Channel sheet.
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The channel sheet is used for viewing channels and their values. This is the main window:
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The window consist of three different sections. In the top of the window there is a bar with different information and buttons. The round yellow buttons gives you access to the “Channel Sheet Options”. Read about it in the section called “Channel Sheet Options”. Read about the rest of the top bar in the section bellow called “Top bar”. The middle is the actual Channel Sheet, where the channels and there values are displayed. Here you can select channels by pressing on them or you can select multiple channels by using drag-and-drop method. At the bottom of the window you have the option see the Layer Control, Preset Control, Filter and/or Multi Control.
Colors in the sheet.
In a channel sheet there are different colors .
For the channel number the colors are:
Gray: The channel is not selected.
Yellow: The channel is selected and a value can be assigned by the programmer.
For the values the colors are:
Green: The channel got a lower value then in the previous cue. The value comes from the “selected” sequence(s).
Blue: The channel got a higher value then in the previous cue. The value comes from the “selected” sequence(s).
Red: The channel is stored with the same value as in the previous cue. The value comes from the “selected” sequence(s).
Pink: The channel is not stored in the current cue, and the value is tracking. The value comes from the “selected” sequence(s).
Yellow: The channel gets a value from a sequence that’s not the “selected” sequence(s).
White: The value is in the programmer.
For the backgrounds the colors are:
Dark blue background: This is the standard background.
Blue background: The channel is not affected by the “Master” (read more in the Channel Options below ).
Light blue background: You have activated the “Link Faders” button and your faders are in “channel mode” (read about Link Faders in the Top bar section below).
Turquoise background: The value is from a preset.
Dark red background: The value is in the programmer and will be stored if you save or update.
Light red background: The value is in the programmer and will be stored if you save or update.
Dark green background: You are displaying “Executor ID” or “Sequence ID” layer. The value is originating from an earlier executed cue of the select executor(s) -aka tracking (read more about “Executor ID” and “Sequence ID” in the Layer Control).
Green background: You are displaying “Executor ID” or “Sequence ID” layer. The value is originating from the current cue of the select executor(s) (read more about “Executor ID” and “Sequence ID” in the Layer Control).
Light green background: You are displaying “Executor ID” or “Sequence ID” layer. The value is originating from a not yet executed cue of the select executor(s) -aka MIB(read more about “Executor ID” and “Sequence ID” in the Layer Control).
Yellow background: You are displaying the “Executor ID” or “Sequence ID” layer. The channel gets a new value from a different executor than the select executor(s) (read more about “Executor ID” and “Sequence ID” in the Layer Control).
Dark yellow background: You are displaying the “Executor ID” or “Sequence ID” layer. The channel gets a tracked value from a different executor than the select executor(s) (read more about “Executor ID” and “Sequence ID” in the Layer Control).
Channel Sheet Options.
You can access the options by pressing the round yellow button in the upper left corner.
Display Layer.
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Here you select what information you want displayed. See Layer Control for explanations.
You also have the option to turn On or Off the “Layer Control” and the “Preset Control”.
Sorting & Readout.
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Here you have the option to choose how your channel sheet looks.
“Sort by” derterments how your channels are sorted.
Numbers: The sheet is sorted by the channel number.
Names: The sheet is sorted by the channel name.
Selected: The sheet is sorted with the selected channels first (also read about Top bar).
Active: With this option the active channels are displayed first.
Values: This options sorts the channels by the value assigned to them.
With “Sort Direction” you select if you want the channels with the lowest value first (not the value assigned to a channel) or the highest.
The “Readout” determents how your values display.
Percent +: Displays the percentages and as much as 3 little dots next to the number. Because the total range of one DMX channel is 256 steps and the percentage only displays 100 steps; the dots shows you more precisely where in the 256 steps the value are.
Percent: Displays the value in percentage (100 steps).
Decimal: Shows you the actual step in the DMX range (256 steps).
Hex: This shows you in value in hexadecimal (two decimals).
With the three different font sizes you choose how big your numbers are displayed.
Settings.
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These settings also determine how your channel sheet displays values and channels.
Programmer Only: If you turn this on, the sheet only displays what’s currently in your programmer.
Orientation: Here you have two options “Left – Right” displays the channels from the left to the right in rows. The “Top – Bottom” displays the channels from the top to the bottom in columns.
