Creating a Cue

How Titan Works When Programming

When you select one or more dimmers or fixtures for control, they are loaded into the Editor. You can then use the wheels and palettes to change the settings on the fixture. You can also apply shapes to it.

If a fixture is selected after you have changed some attributes then the current list of fixtures in the Editor is emptied and a new list is started.

All fixtures and attributes that have been edited since the last Clear are stored in the Programmer. The order in which you selected the fixtures is also stored, and is used with shapes and the Fixture Overlap function. When you record a cue, the contents of the Programmer are saved into the cue.

When you press Clear, the programmer and editor are emptied. This makes sure you don't record fixtures you don't want. You also need to press Clear when you finish programming, because any attributes in the programmer will override playbacks.

Fixtures which are in the programmer are shown in mid blue on the touch buttons. Attributes in the programmer (the things you have changed) are shown in cyan on the attribute displays.

Firing a cue does not place the values from the cue in the programmer, so you can't just turn on a playback and record what you see to another cue (although the Include function lets you do this, see Using Parts of Existing Cues - the Include Function).

Creating a Cue

Video cover recording playbacks and the different modes

1. Press Clear to clear the programmer.

This ensures that you are starting with a clean slate.

2. Set up the look using the fixtures. You can save shapes in a cue. Remember that only fixtures which are selected or have been modified will be saved in the cue (in Record by Fixture mode).

3. Press the Record button (Record Cue on Pearl Expert).

4. Press the Swop button of an empty Playback to record the cue. The handles where you can record the cue will flash. You can also record a cue onto a touch button in the Playbacks window.

5. Press Clear to clear the programmer

Other useful things to know about recording cues:

• Cues can be recorded to any fader, the macro/executor buttons or the on-screen Playbacks window.

• Record Mode lets you select: - Record By Fixture - All attributes of any modified or selected fixture are saved
  • Record By Channel - Only modified attributes are saved
  • Record Stage - All fixtures with a non-zero dimmer channel are saved

  •  Quick Build - see next section

• Record By Channel is useful if you want to layer multiple cues to create an effect.

• If you are recording a lot of cues, you can press Menu Latch to keep the Record Cue menu active. Press Exit to leave Record Cue mode.

• The screen immediately above each fader shows a legend for the playback. To set this, from the top-level menu press Set Legend, then the playback Swop button (or the touch select button), then enter a legend on the keyboard or draw a picture legend. Press Enter to store it. If the fader or button does not have an associated screen you will have to resort to the old fashioned method of white tape and Sharpie.

• A Static Playbacks workspace is available to show the contents of the macro/executor buttons and (on the Tiger Touch) the 10 static playback faders.

Quick Build Cues

Setting Record Mode to Quick Build allows you to build a cue from existing playbacks or palettes (you can also use the Include function to do this).

After setting the record mode to Quick Build, the console will wait for you to select playbacks or palettes.

To insert specific fixtures from a palette or playback, select the fixtures first and then select the palette or playback.

Press OK once you have selected all the playbacks or palettes required.

Using Shapes/Effects in Cues

As you would expect, any shapes or Pixel Mapper effects you have set up will be saved as part of the cue.

You can create a cue which contains a shape with no base reference values; a shape cue like this can then be fired with other cues to overlay the shape on the cue and give you instant effects based around the settings in that cue. When recording the cue, use Record by Channel mode or use the "Off" function to remove the other attributes from the programmer.

Blind Mode

Blind mode allows you to program cues without affecting the current look on the stage. This can be very useful for making changes during a live show. Your changes are still shown in the Visualiser window.

To put the console into blind mode, just press the Blind button *(on consoles without a dedicated button, hold down Avo and select the

Blind option)*.

If you want to preview a playback on the visualiser without affecting the stage, playbacks can be set to Blind mode using Playback Options. To quickly set a playback to blind mode, hold Blind and press the playback select button. Repeat to make it Live again.

You can fade your blind state to the live output by typing in a fade time number then pressing Blind. This allows you to recall several palettes together, or create a live state to be output without needing to save it to a cue.

Recording Cue with a Mask

You can set a mask when recording a cue so that only certain attributes are recorded, the same as you can when recording a palette. In the Record menu, select the Set Mask option.

There is an additional option Clear Record Mask, if this is enabled the mask will automatically be cleared after this record operation. This is good to stop you accidentally leaving the mask set and causing havoc with future cues.

Convert Cue to Chase or Cue List

If you want to convert an existing cue into chase or cue list by adding further steps, press Record, select the cue, then select Convert to Chase (or Cue List). The existing cue will become cue 1 and the contents of the programmer will become a new cue 2.