Getting Started Guide - Adding And Patching Dimmers - MA lighting dot2 User Manual

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You also might be presented with a window that tells you that there already is a show with this name. Then you can
choose to overwrite the existing file/show or tap Cancel to give it a new and different name.
Now the console will create the new show.
Save show
If we ignore everything on the screens for a second and just focus on saving your new (but still empty) show.
This is also handled from the Backup Menu. Please press the
Besides the New Show option there's three more options. One of them is to Save Show .
Save Show as... is used if we wanted to save with a new name.
But as you can also read in the text on the Save Show button, you could just have pressed the
double clicking a mouse. We can't do this when the Backup Menu is open. So now you have two choices: Press the
Save Show button or press the
show command).
Remember to save your show often. There's no built in power backup in the console and if you turn it off or looses
power then the console shuts down (without saving).
You should also save your show on an external device like a USB memory stick. Please insert one in one of the USB
connectors. Then save the show again. Now it's saved both on the stick and in the console.
Ok? Let's move on to the next chapter.

3.4. Getting Started Guide - Adding and patching dimmers

So we have a new empty show. We need to add some lights for it to be fun (without it, then console is just a rather
expensive paper weight).
We are going to pretend we have a small black box theater and we are going to add some dimmers. We got 12
dimmer to play with. This is our basic plot:
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key three times (one to close the menu and then twice to do the save
Backup
key once more.
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