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Getting Started Guide - Building chasers
Ok, so now we know how to do some fancy circle copying, let's try to use this to make a chaser.
Let's add it on a new page. Press
Page +
until you are on page 3 and make an "Everything Off" using the
+
Off
key combination to open the Off window.
Building the cue list
Chasers are a cue list that is set to run using a different timing than the one stored in the cues. Often they run as loops,
but there are other options.
So the first thing we need to do is to build the cue list.
Select all your X4's using the group.
Turn them on and give them a blue color except number 31 - that should be white.
Store this on executor number 1.
Make sure all fixtures are selected (using the group) and tap the Circular Copy > macro once.
Store this as cue number 2. Continue using the circular copy and storing cues until you have 6 cues.
This is our cue list with the different steps in the chaser.
The only problem is that it now have too much information. When you use circular copy then it takes all values of the
fixture and copy this around. That's all very nice, but not what we want in our chaser - only dimmer and color. Let's
remove the rest. Select all the X4's and press the Please key twice. This brings you all the possible attributes into your
programmer. We want to keep dimmer and color information in our cues, so we don't what that in our programmer right
now. Press
Off
and then Dimmer in the preset bar (right side, right screen) and again
Off
and then Color in the bar.
This should remove the red markers next those. Ok, now press
Store
Cue
Thru
and then one of the two keys
associated with the executor. In the Store window tap where it says Remove . Now we have removed all the
unnecessary values from the cue list.
Changing it to a chaser
Now we need to change the mode of the cue list. We need to tell the console that this is now a chaser.
Press the
key and then any of the keys associated with the executor where you stored the cues.
In the upper right corner of the cue window you'll see the Tool icon
- Tap it.
This opens the settings for the executor. We also looked at this for our main executor, when we activated MIB. The top if
the settings looks like this:
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dot2 User Manual – 21 - Building chasers
Version 1.9 – 2021-05-20
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