Rack Palette - Operators Manual - Strand Lighting

Hardware Setup
If you hold down [SHIFT] while manually moving a Crossfader, you can move
backwards through a cue list. (i.e., the cue that has just been completed will be the
pending cue, rather than the next cue in the cue list). You can see which cue you
are going to pull into by looking at the Playback Bubbles. In this case, the pending
cue is Cue 1 - the cue just before Cue 2:
PB Master + Disabled
In this mode, the left hand fader is the overall intensity master of the cue list
assigned to this playback and the right hand fader is disabled. You may want to use
this mode if you are sure that you will never want to manually execute fades and
don't want to inadvertently start a transition by touching a fader.
Cue List Split Crossfader
The Split Crossfader mode sets up the left-hand fader to, at will, manually control
the levels moving up in the next cue while the right-hand fader manually controls the
levels going down in the next cue. Moving these faders in tandem executes a
standard crossfade. Both handles need to reach their end-travel destination before
the cue completes. Once the cue completes, the pending cue changes and the
handles are ready to execute the next manual fade. You do not need to exercise the
full travel of the handles to re-load the next cue.
Notes on Playback Handles:
• If you press [HALT] while a cue is in progress, you can manually
complete the cue by pulling the handle.
• You can reverse the direction of the current fade at any time before
the handle reaches it's end-point destination.
• If you start a cue by pressing [GO], then, while the cue is in progress,
you move the handle, that is equivalent to pressing [HALT] then
manually completing the cue by pulling the handle.
• If you move the handle to Halt a cue, but then decide you want the
cue to complete in cue-time, you can simply press [GO]. You will
have to park the handle at one end or another to make it active again.
• If you Halt a cue for any reason and choose to complete it using the
handle, all times will be re-scaled to the distance the handle has to
travel, with the greatest time in the cue being measured from top to
bottom and all others scaled to that. Wait times will be scaled too.
• It does not matter if the handle is at the top or bottom when you start
to use it. As long as it is at one end, it will function as a manual
crossfader, moving you forward through the cue list.
• If you want to manually crossfade backwards through the cue list,
hold down [SHIFT] while pulling the handle. You will notice that the
pending cue in gray at the bottom of the bubble will have a lower
number than the current cue in black text up top.
Top & Bottom Slider Panel Lookmasters [positive]
If you set up the Slider Panels to hold Look Pages (see Slider Panels), the left and
right fader will control the level of the top and bottom panel's respective overall
intensity. Both sliders are configured so full output is at the top of the travel.
Top & Bottom Slider Panel Lookmasters [negative]
If you set up the Slider Panels to hold Look Pages (see above), the left and right
fader will control the level of the top and bottom panel's respective overall intensity.
The right fader is inverted so that full output is achieved by positioning the fader at
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