Leprecon LP-2000 - Manual (Page 34)

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Controlling Color Changers
The LP-2000 Cue Plus can control color changers by allowing any
console channel to operate as a "color channel." These color channels
are handled differently by the console than the normal channels - they
are not affected by master levels, blackouts, solos, or any other
board activity.
Any channel may be assigned to color control; some prefer to control
the intensity of a lamp with one fader and the color changer of that
instrument with an adjoining fader, others prefer to assign lamps to
one section of the console and color changers to another. The channel
fader is used to select the color from a palette of 16 colors assigned
to that channel. Each color in the palette corresponds to an output
value of the channel, and the output level of the channel will step
between these. These steps do not have to be in a sequential order;
the Cue Plus maps in its software the output levels to the correct
color.
Each palette can be given a name to help the operator or designer to
remember the colors.
Color Palettes
An LP-2000 "palette" is a list of 16 different color positions within
a gel string. Many changers only accomodate 11 different gels,
however the remaining positions can be programmed either as duplicates
or as split colors on gel boundaries. Each color position in the
palette is, in reality, a numerical DMX value, ranging from 0 to 255,
that tells the color scroller exactly where to land. Each color
position can also be given a name. Typically, a different palette is
used for each different type of color changer that is being used.
However, separate palettes can also be used for different gel strings
on the same type of color changer.
A given palette may be assigned to more than one console channel. The
channels will still act independently; they merely use the same map
for looking up color positions. Additionally, palettes can be
reprogrammed to accomodate for the stretching of gel strings. In this
way, numerous color channels that use the same palette can be "fixed"
in a single operation.
Color palettes are set up in the LP-2000 by selecting "Colors" in the
Cue Stack menu, then pressing the SCREEN RIGHT button once. This page
of the display shows the palette number, the palette name, then a
listing of the different colors in the palette along with the DMX
assignment for each. To select a particular palette, position the
cursor under the palette number on the top row of the screen, and use
the Up and Down buttons to scroll to the appropriate number, or simply
enter the number with the keypad. The LP-2000 stores 16 different
color palettes, numbered 0 through 15.