Avolites Titan One User manual

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Titan One Quick Start Guide

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Contents
1Introduction
2Layout
3Getting Started –New Show and Patching
4Groups
5Workspaces
6Controlling Fixtures
7Palettes
8Recording Cues
9Basic Timings
10 Simple Effects –Shape Generator
11 Chases
12 Cue Lists
13 Pixel Mapper
14 Saving the Show
15 Have Fun!

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Useful Avolites phone numbers:-
Avolites England
Sales and service* (+44) (0) 20 8965 8522
Service out of hours*(+44) (0) 78 3117 8888
Fax (+44) (0) 20 8965 0290
Email [e-mail]
Website http://www.avolites.com
*Before contacting Avolites for service enquiry please ensure that you have the product
serial number and the Software version.
The latest version of this manual and Console Software can be downloaded from the
website www.avolitesdownloads.com
The small print :
No Liability for Consequential Damages
Avolites has a policy of continuous product and documentation improvement. As such
the detail within this manual may not match the operation of the product this manual
describes.
In no event shall Avolites be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or
consequential damages or loss whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for
loss of profits, business interruption, or other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use or
inability to use the product this manual describes even if Avolites Ltd. has been advised
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or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may
not apply to you.
Reprint and revision history:
Quick Start Manual ET October 2012

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1 Introduction
Welcome to the Titan One Quick Start Guide! Titan One is intended for two purposes:
-with the USB –DMX dongle plugged in as a full lighting control system that
will output one universe of DMX or Artnet
-without the dongle connected it will become an easy to use Simulator that will
output 12 lines of DMX or Art-Net with a spoiler, enabling you to program or
edit a show on your laptop using any Art-Net visualiser, and then load this
straight into any Titan console.
This document will get you started on Titan One, but remember all the features of the
software are identical to those on our other consoles, so you can use the console
manuals to get more in depth with the features.
We also offer free of charge Titan training at Avolites HQ in London –email
trainin[email protected] for more details, and we run regular Masterclasses around the UK.
If you’re international, then check out our distributor page on our website:
http://www.avolites.com/Distributors/Findyournearestdealer.aspx
We also have a dedicated forum for Titan One users:
http://www.avolitesshop.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12&sid=f9dd22a15b364869cf5
9509f1f379cc3
This guide is designed to be used with the free downloadable Light Converse Theatre
called ‘Titan One Theatre’, but of course if you have real fixtures, do use those instead!
The Light Converse file can be found here:
http://lightconverse.net/lc/download-l.htm
What you will need to run through this tutorial:
-A PC with Titan One installed and activated
-The Light Converse Titan One demo theatre installed (or real lights!)
-A beverage of your choice
Please remember that if you do not have the dongle plugged in, then the software will
output a DMX spoiler every minute or so. Once you have the dongle plugged in, this
disappears.
Enjoy!

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2Layout
Titan One has been specially designed so that everything is available on a single touch
screen. All the functions of the regular consoles are available, plus a few extras to help
you move around the virtual console more easily, i.e. virtual faders and encoders.

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3Getting Started –New Show and Patching
1. To start a new show, go to [Disk], then press [New Show] and hit [Ok]. You will now
have an empty showfile, with four default workspaces.
2. Now to start patching, press the [Patch] button. Press Softkey G [Patch View]. You
have two tabs –“Patched Fixtures” and “Personality List”. As we have no fixtures
patched into the desk yet, select “Personality List”.
3. Click on the search bar, and search for Generic Dimmer. Choose the personality with
one DMX channel from the list, and make sure you set the correct DMX Line and
Address. Once you have done this, press the ‘Patch Generic Dimmer’ option on the
softkeys.
The Patch List is as follows:
Quantity
DMX Start
Address
Manufacturer
Fixture
Mode
4
1
Generic
Dimmer
1
channel
8
5
Robe
Robin 600e
Spot
Mode 2
24
205
Generic
RGB
1 x RGB
cell
As with any other Titan console, make sure the modes and addresses match those of
the patch list, otherwise you are telling the console you are connected to the wrong
fixture for the demo theatre. Make sure you exit Patch before trying to select fixtures by
right clicking [Avo] and pressing [Exit]

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When you have patched all your fixtures in, your ‘Patched Fixtures’ tab should look like
this:
4. Each fixture has its own colour code
5. Each DMX line has a usage bar
6. The bar at the top of the screen shows how much of the universe is used up/free. In
the main body of the window, you get a breakdown for each fixture which tells you
the mode it’s in, what its address is, the legend, where it’s patched to, whether it’s
frozen, or pan/tilt inverted. When you press ‘View’, you get more detailed
information about that fixture, including dip switch view:

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4Groups
4.1 Auto groups
At the moment, “Autogroup” is turned on in the Patch options, so if you go to the
Fixtures and Groups Workspace, your page will look like this:
Auto groups create a master group for every new fixture type you have patched (i.e. All
Robin 600e Spot), so that every time you patch more of the same fixture, they are
added to this group, and also quantity groups, so every time you patch a quantity
greater than 1, a group will be created for this.
4.2 Editing/Creating Groups:
To delete a group, press [Delete] on the Function keys and then double tap to delete a
group. This delete syntax works the same for deleting everything on the console except
fixtures ([Patch] + [Delete]) and workspaces ([View] + [Delete])
To rename a group, for example the [4 x Dimmer] to [All Par 64], use Softkey C [Set
Legend] and the tap the group to rename. This way of renaming items is the same
across the whole platform.
To make a new group, for example the floor spots, select the fixtures you want in the
group (in this case, the last 4 spots you patched in), then simply click an empty group
button and give it a name, then press [Enter] or tap it again.

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5Workspaces
5.1 Creating your own workspace
The buttons down the left hand side of the screen are your workspaces. To save your
own, simply arrange windows as you want them, then click into an empty workspace
button, give it a name then press [Enter].
Softkey G [Open Workspace Window] will give a list of available windows to open.
1. Under the ‘I’, there are arrangement options including size and position of window,
and button and text size.
6Controlling Fixtures
6.1 Simple Commands
To lamp on your fixtures, select them and then press [ML Menu], and select the [Macros]
option from this list.
To turn on your fixtures, press [Locate]. This puts the fixture to a home position and
default values, but puts no information into the programmer. To clear this information
from the programmer, press [Clear] –this will put your fixtures to zero (provided there
is no dimmer information for them coming from playbacks), but leave other values in
their current state.
For people who are used to [Clear] releasing the attributes and working with “@full”
commands, if you right click the [Clear] button then Softkey D reads [Clear Options]. In

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this menu you can toggle Sofykey C between [Freeze Current Values] and [Release to
Playback Values]. If you want to always put dimmer information into the programmer
when you turn a fixture on, then press [@] twice to send the fixture to full.
Once your fixtures are on, you have two ways to control them –using the wheels or the
Attribute Control Window.
If you are using the wheels, then you can change attribute bank using the letters above
the virtual encoders. As soon as you change a value, it will have a cyan circle around the
letter, indicating that the value is now in the programmer. You can use the up/down
arrows on the attribute to send a percentage value to 100/0, or to jump between a
range, you can type a value in and then select where to assign it on the Softkeys, or you
can use the virtual encoder above the attribute.
6.2 Attribute Control Window
With the Attribute Control Window, this will list every attribute the fixture has on the left
hand side. This includes a full colour picker for CMY/RGB fixtures, visual keystoning and
blade control for media servers, fixtures with internal shutters or virtual barn doors, and
video thumbnail previews for media servers that talk CITP (Ai, Hippotizer, Arkaos,
Screen Monkey, Robe Digispot).