Playback Terms; Text Conventions - Compulite Spark User Manual

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Text conventions

• Delta - A tool for memory modification.
• Modify - Change stored information and fade rates.
• Frame - Scroller frame.

Playback terms

• Go - Initiate an automatic crossfade, controller fade, or chaser run.
• Hold - Stop any fade or chaser in progress.
• Multifade - Initiate a fade to the next memory in sequence before the fade in progress
is complete.
• End Stop - When crossfaders or the controllers are at either 0% or 100%.
• Off the End Stop- When the crossfaders or the controllers are at more than 0% or less
than 100%.
• Rate - The rate at which channels and spots fade in or out during a crossfade. The rate
at which a chaser runs.
• Step - Manually moving from the current memory to the next memory of a chaser.
• Sequence - The numerical sequencing of the memories on the A/B or C/D crossfaders.
Text conventions
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Panel [KEYS] are in square brackets, all caps, and bold.
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Messages are in italics.
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# refers to a number entered on the numeric keypad.
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Command line refers to the sequence of keystrokes executed and displayed in the gray
line at the bottom of the display monitor. The keystrokes in the command line are
represented in italics.
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Prompt line refers to prompts occurring in menus; these are italicized.
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Desk, console, and system are used interchangeably.
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