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1.3. Controlling your lights Faders & Features

Lighting fxtures can be controlled either by the features or by the faders. To begin with, be sure a scene is selected, then select the fxtures which you wish to control. You can only select fxtures that are in the current active group, so be sure that you are in the correct group or have ‘All’ selected. You can use the ‘Turn beam on’ button at the top of the faders window to open the dimmer and set any other channels required to see the light beam (e.g. shutter, iris etc). There are two slightly diferent ways of controlling your lights, one is known as ‘Features’ and the other known as ‘Faders’. ‘Features’ are accessed within the Dimmer, Color, Position, Gobo, Beam, Focus and Other tabs. You will see a mixture of controls including: Buttons, which will allow you to jump to a preset (i.e. a particular Gobo or Colour in a colour wheel). Faders, which will allow you to control linear presets (i.e. the rate of a Strobe). As well as an XY grid for pan/tilt control, and a colour picker for colour mixing fxtures. The ‘Faders’ can be found in the ‘Faders’ tab. This will show the full range of channels set within the fxture profle in order. Here, you can see the full DMX fader range of 0 - 255 for each channel. Right clicking on the icon at the top of the channel will allow you to see the full list of presets for that particular channel. Each channel can be turned ON and OFF by clicking the circle at the top of the fader. If a channel is OFF, it will not be used in the scene. For example: if you have Scenes A and B controlling one fxture, where the Dimmer channel is set to 255 on Scene A, but Scene B has the Dimmer channel set to