Elektralite CP100xt Manual Part One Manual do Utilizador

1 GENERAL PLEAS FROM THE TECHNICAL DEPT. Please read this manual before you start calling, paging, emailing, & messenger pidgeoning, your f

10 Miscellany DisplayMISCELLANY:Audio sens.: 8 Mouse speed: 5Lock: on Mouse swap: 01Record time: no Footswitch: go • AUDIO

11 THE QUICK,QUICK INSTRUCTIONS.

12 QUICK, QUICK INSTRUCTIONS For those impatient sods that don’t want to take the time to read this dissertation of a manual word for word, I will

13 STORING A CUE 1) Move the lights into position & adjust their features to make a pretty look. You can also use your Presets and Feature P

14 7) Press the “Record” button to turn the LED off. 8) Use the “Chase Speed” & “X-fade Time” faders to set your Step Rate and Cross fade perc

15 SETTING UP YOUR SHOW

16 SETTING UP FIXTURES FOR YOUR SHOW ADDING FIXTURES The first thing that you need to do is tell the controller what fixtures you intend on prog

17 POO, PO1, TOO, TO1, P10, P11, T10, T11- These funny looking things are the Stage Focus values. Don’t worry about them now. Don’t mess around w

18 you would be able to setup a fixture just like the guys at Group One do. To do this you’re going to need to have access to a PC computer and some

19 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Listen up people! None of us like authority or discipline but we can’t have anarchy reigning with this board. The point is y

2 HARDWARE

20 LIGHTS THAT DON’T WIGGLE ADDING CONVENTIONAL DIMMERS TO YOUR SHOW All right, now it’s time to add some conventionals to this thing. There are

21 GROUPING YOUR DIMMERS You are also able to group your conventional dimmers as well. This becomes particularly useful when adding dimmers to subm

22 ADDING AUTOMATED LIGHTS TO DIMMER SUBMASTERS It is also possible to add the dimmers of your automated lighting to Dimmer Submasters. Now that’s

23 MORE ADVANCED STUFF

24 PRESETS & THE HI-LITE FUNCTION STORING AND RECALLING PRESETS Before we jump into this one and show how to create and edit presets and fe

25 preset. These features will be transparent to the preset you record. You can also use commands such as HILITE FIXTURES 1 THRU 12 ENTER. Hi-lite sa

26 FEATURE PRESETS “I want fixtures 1 thru 6 and fixtures 15 thru 21 in red now!” Ever had an impatient LD call that one out?…….and then keep ques

27 get those lines for a feature, is to press clear rotary n enter. Remember you can use the all or thru or except commands to speed up the procedure

28 you can just type in the number that you want and press ENTER. Obviously, you can give the Feature Preset a name in the “name” field by using the

29 ACTUAL PROGRAMMING

3 WHAT ARE WE DEALIN’ WITH HERE? OK, let’s take a look at all the raw power that you’ve got at your disposal. • 2 DMX-512 OUTPUT PORTS: that’s 10

30 Storing a Cue By now you should be proficient enough to start getting to the heart of programming this thing. That’s if you’ve read this manual

31 i.e.: Cue 5.2 or Cue 500.992 The highest point cue that the board is capable of supporting is Cue 99999.999 (impressive, aint it?) 5) Pre

32 ADDING YOUR DIMMERS TO THE CUE Once you’ve added Dimmers to Dimmer Submasters you can set the output of the Dimmers with those faders and then ad

33 CHASES

34 Storing a Chase. Now that you’ve tackled the brute challenges of making cues, you’ll probably want to see them loop around a few times. Here’s

35 i.e.: 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, etc. Wander- loops the chase forward a few times then backward a few times. Maybe it’ll throw in a Seesaw every now

36 MACROS

37 Storing Macros. *NOTE: Before we jump into this go into the Miscellany menu (press: MENU-F4) and set the “Record Time:” to NO. This will disable

38 The RECORD button LED will start flashing. Make sure that the SOLO button is lit as well. 3) Press CUE (or CHASE)-ENTER The Time display will

39 DIRECT ACCESS

4 SETTING UP THE CONSOLE

40 WANNA PROGRAM FASTER? HOW TO DIRECTLY ACCESS FEATURES OF YOUR LIGHTS The CP-100 supports some direct access functions for your moving lights

41 HOTKEYS

42 HOTKEYS It’s no secret that some of the commands on this console require more than just a few button presses. The answer to this is the HOTKEY.

43 Let’s say that you want to create a Hotkey command that will allow you to add Cues to Submasters. Follow all the steps above as normal. When you

44 COPY AND MOVE

45 COPYING AND MOVING THINGS the in-depth explanation Once you’ve created all these wonderful Cues, Chases, Macros, Submasters, Dimmer

46 Monitor Screen Displays

47 User Interface Modes The CP-100 keyboard and mouse/trackball inputs have two basic modes, Panel Mode and Screen Mode. Panel Mode is all there is

48 If there are multiple windows on the screen, an inactive window may be activated by clicking it with the mouse. The first nine windows put on the

49 • Chases and macros are loaded into their respective editor (stopping any playing chase or macro), and the CHASE EDITOR or MACRO EDITOR is displa

5 All right, lets start with physically setting up the console. 1) Take CP-100 out of the box. 2) Attach any peripherals to the console. i.e.:

50 Window Panel Mode Switches back to Panel Mode. Next Activates the next open window. (Same as Ctrl+F6.) Previous Activates the previous open wi

