Expression 3 - ETC

Chapter 4
Patching channels
Before you begin creating cues for a show you should first create your
patch. The patch assigns individual dimmers to control channel numbers.
The console’s Patch display allows you to assign any of the dimmers
available to any of the control channels your console can address.
You can use the console's default one-to-one patch, or you may create a
custom patch. In addition, the console's proportional patching capability
allows you to set dimmer output levels and assign one of 33 output
profiles to dimmers.
If you are patching dimmers in a Strand CD80 dimmer rack, see page 54
for special instructions.
Before patching, make certain that your dimmer and channel settings are
the way you want them. See Setting the number of dimmers, page 24,
and Setting the number of channels, page 25, for information on setting
the dimmer and channel counts. Setting these counts configures the
Patch display for your specific needs and, when channel count is reduced,
reduces memory utilization and speeds processing.
Chapter four includes the following sections:
• Selecting one-to-one patch
• Creating custom patch
• Proportional patching
• Labeling dimmers
• Assigning a profile to a dimmer
• Capturing channels in patch
• Dimmer check
• About Dimmer
• Setting dimmers to dimmer doubling
• Patching to a Strand CD80 dimmer rack
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