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- Page 1 Lighting Console User’s Manual Ver. 1.013 CODE ELECTRONIC CO., LTD. http://www.codelight.com...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents 1. Welcome to Use the Colour 288......................... 1 1.1. Setting up Colour 288..........................1 1.2. The Front Panel of Colour 288 ........................ 1 1.2.1. Unit buttons..........................2 1.2.2. Attributes............................. 2 1.2.3. Function ............................2 1.2.4. Preset ............................2 1.2.5. Chase ............................2 1.2.6. - Page 4 Contents 6. Chase ................................13 6.1. Create a Chase ............................. 13 6.2. Change the Independent Time of Chase Step..................14 6.3. Edit Chase............................. 15 6.3.1. Edit Chase Step ........................15 6.3.2. Insert a step in Chase ....................... 15 6.3.3. Delete a step in Chase......................15 6.3.4.
- Page 5 Contents Setup the System ............................25 10.1. Data Clear ............................25 10.1.1. Clear all Data ..........................25 10.1.2. Clear All the Preset Data......................25 10.1.3. Clear All the Chase data ......................25 10.2. User Setup ............................26 10.2.1. Set Up Language........................26 10.2.2.
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Page 7: Welcome To Use The Colour 288
Welcome to Use the Colour 288 The Colour 288 is a special console for intelligent lights. For your convenient usage, the manual is divided into 11 chapters. Important contents are highlighted by shading and example explanations are added when necessary for the sake of your better understanding. -
Page 8: Unit Buttons
Setup —Setup the Console. 1.2.4. Preset Colour 288 has 4 Preset pages P1 – P4, each of which has 8 Preset buttons, totally 32 Preset buttons. After patched, some of data is set by fixture library, it can be set by user too. -
Page 9: Lcd Screen
1.2.6. LCD Screen Display multifarious under different menu. information 1.2.7. Control Wheels Wheel A and B are used to setup all the attributes value of the Units, as well as all the controlling parameters of the Effects. 1.2.8. Menu buttons There are 4 buttons on the right of the LCD screen, S1 - S4, the functions of which depend on the present state of the console. -
Page 10: Other Device
DMX output. 1.3.2. Audio Input Colour 288 can pick-up the bass and rhythm of the audio signal to trigger Chase, so that Chase can automatically follow the bass rhythm of the audio. There are two ways to input the audio signals: Via a 1/4 inch stereo plug;... -
Page 11: Clear All Data
1.4. Clear All Data Note: All the data in the console, including all the fixture patch, preset and chase, will be cleared, except the fixture library. You’d better clear all data in the newly-bought console, so that you can avoid the unpredictable errors, caused by disorder of the mixed patch. -
Page 12: Patch
Patch After clearing all the data of the console, users need to patch the Units according to the connecting circumstance of the fixtures, in order to use the 1-12 soft-keys with 3 pages. Each unit for one Fixture. Before patching, user must make clear of the model parameter of the Units and the present initial DMX address. - Page 13 Example: Patch a Martin Mac2000 Profile with 24 channels to Unit 1 of page A, the initial DMX address = 1, use 1 to 24 DMX channels; Press Patch and enter “Setup Patch” menu; Press S1 [Fixture]; Press S1 [SystemLib.]; Press S2 and select the Manufacturer order mode.
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Page 14: Setting Up The Fixture Channels
2.4. Setting up the Fixture Channels By setting up the swap of Pan and Tilt, you can control fixtures which is installed against the stage, to swap Pan/Tilt axis, Invert Pan and/or Tilt, so that the mirror movement makes the control more direct and easier. -
Page 15: Manual Control Of Fixtures
Manual Control of Fixtures We will introduce how to manually control fixtures in this chapter. 3.1. Select Manual Control of Fixtures Operate steps: Select and turn on the fixture first, then adjust the attribute value of the selected fixtures or run the effect directly. First of all, select the units need to be controlled. -
Page 16: Using The Preset
Use control wheels to change the attribute value: Select the fixtures and turn on them as above; Select the attribute button, then the relevant attribute will display on the bottom of LCD. Use wheel A or B to adjust the value. If the fixture which is user-defined but not the Fixture Library, it will only display the channels in Dimmer、... -
Page 17: Edit Preset
Edit Preset Colour 288 has 4 Preset pages, each of which has 8 Preset buttons. User can save totally 32 preset data, which named "Preset Table". After Patched, some preset were set (according to the data of fixture). You can set one or more channel attribute values of fixtures to one preset button, which can be used quickly during live show or programming. -
Page 18: Effect
Effect There is an Effect Generator in Colour 288, which will help you to create various lighting movement with far less programming. You'd better use at lest 4 neighboring fixtures to run the effect. Each of Chases can run two effects at the same time, as well as manual control. -
