Elektralite CP100 Manual Part One User Manual

GENERAL PLEAS FROM THE TECHNICAL DEPT. Please read this manual before you start calling, paging, emailing, & messenger pidgeoning, your frien

10 using the external audio trigger port. • LOCK Allows you lock out the controller’s memory to prevent overzealous audience members from messing aro

11 THE QUICK,QUICK INSTRUCTIONS.

12 QUICK, QUICK INSTRUCTIONS For those impatient sods that don’t want to take the time to read this dissertation of a manual word for word, I will

13 STORING A CUE 1) Move the lights into position & adjust their features to make a pretty look. You can also use your Presets and Feature P

14 7) Press the “Record” button to turn the LED off. 8) Use the “Chase Speed” & “X-fade Time” faders to set your Step Rate and Cross fade perc

15 SETTING UP YOUR SHOW

16 SETTING UP FIXTURES FOR YOUR SHOW ADDING FIXTURES The first thing that you need to do is tell the controller what fixtures you intend on prog

17 POO, PO1, TOO, TO1, P10, P11, T10, T11- These funny looking things are the Stage Focus values. Don’t worry about them now. Don’t mess around w

18 you would be able to setup a fixture just like the guys at Group One do. To do this you’re going to need to have access to a PC computer and some

19 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Listen up people! None of us like authority or discipline but we can’t have anarchy reigning with this board. The point is y

2 HARDWARE

20 LIGHTS THAT DON’T WIGGLE ADDING CONVENTIONAL DIMMERS TO YOUR SHOW All right, now it’s time to add some conventionals to this thing. There are

21 GROUPING YOUR DIMMERS You are also able to group your conventional dimmers as well. This becomes particularly useful when adding dimmers to subm

22 ADDING AUTOMATED LIGHTS TO DIMMER SUBMASTERS It is also possible to add the dimmers of your automated lighting to Dimmer Submasters. Now that’s

23 MORE ADVANCED STUFF

24 PRESETS & THE HI-LITE FUNCTION STORING AND RECALLING PRESETS Before we jump into this one and show how to create and edit presets and fe

25 preset. These features will be transparent to the preset you record. You can also use commands such as HILITE FIXTURES 1 THRU 12 ENTER. Hi-lite sa

26 FEATURE PRESETS “I want fixtures 1 thru 6 and fixtures 15 thru 21 in red now!” Ever had an impatient LD call that one out?…….and then keep ques

27 get those lines for a feature, is to press clear rotary n enter. Remember you can use the all or thru or except commands to speed up the procedure

28 you can just type in the number that you want and press ENTER. Obviously, you can give the Feature Preset a name in the “name” field by using the

29 ACTUAL PROGRAMMING

3 WHAT ARE WE DEALIN’ WITH HERE? OK, let’s take a look at all the raw power that you’ve got at your disposal. • 2 DMX-512 OUTPUT PORTS: that’s 10

30 Storing a Cue By now you should be proficient enough to start getting to the heart of programming this thing. That’s if you’ve read this manual

31 i.e.: Cue 5.2 or Cue 500.992 The highest point cue that the board is capable of supporting is Cue 99999.999 (impressive, aint it?) 5) Pre

32 ADDING YOUR DIMMERS TO THE CUE Once you’ve added Dimmers to Dimmer Submasters you can set the output of the Dimmers with those faders and then ad

33 CHASES

34 Storing a Chase. Now that you’ve tackled the brute challenges of making cues, you’ll probably want to see them loop around a few times. Here’s

35 i.e.: Yeah right, I’m not even gonna try and explain this one any more than that! Random- loops the chase in absolutely no order whatsoever. I

36 MACROS

37 Storing Macros. *NOTE: Before we jump into this go into the Miscellany menu (press: MENU-F4) and set the “Record Time:” to NO. This will disable

38 2) Press MACRO-RECORD to place the Editor in record mode. The RECORD button LED will start flashing. Make sure that the SOLO button is lit as we

39 DIRECT ACCESS

4 SETTING UP THE CONSOLE

40 WANNA PROGRAM FASTER? HOW TO DIRECTLY ACCESS FEATURES OF YOUR LIGHTS The CP-100 supports some direct access functions for your moving lights

41 HOTKEYS

42 HOTKEYS It’s no secret that some of the commands on this console require more than just a few button presses. The answer to this is the HOTKEY.

