Martin CYCLO 04 DMX, User Manual

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The slave program will be as set by its DIP-switch, so to have a master and
a slave run the same program, their DIP-switch settings have to be the same
(apart from the Master/Slave setting).
The synchronization signal is the same as used by other Mar tin
Architectural products, so this enables the stand-alone functionality to be
used with a range of other Martin products.
To have a single fixture run alone, it must be set to master. Slave fixtures
must not be connected to more than one master.
A d v a n c e d m a s t e r / s l a v e
To make more advanced schemes, it is important to understand how scenes
are numbered. The scene pattern is always established in the sequence
white to red to green to blue. This means that if white is enabled, it will
always be placed first in the program. When crossfade@0% is selected,
e a c h c o l o r t a ke s u p t w o s c e n e s ( fa d e i n a n d fa d e o u t ) . W h e n
crossfade@50% is selected, each color takes up one scene (fade in only).
Scene numbering always starts at 0, and a maximum number of 8 scenes (0
- 7) can be set, with all colors enabled and crossfade@0%.
Each scene can be seen as a translation from one output to another, this
translation is called a fade, and the time of the fade is set by the speed
setting of the DIP-switch. When a fixture is in slave mode, each new fade is
initiated by a synchronization signal received from the master. When the
slave receives a synchronization signal, and initiates a fade, it will not act on
new synchronization pulses, until the fade is complete.
If a slave fixture has:
1 Fewer scenes than the master fixture, it will run these in a cycle
continuously, until the master fixture signals that the program should start
from the beginning again.
2 More scenes than the master, then the additional scenes will never run,
because the program will reset to the first scene when the master starts its
program from the beginning.
Here is an example of what will happen when a slave fixture has fewer
scenes than the master fixture:
Scene pattern
Master with 7 scenes 01234560123456012...
Slave with 3 scenes 01201200120120012...