TFX-48B User Manual
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Revised: 2008-08-25 16:16:53
3.
O
PERATING
I
NSTRUCTIONS
Setup
S E T T I NG UP T HE S Y ST E M
1)
Place the Stage Designer 50
™ on a level surface. Note! The Stage Designer 50™can also be
rack mounted, occupying six rack spaces (6U).
2)
Plug the AC to DC power supply into the system back panel and into the mains outlet.
3)
Plug in your DMX cable(s) to your intelligent lighting as described in the respective fixture
’s
manual. For a quick overview of
DMX see the “DMX Primer” on page 19.
4)
Reset the system using the instructions on page 11 under
ERASE ALL SCENES
..
P HY S I CAL F ADE R AS S I G NM E NT ( OPT IO NAL S ET U P )
Use this feature to combine or unify fixture control attributes for different fixtures. For example; if you
were controlling 4 moving mirrors and 4 moving yokes, the color, gobo and dimmer channels may not
line up ideally on the physical faders. Use this function to re-assign the dimmer, color and gobo
channels to faders 1, 2 and 3. From now on you will be able to control the same attributes on all
fixtures using the same fader location. This is also most useful when needing to combine all colors
together.
Action
1.
Press and hold
RECORD
button.
2.
While holding the Record button, press the
Flash button #6 (3) times.
3.
Press the Flash button that you wish to
assign the DMX channel output to.
4.
While holding Record, press the Flash
button corresponding to the DMX output
that you wish to assign the Fader to.
5.
Repeat steps 2 ~ 3 as often as necessary.
6.
Press and hold Record & Rec Exit to exit
the mode.
For example: you wish to assign Fader #1 to
output to DMX channel #5.
1.
Hold the Record button & press Fader#6 (3)
times.
2.
Press the Flash button #1.
3.
While holding the Record button, press the
Flash button #5.
Notes
All physical faders can be re-assigned to output on a
different DMX channel. Faders are given a channel
number and are labeled on the surface of the
controller as such.
You can check to see what the assignment is by
pressing the Fader button of the corresponding
channel while in this mode.
Here is no limit to the amount of channels that can be
assigned to a single fades. One can assign up to all 48
channels of DMX output to a single Fader.
CHNO corresponds to the Physical Fader, while
SLDNO corresponds to the DMX output channel.
S WI T CHI NG BET WE E N P AG E AND P AG E B ( CH ANN E L S 1- 2 4 AND 2 5 -
48)
Action
1)
Press and hold
Record
& press
Page A_B
button. If you are on Page A, then this will
bring you to Page B. If you are on Page B,
then this will bring you to Page A.
Notes
When the fixture turns on, it will revert to the
previously used page.
Page A
is used to control channels 1-24, while
Page B
is used to control channels 25-48.
The screen will display which current page.
There’s an additional set of 4 pages of playback
controls on
Page B
.