
4. Palettes - Page 19
Pearl 2008 Manual - 16th July 2007
CHAPTER FOUR
4. Palettes
In this chapter: how to use palettes to set colours, gobos and positions.
• Using palettes to set values
• Creating your own palettes
• Setting which attributes are recorded in a palette
• Shared and individual palettes
When you are controlling your lighting, it would be nice to instantly call
back a position such as centre stage, or a particular colour like red,
blue etc, rather than having to set the value on the wheels every time.
The Pearl has pages of preset values, called “palettes”, which allow you
to do this. The Pearl loads 10 colours, 10 gobos and 10 pre-
programmed positions when you patch a fixture (unless you tell it not
to when it asks “Use preset palettes?”). You can use these palettes as
they are, modify them to your own settings, or save new settings.
Palettes have another big advantage. If for example you program a
“centre stage spot” position as a palette, when you use this position in
memories the Pearl remembers the palette you used, rather than the
actual value. This means that if you move to another venue, you can
just reprogram the “centre stage spot” palette entry and every memory
using that position will automatically be updated. If you’d programmed
all your memories directly using the wheels, you would need to go
through and reposition every memory.
Palettes are also useful when you are programming using Visualiser and
you don’t know exactly where the lights will point; you can program
your memories using palette positions, then you just update a few
palettes when you get the real lights in the real venue and the show
programming is done.
4.1 Using palettes to set values
The easiest way to use a palette value is
by the menu on the LCD screen. We’ll use
the preset palettes which the Pearl loaded
when you patched the fixtures to set some
fixtures to Red.
Using palettes
Select the fixtures you want to control
by pressing their Swop buttons
Press the Focus button above the
numeric keypad
Select the page of palettes you want
to use by pressing one of the A-F
softkeys (such as [Colour])
Press one of the A-E softkeys to use
one of the palette values (such as
[Red]). The value will be set to all the
fixtures which are selected. The lights
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