Avolites Titan One, Quick Start Manual

Page 1: ...P a g e 1 Avolites Ltd 184 Park Avenue Park Royal London NW10 7XL England Switchboard 44 0 208 965 8522 Sales Direct 44 0 208 955 9220 Fax 44 0 208 965 0290 www avolites com Titan One Quick Start Guide ...

Page 2: ... 0 208 955 9220 Fax 44 0 208 965 0290 www avolites com Contents 1 Introduction 2 Layout 3 Getting Started New Show and Patching 4 Groups 5 Workspaces 6 Controlling Fixtures 7 Palettes 8 Recording Cues 9 Basic Timings 10 Simple Effects Shape Generator 11 Chases 12 Cue Lists 13 Pixel Mapper 14 Saving the Show 15 Have Fun ...

Page 3: ... print No Liability for Consequential Damages Avolites has a policy of continuous product and documentation improvement As such the detail within this manual may not match the operation of the product this manual describes In no event shall Avolites be liable for any direct indirect special incidental or consequential damages or loss whatsoever including without limitation damages for loss of prof...

Page 4: ... We also offer free of charge Titan training at Avolites HQ in London email training avolites com for more details and we run regular Masterclasses around the UK If you re international then check out our distributor page on our website http www avolites com Distributors Findyournearestdealer aspx We also have a dedicated forum for Titan One users http www avolitesshop co uk phpBB2 viewforum php f...

Page 5: ... 0 208 955 9220 Fax 44 0 208 965 0290 www avolites com 2 Layout Titan One has been specially designed so that everything is available on a single touch screen All the functions of the regular consoles are available plus a few extras to help you move around the virtual console more easily i e virtual faders and encoders ...

Page 6: ...Personality List 3 Click on the search bar and search for Generic Dimmer Choose the personality with one DMX channel from the list and make sure you set the correct DMX Line and Address Once you have done this press the Patch Generic Dimmer option on the softkeys The Patch List is as follows Quantity DMX Start Address Manufacturer Fixture Mode 4 1 Generic Dimmer 1 channel 8 5 Robe Robin 600e Spot ...

Page 7: ...like this 4 Each fixture has its own colour code 5 Each DMX line has a usage bar 6 The bar at the top of the screen shows how much of the universe is used up free In the main body of the window you get a breakdown for each fixture which tells you the mode it s in what its address is the legend where it s patched to whether it s frozen or pan tilt inverted When you press View you get more detailed ...

Page 8: ...roups so every time you patch a quantity greater than 1 a group will be created for this 4 2 Editing Creating Groups To delete a group press Delete on the Function keys and then double tap to delete a group This delete syntax works the same for deleting everything on the console except fixtures Patch Delete and workspaces View Delete To rename a group for example the 4 x Dimmer to All Par 64 use S...

Page 9: ... options including size and position of window and button and text size 6 Controlling Fixtures 6 1 Simple Commands To lamp on your fixtures select them and then press ML Menu and select the Macros option from this list To turn on your fixtures press Locate This puts the fixture to a home position and default values but puts no information into the programmer To clear this information from the prog...

Page 10: ...above the virtual encoders As soon as you change a value it will have a cyan circle around the letter indicating that the value is now in the programmer You can use the up down arrows on the attribute to send a percentage value to 100 0 or to jump between a range you can type a value in and then select where to assign it on the Softkeys or you can use the virtual encoder above the attribute 6 2 At...

Page 11: ...t is a different fixture then it will not be able to use that colour information So to create a colour palette for blue for all my fixtures I would select at least one of each type of fixture set them all to blue and then save it As long as the fixtures of the same type all have the same value the console will automatically save it as shared As it is a shared palette if I then add more fixtures of...

Page 12: ...hlight to fine tune Now click into an empty palette in the Position window and call it Drums The P for position is lit up and the N in the top right demonstrates that this is a Normal palette Now because you have only moved these 4 fixtures onto the drummer only these 4 have values in the palette select all spots locate them and then apply the Drums palette you just made only those 4 floor spots w...

