Avolites Titan One Quick Start Guide

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Titan One Quick Start Guide

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 Layout

3 Getting Started – New Show and Patching

4 Groups

5 Workspaces

6 Controlling Fixtures

7 Palettes

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8 Recording Cues

9 Basic 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

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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
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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

[e-mail] 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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2 Layout

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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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

3 Getting 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:

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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4 Groups

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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