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holding down the YPL button before pressing the Swop button. This
allows you to patch up to 60 dimmers or fixtures on one page. It is
often convenient to use the top faders for dimmers and the bottom
faders for fixtures allowing you to keep all your fixtures and
dimmers on one fixture page.
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When in Dimmer Patch mode you can set options for dimmer
channels which you are going to patch. You can set the “Full on”
level to less than 100% using option A, and select a different
dimmer response curve using option B. To use the “User curve”
setting you need to load in a user curve, see page 134. These
settings affect all dimmer channels you patch afterwards, until you
change the settings again. Channels you have already patched are
not affected.
2.1.3
Patching moving light fixtures
Moving light fixtures are more complicated to patch than dimmers
because they have more attributes to control, such as pan, tilt, colour
etc., where a dimmer channel just has intensity. When you patch a
fixture, you will see on the display that it occupies a block of DMX
channels rather than just one.
The DLC-C003 uses a “personality” system to control fixtures. There is
a personality file in the DLC-C003 for most types of fixture, which tells
it what attributes are available and how to control them. If the DLC-
C003 does not have the personality for your fixture, you can download
a wide range of personalities from the DORTRON’s website onto floppy
disk and load them that way. If you use fixtures often you can add
them to the internal store. In the unlikely event that no personality
exists for the fixture you are using, DORTRON’s will create one for you.
You can also create the file yourself if you have some programming
abilities. See chapter 12 on page 143 for details of how to find
personalities.
Note: The DLC-C003 holds all the personalities in an internal “cache”
file. If the console memory gets totally wiped you might need to
reload the file, how to do it is described on page 136. You can
also use a Personality Disk in the disk drive.
If you are using the internal personality cache, ensure there is no disk
in the disk drive.
1> Press Patch, then B [Choose a Fixture].
2> The DLC-C003 will read the personality files, then display “Please
select an instrument”. A list of known fixtures will appear next to
the softkeys after a pause.
3> Use F [More] and G [Back] to go up and down the list and find the
correct fixture, then press the softkey next to the fixture to select
it.
4> The DLC-C003 loads the fixture information. The display shows
details of the fixture.
5> The DLC-C003 will ask “Use preset palettes?”. Press A [Yes]. This
loads a standard set of positions, colours and gobos into the
Palette pages which can be useful when programming. If you say
No now, you can’t load them later.
6> On the display, the DLC-C003 shows the DMX address it is going
to patch at. You can change this using the numeric keypad. You
can also press E [Select a DMX line] to patch onto one of the
other 3 DMX output lines.
7> Press an unused handle Swop button to patch the fixture. The
