Natural Language Control
Different manufacturers use a variety of control channels to achieve all of these
possible behaviors. Some use lots of channels which surprisingly makes the
control of the gobo wheel easier, and other insist on bunching up behaviors on
only a couple of channels. The examples below are generic and are only used to
show how it could be done using linear DMX512 channels compared with how it's
handled using Natural Language Control.
The first of the pair of these linear channels is used to position the wheel and
select a specific gobo and do one of two things with it; either Index it or Rotate it.
The second channel changes modes based on the position of the first. Here the
first channel is set to about 10% and Selects the Dots gobo for Indexing. The
second channel is set to about 10% which indexes the gobo 15°.
Remember, the fader doesn't show you these options as selections - you need to
know them in advance! In contrast, Cognito's display shows Gobo 1 Wheel Mode
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