Introduction
ORB Operating Manual – Issue 1.0
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Control Channels
The desk has 2048 channels of control. These can be assigned and
patched as any number of Fixtures, across the 4 DMX universes on
the desk.
Fixtures
Every device controlled by ORB is known as a Fixture. Fixtures can
be a simple generic dimmer channel, or a complex DMX device such
as a colour scroller, moving mirror or moving head (eg VL3000,
MAC 700). Any item controllable via a DMX signal can be assigned
as a fixture on ORB.
On the ORB, dimmer channels are a simple fixture with one
parameter. Moving heads, moving mirrors, LED and Video systems
controlled by DMX are fixtures with multiple parameters.
Within the Fixture Library, the ORB is told which channels control
which parameters of the fixture. These are then grouped into
Position, Colour and Beamshape.
Fixtures can be given a user defined name and number, for ease of
reference.
Fixtures can be patched to any of the DMX output channels (1 –
512) on any of the DMX universes (1 – 4).
Fixture parameters can be manipulated from within the Output
Window, from where they can be added to cues, palettes,
submasters, User Defined Keys, or macros.
Cues, Cue Stacks and Playbacks
The desk allows you to record cues, for use in any of the 1000 user
programmable cue stacks. Each cue can have a number, name,
trigger, a wait time (auto cues) and a set of delay, and fade times.
It is possible to give each parameter of each fixture their own
individual fade and delay times in each cue.
The desk provides 10 playbacks, which can be switched between
100 pages.
Groups
The desk provides 1000 user definable groups. Automatic groups
for each fixture type in the schedule can be generated from the
Setup area, if required.
Palettes
The desk provides 1000 user programmable palettes for each of the
four attributes (Colour, Beamshape, Position and Effects).
User Definable Keys (UDKs)
The desk provides 20 pages of 10 User Definable Keys. The User
Definable Keys may be assigned to Groups, Fixtures, Palettes,
Effects, Cues, or channel data.
Submasters
The desk provides 20 pages of upto 30 Submasters. The
submasters may be played back via DMX In or using the Playback
Masters.
Output Processing on the ORB Desk
The ORB has two distinct channel types:
Intensity
channels and
Attribute
channels (Colour, Beam and Position).
The main difference is that Intensity channels can be flashed, are
mixed with their source's Master Fader and the GRAND MASTER,
and can have distinct Fade Up and Down times.
When you play back a cue, park a channel, or manually manipulate
a channel in the programmer, you give ownership of the channel to
that specific area of the desk.
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