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Channel Menu

Mark commands give control over which channels are marked as changed for tracking and for which channels are updated by referenced groups. Marks for cues are automatically set to reflect changes when a document is saved or when Update All Cues is selected. The update overrides any temporary marks that may have been set.

Part commands relate to cues with multiple parts. Cue parts are created and selected with the "part:" command on the command line. Cues with multiple parts can have channels fading at different rates. Each channel can be assigned to only one part of a cue.

Set Hilited to Current Part

This command assigns the hilited channels to the current part of the current cue. If the selected channels contain subchannels, you are asked to select which subchannels to assign to the part.

Select Channels in Current Part

This command hilites the channels assigned to the current part of the current cue.

Delay Hilited Channels

This command creates a new part of the current cue. It then assigns the hilited channels to the new part. It also sets the up and down delay of the new part equal to the length of the 1st or main part of the cue. The result is that the new part fades after the main part is finished. If the selected channels contain subchannels, you are asked to select which subchannels to assign to the newly created part.

Backtrack Hilited Channels...

This command copies the levels from the hilited channels going backwards to a given cue. If the selected channels contain subchannels, you are asked to select which subchannels to track backwards.

Forwardtrack Hilited Channels...

This command copies the levels from the hilited channels going forwards to a given cue. If the selected channels contain subchannels, you are asked to select which subchannels to track forwards.

Copy Level

Copies and stores the level(s) from the first hilited channel for the current subchannel or group of related subchannels.

Paste Level

Pastes the stored level(s) into the hilited channels. Paste level sets the level of the stored subchannel or group of related subchannels regardless of the current display mode.

Home All for Selected Channels

This command sets all the levels for all sub-channels of the selected channels to their home values.

Insert Channel...

This command will insert a channel. This causes exisiting channels with numbers higher than the new channel to move up by one.

Delete Channel...

This command will delete a channel. This causes exisiting channels with numbers higher than the deleted channel to move down by one.

Setup Hilited Channels...

This command will bring up the channel setup sheet which allows configuration of the subchannels and addresses associated with the selected channel(s).

A channel may have one or more parts, each representing a specific address. The simplest channel part is a dimmer. It patches the channel to a single address. To patch more than one dimmer to a channel, create a part for each address.

A channel part may also represent a sequence of addresses corresponding to different subchannels or parameters starting with a base address. You can select the type of the channel part by clicking the type button and selecting from the list of available profiles.

When multiple channels are selected for setup, the base address patch will be altered for each one. A delta+ column appears which specifies the offset for the base address of each successive channel.

The mode column describes the DMX mode for fixtures that may have more than one available configuration of addresses and parameters. The group and note columns are displayed in the Inspector's channels table.

The type of channel part can be edited to create new profiles:

An individual subchannel may have a list of defined values and levels associated with it. For example, a subchannel that controls a color scroller might have a list of colors available that correspond with the levels used to select any frame. Because more than one channel might use the same list of defined values, it is possible to import/export the list as a text file.

Channels and subchannels, including lists of defined values, can be setup by importing channel data from other LXSeries applications. Channel data can be transferred either through reading a file or through scripting.

Importing a channel setup can automatically patch the selected channels from a base address. If multiple channels are selected, it is also possible to specify a minimum offset that is used to increase the base address when patching successive channels. For example, if each one of a number of selected channels require 9 dmx addresses, you can specify a minimum offset of 10. This assignes the first selected channel's sub channels starting with the base address. The second channel is then patched with the base address + 10, etc. The increment between succesive base addresses will always be equal to at least the number of required addresses. The minimum offset just allows you to use a round number that is larger to make the series of starting addresses easier to keep track of.