Patching Moving Light Fixtures - Pearl DLC-C003 Operator's Manual

While you are in Patch mode, the VDU screen shows a DMX channel
grid to tell you which channels you have patched so far and which are
free. Dimmers and fixtures are identified by different letters, dimmers
are always "a".
You can also display the patch on the LCD screen by pressing View (on
the numeric keypad) then C [DMX patch] (shows which handle each
DMX channel is allocated to) or D [Fixture patch], which shows a list in
handle order.
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Patching moving light fixtures

Moving light fixtures are controlled slightly differently to dimmers; a
dimmer only has one controllable attribute, intensity. But a moving
light fixture can have many attributes, such as pan, tilt, colour, gobo
etc. When you patch a fixture, you will see on the VDU screen that it
occupies a block of DMX channels rather than just one. However, the
principle is still the same.
The DLC-C003 has personality files for most lighting fixtures in the
known universe, and these are stored internally in the console. If you
want to use a personality not available in the console, you can load it
from a personality disk, a wide range of which can be downloaded from
the DORTRON's website. See section 12 in the reference manual for
details of how to download personalities.
Note: To use the internal personality files, make sure there is no disk
in the disk drive.
Patching a fixture
Make sure there is no disk in the disk drive
Press Patch
Press B [Choose a fixture]
The display will show "Please select an instrument" on the top line.
A list of known fixtures will appear next to the softkeys after a
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