How To Work With Effects - MA lighting dot2 User Manual

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You can dynamically change the speed of the chaser. Press and hold the Speed key while you tap one of the keys
associated with the chaser. This adjust the speed to you tapping. This is a function called "Learn". This can be
assigned to one of the keys associated with the chaser. Press and hold the key and then press the Label key
(=assign command), release the key and press Speed (notice that your command line says
Assign Learn
Now press the key you want to be Learn. This can also be done using the Change Function of Executor Buttons
window or in the Settings of Executor window.
Running the chaser
You can start the chaser by moving the fader from 0% and above 0%, this will run the chaser. You can also use a
Go or On command to run it in the direction you have set. If you use the GoBack command then the chaser runs,
but in the opposite direction. The Toggle command will toggle the current running status of the chaser. Off
command will stop the chaser. The Flash command will run the Chaser as long as you keep the key pressed.
You can assign all these commands to keys associated with the chaser or you can use them temporary by pressing
the function key on the dot2 and then one of the keys associated with the chaser.
5.10.

How to work with effects

Effect theory
Effects are the dynamic transition from one value to another. It always moves between two values - and only two.
We can control how it should get from one value to the other, we can control the speed and whether all fixtures
should do this at the same point on time or if they should be spread out over the looping time.
Each of the different Preset Types have some predefined effects that you can modify.
All the different effects values are programmer values that you can store in cues. This is the only place we can
playback effects.
Let's examine some of these settings. Let's begin with the two values. In the blue effect title bar you'll find two
buttons called Low Value and High Value . These are used to access and change those values.
Some effects can use a Width and Softness.
To learn more about what effects are, please have a look at the What are Effects and the Effects view help pages.
Build an effect in your programmer
To build an effect in your programmer you need to select the fixtures you want to use the effect, and you need to
select the Preset Type you want the effect to use. Then in the title bar of the preset type tap the effects icon - or
press the Effect key.
This opens the effects view for the selected Preset Type.
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