GeniusPro/Lightpalette Operator's Manual - Strand Lighting

Recording Cues
loops, and subroutines can be used to run cues out of sequence. These can only be applied to
the first part of a cue.
Links: Links are used to jump to any cue in the cue sheet. Cues then run sequentially from
that cue. Their most common usage is as part of a loop (discussed later) or to rearrange cues
without having to rerecord a number of cues.
For example, assume that we have already recorded cues 1 through 20. The director changes
the order of some characters entering, making it so that you need to run cues 7, 8, and 9
before you run cues 5 and 6. Of course, you can simply rerecord the cues to put them in the
correct order. However, depending on the complexity of the cues, this could time consuming.
The alternative is to set the Link property in cue 4 to 7, the Link property of cue 9 to 5, and the
Link property of cue 6 to 10. The cues will now run as 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 5, 6, 10, 11… One of the
links in this sequence actually goes backwards in the cue sheet. This is OK, as long as you
create a way to get yourself out of an infinite loop, which we did in this case by linking cue 6 to
cue 10.
In order to terminate linked cues in a chain, set the link field in the last cue to Rtrn. This will
force an end to the cue sheet and will not start any more cues until you explicitly reload it.
cue {LINK} # [RECORD] Direct 1 and 2 Digit
[RECORD] cue {LINK} # [*] Command Line
Records the levels from the current display into the specified cue and assigns a
link to it. If the cue already exists, an overrecord message gives you the chance
to cancel the recording. To rerecord the cue, press [RECORD] [*] again. To
cancel the recording, press [CLR] or [UNDO].
[CUE] [1] {LINK} [1] [0] [5] [RECORD] Direct 1 and 2 Digit
[RECORD] [CUE] [1] {LINK} [1] [0] [5] [*] Command Line
Records levels into cue 1 and sets the cue to link to cue 105. If you run
cues in normal order, cue 105 will now be the next cue after cue 1.
cue {LINK} # [*] changes the link assigned to the specified cue without changing
recorded levels. If the cue does not exist, this command creates a new cue with
no levels but with the specified link assignment. You do not get an overrecord
warning with this command. To delete an existing link, omit the linked cue
number.
[CUE] [1] {LINK} [1] [0] [6] [*] All Modes
Changes cue 1 so it links to cue 106.
[CUE] [1] {LINK} [*] All Modes
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