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The best way to see this is in the Fixture view in sheet style.
Try to give your fixtures a dimmer value and a new color. Now store this as a new color preset. Notice that we still
have the original dimmer values in our programmer - the red color on the preset bar in the right of screen 1. That's
because we can't store dimmer values in the Color preset. So we have the original dimmer values and the link to
the color preset in our programmer.
Now try to tap All then Store and tap one of the empty All presets. Now we have store a preset that have the red
color and the dimmer value.
color
Make some more presets so we have something to choose between.
MyColor
Make a red colored preset and call it .
Using presets
Clear your programmer and tap one of the color presets once. That didn't change the color. What it did was
selecting the fixtures that can use the preset you tapped. Tap the preset again. Now they got the color.
If you don't have a selection when you tap a preset, then the fixture(s) who can use that preset gets selected. If you
have a selection of fixtures and tap a preset, then the fixtures that can use the preset, get the reference to the
preset in the programmer and the output from the preset. Remember that you are not actually getting the values
from the preset in your programmer, you get the reference or link to the preset.
Select the MyColor preset and store a cue on executor 101 (top row closest to the main executor).
Clear the programmer and run the cue. Now your fixtures should be red.
Select the fixtures and give them a blue color. Now press Store and then the MyColor Preset. Select the Merge
option in the store pop-up. Finish by clearing your programmer.
The fixtures are still blue. That's because the cue we stored is still active and even though the cue was stored when
the preset was red, then you changed the preset, so now the cue will give us the fixtures in blue.
Try to delete the MyColor preset. Say OK in the confirmation pop-up.
The fixtures are still blue!
When you delete a preset then the (real) values from the preset is stored into the cues where it was used. So you
loose the preset and thus the link. But your cues still looks the same.
Making more executors
Before we move on, we are going to make some more executors and change what the executor keys does.
We still have the blue cue on executor 101. Select your four fixtures and then one of the presets you made (don't
select a blue one). Now store this on executor 102.
Clear your programmer and try what happens with the color of the fixtures when you play them back.
Right now the executor keys work as a toggle function, this means you can turn executor 101 on or off with the
same key. There's an added twist to this. If all the values stored in the active cue is under the control of a different
executor, then the executor is automatically turned off.
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