
Page 118 - 2. Patching
Pearl 2008 Manual - 16th July 2007
and dimmers to Groups, which can be useful if you usually select the
same set of fixtures together. Groups are described in the next chapter.
2.1.2 Patching dimmers
Each dimmer channel is allocated to one handle. If you want to link
dimmers together, you can allocate several to the same handle.
1> Press Patch, then A [Dimmer]
2> On the top line of the display, the Pearl shows the DMX address it
is going to patch at. You can change this by typing a new address
on the numeric keypad. You can also use softkey E [Select a DMX
line] to patch onto one of the other 3 DMX output lines.
3> To patch a single dimmer, press a handle Swop button. To patch a
range of dimmers, hold down the Swop button for the first
dimmer in the range, then press the last Swop button in the
range. The range of dimmers will be patched to sequential DMX
addresses.
4> To patch another dimmer to the same handle, enter the new DMX
channel and press the Swop button again
5> Repeat from step 2 for other dimmers.
• The VDU screen will
show the channels
which have been
patched.
• You can patch
multiple dimmers
onto the same
handle by typing
the DMX address of
the next dimmer to
be patched and
pressing the Swop
button again.
• You can patch
dimmers to the top
faders (31-60) by
holding down the AVO 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.
• 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
197. 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
Devices patched
Grid showing usage
of DMX channels
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