MA lighting dot2 User Manual page 65

a group inhibitor. This means that the output of the FOH fixtures are limited by this master. When it's at 100% then
they all have full range of output. If you put this master to 50%, then this is their output limit. The output is scaled.
This means that if a fixture is stored at 50% in the cue and you move the master to 50% then the output goes to
50% of 50% - which is 25%. So it's very important that you remember to put all the Group masters back to 100% for
your show.
Master Rate and Magic Speed
Now sometimes it's nice to be able to dynamically modify the cue timing just little bit. You might want to match the
speed of a performer with the stored cue time. Or you have really long fades that you just wanna see but not waiting
half an hour on that nice sunset you have programmed. Then you can use the master rate. Press
and then any key associated with executor number 5. On the pop-up window you need to select the Master Rate .
This gives you a master rate fader.
This master's normal position is in the middle of the fade range. Here all cue timings are 1 to 1. So a 5 second fade
will run on 5 seconds. The fader value on the master is divided with the cue timings. So if the cue fade time is 5
seconds and you move the master rate up so it says 2, then you have the 5 seconds cue fade time that will be
divided by 2 and the result is a 2.5 seconds cue fade. On the other hand, if you move the fader down till it says 0.5
then you have 5 divided by 0.5 - the result is a 10 seconds cue fade.
Press the Magic key. This opens a nice window like this:
Figure 3: Magic View.
This can be selected as a view on your screens.
Try running your cues with the Master Rate at different positions. When you are done you should move your fader to
the middle and press the
In the next chapter we are going to have a little look at blind programming.
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key to reset the Master Rate to 1:1.
Store Speed
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