Page 13: ...e group of fixtures this time with an audience position palette and a gobo palette Press Locate and Clear You should now have ended up with 4 cues 2 in Channel Mode and 2 in Fixture Mode Fire the first fixture mode cue by dragging up the virtual fader You ll see that that it s recorded a value for everything even dimmer even though dimmer wasn t in the programmer With this still up fire the second...

Page 14: ...nders Kill this one and fire the Stage playback you ll see that it has captured everything that was above 0 intensity regardless of whether the information came from the programmer or playbacks 8 2 Tips To update a cue simply make the changes you want to it and then press Record and double tap the cue you want to merge into When you merge information into a new cue it will always merge in Record b...

Page 15: ...LTP channels will snap to the final cue position as soon as you fire the fader and dimmer control is on the fader To change this press Edit Times then press the playback you wish to edit 9 2 Attribute Timings You can also get to Attribute group timings eg all colour channels by pressing the button above the encoders C in this case To get to a breakdown of every individual attribute for every fixtu...

Page 16: ... England Switchboard 44 0 208 965 8522 Sales Direct 44 0 208 955 9220 Fax 44 0 208 965 0290 www avolites com The dashes mean that channel is currently using global times When you have finished editing times simply press exit the console saves changes as you make them ...

Page 17: ... size speed and spread and the shapes are arranged by category Go to Shapes and Effects and then choose Shape Generator First select some fixtures Locate them and then select Create 10 2 Saving a Shape Once you have an effect you are happy with you can then use Record to save it into a playback If you use Record by Channel then you can overlay this effect onto whatever playback is currently active...

Page 18: ...single handle When you press Record and choose Create Chase then the first time you press a playback button you are only assigning a handle for a chase In order to record your first step you must then press the button again 11 2 Editing a Chase A chase will not track like a cue list will and the chase direction and link options can be customised under Playback Options To edit a chase press Unfold ...

Page 19: ... information is only actually saved in Cue 1 and is tracked through Cues 2 4 Therefore if you change Cue 1 to yellow this change will also track so Cues 1 4 are now yellow but Cue 5 remains blue 12 2 How to Record There are two syntaxs that can be used to record cue lists the same way as for recording chases and a more theatre style one To use the theatre style one the syntax is as follows when in...

Page 20: ...he cue list you will get the following display appear When you have a cue list connected to update a live step press Record Cue then choose from softkeys or Cue again to merge into current step To update a cue time press Live Time to go into the current steps time To edit a different cue specify on Softkey A If you then press an attribute button such as C for colour it will take you straight to co...

Page 21: ... make it always kill at zero in Playback Options set Fader Mode Kill at 0 If you do not like working with tracking consoles simply turn tracking to Tracking Off under Playback Options There is a global Move In Dark setting under Playback Options If you want a single cue to be a live move set that particular cue to MID Disabled Right clicking Avo and pressing Next Time will snap back to the previou...

Page 22: ...8 965 0290 www avolites com 13 Advanced Effects Pixelmapping 13 1 Creating a Layout To create more complex and customisable effects use Pixel Mapper The layout is done on a group basis so you could have the same fixtures in multiple layouts for different effects First create a group and then go to Shapes and Effects Pixel Mapper Edit Group Layout ...

Page 23: ...208 965 0290 www avolites com 13 2 Creating an Element When you have done this the next time you select the group it will always apply this layout to it Now locate them and go to the workspace labelled Effect Editor Create an element and you then have lots of modifiers including XY for positioning width and height for stretching the element etc ...

Page 24: ...unless it is in the programmer 14 Saving your show Don t forget to regularly backup your show press Disk then Save Show You can save to either USB or the internal hard drive of your PC Showfiles can be transferred between all consoles so you could then load your show into the Tiger Touch There is also an Autosave feature which can be configured under Disk We would recommend turning this off whilst...