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Pearl Expert 2008 - the console is in a club/venue

It's decided to start giving a "Sorry, no more room" error when recording palettes. I can get around this (only on certain fixtures) by doing palettes ONE fixture at a time - although this is annoying. I can no longer update positions, or adjust/tweak certain values if needed. It has been doing this for about a month.

It recently started to begin lagging in releasing flashed playbacks, and when you raise the fader it is now telling all RUNNING FX (color fx, movement, whatever) to stop. I can restart these FX by pressing the EXIT and CLEAR hardkeys, then resetting that fader (down to 0, up to full).

It also won't let me patch certain fixtures, which it has had no problem patching in the past.

Sometimes when you run in NORMAL mode, and flash the SWOP's, one will latch and not release. The only way to clear this is to restart the console.

Before this all started, I turned the desk on once, and it said there was 999% free space - I ran the recovery CD and then these problems started to develop.

Any ideas? I literally reset the console 4-5 times a night and that's really annoying and 100% unnecessary. I have contacted AVO already... but it's been a while so I'm posting here.


Robert

Hello,

It sounds to me like you have probably reached one of the limits of the Classic software. While technically the Expert hardware does not have these restrictions, the software does retain them. This can be proved by performing a wipeall and trying a simple patch.

The problem may be helped by deleting some fixtures but obviously this is not usually an option.

My recommendation is to use Titan. The Classic software is old and has many limitations. Yes, you will need to start programming from scratch but the benefits make this well worthwhile IMO.

As Nick has said the Classic software has certain size limits in the software and once you reach these limits it will not let you record any more. The error message is simply telling you that it has run out of space. You may get this even when it says you have memory free on the LCD as there are multiple spaces of memory and the indicator only tells you about one of them.

You either need to reduce the size of your show by deleting fixtures or switch to Titan.