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Storing and Using Palettes 225

Color Palettes

Color palettes can be created for all channels that have any color parameter data. Color palettes

store any combination of color data, including CMY, RGB, and HS settings, color scrollers and color

wheels.

You will find that [Record Only], filter settings and selective store commands will be very useful when

storing color palettes.

Beam Palettes

Beam palettes can be created for all channels that have any beam parameter data. It is rare when stor-

ing beam palettes that you will wish to include all of the beam parameters for channels. Therefore,

[Record Only], filters and selective store commands will be very useful when storing beam palettes.

Palette Options

When recording palettes, there are three softkey options:

{By Type} (below)

{Absolute} (below)

{Locked} (below)

{By Type}

By Type palettes are created with 'default' channels which contain values that can be assigned to any

other channel within the same fixture type. By Type palettes can also contain discrete channel val-

ues.

By Type palettes will display a ‘T’ in the lower corner of the direct selects and in the palette lists. A ‘+’

will display after the ‘T’ if there are channels stored with discrete data. For more information on by

type palettes, see Using By Type Palettes (on page234) .

{Absolute}

Absolute palettes are palettes that when recalled the data is displayed and treated like absolute data

applied to a channel. The data is never referenced.

An absolute palette will display with an ‘A’ in the lower corner of the direct selects and in the palette

lists.

{Locked}

Locked palettes are palettes that are protected from being accidentally changed in Live.

A locked palette will display a “L” in the lower corner of the direct selects and in the palette lists.

Locked palettes can be updated by specifically calling the channels and the record target, [channel

list] [Update] [Record target] [Enter]. Using [Update] [Color Palette] [1] [Enter] would not work in Live

for a locked palette. However locked palettes are not protected in Blind.

Storing Palettes Live

Palettes may be stored in live or blind. There are a variety of methods for determining what data is

stored into a palette but [Record], [Record Only] and using filters are the most common ways.

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