
Page 12 - 2. Patching
Pearl 2008 Manual - 16th July 2007
Displaying the DMX address for
fixtures
Press the View button (next to
the numeric keys)
Press D [Fixture Patch]
The display will show a list of
the handles to which you have
patched fixtures or dimmers,
with the DMX line and address
(e.g. A24 is address 24 on DMX
line A).
One handle on the list has an
arrow next to it. In the lower
part of the screen, more
information is shown for this
fixture.
Use the Arrow keys to move the
arrow up and down the list, and
show information for the other
fixtures in the list.
You can also press View then C [DMX Patch] to display a list of
DMX channels and which fixture is patched at that address.
2.6 Changing what you have done
If you need to change the patching you have done, it’s possible to re-
patch a fixture to a different DMX address using the Repatch Fixtures
softkey. You can also move a fixture onto a different handle, and delete
a fixture from a handle, but this loses any programming for the fixture.
How to change the patching is described in detail in section 2 of the
reference manual on page
121.
2.7 Patch Utilities
You can invert the operation of channels and set various other fixture-
specific options using the Patch Utilities softkey. Inverting pan and tilt
channels can be useful to mirror fixtures on opposite sides of the stage,
or to correct for hanging a fixture the wrong way round. Section 2 of
the reference manual on page
122 describes how to set these options.
2.8 Completing the patch
When you have patched all your dimmers and fixtures, press the Exit
button on the numeric keypad to go back to normal mode. You have
now completed the setting up of the lighting system, and it’s time to
get to work on programming a show. But there’s one important thing to
do first…
2.9 Saving the contents of the Pearl to disk
The Pearl has a USB port which allows you to save everything you have
done to a USB pen drive. The Pearl 2008 also has a floppy disk drive for
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