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4. Palettes  - Page 51

 

 

 

 

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recalling a palette; storing a palette; palette masks.  
When programming a show you will find that you frequently use 

certain positions, colours, etc. The Pearl lets you store these settings 

so you can recall them at the touch of a button rather than having to 

find them on the wheels every time. Palettes are stored and selected 

using the grey Palette buttons, or touch buttons on the Touch Wing, 

and you can set legends for the palette values so that you know what 

you’re getting.  

The most important thing about palettes is that when you use a 

palette value in a cue, the Pearl stores a reference to the palette, 

rather than the actual value. This means that if you program your 

cues using palettes, you can easily change all the positions in your 

show just by reprogramming a few palette entries rather than having 

to reprogram all the cues. This is handy if you are touring and have 

to cope with different stages or truss heights every show. 

A palette entry can store any or all attributes of a fixture, so you 

could store position, colour and gobo in the same palette entry. 

However, it’s easier to operate the Pearl if you have some palettes 

which only set positions, some for colour, some for gobo and so on. 

It’s also best to group similar palettes together on the console 

buttons to make them easier to find, so have an area for Colour 

palettes, and another area for Position palettes, and so on. 
The Touch Wing has separate windows for Position palettes, Colour 

palettes and Gobo/Beam 

palettes. If these windows are 

not shown you can show them 

by pressing View, [Open 

Workspace Window], then 

[Position], [Colour] or 

[Gobo/Beam]. 
In addition, palettes may be 

either Shared or Normal. Shared 

palettes are used where the 

same value is set for all fixtures 

of the same type – for example 

when setting colours, the “Red” 

palette would set the same 

colour values for “Red” to all 

MAC 2000 fixtures. Normal 

palettes are used when each 

fixture requires its own value - 

for example when programming