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14. The Personality File System - Page 215

Pearl 2008 Manual - 16th July 2007

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

14. The Personality File System

If you can’t find the personality for the fixture you’re using, or you want

to know how to create a personality file, this section has the details.

14.1 Help, I can’t find a personality for my fixture

Avolites has a large library of fixtures on the website at

http://www.avolitesdownload.com/Personality%20Library/Default.asp

which can be downloaded quickly onto floppy disk or USB memory

stick.

You can also use this page to request a personality for a fixture if one

doesn’t already exist, and to report problems with personalities.

If you frequently use a fixture which isn’t in the Pearl’s internal

personality library, you can download it and add it to the internal library

by following the instructions in section

13.1.2.

14.2 Create

14.2.1 What is and how do I write or change a Personality file?

The personality file is an ASCII text format file containing information

on how the desk should patch each channel of an instrument.

Since the files are in ASCII text format you can easily modify them and

create new versions for your own use. When editing files you must

ensure your word processor is set to save in plain ASCII text format. If

you use Windows Write make sure that when you open the file you

select ‘no conversion’ and when you close the file you save it in the

‘text file’ format.

Before editing make a backup of the original, in case your edits do not

work.

The Pearl normally stores the personality files in an internal cache so

that you don’t need to carry a personality disk around. The personality

cache is a special compressed file containing all the personalities. You

cannot currently add your own definitions to it, so you will have to load

your custom personalities from disk in the time-honoured fashion.

14.2.2 Personality file naming conventions

There are four extensions used by personality files: .PER, .D2, .R96 and

.R20.

Pearl software will read any .PER file and any.R96 file, however when

.PER files are read a message will be presented to the user to warn that

an old personality file is being used and not every function of the desk

will work correctly. Typically this includes tracking, pre-loaded focuses

locate fixture and tablet functions. .D2 files are for the Diamond II &

Diamond III.

Files with the extension .R20 can only be used with Sapphire ,Azure

and Pearl consoles from the 2000 range and later. These files have

additional fields for the enhanced functionality provided within these

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