American DJ Show Designer Instruction Manual page 5

the attribute you are changing. Finally you must always press "Enter" to record any changes you make to
any attribute. The message "DONE" will appear in the display when the change has been recorded.
NAME is the fixture name that appears whenever you select or deselect a fixture. You may want to
modify this on all of your fixtures to show fixture purpose or location such as "MAX left" or
"DIMMERS 1-16"
CHANNELS is the total number of channels for the fixture. This can be any number from 1 to 32.
When you change the number of channels be aware that other things such as fixture addresses and
number of multi fixtures can be automatically changed if you drastically change the number of channels
for a fixture that has already been set up and is in use. Fixture attributes such as black channel, pan or tilt
will also be automatically disabled if you select a number that is smaller than the channels that are already
assigned to those attributes. For example if you already assigned pan to channel 8 and you reduce the total
number of channels for the fixture to 4, pan will automatically be set to "none". Likewise if you increase
the number of channels from 8 to 9 and you had previously set up 4 multi fixtures using all 32 channels,
the multi fixture setting will be reset back to 1.
BLACK CHANNEL is the channel that will be affected when the "Black" switch is pressed. You can
choose any available fixture channel as well as "ALL" which will force all channels to the selected black
value.
BLACK VALUE is the DMX value that will be sent to the selected black channel(s). This will
accommodate fixtures that use the gobo wheel for blackout and that use a value other than 0 to set the
gobo wheel to blackout.
PAN CHANNEL is the channel used by the fixture for pan. This can also be set to "none" if the fixture
does not have a pan feature. This is also the pan coarse channel or pan high byte channel for those
fixtures that use two channels to control pan.
PAN FINE is for fixtures that use two channels to control pan. This is also referred to sometimes as the
pan "low byte" channel. Set this to "none" if the fixture uses only one channel for pan.
TILT CHANNEL is the same as described above for pan channel except that it controls tilt.
TILT FINE is the same as described above for pan fine except that it controls tilt.
FADE MODE is used to set the crossfade method for each of the fixture's channels. This attribute is
displayed on the top line of the display as " F ADE 01". The number represents the channel number within
the fixture. Use the + and - switches or the data wheel to select the channel desired. Once the channel is
selected move the cursor to the bottom line and select the crossfade mode. The choices are "crossfade",
"snap before fade" and "snap after fade". You must press "Enter" after each channel has been
programmed.
"Crossfade" will make the channel fade between levels when changing scenes. The crossfade time will
vary from scene to scene depending on how it was programmed for that scene. Use this setting for
channels that control functions like pan and tilt or dimming to achieve a smooth transition from scene to
scene. If you use this setting for gobo or color wheel channels, they will cause the wheels to step through
all positions between the start and end positions of a long fade.
"Snap before fade" will cause the channel to jump immediately to the next scene level as soon as the new
scene is called. Use this setting for channels that control motor speed so that pan and tilt will move at the
correct speed during the fade. You can also use this setting for wheel channels that you want to change at
the start of long crossfades.
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