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8 Recording Cues
8.1 Record Modes
There are three main recording modes to create a cue or memory:
Channel mode - records only the channels you have changed for the fixtures in the
programmer. Does not record values taken from [Locate]
Fixture mode - Stores all the channels for all the fixtures you have selected since last
clearing the programmer, regardless of whether you have changed all the attributes or
not
Stage mode - records all the channels for all patched fixtures which have a dimmer value
of more than 0, or which have been selected since the last clear, regardless of whether
that information comes from the programmer or from playbacks
Try this:
Press [Clear], then select the All Spots group and press [Locate]. Apply a band position
palette and a colour palette. On the display above the wheels only position and colour
information are in the programmer. Press [Record], choose [Create Memory] and on
Softkey A that you can choose between channel/fixture/stage mode. Now record this
information in both Channel and Fixture mode onto 2 separate playbacks.
Press [Clear] and repeat this process with the same group of fixtures, this time with an
audience position palette and a gobo palette. Press [Locate] and [Clear]. You should now
have ended up with 4 cues, 2 in Channel Mode and 2 in Fixture Mode.
Fire the first fixture mode cue by dragging up the virtual fader. You’ll see that that it’s
recorded a value for everything, even dimmer, even though dimmer wasn’t in the
programmer. With this still up, fire the second fixture mode cue. Now even though
colour wasn’t in the programmer, the console recorded its current value, which was open
white, so it has overridden it with open white. Fixture is the safest record mode, as the
lights that you have been using will always go to the state when you recorded them,
regardless of what they were doing before.
Select the fixtures, press [Locate] then [Clear]
Fire the first channel mode cue. The console is only being told to change position and
colour information, it has not saved anything else – even though locate puts dimmer at
full, it wasn’t in the programmer so wasn’t saved into the cue. Select the fixtures and
put dimmer to full using the dimmers channel, NOT [Locate], proving that the desk is
playing back the values that have been saved.
Select the fixtures, press [Locate] then [Clear]
Repeat this for the second record by channel playback.
Select the fixtures, press [Locate] then [Clear]
The console has not saved zero values for the other channels in the cue, it’s just
completely ignored them. Now, fire the first fixture mode cue, then with this up, fire the