Page 19: Chase
Chase Each Chase has 3 timing parameters, which are "HTP FadeIn", "LTP FadeIn", "LTP wait". The default value for them are, HTP FadeIn =0, LTP FadeIn =1, LTP wait =0 (sec.). A chase is composing with some chase steps. Each of which has 3 timing parameters and Link mode parameters, which are "HTP FadeIn", "LTP FadeIn", "LTP wait". -
Page 20: Change The Independent Time Of Chase Step
Repeat the operation of the manual control, new Effect creation and Step Saving; After finished all the Chase steps, press Edit Chase to exit edit; Finally, press Clear to exit manual state. Only 4 Chase steps can be seen on the LCD screen, switch to look over other steps by 6.2. -
Page 21: Edit Chase
6.3. Edit Chase We will introduce how to edit, insert and delete the Chase steps. 6.3.1. Edit Chase Step Press Edit Chase and enter “Program Chase” menu; Press the Flash button of the needed Chase; to look over the chase step, and find out the Chase step needed to edit; Create a scene or effects manually;... -
Page 22: Renumber Chase Steps
6.3.4. Renumber Chase steps After insert or delete steps, press S2 [Renumber], the steps will realign then. 6.4. Run Chase It's easy to run a Chase, choose the page of the Chase first, and then select the Chase button. When running several Chase, the lower parts of LCD screen shows which Chase is running. Press Shift + Flash button to set the chase to current state. -
Page 23: Music Trigger
6.4.4. Music Trigger Set the Chase to the present state first; Press Music Trigger, then the led of button will turn on and the Chase steps will run follow the rhythm of the music. Press Music Trigger again, the led will be off, and the Chase steps will run as the preset speed;... -
Page 24: Advanced Function
Advanced Function The advanced function contains Copy and Delete for the Chase and Preset. 7.1. COPY This function can copy Chase or Preset. 7.1.1. Copy Preset Example: Copy the Preset value of button 1 of P1 in Preset section to button 1 of P3. Press Copy, enter “Copy menu”;... -
Page 25: Delete Chase
7.2.2. Delete Chase Press Delete to enter "Delete menu"; Press S3 [DEL Chase]; Select Chase page, if there is a Chase program, the led of Flash button will twinkle; Press the Chase button need to delete; Press S1 to [Confirm] delete; Press Delete to exit. -
Page 26: Fixture Library Supervise
Fixture in System Library you are using, you can add up to the user Library thyself. 8.1. Upgrade Fixture Library The system fixtures library offered by Colour 288 includes most fixtures in the market. We will constantly collect and update the library documents. You can download the latest library (CodeLib.bin) from our website http://www.codelight.com. -
Page 27: Add A New Fixture
8.3.1. Add a new Fixture If your fixture is not included in the system fixture library, you can add some in the user fixture library, it will not have any conflict or overlap with those fixtures take a same name in the system fixture library. -
Page 28: Edit User-Defined Fixture
8.3.1.3. Setup Fixture Info Press S3 [Fix.Info.]; Press S1 [Fix.name], to setup the model and name of the fixture by at most 10 characters of English letters or numbers. Use the Chase and Preset buttons to input English small letters, while Shift + Chase and Preset buttons to input English capital letters, use the 10 Attribute buttons to input numeric characters and use S2 to back space. -
Page 29: File Management
File management You can insert USB flash drive into the USB jack of the Colour 288 and backup the program to the USB flash drive. Suggestion: you'd better backup the data after you finish programming. It's advisable habit to backup the documents. Once the unpredictable accidents happened, you can resume it by the backup documents in the USB flash drive. -
Page 30: Delete Document
9.3.1. Delete Document You can delete the documents of the inserted USB flash drive. Note: the documents can not be resumed once deleted! Press S1 and enter “DEL File”; to select the needed document; Press S1 [Confirm] to delete and it will take some times; Press S4 until return to the Live Show Mode. -
Page 31: Setup The System
10. Setup the System Update software of the console and internal data eliminate will be introduced in this part. 10.1. Data Clear You can clear the internal data of the console, except Fixture Library. Press Setup; Press S3 [System]; Press S1 [Clear Data]; There are 3 functions as followed you can choose to operate: 10.1.1. -
Page 32: User Setup
10.2.2. Set Up MIDI Colour 288 can be used as a MIDI slave, thus MIDI Master can control its Chase program. It can also be used as a MIDI master, when another Colour 288 used as a MIDI slave. They are connected by MIDI cables and work in Master-Slave mode. -
Page 33: Upgrade The Software
10.2.2.3. MIDI Order Colour 288 can deal with the related MIDI order: Order of setting up a Chase Page: $Bn xx (xx is the page NO.: 0~4); Order of running a Chase: $9n pp ll pp = Chase No. (0 - 9, decimal) ll = output level of the Chase (0-127, decimal, 127= Max.) -
Page 34: Technological Specification
USB backup system enable user to backup the show in a file. Music trigger function for Chase. Chase Pause and BLACKOUT function. Can be controlled by Midi Master. Colour 288 can be connected by Midi signal, one for master, another for slave. The Data auto-saves.
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