elektraLite P100 Manual Part Two - Manual (Page 44)

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Pass Thru Fixture
A virtual "fixture" that represents a contiguous range of channels, both in the DMX input port and one
of the DMX output ports. When a Pass Thru fixture is created, it causes all input received on its input
channels to be perpetually echoed to the corresponding output channels.
Preset
A preset is a kind of cue that the user can edit and store, and refer to indirectly from within other cues.
Like a regular cue, it contains a list of features of various fixture features and their values, plus start
and end thresholds for crossfading; unlike a cue, it has no crossfade time, and of course has no
subsidiary presets. In practice, a preset is used primarily to store the settings of features that are
affected by the physical layout of the stage, such as Pan and Tilt. The advantage of a preset is that it
can be referred to by many cues; if the stage layout changes, as when moving from one venue to
another, the preset can be modified, and all cues that refer to it will automatically be affected.
Nothing, however, prevents a preset from being used for other purposes, such as establishing
"standard" colors which can be reused in multiple cues.
When a cue refers to a preset, it may use all the fixture and dimmer features within that preset, or limit
its use to specific fixtures and dimmers. Thus one can create a preset containing the feature values
representing a particular position or color for all fixtures in the system, and then use it to control only
specific fixtures within a particular cue.
Note that a cue may refer to multiple presets; if there are conflicts among them, the higher-numbered
ones take precedence. Note also that if a cue contains a feature value that is also found in one of its
presets, the cue's value takes precedence. This means that the cue can override a preset without using
a fixture filter; the latter are only used if one wishes to use part of a preset without having to override
the rest of it in the cue.
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Rotary
A rotary is one of the large knobs on the CP-100 panel. When a fixture is selected for manual control,
the rotaries are connected to up to eight of the features of the fixture; if the fixture has more than eight
features, the list of features can be "paged" through using the < and > cursor keys. The rotaries can be
connected to the feature values, the start thresholds or the end thresholds, using the Ù and Ú cursor
keys. A rotary usually steps each value in large increments, but can be forced to step by single counts
by turning on the Fine switch.
The LCD display shows the abbreviated name of each feature plus its current value (or threshold). If a
feature is not part of the current cue in the cue editor, the value is shown as three hyphens; moving the
rotary adds the feature to the current cue (as well as the current and previous looks), starting at its
current output value. If a feature is already part of the current cue, moving the rotary changes its value
in the cue, as well as in both looks, thus overriding any crossfade that may be in effect for that feature.
It is possible to select a group of fixtures, in which case each rotary controls a feature of all the
fixtures in parallel. In this case, it is possible for the various features connected to the rotary to have
different values, which is shown by displaying three question marks for the value. As soon as the