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Working with Presets
Presets aid to simplify the programming process by allowing user-defined ‘elements’ to be created and
then used as a toolkit to build your cues. Once you created a Preset, such as a couple of moving lights
pointing at a particular position on stage, you may recall those settings at any point, and record them
into cues.
The biggest advantage of using Presets is that they are only stored into cues as a reference, rather than
the parameter values that the Preset contains. If you later decide to change the Preset, all cues that
have been recorded using this Preset are also changed. This is especially useful if, in example, the position
of a set-piece on stage is moved and moving lights have been programmed to light it. The preset can be
updated once to accommodate the change, rather than reprogramming the change in every cue
lighting the set-piece.
Presets allow parameters to be recorded to be easily accessible during programming and live operation.
Presets are divided into different pools, wheras each Pool type will filter attributes stored into the presets
by its equivalent type: An All Preset Pool will store all attributes, whereas a Color Preset Pool will only store
color attributes.
Presets are only applicable to fixtures that had values set while storing the preset but may be recalled by
some of the fixtures only. In Example: You have recorded a preset containing only Pan and Tilt for Fixtures
1 through 10. This preset is not applicable to Fixtures 11 and 12. But this preset may also be recalled for
fixture 1 and 4 only.
Like fixtures and groups, presets may be found in the split widget side menu by pressing the
Presets
button.
Using Presets using the Numberblock
You can address Presets using the Numberblock using the following syntax:
[Preset]
Pool Number
[.]
Preset Number
So in example
[Record]
[Preset]
0
[.]
1
Would record All-Preset 1.
Preset Pool Numbers
Pool
Number
All
0
Intensity
1
Position
2
Color
3
Gobo
4
Beam
5
Shaper
6
Control
7
Macro
8
Special
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