51 THRESHOLDS

52 START AND END THRESHOLDS EXPLAINED WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW DO THEY WORK? When you’re in a Fixture or Group Features display you are able to a

53 STAGE FOCUSING

54 STAGE FOCUS FOR THE TOURING TYPES WHAT IS IT? Stage Focus, sometimes referred to as a Global Focus, is the combination of Cartesian Coordinates

55 Basically, your rotaries are laid out to be the four corners of your stage: Rotaries 1 & 3 = Upstage Right Rotaries 2 & 4 = Downstage

56 USER DEFINED FIXTURES

57 User Defined Fixtures Overview. The CP-100 contains a universal fixture library within its internal memory. It is from this library that you c

58 BEST WAY TO LEARN The absolute best way to learn and use the User Library is to read the Quick Guide section following and then to print out the

59 Written in bold below is ultimately, what we want to see in the text file: vendor High End Test type Trackspot channel Pan channel Tilt channe

6 DISPLAYS

60 19 Press Yes to proceed with installing the new library 20 Press Enter and reboot the console for the changes to take affect If written properl

61 channels of the fixture laid out line by line followed by any special actions that work along with those individual channels. Note: Although th

62 type string the name of the fixture type, up to fourteen characters. For example: Miniscan stage switch yes if the fixture supports stage focus.

63 dbo switch yes if gated by the D.B.O. switch, no otherwise. The default is yes if the feature name is Dim , no otherwise. You may want to use thi

64 fine number fine rotary step size, from one to 255. The default is normally one, but is forty for pan and tilt features, or the maximum feature

65 Dim dbo, htp and short are turned on, clear is set to zero, hilite is set to 100, and master is set to 255. Shut, Red, Green, Blue htp is turn

66 channel PanFine ' has no rotary channel Tilt ' has rotary channel TiltFine ' has no rotary The channel name Null is also spec

67 • Dimmers. Since dimmers have only one feature, the CP-100 treats them separately from fixtures. This allows up to eight of them to be controlle

68 yourself with the fixture description language is to examine the fixture library that comes with the software. Editing the Library. Whenever you

69 First, before hashing, the fixture type name is converted to upper case, and blanks are stripped. This means that if you add a new fixture type to

7 WHAT ARE WE TALKIN’ ‘BOUT HERE? It’s no secret that every manufacturer has a different language. Some people call a “scene” a “cue”, othe

70 Deleting the Userlib.txt File from the CP-100 console If you need to do this then you really deserve a gold star! Actually, this is not uncommon

71 WORK THAT DISK DRIVE BABY

72 Now let’s discuss our handy little disk drive on the back panel of the console. This will allow us to do several things. First we’ll be able to

73 TO UPGRADE YOUR SOFTWARE Software upgrades for more recent upgrades of Operating System Version 3 software are available at no charge to those pe

74 DMX-Input

75 The CP-100 has a single DMX input port which maybe driven by the output of another DMX controller. There are three different ways that the DMX inp

76 instantly the CP-100 snap-shots the DMX input. You can now store this information into any cue. Now it would be pretty labor intensive if you had

77 object. In effect, it is latched on. If you want to turn it off, then simply move that channel’s value above zero again. The important word here

78 Summary of Triggers. In general, whenever a trigger (DMX-input or Midi Note On) is received, the CP-100 scans all its objects (cues, chases, macr

79 THE COMMAND SET

8 THE MAIN MENU The CP-100 MAIN MENU is the first display that you will see upon start up of the controller. Main Menu Display CP-100 MAIN

80 Global Deletion All Delete deletes all objects in non-volatile memory. Clear All clears the cue editor, chase editor and macro ed

81 Selecting Displays Add Dimmer selects ADD DIMMER display Add Fixture selects ADD FIXTURE display Chase selects CHASE EDITOR display

82 Highlighting Fixtures Clear All Hilite un-highlights all fixtures Clear Hilite (from) All [Fixture] un-highlights all fixtures Clear

83 Clear All Dimmer clears all dimmers Clear All Feature clears all features of current fixture Clear All Feature Except n … clears a

84 Add Dimmer Group n … [To] Preset n adds filters for specific dimmer groups to specific preset Add Fixture n … [To] Preset adds specific fixtur

85 Add Stage Focus [To] [Fixture] Group selects fixtures in current group, turns on Stage Focus for them Add Stage Focus[To] [Fixture] Group n …

86 Delete Feature Preset n … deletes specific feature presets Move Feature Preset n … To n moves multiple feature presets to a contiguous ran

87 Playing Chases All Chase Stop stops all chases in the system Chase n Go loads specific chase into chase editor and starts it Chase

88 Loading the Macro Editor Clear Macro clears the macro editor Edit Macro reloads current macro into macro editor Edit Macro n

89 Editing Fader Assignments Add Chase n … [To] Submaster p.f adds chases to submaster fader Add Cue n.n … [To] Submaster p.f adds cues to sub

9 Software DisplaySOFTWARE:F1 Save software This version: 1.07F2 Load software Disk version: 1.14 • MEMORY The MEMORY display also allows you

90 Controlling Submasters By Command All Submaster Stop stops all running submasters, with fade out Dimmer Submaster p.f … @ n sets dimme

91 Stopping Playback and Record All Chase Stop stops all chases in the system All Macro Stop stops all macros in the system Chase n … S