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11. User Settings and other options
This chapter contains: Setting the Pearl options using the VDU menu;
the Utilities menu; Key Profiles; Curves; upgrading the software.
The Pearl has a large number of options to help you set it up just the
way you like it. Commonly used options can be set from the User
Settings softkey; you can also set a wider range of options using the
onscreen Tools menu (on the VDU menu bar).
In this chapter there is also information on how to upgrade the
application software.
11.1 The System menu
The Pearl System menu is accessed by turning the key to System. The
options in this menu are separated from the other options on the
console because you would normally only change them occasionally, or
because they can have serious effects on the way the console works
and you wouldn’t want to change them accidentally.
Note: When the key is turned to System, playback control, preset
controls and programming buttons are all disabled.
11.1.1 Avotalk Security
This option sets how the console communicates with Active Fixtures
and with Remotes. See section 13.7 for details of Active Fixtures and
10.1 for information about Remotes.
11.1.2 Network Settings
This option sets up networking (Ethernet) parameters for the console.
See section 13 for details.
11.1.3 User Settings
The User Settings menu may also be accessed from Program mode:
hold down the Avo Shift button and press A [User Settings].
• A [Prompt for Merge or Replace…] sets the console action when
you try to save to a handle or playback which is already used. The
options are [Prompt for Merge or Replace] - the console will
always prompt, [Always Merge] - the console will never prompt or
[Palettes Always Merge] - the console will prompt unless you are
saving a palette.
• B [Warn before parking fixtures …] sets the console action when
you patch a fixture which overwrites the DMX channels of another
fixture. This causes the overwritten fixture to be “parked” The
options are [Always] (console will warn you) and [Never] (console
will park the fixture without warning you).
• C [Tempo Units…] sets the units for displaying tempo. The options
are [Beats per Minute] or [Seconds].
• D [Connected View … Chase Speed] sets the console action when
you change the speed of a connected chase. [Connected View Sets
Temporary Chase Speed] means that the console will not save the
modified speed, and the next time the chase is fired it will go back
to its programmed speed. [Connected View Sets Chase Speed]