Chapter 19. Direct Access Features; Pitch Control And Freeze; Master, Master Flash And Black Out; Da Buttons: Smk, Strb, Ext1 And Ext2 - Martin Xciter User Manual

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Chapter 21. Direct access features

Besides the override playbacks, there are several other features for direct access during the show.

The second fader from the left with the center click is the pitch control fader. With this fader you can

manipulate all timing parameters (relatively) during playback and programming. Timing parameters include

scene time, fade time and speed of all effect generators.

When the fader is in the center (click) the Xciter runs with the original timings you programmed.

Hold [Freeze] to pause all sequences and effects that are running. Release it again to play.

The first fader on the left controls the master intensity. Use it to manipulate the relative intensity of fixtures

and generic dimmers. For those fixtures that do not have a dimmer, Xciter has the shutter close value (see

library). This value is sent to those particular fixtures, when you pull the master intensity below 3%.

Press the MI bounce button (master flash) to momentarily drive fixtures and dimmers to their full intensity.

Press [BO] to make all devices and dimmers dark.

[BO] is a toggle button, so you need to pres it again to come out of blackout.

Remember that you can exclude certain fixtures from master and from blackout (see patch). Fixtures that

have these flags set in the patch are not affected by the master fader and/or black out.

To setup DA buttons (see patch) requires some experience in the sense that you have to know what is

attached to your physical DMX channels.

Example: To program direct access of your DMX controlled smoke machine, you have to know it's

physical whereabouts on the DMX chain.

Remember the DA scene is very high priority, even higher than the programmer.

Example: If you activate all channels in a DA scene, that scene will override everything when you activate

it during run mode.

Press DA to activate the DA scene behind it.

If the button is in flash mode, the scene stays active as long as you push it.

If the button it in toggle mode, the scene remains until you press the button again.

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