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Select channels and set levels, Select channels, dimmers and fixtures – Dell Emphasis Lighting Control System User Manual

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Changing display pages

If you are using more channels than can be displayed on a single display, you can use

softkeys [S4-Previous Page] and [S5-Next Page] to view more channels. You can also

use the arrow keys to change pages: left-arrow [

s

] jumps to the first page of channels, up-

arrow [

u

] displays the previous page, down-arrow [

v

] displays the next page and right-

arrow [

t

] jumps to the last page of channels.

N o t e :

On Express facepanels, you may need to press [S7 - More Softkeys] to find [S4 -

Previous Page] and [S5 - Previous Page].

Select Channels and Set Levels

Once you have created your patch (see

Patch, page 33

), the next step is setting your

channels and fixtures to levels so that you can store cues and submasters. Manual control

is interactive with Emphasis Visualization, so you can choose to work with the mouse,

selecting lights by clicking them, or you may choose to use the keypad interface of

Emphasis Console.

Select Channels, Dimmers and Fixtures

Channels are the means by which Emphasis stores cue data. Everything you want to store

in a cue or submaster needs to be patched to a channel. Moving lights use multiple

channels to control all their parameters. These channels together are called a “Fixture”.

Emphasis uses Fixture personalities to organize the channels required for a moving light.

When you want to use moving lights in your show, patch them using the personalities

available in the libraries in Emphasis Visualization.

Selected channels are under your immediate control. There are a number of ways to select

channels and fixtures: directly by number, by selecting a group containing the desired

channels. For information on selecting by groups, please see the Emphasis Console User

Manual.

You can also access dimmers directly for troubleshooting purposes. Dimmers must be

selected using the [Dim] key.

Direct Selection

The most direct way to select a channel or fixture is to simply type its number on the

Facepanel’s numeric keypad. You can select single channels, or multiple channels using

the [And] key, or ranges of channels using the [Thru] key, and you can remove channels

from a selection using the [Except] key. The same is true of fixture selections. In most

cases, the channel key’s LED is lit, making the [Channel] key press optional.

To select Fixtures instead of channels, press [S8 - Fixture] instead of .

Select channels:

Press [x] to select a single channel.

Press [x] [And] [z] to select non-consecutive channels.

Press [x] [Thru] [z] to select a range of channels.

Press [a] [Thru] [g] [Except] [c] to select a range of channels, except
channel [c].

You can use [Except] multiple times to remove multiple channels from the selection:
[1] [Thru] [1][0] [Except] [5] [Except] [7], selects channels 1-4, 6 and 8-
10.

Press [Enter] to select all channels with levels above zero.