Scanner Buttons
The scanner buttons each correspond to a particular fixture or dim pack. For example, buttons #1 and #2 might go to two 4 channel dim packs, while buttons #3, #4, #5 and #6 might correspond to four DMX light fixtures.
Each fixture or dim pack can have up to 16 channels each, which covers any fixture or dim pack on the market. You may have more channels than needed, but that is ok. You may have an intelligent light that only uses six channels, but all that means is that the other 10 channels will not be used for this particular fixture.
These addresses (listed below) should be assigned to your fixtures. Do not use the addressing in your fixture or dim pack manual.
The scanner buttons are assigned as follows:
Scanner Button #1 Starts at 1
Scanner Button #2 Starts at 17
Scanner Button #3 Starts at 33
Scanner Button #4 Starts at 49
Scanner Button #5 Starts at 65
Scanner Button #6 Starts at 81
Scanner Button #7 Starts at 97
Scanner Button #8 Starts at 113
Scanner Button #9 Starts at 129
Scanner Button #10 Starts at 145
Scanner Button #11 Starts at 161
Scanner Button #12 Starts at 177
For information on how to set your DMX address on the fixture or dim pack, Click Here
Programming Scenes
What is a scene? A "scene" is a particular stage "look" that you can program into your controller. An example might be, all the lights on the rear of the stage would be blue, with red and orange lights across the front. That would be a "scene".
You can program up to 240 scenes with your controller.
1. Press and hold the "Program" button for three seconds to activate the program mode. The LCD display will display a blinking light next to "PROG".
2. Select the fixture (or dim pack) to program. You may program more than one fixture at a time if you desire, and the light will light up next to the button that you have selected (buttons are on the left, beneath the word "scanners").
3. Adjust the faders to the settings that you desire. If you are programming an intelligent fixture, for example, than the first fader might control color. Near the midway position, as shown, it might turn the fixture red. The second fader might control gobos, and be in position for a star gobo. The third fader might control the 3rd channel - which might be pan or tilt. The manual for your intelligent fixture will indicate which channel controls what function. If you are controlling a DMX dim pack, than the first fader would control the brightness of the lights plugged into the first plug of the pack, the second fader would control the second plug, and so on. Most DMX dim packs have 4 plug-ins, thus 4 channels of control.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all of your fixtures are where you want them to be.
5. When entire scene is set, press and release the Midi/Add button...
....Then press the scene button (1 - 8) to store the scene.
All of the LEDs will blink three times and the display will show the bank where your scene was stored.
6. After you have recorded 8 scenes, use the "BANK" buttons to record more sets of scenes. You can record up to 30 banks of scenes, for a total of 240 scenes.
7. When you are finished programming scenes, press and hold the program button for 3 seconds to exit. The blackout LED will come on - press to deactivate.
Tip: The settings from one scannner can be copied to another by pressing and holding the scanner button you want to copy, then pressing the scanner button you want to copy to.