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Atom Operator Manual
Quickstart Tutorial
LSC Lighting Systems (Aust) Pty. Ltd.
13
Timed Fades Between Presets
The fades that you have been performing on the Red and Yellow Preset masters have been “manual” fades.
That is, they have directly followed the actual positions of the Red and Yellow Preset masters. The speed that
you move the fader determines the time of the fade. This is because the IN and OUT time faders were set to
0 seconds. You can
accurately
control the IN time and the OUT time of these fades by using the IN and OUT
time faders to set the required durations. The IN and OUT time faders are ALWAYS ACTIVE on the Preset
masters.
RED
PRESET
MASTERS
YELLOW
IN
OUT
120
0
SECS
120
0
When a Master is moved in an upward direction, the fade will always progress toward the current position of
that Master at a rate determined by the IN time fader. When a Master is moved in a downward direction, the
fade will always progress toward the current position of that Master at a rate determined by the OUT time
fader. If the IN time fader is set to say 5 seconds, and a Master is quickly faded from fully down to fully up,
then the actual fade up will take 5 seconds. If you do not bring the Master fully up, then the fade will only fade
up to the level of the Master and then stop. If the Master was only faded up half way, and the IN time fader
was set to 5 seconds, then the fade up would reach the Masters position and stop in 2.5 seconds.
The manual fades that you performed earlier were achieved by simply setting the IN and OUT time faders to a
time of 0 seconds. At 0 seconds, the fades will
instantly
follow the position of the Preset masters.
When a Time fader is moved, the display automatically shows its setting.
Set the IN time fader to 3 seconds and the OUT time fader to 5 seconds.
Hint: To check the current time settings of the Time faders, press the [FUNCTION] key. One press
momentarily shows the IN time and a second press (whilst the IN time is still displayed) will change
the display to the OUT time.
Q
uickly
perform a crossfade between the Red and Yellow Preset masters. The INcoming preset fades up in 3
seconds whilst the OUTgoing preset fades down in 5 seconds.
Notice that the LED's in the S/A keys for the Red and Yellow Preset masters flash whilst the crossfade is
occurring. The flashing indicates that a timed fade is in progress.
Note: Preset masters, Submasters and the Grab master all flash their SOLO/ASSIGN keys when they
have a timed fades in progress. This flashing is especially useful when a LONG fade time is being
executed, because the physical position of a master does not necessarily represent the actual level of
the masters output. If you have some unexplained output from the Atom, check to see if any master's
SOLO/ASSIGN key is flashing, indicating that a timed fade is in progress.
Hint: You can invert the operation of the Yellow Preset master so that its output is faded up when it is
in the down position and faded down when it is in the up position. With this inverted configuration,
you may now perform crossfades by pushing both faders up and down side by side (with just one
hand). Refer to the “Utilities” chapter for details.
All of the “looks” that you have created have been made on a “one off” basis. That is, they have not been
recorded into the memory of the Atom. If you needed to re-use a look that you had previously created, then
you need to take a note all of the channels and their respective levels together with the fade times (if any), and
then manually setup the faders for the look and fade times.
The Atom allows you to “RECORD”, (also known as “store” or “program” on some desks), any of the looks
and fade times that you create. When you record a look it is known as a
Scene
and it may be replayed from
memory.