Recording a Simple Cue

Now that you can manipulate the fixtures, let's explore ways of storing those beautiful cues to be played back later...

Cues are the primary means of programming looks in ONYX. Your cues are saved in various types of cuelists that are assigned to - and executed by - the playback controls.

The desired "look" created in the Programmer window is stored in a cue, which is inside a cuelist. Cues can contain as many or as little amount of parameter, timing and effect values as desired.

Your First Cue

There are three primary ways of recording the contents of the Programmer into a cue. The first is to press Record and then press the selection button of the desired cuelist playback. This will either be the topmost physcial button above a fader, or the on-screen indicator at the bottom of the ONYX interface.

When you do this, the cue will be added to the end of the cuelist as the next “whole” number. If you select an empty playback, you will first be prompted to type a name (if desired) and select the cuelist type (Cuelist, Chase, Override, etc.) and then the information in the Programmer will be saved as cue 1.

The second way to save the information as a cue is to specify the cue number using the keypad. The information will then be saved as the specified cue number in the selected cuelist. For example:

Record Cue 21 Enter - will save the information as cue 21 in the currently selected Cuelist.

The third way to save information as a cue is to simply press Record Enter. This will save the information as the next whole numbered cue in the selected cuelist.

Using any of these methods to record a cue will result in the Record Options popping up. For simple cues, this can be ignored but as you will read on the next page, this is quite a useful set of options, but don't worry, they are formatted in a similar manner to the already discussed Clear and Load options.