Elektralite CP100xt Manual Part Two User Manual

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

10 Miscellany DisplayMISCELLANY:Audio sens.: 8 Mouse speed: 5Lock: on Mouse swap: 01Record time: no Footswitch: go • AUDIO

100 Rotary n … @ -n This sets the features of the currently selected fixtures connected to specific rotaries to a specific value. If the FIXTURE FEAT

101 Submaster Submaster p.f These switch to the SUBMASTERS display. The first one selects the first fader in the current page, and the second selects

102 SORTED COMMAND LIST

103 Add All Dimmer Submaster Add All Feature Add All Fixture [To] Group Add All Fixture [To] Group n Add All Stage Focus Add Chase n … [To Macro] Add

104 Add Fixture Group n … [To] Preset Add Fixture Group n … [To] Preset n Add Fixture Group n … [To] Submaster p.f Add Fixture Group n … [To] Submast

105 Clear All Feature Preset (from) [Fixture] Group Clear All Feature Preset (from) [Fixture] Group n … Clear All Fixture Clear All Fixture (from) Pr

106 Clear Hilite (from) [Fixture] Group n … Clear Macro Clear Macro n … (from) Submaster p.f Clear Macro Step Clear Macro Step n … Clear Preset n … C

107 Copy Fixture Group n To n … Copy Fixture Group n … To n Copy Macro n To n … Copy Macro n … To n Copy Preset Copy Preset n … Copy Preset n To n …

108 Dimmer Group n … @ n Dimmer Group n … @ Full Dimmer Page n Dimmer Submaster Dimmer Submaster p.f Dimmer Submaster p.f … @ n Dimmer Submaster p.f

109 Move Dimmer Page n To n Move Dimmer Submaster p.f To p.f Move Dimmer Submaster Page n To n Move Feature Preset n … To n Move Fixture n … To n Mov

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 8) Use the “Chase Speed” & “X-fade Time” faders to set your Step Rate and Cross fade percentage. If you enter in a zero rate for the chase s

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 wi

18 (text files). If that’s something you want to try then just buzz your friendly local distributor and ask him for the Upgrade to Version 3 Operatin

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 n

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 such as HILITE FIXTURES 1 THRU 12 ENTER. Hi-lite saves you the problem of turning on the features one by one to ‘see’ the fixture before you progr

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 thru or except commands to speed up the procedure. So if rotaries one and two are pan and tilt and they have numbers on them and you want to make

28 you to scroll through the different features within the Feature Preset. Regardless of where the cursor is, you can use the < & > keys t

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 The highest point cue that the board is capable of supporting is Cue 99999.999 (impressive, aint it?) 5) Press STORE-CUE-n-ENTER to save the

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 The RECORD button LED will start flashing. Make sure that the SOLO button is lit as well. 3) Press CUE (or CHASE)-ENTER The Time display will i

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 Follow all the steps above as normal. When you get to step 5 you would press the command: ADD-CUE-UNDO-TO-SUBMASTER-UNDO. The “undo” becomes a

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 Monitor Screen Displays

47 User Interface Modes The CP-100 keyboard and mouse/trackball inputs have two basic modes, Panel Mode and Screen Mode. Panel Mode is all there i

48 If there are multiple windows on the screen, an inactive window may be activated by clicking it with the mouse. The first nine windows put on the

49 • Chases and macros are loaded into their respective editor (stopping any playing chase or macro), and the CHASE EDITOR or MACRO EDITOR is display

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 Window Panel Mode Switches back to Panel Mode. Next Activates the next open window. (Same as Ctrl+F6.) Previous Activates the previous open wi

51 THRESHOLDS

52 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

53 STAGE FOCUSING

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

55 Each of the Pan and Tilt Cartesian Coordinates in the display correlate to the respective rotaries. i.e.: P00 = rotary 1, T00 = rotary 3, P01

56 2) Press: STORE - CUE- # - ENTER Now whenever the Stage Focus is changed that particular Cue will change with it.

