I have recently upgraded our pearl experts to titan 5. I have a question regarding fixture pages and the total amount of handles permitted on the desk. On Titan 4.1 you could bring up fixtures on the work space and then select 'soft pages' 5 and 6 to allow you to patch a further 120 handles. After upgrading to Titan 5, pages 5 and 6 appear and can be selected but I am unable to patch any fixtures on to these pages and an error message appears saying I have reached the maximum number of handles. Amongst other fixtures and 96 ways of dimming I am running 40 x db4 in 60channel mode and using the generic rgb with virtual dimmer personality. I don't really want to reduce the resolution of the db4.
Can anyone advise?
Titan fixture pages and number of handles
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Hello,
Number of fixtures/handles/pages should essentially be unlimited.
As best as I can determine the 'not enough handles' only occurs if you try to perform a function that goes beyond handle 60 on (physical) fixture page 4. For example if you said patch dimmer quantity 2 and selected handle 60 on page 4 or if you range selected some fixtures and tried to copy or move them in such a way that it would need to go beyond handle 60 page 4 to complete the operation.
Presumably the reason for this is to avoid fixtures assigned to pages that are not immediately accessible from the physical Expert fixture page buttons.
But manually selecting page 5 or higher and patching works fine as far as I can tell.
Note that the 'Fixtures and Playbacks' that you are working in is also known as a 'compatibility' workspace and is primarily designed for migrating shows to or from consoles without the preset handles (ie. TT/TM). The number of pages will actually depend on screen resolution and/or workspace size. Items on these handles will correspond with the physical Expert preset faders and buttons (albeit without physical buttons to access pages above 4) and is why they are limited to 60 per page. Alternatively there is the 'Fixtures' workspace which has unlimited handles per page.
Number of fixtures/handles/pages should essentially be unlimited.
As best as I can determine the 'not enough handles' only occurs if you try to perform a function that goes beyond handle 60 on (physical) fixture page 4. For example if you said patch dimmer quantity 2 and selected handle 60 on page 4 or if you range selected some fixtures and tried to copy or move them in such a way that it would need to go beyond handle 60 page 4 to complete the operation.
Presumably the reason for this is to avoid fixtures assigned to pages that are not immediately accessible from the physical Expert fixture page buttons.
But manually selecting page 5 or higher and patching works fine as far as I can tell.
Note that the 'Fixtures and Playbacks' that you are working in is also known as a 'compatibility' workspace and is primarily designed for migrating shows to or from consoles without the preset handles (ie. TT/TM). The number of pages will actually depend on screen resolution and/or workspace size. Items on these handles will correspond with the physical Expert preset faders and buttons (albeit without physical buttons to access pages above 4) and is why they are limited to 60 per page. Alternatively there is the 'Fixtures' workspace which has unlimited handles per page.
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