elektraLite CP20 - Manual (Page 23)

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SUBMASTERS
How Submasters function
The CP20 has 8 submaster faders that allow the operator to record banks of fixture dimmers into them or a cue
or a chase. There are 24 pages of submasters, which is enough to keep the most ambitious of designers happy.
The submasters are the bottom row of 8 faders. Those 8 faders toggle between being channels 17 through 24 of
a fixture and our 8 submasters. To turn the faders into submasters just press the SUB button to the right of the
last row of faders. The LED will come on and now those channel faders have been converted to submasters.
Each submaster has it’s own flash button, located immediately below the submaster, so you can flash the
submaster instantly to full. In program mode the flash button is the way we choose the submaster we want to
save our fixture dimmers or a cue or chase.
There are a lot of very cool things you can do with the submasters.
You can save a bunch of fixtures dimmer channel to a submaster. Then execute a cue to move the fixtures into
position in black out and with the submaster, dim up the fixtures. Thus you can move cues, chases or macros
into position first before dimming up the fixtures. In normal operation (not using the submasters) unless you
memorized a ‘black out movement cue’, the fixtures would automatically be on (i.e. dimmed up).
You can save one chase for the back truss on submaster one while a second submaster could have a front truss
chase. Both of those chases could be just movement chases and on yet other submasters you could have iris and
gobo chases going and yet another submaster could have the dimmers for those fixtures. The potential is there.
It just how far do you want to take it?
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