I seem to remember having printed several hunred pages of documentation from
Strand's site when I ran one of these - several manuals. It's fairly intuitive once you understand the style. I'd spend more time learning which
page things are on than how to program something - programming's easy. You can choose from a couple different styles, I think I had mine forced to GENIUS mode but there's also LightPalette if I recall right.
Sit down and
build some
base stuff that mock what you'd do for a gig:
--> Patch and unpatch channels
--> Program a couple submasters
--> program a series of basic cues and experiment with the playback modes and
fade options
--> practice changing a live
cue/show
--> see what else you can find that you can't guess what it does from looking at it and try it
If you have some quality play-time with the board I expect you'll be well on your way in afternoon or two.