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QuadCore; the stand-alone mode is active whenever the QuadCore is not in the
slave or CueluxPro mode.
6.2 Slave Mode
Some demanding lighting designs can require more than four universes of DMX.
When multiple QuadCore units are combined to create a large multi-universe
system there is the need for synchronisation of those QuadCore devices. The
Slave mode facilitates this. See figure 6.3.
Figure 6.3: Master/Slave setup
When in Slave mode the QuadCore is taken over by a master-QuadCore and is
no longer responsible for its playbacks and scheduling; the master takes care of
this. All the slave requires is to contain the lighting content in its tracks. The
master-QuadCore will control all its slaves to activate the same tracks and keep
the playback of those tracks synchronised.
It is necessary to put all action-programming in the master-QuadCore. In fact,
the playback information inside the slaves will be overwritten by the master.
The master does this because it stores a copy of its playback-data in each slave to
enable the slave to continue autonomously in case the communication between
master and slave is interrupted.
The logical place for the action lists and action for a master/slave system is also
inside the master, however, it is allowed to place actions in a slave and they will
get executed.
The Slave mode is enabled in the Settings page (See chapter 12, page 73).
Once enabled, the Slave mode is entered as soon as the master connects to the
slave. The Slave mode reverts back to the Stand-alone mode when the master
disconnects or when the slave disables Master/Slave in the Settings page.
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