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German Light Products This guide will serve as an outline for the various DMX modes for the X4 BAR 10 and X4 BAR 20 with a focus on Normal Mode to assist in understanding how to program the fixtures when set to this DMX Mode. Normal Mode in the X4 BAR fixture implements a unique layer effect system that allows for an extremely wide array of effects whilst using a minimum of DMX Channels.
German Light Products 1 Guide to the Set Layers There are 3 Set Layers for the fixture. • Set 1 and Set 2 have 8 channels each attributed to their functionality • Set 1 or 2 Color Wheel Set 1 or 2 Red Set 1 or 2 Green Set 1 or 2 Blue Set 1 or 2 White...
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German Light Products 2 An Example to Demonstrate the Set Layers Functions This demonstration uses the X4 BAR 20 • • Make sure the fixture is patched to a Normal Mode library and the fixture is set to Normal Mode o Fixture libraries from different console manufacturers will vary on how the library is patched in regards to which channel is patched to which attribute.
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German Light Products 12. Choose Set Pattern 2 Select(30) and set to value 13 a. If the value of Set Pattern 1 stay at value 0, then it will take precedence and layers 2 and 3 will not be seen. 13.
German Light Products 3 Normal Mode (norm) 34 DMX channels: Channel Function Time and Value 1 Tilt - High Tilt coarse 0° - 210° 0..255 2 Tilt - Low Tilt fine 0..255 3 Zoom Wide (flood) - narrow (spot) 50° - 7° 0..255 4 CTO No CTO...
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German Light Products Fade on, fade off (random patterns) slow – fast 112..143 Strobe random 5s - 0.1s 144..199 Strobe effect slow - fast 1 Hz - 10 Hz 200..239 Shutter open 240..255 12 Master Intensity Intensity 0 - 100% 0..255 13 Special See special features below...
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German Light Products 4 Special Channel Addendum Special Channel Function Overview: DMX value Save to Active Function Remarks eeprom from not in SPix/DPix mode no mirror not in SPix/DPix mode mirror color priority not in SPix/DPix mode mirror color mixing The following switch boxes only work if special channel has been enabled with DMX value zero (0) before: 3 seconds Tilt current off...
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German Light Products impression X4 BAR 10/20 Programmer Notes...