Computer dimming question

Go to the Elation Lighting web page www.elationlighting.com and look for Compuware is is acomputer based lighting program that function pretty well and is not to badly prices

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Originally posted by DJDude:
[qb] Also, is software available too that will work in conjunction to create a patch for this system? -Kevin [/qb]

You can do a soft patch with the CompuWare.

What exactly is the difference between a patch and a soft patch? I've heard some references to soft patching.

-Kevin

Well there are two types, soft patch and hard patch. A hard patch involves plugging in different circuits to dimmers (by hand). A soft patch is done on the controller but does the exact same thing. For example, you have 4 par cans plugged into different circuits within the theater, say circuit 25, 34, 46, and 49, but you want to control these cans on channels 1-4 on your controller. You must patch these into channels 1-4. Of course this would not apply to those four channel dimmer packs that operate on one 20 amp circuit.

Does this make any sense?

Yes it does, without realizing it, I've only ever worked with soft patching in the theatrical work I've done. Unknown to me, I'm very experienced in soft patching.
thanks!

-Kevin

Its the same way with sound also. Lets say your mics are numbered 50-60 u want them to be in channels 1-10 on the board. So you patch each channel from the output of the microphones into the corresponding input on your mixing board. Cool, and yet so simple...but they give it the fancy names to make it sound a lot more involved than it really is! Hey makes my job sounds more important!!

-AMP

Yes! And it also makes us look smarter (although we're smart already, of course)

-Kevin