See Your First Effect

Three steps get colors moving on screen. No hardware required.

Step 1: Add a fixture

1. Open the Fixtures workspace by clicking "Fixtures" in the toolbar.
2. Click Add fixture in the Fixtures panel toolbar.
3. Click Select fixture…, pick Holodron from the Spectralite manufacturer group, choose its DMX mode, then click Continue to addressing.
4. In the two-column Add fixture form, set Universe to 0 and Address to 1 (or click the first cell in the Address space grid on the right).
5. Click Patch 1 fixture.

Step 2: Add to a mapping

1. Open the Position Maps workspace.
2. In the Mappings panel, select the Default mapping.
3. In the mapping's Fixtures list, click your Holodron to add it.

Step 3: Watch it run

1. Open the Live View workspace.
2. The Timeline already has a Chaser effect layer.
3. Raise the layer's Opacity slider in the Timeline.
4. Watch the Preview panel. Your fixture cycles through colors.