57 WORK THAT DISK DRIVE BABY

58 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

59 TO UPGRADE YOUR SOFTWARE Software upgrades for more recent upgrades of Operating System Version 2 software are available at no charge to those pe

6 DISPLAYS

60 called “Forcing software into a CP-100”. DMX-Input

61 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

62 Now it would be pretty labor intensive if you had to do it fixture by fixture. It would defeat the whole idea of making life easier. No Margaritas

63 Move fader 1 above zero activates cue 1. Move fader 1 back to zero has no effect. Move fader 1 above zero again deactivates cue 1. Now we realize

64 are simply started at the beginning. Hotkeys are executed, unless one is already in progress. When the trigger is released (in other words, the DM

65 THE COMMAND SET

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

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

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

69 Clear All Feature Except n … clears all but specific features of current fixture Clear All Fixture clears all fixture features Clear A

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 Add Fixture n … [To] Preset n adds specific fixture filters to specific preset Add Fixture Group n … [To] Preset adds filters for specific fixt

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

72 Move Feature Preset n … To n moves multiple feature presets to a contiguous range Store Feature Preset n stores current fixture's feat

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

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

75 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

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

77 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

78 Command Descriptions Add All Dimmer Submaster This is the same as Add Dimmer Submaster. Add All Feature This adds all features of the currently

79 Add Dimmer This switches to the ADD DIMMER display. Add Dimmer n … Add Dimmer n … @ n Add Dimmer n … @ Full These add specific dimmers to the cu

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 Display CP-100 MAIN

80 Add Dimmer Submaster Add Dimmer Submaster p.f … These merge into cue editor any dimmer values currently being generated by all dimmer faders, or s

81 Add Fixture Group n … This adds fixtures in specific groups to the list of selected fixtures. It doesn't add any of their features to the cue

82 numbered one through eight. It does the same thing as Add Feature n …, except that it refers to the features by the rotaries they are connected to

83 This switches to the CHASE EDITOR display. Chase n This stops any running chase in the chase editor, and loads a specific chase. Chase n Go This

84 Clear All Dimmer (from) Preset This removes all dimmer filters from the currently selected preset within the cue editor. This activates all dimme

85 This clears all macros from a specific submaster. Clear All Preset This removes all presets from the cue editor. Clear All Preset Features This

86 This clears specific cues from a specific submaster. Clear Dimmer n … This clears specific dimmers from the cue editor. Clear Dimmer n … (from)

87 Clear Feature n … This removes specific features of the current fixture from the cue editor. Features are numbered starting with one. Clear Featu

88 Clear Fixture Group n … (from) Preset This removes filters for fixtures in specific groups from the currently selected preset within the cue edito

89 Clear Rotary n … This removes from the cue editor the features of the current fixture that correspond to specific rotaries, numbered from one thro

9 Software DisplaySOFTWARE:F1 Save software This version: 1.07F2 Load software Disk version: 1.14 • MEMORY The MEMORY display also allows you

90 Copy Chase n To n … This copies a stored chase, possibly to multiple targets. It asks for confirmation if any of the targets already exist. Copy

91 Copy Dimmer Submaster p.f To p.f This copies a single dimmer fader to another. Copy Dimmer Submaster Page n To n This is an alias for Copy Dimmer

92 Copy Fixture Group n … (from) Preset Copy Fixture Group n … (from) Preset n These copy features of fixtures in specific groups from the current pr

93 Copy Submaster p.f To p.f This copies a single submaster fader to another. Copy Submaster Page n To n This copies any nonempty submaster faders i

94 This deletes all feature presets, after asking for confirmation. Delete All Fixture This deletes all fixtures and turns them off, after asking fo

95 This deletes specific presets. Delete Submaster p.f … Delete Submaster Page n … These delete specific submaster fader assignments, or specific pa

96 no need to press Enter. Also, this clears the cue editor, even if Solo is off. Edit Chase Edit Chase n These stop any running chase in the chase

97 selected fixtures. Fixture n … This selects specific fixtures, and switches to the FIXTURE FEATURES or GROUP FEATURES display. Fixture Group Thi

98 Macro n This stops any running macro in the macro editor, and loads a specific macro. Macro n Go This stops any running macro in the macro editor

99 This moves a single dimmer submaster assignment. The target may not already exist. Move Dimmer Submaster Page n To n This is an alias for Move Di