Clearing selections

Question

Hello. 
 This is really annoying me and I can't see an answer anywhere. 
 I'm using offline 1.7 to familiarise myself with the software coming from Strand and MA programming. What I'm trying to do is this; 
 I built some colour palettes with my rig of Martin MAC500s and then I select my MAC 600s and build colour matches to update into the stored colour palettes. 
 What I can't figure out is how do I stop the software recording the colour attributes from the MAC 500s again? On an MA I hold Clear for three seconds and it releases all channels then I can work away on my next selection, on a Strand I hit Shift-Clear for the same thing, but I can't figure out how to do this on EOS. I just keep trashing palettes I've already recorded! 
 I suppose this is a general question too; How do I release channels from the 'programmer' after I've finished with them? If i type an intesity value into a channel and then decide I don't want it how do I get rid of it before Record? How do I get rid of the red channels? 
 All help gladly received

Ncoons · Accepted Answer

Instead of doing a global record for the color palettes, try selecting just the channels for the mac 600's, and using the [record only] key. 
 In other words the syntax would be; chan {x,y,z] [record only] [color palette] [#] [enter]. This will record the color values for only the channels you've selected into the palette, and not blow out the values that have been previously stored. Same goes for if you're using presets or intensity, focus, or beam palettes. 
 As far as releasing channels from being captured (value displayed in red), type in the channel number, [sneak], and then enter. this will either take the fixture and its parameters back to it's home value if you aren't in a cue, or it will restore the fixture and all of its parameters to the state of whatever cue you are in, if there is a recorded value for that certain fixture. 
 
 -Nate