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72 Emphasis Console v1.4.0 User Manual
Manual Control
Once you have created your patch (see Patch, page 61 ), the next step is setting your
channels and fixtures to levels so that you can store cues and submasters. Manual control
is interactive with Emphasis Visualization, so you can choose to work with the mouse,
selecting lights by clicking them, or you may choose to use the keypad interface of
Emphasis Console.
Select Channels, Dimmers and Fixtures
Channels are the means by which Emphasis stores cue data. Everything you want to store
in a cue or submaster needs to be patched to a channel. Moving lights use multiple
channels to control all their parameters.
Emphasis uses fixture personalities to organize the channels required for a moving light.
When you want to use moving lights in your show, patch them using the personalities
available in the libraries in Emphasis Visualization (See the Emphasis Visualization User
Manual for how to patch).
You can also access dimmers directly for troubleshooting purposes, or to park them at a
level (see Park, page 85 ).
Selected channels are under your immediate control. There are a number of ways to select
channels and fixtures: directly by number, by selecting a group containing the desired
channels (see Groups, page 84 ), and/or by selecting a Concept (see Concepts, page 73 ).
Dimmers must be selected using the [Dim] key.
Direct Selection
The most direct way to select a channel or fixture is to simply type its number on the
Facepanel’s numeric keypad. You can select single channels, or multiple channels using
the [And] key, or ranges of channels using the [Thru] key, and you can remove channels
from a selection using the [Except] key. The same is true of fixture selections. In most
cases, the channel key’s LED is lit, making the [Channel] key press optional.
Select channels:
• Press <Channel> [ x ] to select a single channel.
• Press <Channel> [ x ] [And] [ z ] to select non-consecutive channels.
• Press <Channel> [ x ] [Thru] [ z ] to select a range of channels.
• Press <Channel> [ a ] [Thru] [ g ] [Except] [ c ] to select a range of channels, except
channel [ c ].
• You can use [Except] multiple times to remove multiple channels from the selection:
<Channel> [1] [Thru] [1][0] [Except] [5] [Except] [7] , selects channels 1-4, 6 and 8-
10.
• Press <Channel> [Enter] to select all channels with levels above zero.
• In Emphasis Visualization, you can click on a fixture symbol to select its channel. See
the
Emphasis Visualization User Manual for more information on selecting fixtures
using the mouse.