MA Lighting grandMA2 User Manual - page 671
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When you are done working with your layers, please leave the
EditSetup
menu.
Now you are asked if you want to save the changes you have made.
Tap
Yes
to save.
No
to not save any changes and keep the fixture schedule as it was.
Cancel
to return to fixture
schedule without saving.
13.6. Multipatching
Multipatching is a function to add extra fixtures to a Fixture ID or Channel ID.
Any extra fixture needs its own DMX patch.
Adding multipatch fixtures to the fixture schedule will also add an extra virtual fixture in the stage view and MA 3D.
It does not cost you any parameters to add multipatch fixtures.
You cannot program the multipatched fixtures individually. It is connected to the same ID as the primary fixture. All
fixtures, the primary and the multipatched do the same.
Any programming that existed on the primary fixture are also outputted on the multipatched fixtures.
This is the first process using the GUI:
1. Press the
Setup
key and then the
Patch & Fixture Schedule
button.
2. Select the layer and fixture you want to multipatch.
3. In the lower right corner you will find a button called
Create Multipatch
- tap it (if the fixture schedule is on
screen 1 - and you are on a grandMA2 full-size or grandMA2 light console, then you can also press the
X20
key.
4. This opens a calculator pop-up. Enter the amount of multipatched fixtures you want to add the the selected
fixture. Confirm by tapping
Please
.
5. The extra fixtures now have their own line in the list. All the elements with a black background is non-
editable.
6. You can change the name and the 3D position and rotation of the extra fixtures.
7. You can add the extra patch address to the extra fixtures.
8. Exit the Fixture schedule and the setup, and change save your changes.
The second GUI process involves live patching and the DMX sheet.
.
This is the process using the command line:
[Channel]> Assign [DMX-list] At Fixture [Fixture ID]
Assigning a list of DMX addresses to an existing fixture will create as many multipatch fixtures to your fixture as the
list.
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