Leprecon LP-2000 - Manual (Page 24)

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CURSOR buttons to position the cursor under each letter that is to be
changed. Upper and lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation marks
can be selected with the UP and DOWN buttons. Additionally, the
keypad can be used to enter numerals and uppercase letters. To enter
a "V," for instance, press the key labeled "8 VWX" twice, to enter a
"W," press the same key three times, and for an "X," press it four
times.
Creating a Custom SoftPatch
The second item in the SoftPatch menu is "Edit/View." Selecting this
and pressing the right SCROLL button will display the listing of all
512 dimmer circuits and their patching for the custom softpatch named
at the upper right of the screen. If that particular custom softpatch
is the currently active patch, alterations will immediately be seen in
the onstage lighting, and the word "LIVE" will appear in the upper
left of the display. Of course, all 512 dimmer patches cannot be seen
at once; the screen only shows three at a time, in sequential order,
with the center line of these editable.
The number listed in the left column is the dimmer circuit (labeled
"dim"), ranging from 1 to 512. This is not really an editable
parameter; by entering a new value, you merely jump to that position
in the dimmer circuit list. The desired circuit number can be
accessed by either incrementing or decrementing with the UP and DOWN
buttons, or by typing in the desired number with the keypad. Once a
number is typed in, press the YES button of the keypad to jump
immediately to that circuit number. If YES is not pressed, the
console will wait a few seconds (to see if other digits are entered),
then it will jump to the newly-typed circuit number on its own.
The second column of numbers represents the console channel that
controls the selected dimmer circuit. This number can be any of the
available channels of the console - 1 through 24 on a 24-channel
console, 1 through 48 on a 48-channel board, and so on. In addition,
0 can be entered as the channel number, which effectively turns off
that particular dimmer circuit.
Hint: When entering long lists of softpatches, it is frequently
quicker to select the dimmer circuit, move the cursor to the
console channel number, type the appropriate channel, then hit
the left CURSOR button, rather than YES. This stores the new
value immediately, similar to YES, but also moves the cursor back
to the dimmer circuit column in the same keystroke. This is a
quick way to move through long lists, as you are then ready to
select the next dimmer circuit immediately.
The third column of numbers in the dimmer list is used to assign
"proportional patching" to each circuit, so that a particular dimmer
circuit can be restricted to 50 percent intensity, for instance, even
when the console fader for that circuit is fully on. This allows for
the matching of different lamps, the limiting of circuit loads, etc.
These values are edited in the usual way, by positioning the cursor
with the CURSOR button, then changing the value with the UP and DOWN