Rack Palette - Operators Manual - Strand Lighting

Programming and Viewing Channels
Command Line Syntax
Palette does not have Channel, Fixture or Spot buttons. Typing numbers alone will
select Channels. If the command line is clear and you press [1], it will appear like
this:
. Other valid keywords that appear on the command line include Look, Group and
Cue, but these will only appear when you press the [LOOK], [GROUP] or [CUE]
buttons. Their syntax is described below.
For the selection of Channels, Palette uses the very common Lightpalette syntax or
Enter syntax. Intensity levels are expressed in percentages and assigned to
selected Channels with the [@] key. (More on level setting below.) The command
line is not executed until you press enter, although Palette will select Channels as
you type on the command line and before you press [ENTER].
For example, if you typed [1] [THRU] [10], when you press [THRU], Channel 1 is
Selected (not Captured. For information of what that means, check out the topic
called Channels' different states). If you were to type [1] [+] [2] [+] [3], each time
you press [+], the Channel preceding it will be selected.
This is important to understand for when you are backspacing on the command line
and Channels become de-selected. For example, if you typed [1] [+] [10] [+] [100]
[+] then started using the backspace key to correct yourself, the first [BKSP] would
delete the last [+], but the next would de-select Channel 100 (not remove the last
zero of the 100, making it 10). The next [BKSP] would delete the next [+] and the
next would de-select Channel 10, etc.
Also see the topic Recording Cues to see how to use the command line to record
cues (i.e. [Cue] [1] [REC]).
The following are some examples of how to use the command line. These examples
assume that the console is setup in the Hardware Setup - Console dialog box to use
the ENTER SYNTAX.
Selecting Channels
You can select and set levels on one line (see Setting Levels below), or you can
make multiple selections pressing [ENTER] multiple times (i.e., [1] [ENTER] [2]
[ENTER]). As long as you don't set an attribute, the selection set will grow. Once
you change a level, a new selection set will automatically be created and the
previous selection set will be de-selected, but remain Captured.
[1] [ENTER]
Selects Channel 1
[1] [+] [2] [ENTER]
Selects Channel 1 and 2
[1] [THRU] [10]
[ENTER]
[1] [THRU] [4] [+] [6]
[THRU] [10] [ENTER]
[1] [THRU] [10] [-] [5]
[ENTER]
[1] [THRU] [10] [-] [5]
[-] [6] [ENTER]
Selects Channels 1 through 10
Selects Channels 1 through 4 and 6 through 10
Selects Channels 1 through 4 and 6 through 10
Selects Channels 1 through 4 and 7 through 10
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