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Live Control

Live control refers to full manual control of individual values. This is used during programming.

See also: Manual fixture control

This section may seem quite familier to people who have used a lighting console before, as it is much the same syntax.

The following commands work with either one or more channels. The use of multiple channels in a single command is most powerful part of the command line syntax.

The following modifiers are used to define a range of channels :

The following keywords then define the command being processed :

Finally the following keyword can be applied as a modifier to some of the above commands :

  • 'Solo' (sometimes known as 'RemDim')

In addition the following keywords can be used without specifying a range of channels.

For a full description of the command syntax simply click on one of the above keywords.