Selecting Hardware Setup from the main softkey menu allows you to configure how different bits of your console operate.
If you have external wings attached to your desk, you will need to configure what they do here. Each bank of 24 sliders can be setup to control different things as determined by the combos on the right hand side of this dialog box. (The Marquee ILC does not have a Top Slider Bank or a Bottom Slider bank) If you select one of the pre-defined configurations from the list in the middle, the combos on the right will be disabled, but they will show you what is assigned to each bank. If you want to customize the setup, choose Custom Configuration from the bottom of the list which will allow you to adjust the values in the combos on the right.
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Select a predefined configuration that is close to what you want first, then select Custom Configuration to adjust the values.
The first combo box on the right allows you to choose what sort of control the sliders on the selected bank will be:
This list will change depending on what you have named your Look Master pages. The important thing to remember is that user's Look Master Pages appear at the top of this list (in this case, "Main" and "Alt"), followed by pre-defined operations of the sliders. The Sliders can either be Channel Masters (Chan) or Scene Masters (either Scene A, B, C or D).
If you set a bank of sliders as Channel Masters (Chan), this gives you direct HTP (Highest Takes Precedence) control over the fixture intensities (as determined by the combo to the very right). The assigned fixture will have an intensity as determined by the position of the slider and will be displayed in the fixture grid with this symbol:
Channel Masters use a very high Priority. Other controls such as Look Masters or Cue Lists use a priority that normally doesn't affect the intensity level of a fixture set by a Channel Master.
Scene Mode allows you to operate Marquee as a common 2-Scene console. This is achieved by setting up two slider banks, one as Scene A and the other as Scene B and assigning the A/B fader pair as the A/B Two Scene Master. If you set a slider bank up to be either Scene A, B, C or D, the intensity level of the specified fixture will be multiplied by the level of the appropriate Scene Master (see A/B C/D setup below). If you have enough external wings, you can also setup up the C/D Masters and panels to make a 4-Scene Preset desk.
Note: It is important to setup the A/B C/D faders to utilize the Scene Mode of the Slider Banks.
Refer to the supplied Quick Start Guide to determine how wings are configured as either A, B, C or D.
As mentioned above, the list of available assignments for Slider Panels includes Chan, Scenes and user assignable Look Pages. Look Pages are collections of user recordable Look Masters. If you set up your slider panels to playback Looks, initially there will be nothing to playback when you run a slider up. You will first have to record them.
Note: It is NOT important to setup the A/B C/D faders to utilize the Look Master Mode of the Slider Banks, but is optional.
If you don't setup up the A/B or C/D faders to control the slider bank Look Masters, they will operate normally (i.e., if the slider is at the top, the Look will go to stage at 100% of the recorded level). Optionally, you can setup the A/B and C/D faders to control the overall intensity of the intensity attributes of the assigned Look Pages.
Note: If you do setup the A/B (or C/D) faders to control Look Pages, understand that each Master will control the entire page's overall intensity level. For that reason it is not desirable to assign the Top Slider Panel to Main 1-24 and the Bottom Slider Panel to Main 25-48 AND THEN assume that the A Slider will control the overall intensity of the Top Panel and B the intensity of the Bottom Panel. This is not the case. The A Slider will control the overall intensity of the Main Look Page (Looks 1 through infinity). If you want to manually crossfade between Look Pages using the A/B, assign one panel to one Look Page and the other to a different page.
If you have more than one slider wing attached to your console, you may have must address them uniquely. Do this by setting the DIP switches as described below then re-plug the wing into the Expansion Bus. Re-starting the software is not necessary for changes to take affect.
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