43 Let’s say that you want to create a Hotkey command that will allow you to add Cues to Submasters. Follow all the steps above as normal. When you

44 COPY AND MOVE

45 COPYING AND MOVING THINGS the in-depth explanation Once you’ve created all these wonderful Cues, Chases, Macros, Submasters, Dimmer

46 THRESHOLDS

47 START AND END THRESHOLDS EXPLAINED WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW DO THEY WORK? When you’re in a Fixture or Group Features display you are able to a

48 STAGE FOCUSING

49 STAGE FOCUS FOR THE TOURING TYPES WHAT IS IT? Stage Focus, sometimes referred to as a Global Focus, is the combination of Cartesian Coordinates

5 All right, lets start with physically setting up the console. 1) Take CP-100 out of the box. 2) Attach any peripherals to the console. i.e.:

50 4: Downstage Left = 11 Each of the Pan and Tilt Cartesian Coordinates in the display correlate to the respective rotaries. i.e.: P00 = rotar

51 then all you have to do is add the Stage Focus to the Cue after you have stored it. 1) Press: ADD - STAGE FOCUS - ENTER 2) Press: STORE - CU

52 WORK THAT DISK DRIVE BABY

53 Now let’s discuss our handy little disk drive on the back panel of the console. This will allow us to do several things. First we’ll be able to

54 TO UPGRADE YOUR SOFTWARE Software upgrades are available off the Elektralite website at no charge for operating system version 1 (WWW.G1LTD.COM/E

55 DMX-Input

56 The CP-100 has a single DMX input port which maybe driven by the output of another DMX controller. There are three different ways that the DMX inp

57 instantly the CP-100 snap-shots the DMX input. You can now store this information into any cue. Now it would be pretty labor intensive if you had

58 object. In effect, it is latched on. If you want to turn it off, then simply move that channel’s value above zero again. The important word here

59 Summary of Triggers. In general, whenever a trigger (DMX-input or Midi Note On) is received, the CP-100 scans all its objects (cues, chases, macr

6 DISPLAYS

60 THE COMMAND SET

61 Global Deletion All Delete deletes all objects in non-volatile memory. Clear All clears the cue editor, chase editor and macro ed

62 Selecting Displays Add Dimmer selects ADD DIMMER display Add Fixture selects ADD FIXTURE display Chase selects CHASE EDITOR display

63 Highlighting Fixtures Clear All Hilite un-highlights all fixtures Clear Hilite (from) All [Fixture] un-highlights all fixtures Clear

64 Clear All Dimmer clears all dimmers Clear All Feature clears all features of current fixture Clear All Feature Except n … clears a

65 Add Dimmer Group n … [To] Preset n adds filters for specific dimmer groups to specific preset Add Fixture n … [To] Preset adds specific fixtur

66 Add Stage Focus [To] [Fixture] Group selects fixtures in current group, turns on Stage Focus for them Add Stage Focus[To] [Fixture] Group n …

67 Delete Feature Preset n … deletes specific feature presets Move Feature Preset n … To n moves multiple feature presets to a contiguous ran

68 Playing Chases All Chase Stop stops all chases in the system Chase n Go loads specific chase into chase editor and starts it Chase

69 Loading the Macro Editor Clear Macro clears the macro editor Edit Macro reloads current macro into macro editor Edit Macro n

7 WHAT ARE WE TALKIN’ ‘BOUT HERE? It’s no secret that every manufacturer has a different language. Some people call a “scene” a “cue”, othe

70 Editing Fader Assignments Add Chase n … [To] Submaster p.f adds chases to submaster fader Add Cue n.n … [To] Submaster p.f adds cues to sub

71 Controlling Submasters By Command All Submaster Stop stops all running submasters, with fade out Dimmer Submaster p.f … @ n sets dimme

72 Stopping Playback and Record All Chase Stop stops all chases in the system All Macro Stop stops all macros in the system Chase n … S

8 THE MAIN MENU The CP-100 MAIN MENU is the first display that you will see upon start up of the controller. Main Menu DisplayCP-100 MAIN MENU

9 • MEMORY The MEMORY display also allows you to view the amount of total memory that has been used. Since there is no specific limit to the actual