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Expression Show Control System
Entering softpatch
The system accommodates up to 512 dimmers in 200 channels. Softpatch gives
you complete flexibility in assigning dimmers to control channels in any order.
Softpatch also allows you to proportionally assign levels to individual dimmers to
balance a wash or to ensure that a specific lamp cannot be brought above a
specific level
. For instructions see page 19.
In addition, you can select from 10 dimmer profiles for each individual dimmer
.
Dimmer profiles allow you to select a nonlinear output curve for dimmers
. For
instructions on selecting dimmer profiles see page 20.
You will find instructions on the following pages for one-to-one softpatch,
customized softpatch and additional softpatch features.
Entering one-to-one softpatch
If you have the same number of dimmers and channels, you may want to use a
one-to-one softpatch
. A one-to-one patch assigns dimmer one to channel one,
dimmer two to channel two, and so on
. If you have more dimmers than chan-
nels, the default setting assigns the first extra dimmer to channel one, the
second extra dimmer to channel two, and so on.
To use the system’s default one-to-one softpatch setting follow these steps:
1.
Press [Set Up].
2.
Select 6,
System Settings
, and press [Enter].
3.
Select 4,
Customize Channels
, and press [Enter]
.
4.
Enter the total number of required channels, up to 200, and press [Enter].
5.
Select 7,
Customize Dimmers
, and press [Enter]
.
6.
Enter the total number of required dimmers, up to 512, and press [Enter]
.
7.
Select 8,
Default softpatch
, and press [Enter]
.
8.
Press [Rec] to assign the default softpatch settings
. Or, press [Clear] to
cancel the operation.
9.
See page 19 for instructions on inhibiting individual dimmer levels within a
channel.
Note: For instructions on performing a channel check from the patch
screen (without returning to Stage mode), see Capturing channels in
softpatch on page 21.
