Expression 3 - ETC

Recording submasters
You can create submasters in Stage or Blind mode. Follow these steps to
record a simple, pile-on submaster:
Keystrokes:
Action:
1. Press [Stage]. Selects Stage display mode
2. Select channels and set
channel levels.
Creates look
3. Press [Record]. Prompt reads:
To record cue, select number and
press ENTER
To cancel, press CLEAR
4. Press [Sub] [5] [Enter]
or…
Press Submaster 5’s bump
button.
Note: Use Solo to record specific channels into the submaster (rather than
the full stage look). For example: [5] [Thru] [1][0] [Solo] [Record] [Sub] [5]
[Enter] records only the current levels of channels 5 through 10 in
submaster 5, regardless of what other channel levels may be up on stage.
Fade and dwell times for submasters
The current stage look is recorded into
submaster 5
Normally, pressing a sub bump brings channel levels to their recorded
level immediately. Channels stay at full recorded levels as long as the
bump button is held.
You can also set upfade, dwell and downfade times for submasters.
These times are activated for each submaster by its bump button. Upfade
time is the length of time it takes a submaster’s channels to fade to their
recorded levels when the submaster bump button is pressed. Dwell time
is the length of time the submaster’s channel levels stay at their full
recorded levels before the downfade starts. A manual dwell time means
that you can override the bump button fades with the slider (see
Controlling submaster fades manually, page 174 for more information).
Downfade time is the length of time it takes a submaster’s channels to
fade from their recorded levels to zero. 3
Fade times may be programmed from 0.1 seconds to 99:59 minutes. The
number may be entered in normal time format or in decimal format. When
entered with a decimal point, the number must be less than one minute
(0.1 to 59.9 seconds) to be accepted. When entered without a decimal
point, a 2-digit number will be treated as seconds if less than 60 and as a
calculated value of minutes and seconds if between 60 and 99. For
example, if you enter 70, the time will display as 1:10. If you enter either
a 3-digit or a 4-digit number, the last two digits, up to 59, are interpreted
as seconds. For example, if you enter 9930, the time will display as 99:30.
3.
Defaults for upfade/dwell/downfade dwell times are 0/Manual/0.
These default times are true for pile-on or inhibitive submasters, but
not for effect submasters. See Effect fade times, page 222.
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