Rack Palette - Operators Manual - Strand Lighting

Concepts and Overview
Tips and Tricks
Reading these tips may be the fastest ay to avoid reading the entire manual. These
are the Tip of the Day tips.
• Use the HELP button to get help on any specific button or in any dialog box. To get
help on buttons, press HELP then the desired button.
• If your hardware is such that the A/B faders crossfade you between cues (see S3 -
HARDWARE SETUP), holding down SHIFT while moving the faders moves you
backwards through the cue list.
• If you double press the softkeys accelerator for a pull-down list in a dialog box, a
large popup will appear, allowing you to use the wheel to select a value.
• You can add profiles to any timed fade (intensity, position, color, etc.). As you use
the Blue Box to enter times, the softkeys change giving you access to profiles such
as slow start, damped and zigzag.
• Last Action Editing (or the British Release Option) is available in Hardware Setup.
This option does not release attributes to their default level, but rather leaves them
static and ready to be re-asserted by advancing cues.
• The Abstract Control Model allows you to move your moving lights in straight lines
rather than arcs.
• Palette can read the SMPTE time off your MP3 files and you can synchronize cue
lists to music.
• In the Hardware Setup under the Console tab, there is a check box that allows you
to mute QWERTY keyboard events for controlling Cue Lists.
• Attribute masking can used when Moving, Copying, Recording, Loading or Updating
cues and looks. Rather than opening the [S9] Attribute dialog box, hold down SHIFT
and use the softkeys. Double pressing any attribute family will solo it.
• Palette's Move In Black will automatically set up your moving lights ready for the
next cue their used in. MIB features can be customized on a pre-cue basis using the
cue Action dialog box.
• Palette's ability to 'busk' moving lights is very powerful. You can change the attribute
behaviour of your moving lights by VIEWing the properties of a Sub Master.
• The Show Options has a field where you can set the level for the FULL button.
Double pressing the FULL button will always give you 100%.
• Every dialog box has a small blue question mark in it. Press this button to get
context sensitive help.
• Palette supports 100 Priority levels for Looks and Cue Lists. The highest priority is
#1 and the default priority for Cue Lists is #10.
• Press Edit in the Action column of any cue to add a Macro to a cue. Macros can
trigger other cues or even control your Media Player or console work lights.
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