elektraLite CP20 - Manual (Page 28)

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Recording a Cue or Chase without dimmer values.
Okay you’ve just read the title above and you’re thinking that’s nuts! I don’t blame you because I thought it was
nuts too, when I first thought about it! But here’s the scenario. First create cues for a chase without including
the dimmer channels. [In other words make the dimmer channels, for the fixtures you are using, transparent.
Remember that word?]. Turn the cues into a chase. Store the chase onto a submaster. Using another submaster
record the dimmers for the fixtures used in the chase you just created. Now when you fade up the submaster for
the chase, there is no output. Fade up the submaster with the fixtures’ dimmers.
So as you can see you can have the chase running and then bring up the dimmers on a separate ‘handle’ (fader).
Obviously you can do this for cues as well. This means you can move the fixtures into position and then fade
them up.
Submasters and Pile On Operational together.
Of course, it makes perfect sense in certain instances to have Pile On active with the submasters. For example,
one submaster could have an iris chase for a group of fixtures while another submaster has a tilt chase for the
same fixtures and yet another has a shutter chase…..and so on. With Pile On active you can run these chase
together or separately. The important point to remember when working with Pile On active, is knowing how
exactly Pile On works. It is initially explained on pages 9 and 10 of this manual in the Cue chapter. Then it is
explained in the Chase and Macro chapters. Please if you have any doubts about its operation, give each of these
sections another read.
Editing a submaster
So you’ve made a mistake. What can I say “it” happens!!! Or maybe you just want to make a change in
your submaster. We got the solution baby. What we have is the awesome ability to edit the submaster.
Okay, sarcasm to one side, here’s the deal! Editing a cue or a chase in done pretty much in the same way
as a cue, chase, or macro. Let’s edit submaster 1, which let’s say has cue 9 in it. So press the following:
“Enter , Sub, Sub* 1”
[*Now remember the second Sub listed above, refers to the flash button directly below the submaster we
are going to edit. You see you have to tell the CP20, which submaster you want to edit! Make sense,
right!].
Okay so now the display will read
ENTER SUB1
CUE 009
So now press “Cue Delete”. The display changes to read
ENTER SUB 1
CUE
[By the way, the sub led will still be flashing and the cue led will be on, but not flashing].
Now then, you have a number of options, you can
1. Press “Enter” and now the submaster will have stored just the dimmer channels for those fixtures
you saved to the sub in the beginning.
2. You can store a different cue to the submaster. To do that, just type in the cue number and press
“Enter” to store it. The display will read “done” to confirm it is stored.
3. You can store a chase to the submaster. To do that, press “Chase” followed by the chase number
and then press “Enter”. Again the display will read “done” to confirm it is stored.