I also have the Innovator 48/96. Use the link to the
manual above to find out how to program an
effect. With that
effect you can assign it to a
submaster or a
cue. I've done both. I would reccommend assigning it to a
cue, because sometimes if you use the
submaster slider to bring up the
effect, it doesn't always stop the
effect when bringing the slider down. And if you happen to hit the
submaster's
bump button, the
effect will start and never end.
If you can't access the
manual, here's what you want to do.
Hit SelEff (Soft Key 5) and then [1]. This creates an
effect (Edit:
This would create Effect number one. You can create more effects by changing the number.). You can name it, but you don't have to. Underneath the name you can change whether it runs forwards, backwards, random, or front to back then back to front (
Bounce.) Then you can set your
fade, dwell times for the first step. To set lights, each purple box represents a
channel. So if your fire
effect lights are channels 50, 51, and 52, what you might do is Step 1 would be CH 50 LVL 50, CH 51 LVL 10 and CH 52 LVL 80. Then repeat for step 2, step 3,
etc... To add, instert, or
clear steps you use the softkeys.
To program an
effect to a
cue, set up your
stage lights so that it looks like it will be for the
cue. You can change this look later if you'd like. To record it to a
cue, then hit the usual [RECORD CUE][#] [TIME][#] but then before you hit enter type in [EFFECT][1]. This assigns the
effect to the
cue.
Also, I find it better on the Innovator to have two cues - one for all other lights and one that brings up the sequence. Programming, given that you've created your
effect as
Effect 1:
Set scene lights to include the first step of your sequence.
[RECORD CUE] [1] [TIME] [3] [FOLLOW] [.1]
[RECORD CUE] [1][.][1] [TIME] [.1] [EFFECT] [1]
That would bring up the
stage lights on a "3 second"
fade, then immediately upon completion of bringing the full
stage lights up the
effect starts.
If you want to
play with it on your computer,
Leviton finally has an offline editor for the Innovator series available on their website for Windows XP only.
Afterthought: This may be due to my NSI dimmers, but I find that if I record the lights used into the
effect in to the orginal
cue between 15-25, this keeps the lights on without anyone seeing the light, but it makes the
fade times of the
effect a lot more realistic. Then the
effect in the following
cue brings them up to noticeable visibility.