table of contents
Chapter 1
Introduction␣
..................................................................................................................... 1
Expression Show Control System features .......................................................... 2
PSC features ................................................................................................... 2
RSC features ................................................................................................... 2
Using this manual .................................................................................................. 3
Text conventions ................................................................................................... 4
Customer service .................................................................................................. 4
Chapter 2
Hardware and installation
␣
.................................................................................. 5
Internal clock mode ............................................................................................... 5
Programmable Show Controller (PSC) .................................................................. 6
Front panel ...................................................................................................... 7
Back panel ...................................................................................................... 7
Setting up the
PSC, monitor and Designer’s Worksheet digitizer .................. 8
Installing two monitors ............................................................................. 9
Entering system configuration ...................................................................... 10
Monitor selection ................................................................................... 10
Boot option selection ............................................................................. 10
Connecting to dimmers ................................................................................ 11
Connecting parallel printer ............................................................................ 11
Remote Show Controller (RSC) ........................................................................... 12
Maintenance panel .............................................................................................. 13
Manual SMPTE controls ............................................................................... 13
Indicator LEDs .............................................................................................. 14
Chapter 3
Entering softpatch and
system settings
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15
Entering softpatch ............................................................................................... 16
Entering one-to-one softpatch ...................................................................... 16
Creating custom softpatch ........................................................................... 17
Using channel zero ................................................................................. 17
Entering numbers of channels and dimmers ......................................... 17
Patching dimmers to channels ............................................................... 18
Additional patching features ................................................................................ 19
Proportional patching .................................................................................... 19
Dimmer profiles ............................................................................................ 20
Resetting factory dimmer profiles and all dimmers to default setting .......... 20
Capturing channels in softpatch ................................................................... 21
Unpatching individual dimmers ..................................................................... 21
