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save it. To erase an existing fixture group, press the erase switch at any time during the record
process and then select the fixture group that you want to erase.
If the Solo LED is lit when selecting a group, any moving light fixtures in the group will move
to center (pan and tilt at 128) with the dimmer and shutter channels set to full value.
USING THE DATA WHEELS TO CONTROL FIXTURE CHANNELS
The data wheels are used to increment or decrement the values in the display fields directly
above each wheel. They are used for adjusting the channel values of the lighting fixtures as
well as for general-purpose programming. Pressing the “fixture” or “fixture group” buttons will
bring up the channel display if there are any fixtures selected. You can view and adjust 4
channels at a time using the 4 wheels, and you can access more channels by pressing the left
or right cursor button. Because only one fixture can be displayed at a time, the last selected
fixture will be the one displayed when more than one fixture has been selected. If a “fixture
group” is selected, the lowest numbered fixture in the group will be displayed.
NOTE: When more that one fixture is selected, only fixtures of the same type that match the
fixture in the display will be affected by the wheels. This assures that the display matches the
fixtures being edited.
Show Designer 3 will display the channel names for most fixtures that are in the built in library.
If a fixture profile has been installed, some channels can display the names of each step within
the channel, like color and gobo names. Use fixture profiles instead of the internal fixture
library whenever possible.
USING THE FLEX FADERS TO CONTROL FIXTURE CHANNELS
You will find the flex faders in the upper left section of the SD3. These 8 faders can be used for
three different functions depending on your personal preference. You can change the function
on these at any time without losing anything that you have previously programmed. Use the
menu “Select Flex Fader Mode” as explained in the previous chapter to configure the flex
faders as fixture channel controls. You can address up to 32 channels per fixture by using the
page select. The page at the upper left of the faders is used to select which page of 8 channels
is currently active. For example the first fader can control channels 1, 9, 17 or 25 depending on
which page is selected. If a fixture has less than 32 channels then some pages and some faders
will not be used. Before the flex faders can control a fixture, that fixture must be selected. Any
number of fixtures can be controlled at once. If for example all fixtures are enabled, moving
fader 1 on page 1 will change channel 1 on every fixture.
If you are using the multi fixture feature of Show Designer 3, the channel faders can be used to
control each channel of every fixture within the multi fixture group. If for example you have
programmed 8 fixtures having 4 channels each, faders 1-4 will control the first fixture of the
multi fixture group, faders 5-8 the second and so on.
JOYSTICK
The joystick controls pan and tilt on all selected fixtures that have a pan or tilt feature. The
joystick is the return to center type so it operates by moving it in the desired direction. The
greater the joystick angle the faster the pan or tilt movement will be. The fine switch also
determines the speed of the pan or tilt movement. If a fixture uses two channels for pan or tilt
(16 bit), the joystick will affect the fine channel when fine mode is on. If the fixture only uses 1
channel for pan or tilt, the movement will be slower allowing more precise control when fine
mode is turned on.