ETC Unison Mosaic Designer v1.11.0 - Manual (Page 107)

Triggers - Advanced
Press Remove to delete a command string and Clear to delete them all.
The resulting hexadecimal string will be constructed automatically and displayed in the window for reference with
question marks ("??") indicating undefined characters in MIDI Show Control (since we do not know in advance
how many characters will be captured) or , and as appropriate for Short and Extended messages.
Press Ok to finish.
Use Options > Preferences > Triggers to select the default Short MIDI message data format.
A comprehensive guide to MIDI is beyond the scope of this document, see the
for more details, and the manual for the equipment to be interfaced will also certainly be an invaluable reference.
DMX Input
DMX-IN Expansion Module required for original MSC hardware. Revised MSC hardware, AVC and MSC X can
receive DMX directly. TPC and MSC X can receive DMX-In via Art-Net and sACN.
Use the Controller setting to specify which controller should receive the DMX. If using two DMX-IN Expansion
Modules with an MSC, use the Port setting to specify which module should be considered the input source (mod-
ules are numbered in the order they are connected to the MSC).
Now you should specify which DMX channel to look at and the range of values to trigger on. You can choose
whether to trigger every time the value changes within the specified range ("Changes in range"), or to only trigger
when the value enters the specified range ("Enters range"). "Enters range" is generally more useful when you are
using DMX to trigger timelines, but "Changes in range" would be required if you were using a DMX channel as a
variable passed to a Set Intensity action to control the intensity for a group.
Audio Input
The RIO A has a stereo balanced line level audio input that can be used as a trigger. The original MSC hardware
can be used with an audio expansion module, though the RIO A offers a great advance in performance.
To use an MSC with an audio expansion module as the input source, use the Controller setting to specify which
Controller has the expansion module and leave the Device as Local. If two audio modules are connected, set the
port number to match which module should be the input source.
To trigger from a RIO A, set Device to RIO A and select the number of the RIO A, or leave this set to Any to
cause the trigger to attempt to match against audio input from any RIO A. In this case, the RIO number will be
captured as
variable .
Use the Channel setting to specify whether the trigger should match against the left or right audio channel, or the
combination of the two (only available for RIO A). Now select which frequency band to use, or leave this set to
the overall volume of the channel. Each audio module analyses the incoming audio as 5 frequency bands. Each
RIO A can analyse incoming audio as up to 30 frequency bands - see
Remote Devices .
The Peak checkbox tells the trigger to match on the decaying level of the last peak in the audio frequency band.
Finally, specify the range of values to trigger on. You can choose whether to trigger every time the value changes
within the specified range ("Changes in range"), or to only trigger when the value enters the specified range
("Enters range"). "Enters range" is generally more useful when you are using audio to trigger timelines, but
"Changes in range" would be required if you were using an audio band as a
variable passed to a Set Intensity
action to control the intensity for a group.
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