Loading new personalities into the Pearl 2004 Simulator

[Alaistair]

Hi - sorry for the newbie question.
I'm looking after a 1 day event - so I've got about 5 hours from first laying my hands on a hired Pearl Tiger until show time

So I'm trying to get familiar using the SImulator and Visualiser.

I've managed to download new personalities into the visualiser, but I can't seem to load new personalities into the Simulator.

I've got a small show with 4xMAC250 and 16 Stairville LED Cans. But I can't seem to patch these on the Simulator (as it does not seem to know about these personalities).

Any pointers greatly welcomed.

[niclights]

When you go to patch a fixture it should ask for a directory to look in.

There are numerous ways to download the personalities. Probably the easiest way is to use Pearl Expert Classic. Download, launch the file to extract then point the simulator at the directory (should be c:\program files\avolites\personalities\r20\)

[Alaistair]

Thanks! I had downloaded some .r20 files for the visualiser....and I wasn't thinking and was trying to point the simulator at these and it didn't find anything. I then downloaded the .r20 files on your link and these work ok with the simulator. so I guess they must have slightly different formats?

so I've got some basic MAC250 patches and some stairville LED Par cans going. I just need to learn all the functions now!

[niclights]

Glad to hear it is working.

You weren't wrong in downloading and pointing to the vis personalities. The formats aren't different but the files in the databases are. Visualiser requires a pair of files (.r20 and .vis) to work. To ensure the visualiser files don't break following an update of the .r20 file the original files are kept separately. Unfortunately this does mean that sometimes not all the files are correctly in sync.