Natural Language Control as used in Cognito
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By the way, the color value is not stored as Slot 5, it is stored as "Yellow" so that if
it's ever applied to a different light with a different wheel (or mixing system), it
would produce the correct or near correct color again.
Gobos are also problematic when using stock fixtures. Different lights use
different numbers and types of gobos. If you're touring with Cognito but not with
your own lights and you travel from one venue on Thursday to a different venue
on Saturday, Natural Language Control can greatly reduce the amount of work
needed during Saturday's focus session. Here the cues are written such that Cue
1 uses a Pinwheel gobo and Cue 2 a cloud breakup. On Thursday's rig Cue 1
would use Slot 3 and Cue 2 would fade to Slot 5. As the cues are written and
stored based on what comes out of the light, not what protocol (bits and bytes)
the light is expecting, we know what Cue 1 is supposed to look like. That is why on
Saturday night, Cognito would produce DMX512 values to move this venue's
lights to Slot 8 and then to Slot 4.
