Controlling Your Lighting System; Channels - ETC ColorSource Console User Manual

Controlling Your Lighting System

After you have completed your patch, you are now ready to start controlling your lighting system. Your
ColorSource console gives you many options for control of your lights.
This section discusses how to control your channels, and how to set the parameters.
Note:
that you can control. Those parameters may include color,
mands.

Channels

A channel is the control used by the console to operate a dimmer, a group of dimmers, a dimmer and a device,
or a complete moving light fixture.
Channels need to be associated with an address in
Channel Counts
The ColorSource 20 can control up to 20 channels in simple mode, and 40 in complete.
The ColorSource 40 can control up to 40 channels in simple mode, and 80 in complete.
Setting the Operating Mode
Choose Simple or Complete mode on the
Fader Pages
Simple Mode offers one page of faders to control the first 20 or 40 channels, depending on the model.
Complete Mode offers two pages of faders to control all the available channels, 40 or 80 depending on
the model.
Working with Dimmers / Intensity
Channels can be controlled in several different ways:
The faders, when in
chosen operating mode: Complete or Simple, there are one or two pages of channels that the faders
can control. In Complete Mode toggle the Channel button to access each of the pages.
You can use the touchscreen and select channels directly on the
used to assign an intensity level.
In complete mode, you can use the
In complete mode, channels can also be controlled by the playbacks, sequences, and cues. In simple
mode, channels can be controlled by four playbacks.
Selected Channels
To make changes to channel values, a channel must be selected. Selection is indicated by a thick green border
around the channel cell on the Stage Map and a lit LED beneath the channel fader. Selection can happen in a
number of ways:
Controlling Your Lighting System
Depending on the types of lights you have patched, you may have additional parameters
channel mode, can be used to control a channel's intensity. Depending on the
Note:
The second page of channels is only available when channels have been patched on
that page (above 21 or 41, depending on the console model).
position
patch for there to be output.
Setup>Settings>General
keypad to select a channel and assign an intensity level.
(focus), beam, and lamp com-
screen.
stage map. The wheel can then be
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