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MagicQ User Manual 75 Version 1.4.9.0
The ALL button is used to return the head control area to the default mode whereby all heads in the
current selection are controlled.
Pressing ALL when there are no heads selected causes the selected heads that were active when CLEAR
was last pressed, to be reselected.
Pressing SHIFT and ALL selects all the heads of the type last selected.
Pressing CTRL + ALL, or FAN + ALL selects all the heads active in the programmer.
Pressing Next Head and Prev Head reselects all heads in the current selection (like pressing ALL).
7.11.4 Changing Overall Selection order
The order of the overall selection can be changed using the A Soft Button in the Group Window – the
options are “Normal”, “Reverse”, “Into Centre” and “Centre Out”.
It is also possible to randomise the overall selection order by holding SHIFT and pressing “RANDOM
SELECT”. The overall selection order can be randomised multiple times to get different random orders.
Note that once the order is randomised it can not be returned to the normal order – to do this you must
reselect the overall selection.
Hold the ALL button to bring up a toolbar showing the above options.
7.11.5 Sub selection of heads from Groups / Overall Selection
When you select heads using Groups or the keypad, MagicQ then enables the operation on a sub selection
of the main selection using the Next Head, Prev Head, Odd/Even, and All buttons. This enables the user
to select a group of heads and work on heads individually without reselecting the heads.
It is possible to sub select heads from within the main selection using the keypad and referring to heads
using the index of that head within the overall selection order – for instance, selecting the 1
st
and 3
rd
head
within the selection, or selecting heads 1 THRU 4 in that selection. The numbers used are the index into
the selection order, not the head numbers.
To use this method, select a group of heads, then type the index number followed by NEXT HEAD or
PREV HEAD. So to select the 1
st
and 2
nd
heads in the current selection:
1+2 NEXT HEAD
Or to the 3
rd
, 4
th
and 5
th
3 THRU 5 NEXT HEAD
You can select multiple groups as your main selection – so if you have a line of 4 spots and 4 washes you
can make a group with of all 8 heads and then access them using the numbers 1 to 8 regardless of their
head number.
Using NEXT HEAD and PREV HEAD without entering a number, operates as normal, selecting the next
or previous head within the overall selection.
7.12 Highlight Mode
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