Jands Vista I3, User Manual

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Changing universes Patching your rig
7.
In the DMX Universe field, Vista automatically displays the number of the
currently selected universe. If you want to add these fixtures to another
universe, enter the universe number.
8.
In the DMX address field, set the number of the DMX channel where you
want this group of fixtures to start. If you’ve already added any fixtures to
this universe, Vista displays the next channel number in sequence.
9.
If you prefer, you can patch fixtures to an ‘absolute address’ For example
typing 513 in the Absolute address field, automatically sets the Universe to 2
and the DMX number to 1. If you’ve already added any fixtures to this
universe, Vista displays the next channel number in sequence.
10.
In the Spacing field, Vista displays the number of channels each instance of
the fixture you’ve selected will take up. If you want to leave empty channels
between each fixture you can increase this number. For example, if a fixture
normally uses twelve channels and you increase this number to 14, Vista
leaves a gap of two channels between each fixture in the group.
11.
When you’ve set all the fields the way you want them, click the Patch button.
Vista adds the group of fixtures to the patch panel.
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If you’ve already added a bunch of fixtures between say, channel 10 and
channel 50, and you add another batch starting at channel 1, Vista fits as
many of them as it can into channels 1 to 9, then ‘flows’ the rest over to
channel 51.
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ixtures and then tab
through the Quantity and other fields.
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iverse tab at the top of the patch panel to display the next set of
DMX channels.
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you drop them on the screen, Vista re-arranges them all from that channel.
After you type in the search box you can use the ‘Down Arrow’ button
your keyboard to move the cursor into the list of f
Changing universes
Each universe can only handle a certain number of fixtures, depending on the
number of DMX channels each fixture needs. To add fixtures to another universe
click another Un
Re ‐ arranging fixtures on the patch panel
Moving fixtures around the patch panel
Once you’ve added fixtures to the panel you can re-arrange them however you
want. Just select the fixtures you want and drag them to a new channel; whe
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