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Press Exit when you have finished with palettes, as other functions
don't work while in Palette Select mode
You can also apply palettes 1-30 by pressing the grey Palette/Flash
buttons below the preset faders. While you hold the button, the top line
of the display shows the legend for the attribute (White, Green etc).
When you release the button, the palette is applied. If you decide you
don't want to apply the palette, press the Focus button before you
release the grey Flash button.
4.2
Creating your own palettes
You can easily save your own palettes, or modify existing ones. We'll
create a position palette.
Storing your own palette
Press Clear (next to the numeric keys) to clear all the changes you
have made so far
Select a couple of fixtures and press ML menu then A [Locate
fixture]
Press the "Tilt-Pan" attribute button.
Position the fixtures using the wheels.
Press the Store Palette button (one of the blue Command buttons)
Type "21" (the palette number to be stored) on the keypad and
press Enter. The position of the fixtures is stored as a palette
You can also store a palette by pressing one of the grey Palette/Flash
buttons below the presets. If you had pressed the grey button for
preset 21, that would have been the same as what we did above.
4.3
What's stored in a palette
Although you can store all attributes of a fixture in a single palette, it's
easiest to store some palettes which only affect colour, others which
only affect position, and so on. This means when you recall a palette
entry, you know which attributes of the fixture are going to change.
You do this using the Attribute buttons when saving the palette. In the
example above, we had the "Tilt-Pan" attribute selected when storing
the palette, so only the Tilt & Pan values were recorded.
Setting which attributes will be recorded in the palette
Press Clear to clear all the changes you have made so far
Select a couple of fixtures and press ML menu then A [Locate
fixture]
Set a colour using the "colour" attribute button and wheels.
Position the fixtures using the "tilt-pan" attribute button and
wheels.
Press the Store Palette button
Press the Colour attribute button. The Colour button & the
Yellow/Cyan/Magenta buttons will light, showing that these
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