Adding Rooms to your show file is not necessary for most theatrical productions, but you may want to for convenience. For instance, you may divide the theatre four ways: 'Stage', 'Work Lights', 'House Lights' and 'Lobby'. One advantage of putting Lights into Rooms is it will allow you to reduce clutter in the Select Grid so you only see the lights you're working on.
NOTE
Press the Power
Button
Press Setup
Press Rooms
If you want, you can Name the Spaces too by touching the column header. (i.e., "Mary's Wedding", "Corporate Speech", "Vacant").
By default, when you add Rooms, each Room is in its own Space. That is shown by a diagonal line of red boxes as seen above. At any time, you can combine Rooms that are serving the same purpose into a single Space. Say, if you combine Rooms A and B, then all Lights in Room A and B will be in the same Space, as will all Choreo NSB station that are in those Rooms.
There are two screens that allow you to combine Rooms into Spaces. From
SETUP | ROOMS touch the square where the Room and Space intersect. Alternatively,
when in Wall Statio Mode, press Rooms beside the
Unlock. You will see the
same grid of Rooms and Spaces you see in Setup.
In some situations, like during events, you might want some of the network
sliders or buttons in public areas to be disabled. To Mute all the stations
in a Room, Shift Click the Room row header .
To Mute all station in a Space, Shift Click the Space column header
.
When in Wall Statio Mode, press
Rooms. To mute or unmute
stations just click the Room or the Space. (There is no shift in this
view.) There also Actions to
achieve these functions which you can assign to Play
Schedule events, Cues or Memories. Those Memories themselves can be
associated with a Network Button Station so one NSB can mute or unmute
other NSB stations.
You can also mute and unmute individual stations in SETUP
| CHOREO NSB by highlighting the desired stations an press Toggle Mute.
Once you have added Rooms in Setup, you can Select
lights by touching them individually or using Groups then touch Settings then
Properties.
Specify which Room the lights are in using Use the green
wheel to. By default, lights are not assigned
a room and appear "Globally". Putting lights in Rooms also allows
you to limit the number of lights you see in Select
when you apply a Filter.
When you add Choreo NSB
stations to a Room, highlight the station and press
EDIT. Use the yellow wheel
to select the Room. See Choreo
NSB on how to configure a station to control
Memories regardless of Room configuration.
From the SELECT task, you can Filter
the lights shown on the screen to just those in a specific Room by pressing
Filter then selecting the Room. When programming
a system with multiple Rooms, it is advisable to set RECORD
ONLY CHANGES to "Yes" in SETUP
| SYSTEM.