Gilderfluke&Co Pb-DMX - Manual (Page 36)

AutoDownloading Your Shows to your Pb-DMX/32
This section of the manual is for those of you who are downloading your show(s) to a Pb-
DMX/32 for the first time. It will lead you through all of the steps necessary to send your
show(s) through the serial port for permanent storage on a ʻBrickʼ. You may need to refer to the
manuals for the specific ʻBrickʼ you are going to be downloading to
Your shows can have been programmed using PC•MACs in ʻSoftware-Onlyʼ, ʻHardwareless
Realtimeʼ, or with a MACs-USB Smpte card installed in your PC.
This section of this manual is excerpted from the (much larger) PC•MACs manual. Even
more commands and more details on the following commands can be found in other sections
of the PC•MACs manual. It can be downloaded from the Gilderfluke & Co. website.
Select the serial port........
If a serial port has already been selected, you can skip this step.
If this is the first time that you have used PC•MACs, you will need to select the serial
port you are using. You can do this by opening the dialog under the Preferences
pulldown/Hardware/MiniBrick Interface.... Select the serial port you are going to be us-
ing. This serial port must not already be in use by any other function on your computer.
If it is, PC•MACs will give you a nasty message when you try to do an AutoDownload.
The selected serial port is stored as part of the Gilder.ini file. If it is an actual serial
port built in to your computer you will probably never need to select it again. If it is a
USB-to-Serial adapter, you may need to repeat this selection process every time Win-
dows looses the USB serial port connection. Windows does this fairly regularly.
Downloading to the Bricks........
Select the File pulldown/ʻSave as AutoDownload.....' command. This will bring up the
AutoDownload dialog. If this selection is grayed out on the pulldown menu, it means that
the serial port needs to be selected. See the previous step to set the serial port.
Plug in the Bricks........
If you have already plugged in your Pb-DMX/32 to the serial port, you can skip this
step.
It is now time to plug the Pb-DMX/32 into the serial port of your computer and power
it up. Pb-DMX/32 need a straight nine pin male to 1/8” stereo male cable.
Power up the Pb-DMX/32. For testing a Pb-DMX/32, your power supply can be as
simple as a nine volt transistor radio battery.
Reset the Pb-DMX/32........
To test if everything is hooked up OK, just press the ʻReset MiniBrickʼ button. A con-
firmation of the reset should appear on your screen (the ʻHeartʼ LED on the Pb-DMX/32
should also flash).
Choose the shows to go into the Pb-DMX/32........
The show you have been working on will already appear on the list of shows to be
Auto Downloaded. If you want to download more than one show to the Pb-DMX/32, just
select the ʻAddʼ button and you can select additional shows. If more than a single show
is to be downloaded, you can use the ʻPromoteʼ and ʻDemoteʼ buttons to move selected
file(s) up or down within the list.
If the same show is added to the list two or more times, only the first instance will
actually use up memory space. All subsequent instances of the show will only generate
a small header, which will refer to the data stored in the original instance.
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