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later. You can also edit the User Number from the Repatch
Fixture menu.
• You can patch multiple dimmer channels to a single handle. This
can be useful if, for example, you want to control all the lights
for one area together. To do this, just press the same Fixture
Select button again when patching the new dimmer channel.
You can tell the dimmer channel has patched OK because the
DMX address will increase by 1.
• If you need to remove a dimmer from multiple dimmers on a
single handle without losing programming, make a copy of the
handle then repatch the copy to the individual dimmer address.
3.1.3 Patching moving light fixtures
Moving light fixtures are more complicated to patch than dimmers
because they have more attributes to control, such as pan, tilt and
colour, whereas a dimmer channel just has intensity.
Avolites consoles use a “personality” system to control fixtures. This
means you don’t have to know how each fixture works, you just tell
the Tiger Touch what you want to do and it will send the right control
commands. The console has built-in personalities for most types of
fixture, which tell it what attributes are available and how to control
them. If the console does not have the personality for your fixture,
you can download further personalities from the Avolites website,
create your own using the Personality Builder application installed on
the console, or Avolites can create one for you. See section
13 on
page
213 for details of how to find personalities.
You can patch either using the Patch menu (described below) or the
Patch View window (see section
3.2.1).
1> Press Patch (one of the white function buttons above the
numeric keypad (for Tiger Touch mk1, the blue function buttons
bottom right)).
2> Press [Fixtures].
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