Loading cache file to offline editor Pearl 2004 not working?

[Red5hark]

Hi All,

New to this board so practising on the Pearl2004 offline editor.

Have built a small cache of 6 profiles using the cache-builder and would like to get them into the off-line editor to play with.

Have gone through the motions of loading them via the service menu and the off-line editor says the process was successful, thus my questions are;

Does the off-line editor allow for these cache files to be used and if so why is it I cannot see the fixtures I loaded when I try to use patch>select fixture ? All I ever see is a=Dimmer

:/

Red.

[icke_siegen]

You don't neet to build a cachefile for the Simulator. Just install/unpack the R20 personalities to some convenient place, and point the simulator to the folder of the manufacturer you want to patch a fixture of.

Or better, since you already located the personalities: put the required personalities into one folder, and point the simulator there when patching.

[Red5hark]

Cheers...this worked although it is a bit of a tedious way to do this when the desk has got a cache file for such personality files, I would just take it as read that the cache file on the offline editor does not work like the real thing! which is a shame...

Red

[icke_siegen]

Well, it depends - and it does work like the real thing. The downloadable personality disks are the 'generic' way to patch, in the desk as well as in the simulator. Cache Builder is just an add-on for the desk, to make use of the internal memory - and it was a huge step ahead those days. However, that memory limitation - which lead to the need of the cache builder - was never an issue on computers where the simulator is run. So, the cache builder lacks a feature of the desk which isn't required at the simulator