It is not necessary to run the recovery CD to upgrade from Pearl Expert release 1.0 or 1.1 to release
2.0. Download the Latest installer software from the Avolites
http://www.avolitesdownload.comdownload
web site
and save to a USB memory stick or CD. From the Pearl Expert's main console screen
click the Yellow 'Folder Browser' icon on the tool bar to the right of the VDU and browse to the location
where you saved the 'PearlExpertv2.exe' file. Double click the file to
start the setup process. The installer will guide you through a number of setup dialogs in which we
recommend you accept all the default options when prompted. Once the setup is complete, click the
"Restart Software" icon from the toolbar on the VDU and the console application will restart running
the new software, Release 2.0.
To upgrade from version 1.1, please follow the procedure described above for version 1.0.
Colour Picker
There is now an additional window that can be opened that allows one touch selection of a colour
for fixtures with colour mixing capabilites. A graphic displays every colour that can be mixed by a
fixture which, when clicked on, sends the appropriate CYM or RGB values to the fixture. By holding down the
mouse button and moving the cursor around the graphic, it is possible to see in real time the effect you
are having on the actual fixtures. By clicking on the colour picker graphic, the colour mixing attributes
of the selected fixtures are also added to the programmer as they are when using the attribute
wheels on the console.
Save to USB Stick Root
If a show is saved to a USB memory stick on a Pearl 2008, two files
(avo.sys and mempool.sys) are saved to the root directory on the
memory stick. The Pearl Expert will now list this show as an option when loading from USB, in addition to
those shows stored in the default shows folder created when saving Pearl Expert shows, making it easier to
transfer shows between a Pearl 2008 and a Pearl Expert if required.
Loading a 2008/ Tiger Show into an Expert
The Expert can now load and save shows from both the Pearl 2008 and the Pearl Tiger consoles. This means that when saving a show to the USB stick on a Pearl 2008 console you can take that stick and directly load it into an Expert console. It is also possible to take an Expert USB Show stick and load the expert shows into the Pearl 2008.
"USB Service Timedout" displayed at startupPearl Expert 1.1If an application log file became corrupted, the console software was not able to recover.Robe Digispot personality causing desk crash when patchingPearl Expert 1.1
Using a Robe Digispot running software version 4, patching Layers 3 or 4 caused a dialog box to be
displayed indicating the software had encountered a problem and needed to close. A modified personality
file has been available on the
http://www.avolitesdownload.com/PersonalityLibrarypersonality
Download site since 17/04/07 which rectifies
this problem. Robe Digispots running software version 5 do not exhibit this problem.
Corrupt show history data causes desk to crash on startupPearl Expert 1.1
Console software is now able to recover if a corrupt history file is found
DMX port stops after USB panel resetPearl Expert 1.1
If a USB panel reset was performed while a DMX port was outputting changing DMX values, for example when
running a chase, the port would stop outputting DMX altogther after the reset had completed. All DMX
ports now correctly output DMX following a panel reset.
It is not necessary to run the recovery CD to upgrade from Pearl Expert release 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0 to release
2.1. Download the Latest installer software from the Avolites
http://www.avolitesdownload.comdownload
web site and save to a USB memory stick or CD. From the Pearl Expert's main console screen
click the Yellow 'Folder Browser' icon on the tool bar to the right of the VDU and browse to the location
where you saved the 'Pearl Expert v2.1 Setup.exe' file. Double click the file to
start the setup process. The installer will guide you through a number of setup dialogs in which we
recommend you accept all the default options when prompted. Once the setup is complete, click the
"Restart Software" icon from the toolbar on the VDU and the console application will restart running
the new software, Release 2.1.
Support for new USB Panel hardware change
The software has been updated to support a change to the USB panel hardware. When using this hardware
using previous software versions the panels would be prone to resetting spontaneously.