Acclaim Lighting ART IO - Manual (Page 25)

Tasks
You can specify up to 8 Tasks per Action and a maximum 128 Tasks in total. When triggered, the Tasks
are performed in the same order as they are listed in the Action. Tasks can control various elements and
protocols in the Art SSC, such as DMX, MIDI, Art-Net, OSC, Lighting Console's Cues, playback of
recordings. Tasks can also be used to trigger other Actions, enable or disable action-lists and start/stop
the internal time-code.
Because a Task can do a wide variety of things they are organized in different Task 'Types'. When adding
a task a pop-up window will allow you to choose from the following types:
Console Control Cues and other elements found on the Console page.
Recorder Control playback of Recording's and other elements found on the Recorder page.
DMX Control the DMX channels in the 'Show Control buffer'. This data can be send out via the
DMX ports and/or Art-Net. Please set the 'Output Routing' in the Settings page
accordingly.
MIDI Send a MIDI message.
OSC Send an OSC message.
Art-Net [obsolete, use DMX in stead]
System Perform miscellaneous tasks like blinking the device's LED.
Action Trigger another action.
Action List Control the properties of an Action-list (e.g. Enable check-box).
Timecode Control the time-code properties like selecting the input source or start/stop the internal
time-code generator.
Variable [not implemented yet]
UDP Send a UDP message.
GPI Trigger the GPI port to read a binary value across all 4 contacts.
Feature
For each task you can select a Feature. The choice in Features differs for each Type. For example when
you add a Task with the 'Console' type, you can choose between:
Go+ Jump to the next Cue. I f the current cue is number 256 then it will jump to cue 1.
Go- Jump to the previous Cue. I f the current cue is number 1 then it will jump to cue 256.
Jump Jump to a specific Cue number.
Capture from DMX Record the channel values from the DMX in port and save it in the current Cue. Because
there is only one DMX input this will only save the first 512 channels.
Capture from Art-
Net Record the channel values from the Art-Net in universes and save it in the current Cue.
Capture from Show
Control Record the channel values from the 'Show Control DMX buffer' and save it in the current
Cue.
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