LSC Lighting CLARITY LX Series v.1 - Manual (Page 258)

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3) Do the same for the Red and Green cues.
Now you can use the Red, Green and Blue cues to have live colour mixing of the RGB fixtures.
43.14 RECORDING ONLY PAN (OR TILT)
When you only adjust Pan, Clarity automatically selects Tilt as well (as usually a position needs
both). The same applies when you only adjust Tilt, Clarity automatically selects Pan as well.
 To record a Pan only cue or palette, on the encoder wheel touch screen select the Tilt
attribute, Hold KO (Knock Out) and move the Tilt encoder wheel or, in the Programmer
window, right click on Tilt and select the 'Clear Tilt' item. Now you can record just the
Pan information into a cue or Palette.
43.15 TIME PRESETS
Every console provides the ability to create Presets and Palettes for Colours, Gobos, Positions,
etc. Clarity extends this functionality to include Time Presets.
Any timing information, no matter how simple or complex, can be saved to a Time Preset for
instant recall when programming or busking live. Time Presets can include Fanned times,
allowing the action to be delayed across multiple fixtures. In addition, using the unique Freeset
ability of Clarity a fanned delay can be recorded once and later recalled across 2, 5, 7, 21 or
any number of fixtures.
43.16 SORTING, BUDDYING & SUBGROUPS
The Sort, Buddying and SubGroup controls allow you to quickly alter the way fixtures are
controlled in the programmer. Sorting can be ordered by Selection, Numeric, Mirrored or
Random. Buddying and Subgroups can be adjusted as required, allowing Effects, Fans and
Freesets, Positions and Colours to be patterned across a range of fixtures. The Buddying control
allows you to apply the same value or effect across pairs, triples or any number of fixtures. The
Subgroup control repeats the pattern every 2,3,4 or more fixtures. Even more creativity can be
quickly achieved with the combinations of these controls, as well as the Odd/Even selection
buttons.
43.17 UNIVERSAL CONTROL.
One of the most powerful features of Clarity is the Universal Control function. This presents
every lighting fixture in a uniform manner. So no matter what weird and wonderful things the
manufacturer does (such as share the dimmer and strobe on a single channel, or put the Reset
commands at the end of the strobe channel) the LX console makes it easy to use the fixture.
The dimmer encoder will only ever control the dimmer, and the strobe encoder will never
accidentally reset the fixture.
You can also grab a multiple different fixture types (e.g. mirrors with 90 degree pan and yokes
with 540 degree pan) and then adjust the Pan and Tilt in degrees rather than DMX values so
they will actually move together as if they were the same fixture.
Clarity is even smart enough to switch the gobo between indexing and rotating modes as soon
as you alter the rotation or indexing controls, just to make your life easier and save you
precious minutes when under pressure.
Of course there is also the ability to switch to direct IFCB mode, if you want to have full manual
control, so Clarity offers you the best of both worlds.
43.18 COPY AND PASTE
Clarity allows Copy and Paste between completely different fixture types.
For example, if you create a nice color fan and ballyhoo across a dozen LED moving wash lights
and then paste it to a group of CMY moving mirror profile spots, Clarity will use real word
values (Pan and Tilt in degrees) and do automatic RGB to CMY colour conversion so that the
same look is reproduced in the different fixtures. The whole process takes a few seconds and 2
to 3 button presses to complete.
You can even copy between fixtures with different feature sets and Clarity will simply ignore
the missing functions. For example, you can also paste the above look into 200 RGB LED pars