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The Pearl also allows you to allocate fixtures and dimmers to Groups,
which can be useful if you usually select the same set of fixtures
together. Groups are described in the next chapter.
2.1.2 Patching dimmers
Each dimmer channel is allocated to one fader.
1> Press Patch (one of the blue command buttons bottom right),
then A [Dimmers].
2> Softkey A [Line=] shows you which of the 12 DMX output lines
you are patching onto. Press A then enter a new number (1-12) to
change the line. Softkey B shows the DMX address about to be
patched. You can change this by pressing B [Address=xx], typing
in the new address on the numeric keypad and pressing Enter.
3> To patch a single dimmer, press a preset Select button. To patch
a range of dimmers, hold down the Select button for the first
dimmer in the range, then press the last Select button in the
range. The range of dimmers will be patched to sequential DMX
addresses.
4> The Select buttons light up dimly to show that they are patched.
5> Repeat from step 2 for other dimmers.
• When setting the DMX address using Softkey B, you can set the
DMX line (universe) as well by entering {line}.{DMX}, for
example 2.56 will set DMX address 56 on DMX line 2.
• To see how DMX channels are patched, open the DMX window on
the VDU screen. (use the mousepad to select View > DMX).
• C [User Number = xx] allows you to set a user-defined number for
each dimmer or fixture patched, to help you identify them later.
You can also edit the User Number from the Repatch Fixture
menu.
• You can patch multiple dimmer channels to a single handle. This
can be useful if, for example, you want to control all the lights for
one area from a single fader. To do this, just press the same
handle Select button again when patching the new dimmer
channel. You can tell the dimmer channel has patched OK because
the DMX address will increase by 1.
2.1.3 Patching moving light fixtures
Moving light fixtures are more complicated to patch than dimmers
because they have more attributes to control, such as pan, tilt, colour
etc., whereas a dimmer channel just has intensity.
The Pearl uses a “personality” system to control fixtures. This means
you don’t have to know how each fixture works, you just tell the Pearl
what you want to do and it will send the right control commands. There
is a personality file in the Pearl for most types of fixture, which tells it
what attributes are available and how to control them. If the Pearl does
not have the personality for your fixture, you can download further
personalities from the Avolites website or Avolites can create one for
you. See section 12 on page 111 for details of how to find personalities.