MA lighting dot2 User Manual page 69

The three dots on the right gives you the following settings:
Endless
- will have the chaser running until you stops it
Shoot-Off
- will run the chaser once and then turn off. If the running order is random, then it will run the amount
of steps/cues, but not necessarily all the different cues/step!
Shoot-On
- is the same as Shoot-Off but it will pause after the final step/cue.
The bottom half of this gives you controls to play the chaser (for any of the shoot modes) or pause it. There are also
three buttons that changes the speed. You can half the speed, double it or reset it to what the encoder below is set
to.
Remember that I said that all the cue timings are ignored? This means that as a default the cue fade times is 0 and
the result is that the chaser snaps between the different steps. If we would like it to do a more nicely fade from one
step to the next, we can do this using the second from the right encoder. This is currently called "Fade" and is a
percent number. This can be used to set how much of the available time should be used to fade from one step to
the next. The more you turn this up, the more of the time is used to fade.
Next to the Fade encoder is the Speed encoder. Here you can set a more detailed speed. But if you are trying to
match the beat of some music, then you can press and hold the
with the chaser. This will dynamically change the chaser speed to the speed of your presses - it's a function called
learn and you can also see it on the Master Speed in the Magic Speed view.
The MA dot2 is handling speed as BPM (Beats Per Minute). This is used for chasers and effects and both are adjusted
by the Master Speed fader in the Magic Speed view.
Running chasers from cues
One of the limits with chasers is that they are not easy integrated with cue playback.
The only way to do this is to add commands in your cue list. Try to press
scroll all the way to the right and locate the "CMD" column.
In the command cell for cue 4 we want to add a command that runs the chaser. First make sure the chaser fader is
down and then note the executor page and executor number. It should be on page 3, executor number 1.
In the command cell type:
And to turn it off again in cue 5 I write:
Now you can try the cue list and when you run cue 4 then the chaser begins and with cue 5 it stops. Notice how
nice it fade in. The fade out isn't really that nice. That's because the X4's still got dimmer values from the main
executor. So after the 5 second fade then the colors snap to green. To fix this you'll need to create a new empty
cue 5.5 with a fade time of 2 and then add the X4 dimmers at 0% in cue 5 only. Then give cue 5.5 a follow as the
trigger. I suggest you make this :-)
Now this is almost all you need to know about chasers. The cues can have any kind of content, there can be as
many cues as you like. It's just a question of your imagination. Next chapter we are going to look at some effects.
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fader 3.1 at 0 fade 5
Speed key while you tap one the keys associated
Cue to open the main cue list view. Now
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