Rack Palette - Operators Manual - Strand Lighting

Hardware Setup
The only method of overriding the values set by Channel Masters is using the Grand
Master (see below). No other control (Sub Master or Cue List) of any other priority
can affect the intensity level of a channel set by a Channel Master.
Scene Mode
Scene Mode allows you to operate Palette as a common 2-Scene console. This is
achieved by setting up two slider banks, one as Scene A and the other as Scene B
and assigning the A/B fader pair as the A/B Two Scene Master. If you set a slider
bank up to be either Scene A, B, C or D, the intensity level of the specified channels
will be multiplied by the level of the appropriate Scene Master (see A/B C/D setup
below). If you have enough external wings, you can also setup up the C/D Masters
and panels to make a 4-Scene Preset desk.
Note: It is important to setup the A/B C/D faders to utilize the Scene Mode of the
Slider Banks.
Refer to the supplied Quick Start Guide to determine how wings are configured as
either A, B, C or D.
Sub Master Mode
As mentioned above, the list of available assignments for Slider Panels includes
Chan, Scenes and user assignable Look Pages. Look Pages are collections of user
definable (recordable) Sub Masters. If you set up your slider panels to playback
Looks, initially there will be nothing to playback when you run a slider up. You will
first have to record them.
Note: It is NOT important to setup the A/B C/D faders to utilize the Sub Master
Mode of the Slider Banks, but is optional.
If you don't setup up the A/B or C/D faders to control the slider bank Sub Masters,
they will operate normally (i.e., if the slider is at the top, the Look will go to stage at
100% of the recorded level). Optionally, you can setup the A/B and C/D faders to
control the overall intensity of the intensity attributes of the assigned Look Pages.
Note: If you do setup the A/B (or C/D) faders to control Look Pages, understand
that each Master will control the entire page's overall intensity level. For that reason
it is not desirable to assign the Top Slider Panel to Main 1-24 and the Bottom Slider
Panel to Main 25-48 AND THEN assume that the A Slider will control the overall
intensity of the Top Panel and B the intensity of the Bottom Panel. This is not the
case. The A Slider will control the overall intensity of the Main Look Page (Looks 1
through infinity). If you want to manually crossfade between Look Pages using the
A/B, assign one panel to one Look Page and the other to a different page.
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