Select a light (or lights) in the Fixture Grid by touching it. The cell’s outline will turn red.
From the Task Bar at
the bottom of the screen, touch the Control icon.
If not grayed out, touch one of
Intensity
Color
Position
Shape
After setting
an initial value, touch Effects then “New
Effect”
The available effects will be shown. Select the one you want.
Use the wheels to change how the lights behave. Some of the effect attributes may include:
Rate : Affects
the speed of the effect.
Size : Affects
the variance or height of the effect. For example, the size of a ballyhoo
effect determines how far a light will move from where it was pointed
when the effect began.
Offset : Affects
where each light starts following the effect function. For
example, in a rainbow color effect, if the offset is zero degrees,
all lights will be the same color because they are all following the
exact same function at the same time. As the offset increases,
adjacent lights will be different colors. When the offset
reaches 180 degrees, adjacent lights will be at the top and bottom
of the effect curve.
Repeat : Affects how many
lights start along the effect function at one time. For example, in
a marquee effect, if repeat is set to 1, only one light out of the
selection will be “on” at any given time.
NOTE
To end an effect in SELECT, touch “Stop Effect”
or use the Release
button.
When the effect is recorded in a Cue, a change must be recorded to the attribute controlled by the effect in a subsequent Cue to end it. Otherwise the effect will remain running in the background (also called ‘tracking through’).
The order that lights are selected is important when planning the effect. For example, when running a marquee effect on six lights, if the lights are selected 1,2,3,4,5,6 the effect will appear to move from left to right. If the lights are selected 123-654 instead, the effect will appear to move toward the center. (If you make the Repeat 2 in this case, it's even more affective.)