Controlling Your Lighting System 21
Controlling Your Lighting System
After you have completed your patch, you are now ready to start controlling your lighting system. Your
ColorSource console gives you many options for controlling of your lights.
This section discusses how to control your channels, and how to set the parameters.
Note: Depending on the types of lights you have patched, you may have additional parameters
that you can control. Those parameters may include color, position (focus), beam, and lamp com-
mands.
Channels
A channel is the control used by the console to operate a dimmer, a group of dimmers, a dimmer and a
device, or a complete moving light fixture.
Channels need to be associated with an address in patch for there to be output.
Channel Counts
The ColorSource 20 can control up to 40 channels.
The ColorSource 40 can control up to 80 channels.
Setting the Operating Mode
Choose Simple or Complete mode on the Setup>Settings>Basic screen.
Fader Pages
Simple Mode offers one page of faders to control the first 20 or 40 channels, depending on the
model.
Complete Mode offers two pages of faders to control all the available channels, 40 or 80 depending
on the model.
Working with Dimmers / Intensity
Channels can be controlled in several different ways:
The faders, when in channel mode, can be used to control a channel's intensity.
Depending on the chosen operating mode: Complete or Simple, there are one or two pages of chan-
nels that the faders can control. In Complete Mode toggle the Channel button to access each of the
pages.
Note: The second page of channels is only available when channels have been patched
on that page (above 21 or 41, depending on the console model).
You can use the touchscreen and select channels directly on the stage map. The wheel can then be
used to assign an intensity level.
You can use the keypad to select a channel and assign an intensity level.
Channels can also be controlled by the playbacks, sequences, and cues.
Captured Channels
If a channel is at a different level than the fader position, you must move the fader to match in order to pick-
up the level to then move it up or down.
When a level is 'captured' in this way on a fader, it replaces the intensity coming from the cues and play-
backs.
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