Wrap Around: The ”Wrap Around” feature (could also be named ”auto column”) allows you to have e.g. 60 columns in your channel sheet, but instead of sizing the columns automatically, you can drag the column with the mouse and alter column with that way. This leaves channels outside the window, and horizontal scrolling might be needed to see these.
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Example of 60 columns "unwrapped" and "wrapped" |
Name Field: If you turn this option on the name of the channel is displayed between the channel number and the value.
Show Cue Colors: If you turn this off then the only color the values have is yellow and white (see Colors in the sheet for details about colors).
Columns: This number sets how many columns the sheet displays.
Display Filter.
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The “Display Filter” can remove some channels from the sheet, based on your selections here.
None: This filter doesn’t remove any channels.
Programmer Only: This filter makes the sheet display only what’s currently in your programmer (Besically the same as “Programmer Only” in the “Settings”).
Parked Only: With this option the sheet only displays channels that is “Parked”.
Selected Sequence: If this is selected the sheet displays all channels that is stored in the selected sequence. It also displays the content of the “Programmer”.
Sel. Sequ. No Def. Values: This is almost the same as “Selected Sequence”, but this option also removes channels that only got there default value stored in the sequence. It also displays the content of the “Programmer”.
If the “Filter” option is on you get buttons in the bottom of the window with the same display filters as mentioned under “Display Filter” above.
You also have the option to display the “Multi Control”. It’s “Layer Control”, “Preset Control” and “Filter” combined. If you turn this on it automatically turns off the three other bars. The Multi Control looks like this:
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Pressing the “up” arrows gives you all the options provided by “Layer Control”, “Preset Control” and “Filter” (read above).
Delete Window.
This deletes the entire Channel Sheet Window.
Top bar.
At the top is the window there is a bar with information and buttons.
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The info in the blue field tells you that it’s a channel sheet and the Layer ( in the example above it’s “Preset & Values”) and how the sheet is sorted (in the example above it is sorted by “Numbers”). The + (plus) tells you that it sorts “upwards”. It displays a – (minus) if it’s “downwards” (also read Channel Sheet Options).
The following is an explanation of the buttons.
Sort
This button updates the sorting selected.
Link Fader
The “Link Fader” works when the faders are in “Channel Mode”. When it’s activated it keeps the channels currently controlled by the faders in the sheet.
Auto Sort.
When this button is activated, the channels you select are displayed first.
Layer Control.
At the bottom you see the Layer Control. With this you select what sort of information the sheet shows you.
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Presets & Values:
If a channel/attribute gets its value from a preset, the sheet shows the name of the preset. If there is no preset, the sheet just displays the value.
Fade.
This displays the fade time for channels/attributes.
Delay.
With this option you can see the delay times.
Modulator Table.
This displays (if any) what modulator table the channel/attribute is assigned e.g.: sin, cos, lin+, lin-, etc.
Modulator Size.
This displays (if any) what modulator size the channel/attribute is assigned.
Modulator Speed.
This displays (if any) what modulator speed the channel/attribute is assigned.
Modulator Phase.
This displays (if any) what modulator phase the channel/attribute is assigned.
Auto.
The auto option changes between the first 3 options (Presets & Values, Fade and Delay), when you press the “TIME” button.
Values Only.
With this option you are always shown the values. I.e.: if a channel/attribute gets a value from a preset. The colors are still showing as a preset, but instead of the name of the preset you can see what value it’s assigned.
Output.
Displays the actual output of the channel.
Executor ID.
This option shows you what from which executor a channel gets its value. E.g.: 1.1 The first number is the executor page and the second number is the executor number (read Colors in the sheet for details about the background colors).
Sequence ID.
This option shows you what from which sequence a channel gets its value. E.g.: 1:3 The first number is the sequence and the second number is the cue number (read Colors in the sheet for details about the background colors).
Programmer Only.
Once again you have the option to only see the channels active in the Programmer. This button can be activated along with other buttons.
Preset Control.
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The Preset Control doesn’t actually do anything in the Channel Sheet. Since the only attribute it displays are the "dimmer". All Presets Controls are linked across all sheets.
Notice: You may not see all the buttons shown in the example above. The desk only shows you the buttons with the attributes available to you.
Channel Options.
If you right-click on a channel you access the Chanel Option.
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Here you can change the name of the channel. You can see the type, ID, Layer (number and layer name) and the patch.
You also have the two options “With Master” or “No master”. When “No Master” is selected the channel doesn’t react to any master (incl. Grand Master).
The “<<<” and “>>>” steps back and forward in the channels.