Digilite Pulse MX - Playback Operations; Cue Input and Priority

PULSE MX
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- 2 - PLAYBACK
Playback is the moment when the programming activity of the show is nalised or the execution phase
of the show.
The console provides the operator with up to 48 qlists at the same time (24 if the expansions are not
connected) and up to a maximum of 12 manual cues (according to how the controllers have been con-
gured)
The result of the elaboration of the parameters is dened by the active cues and the controllers (control-
lers here are to be intended as those which have been congured in manual cue). The parameters which
aren’t involved by the active cues and the manual cues are set in Standby mode; if the Standby mode is
not dened, then the output remains stable on the last value set by a cue or a manual cue.
IMPORTANT: the editor and Hilite key always have priority on playbacks and controllers, therefore, with the
exception of specic cases, the transmission of a show occurs after having set the editor to zero (double click
on the Clear key).
2.1 CUE INPUT
When two or more cue lists compete for a channel, the following criteria is applied (depending on the
Playback mode option setting in the General Options window):
• HTP channel: the cue which has received the most recent trigger gains control of the channel, regard-
less of the Playback mode settings
• HTP channel and Playback mode=LTP the criteria of the previous point is applied
• HTP channel and Playback mode=HTP is considered the highest value of all the cues contending the
channel
For each channel, the console stores the organised list of cues which in time have passed the control of
the channel to one another, so that if the last cue were to be disabled, the control of the channel would
be given back to the previous cue and so on until the rst cue.
If no cue controls the channel, the channel is put in standby mode (if the stand by value has been de-
ned), otherwise it is left as it is; the dimmers are usually set to zero while the remaining channels remain
unaltered.
Activating a cue
To activate a cue, just press the corresponding playback key. Following this operation, other cues
may activate in sequence, depending on how the cue list is congured (see Chap.3 Cue-list, para-
graph Qlist Mode).
The master playback is internally set at 100% with the exception of playbacks which have controllers
congured as playback masters, in which case the slider becomes the master playback.
A cue can also be activated through the cue-list window in Live mode (see Chap.3 Cue-list, para-
graph Live Mode).
IMPORTANT: the default conguration of the controller is Playback master which means that playbacks 1
to 12 have both an intensity slider and a ash key, while playbacks from 13 to 24 only have a trigger key.
Switching off a playback
To ‘turn o’ a playback, press the Release key and the playback key or alternatively press in quick suc-
cession the Release key and playback key (before the LED of the Release key switches o).
Change page
When changing page, all playbacks are assigned a cue list in the new page, with the exception of
playbacks which aren’t switched o; active playbacks continue to control the cue list until they are
disabled. Only after the playbacks are disabled, they will be assigned a new cue list.