 26". This shows us that a MAC 250 is patched with the starting address of 26. You may need to expand
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the size of the "Patch Detail" column to see all of the text. A series of three dots ( ) will always indicate that more
text is in the field than can be shown. See Figure 16.
STEP 6
Click on the options menu and select "Save patch & Close window" from the popup menu that appears. Alternatively
you can close the window with the X in the top right hand corner and the software will prompt you to save your
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