elektraLite CP100xt Manual Part One - Manual (Page 67)

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Dimmers. Since dimmers have only one feature, the CP-100 treats them separately from
fixtures. This allows up to eight of them to be controlled by the rotaries at once.
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Dimmer fixtures. You can also treat a dimmer as a fixture, in which case it looks like any other
fixture, except that it has only one feature, called Di m. The type name,
naturally, is Dimme r. In general, though, it is preferable to treat dimmers as
distinct from fixtures.
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Generic DMX fixtures. These are fixtures that have an adjustable number of features (up to 32),
and no special semantics other than that one channel may be designated
as a dimmer channel. A generic DMX fixture is useful for quickly trying
out a new fixture type, without having to build a new library entry. Its
type name is
DMX Fixtur e.
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DMX pass-thru fixtures. These pseudo-fixtures continuously copy a contiguous range of channels
from the DMX input to one of the DMX outputs. They are created like
regular fixtures, but since they have no features, they do not appear in
any cues, and cannot be manipulated during performance. Their type
name is
DMX Pass Thr u.
Sample Fixture
Here is that example of a simple fixture from the standard library again:
vendor Clay Paky
type MiniScan
channel Color
steps 0 16 33 50 66 82 98 114 130
channel Gobo
master 127
htp
dbo
clear
hilite 128
steps 255 -68 -127 155 175 195 215 235 255
channel Pan
channel Tilt
The indenting is ignored by the CP-100, but makes it easier for a human to read the library. The
Color and Gobo features are accessible under the Color 1 and Gobo 1 commands, even though
the color and gobo parameters weren’t specified, because the CP-100 recognizes those feature
names. For the Color feature, the rotary stops on the specified values, plus 255 (since it always
stops at the minimum and maximum values). For the Gobo feature, the rotary stops on zero and on
the specified values, including 68 and 127, but the Gobo command skips the values of zero, 68 and
127.
The only reason the
Gobo feature has so many parameters is that it is an atypical gobo channel,
acting as a shutter and a strobe as well for this particular unit. The Pan and Tilt channels work as
expected because the CP-100 recognizes those names as well. Of course, the best way to familiarize