- grandMA3 User Manual
- About the Help
- Open the help in the console
- Open the help in the web
- Open the help as pdf
- Navigate in the help
- Device Overview
- grandMA3 consoles
- grandMA3 full-size
- grandMA3 full-size CRV
- grandMA3 light
- grandMA3 light CRV
- grandMA3 compact XT
- grandMA3 compact
- grandMA3 extension
- grandMA3 replay unit
- grandMA3 processing units
- grandMA3 nodes
- grandMA3 nodes DIN-Rail
- grandMA3 I/O Node
- grandMA3 I/O Node DIN-Rail
- grandMA3 onPC command wing XT
- grandMA3 onPC command wing
- grandMA3 onPC fader wing
- grandMA3 onPC rack-unit
- Screen allocation
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Framework shortcuts
- Keys
- . [Dot]
- <<< [GoFastBackward] | Black
- >>> [GoFastForward] | Flash
- - [Minus]
- + [Plus]
- / [Slash] | * [Asterisk/Multiply]
- At
- Assign
- Align
- Blind
- Clear
- Channel
- Copy
- Ctrl
- Cue
- Down
- Delete
- Esc
- Edit
- Freeze
- Full
- Fixture
- Group
- Goto
- Go+ [large]
- Go- [large]
- Go+ | Temp
- Go- | Top
- Help
- Highlt [Highlight]
- If
- Learn | Rate1
- List
- MA
- Menu
- Move
- Next
- Numeric keys | arrows
- Oops
- On
- Off
- Pause [large]
- Pause | Fix
- Page+
- Page-
- Please
- Power
- Preset
- Prvw [Preview]
- Prev [Previous]
- Select
- SelFix [SelectFixture]
- Sequ [Sequence]
- Set
- Solo
- Stomp
- Store
- Thru
- Time
- Up
- Update
- U1
- U2
- X1 | Clone
- X2 | Link
- X3 | Grid
- X4 | Layout
- X5 | Step
- X6 | TC
- X7 | View
- X8 | DMX
- X9
- X10
- X11
- X12
- X13 | Phaser
- X14 | Macro
- X15 | Page
- X16 | Exec
- Xkeys
- Control elements
- Command area
- Master area
- Custom area
- Dual encoders
- Level wheel
- Grand master
- Executor elements
- Connector pin assignment
- UPS battery
- grandMA3 consoles
- System Overview
- Standalone device
- Locally networked devices
- World server
- Parameters
- Calculate parameters
- Expand the amount of parameters
- First Steps
- Unpack the device
- Check scope of delivery
- Position the device
- Connect power
- Connect desk light
- Connect external screens
- Connect USB devices
- Connect DMX
- Connect Audio In
- Connect MIDI
- Connect LTC
- Connect Ethernet
- Connect DC Remote In
- Connect grandMA3 extension
- Connect grandMA3 fader wing
- Turn on the device the first time
- grandMA3 onPC
- System requirements
- Windows™® installation
- Optimize Windows™®
- macOS® installation
- Optimize macOS®
- onPC Terminal App
- onPC settings
- Show File Handling
- Load show file
- Save show file
- New show file
- Backup, demo and template show files
- Organize show files
- Workspace
- User interface
- Configuration of displays
- Desk lock
- User-defined area
- Command line
- Control bar
- View bar
- Tables in general
- Trackpad window
- Gestures
- Command area
- Oops overlay
- Master controls
- Playback controls
- Displays in grandMA3 onPC
- Encoder bar
- Feature group control bar
- Encoder toolbar
- Calculator
- Playback bar
- Command wing bar
- Colors
- System
- Markers
- Color theme
- Compare tool
- User interface
- Command Syntax and Keywords
- Syntax rules
- Parent child concept
- General keywords
- ; [Semicolon]
- / [Slash]
- . [Dot]
- = [Equal]
- <<< [GoFastBackward]
- >>> [GoFastForward]
- - [Minus]
- * [Asterisk]
- % [Percent]
- + [Plus]
- Absolute
- Acceleration
- Action
- ActivationGroup
- Agenda
- Align
- AlignTransition
- Appearance
- Assign
- At
- Attribute
- AutoCreate
- Black
- Blind
- Block
- BPM
- Call
- CancelSoftwareUpdate
- Camera
- Capture
- ChangeDestination
- Channel
- ChannelSet
- Chat
- ChatJoin
- ChatLeave
- CleanUp
- Clear
- ClearActive
- ClearAll
- ClearSelection
- Clone
- CommandDelay
- Collect
- Collection
- Color
- ColorDefinition
- ColorTheme
- Configuration
- Console
- Cook
- Copy
- Cue
- CueAbsolute
- CueDelay
- CueFade
- CueInDelay
- CueInFade
- CueOutDelay
- CueOutFade
- CueRelative
- CueUpdate
- CurrentEnvironment
- CurrentUser
- CurrentUserProfile
- Cut
- DataPool
- Deceleration
- Decimal8
- Decimal16
- Decimal24
- Default
- Delay
- Delete
- DeleteOtherVersions
- DeleteGlobalVariable
- DeleteUserVariable
- Dismiss
- Display
- DMXAddress
- DMXLayer
- DMXReadout
- DMXUniverse
- DoubleSpeed
- Down
- DumpLog
- Drive
- DropOwnership
- Echo
- Edit
- EditSetting
- Eject
- Effect
- EncoderPage
- EndIf
- Environment
- Exchange
- Executor
- Export
- Extract
- Extension
- Fade
- FaderCrossFade
- FaderCrossFadeA
- FaderCrossFadeB
- FaderMaster
- FaderRate
- FaderSpeed
- FaderTemp
- FaderTime
- FeatureGroup
- Filter
- Fix
- FixtureClass
- FixtureLayer
- Fixture
- FixtureType
- Flip
- Flash
- Fog
- Freeze
- Full
- Gel
- GetGlobalVariable
- GetUserVariable
- Go+
- Go-
- Goto
- Grid
- GridPosition
- Group
- HalfSpeed
- Help
- HelpLua
- Hex8
- Hex16
- Hex24
- Highlight
- Houselights
- Hz
- If
- IfActive
- IfOutput
- IfProgrammer
- Image
- Import
- Index
- Insert
- Integrate
- Interface
- Invert
- Invite
- IP
- JoinSession
- Key
- Keyboard
- KeyboardShortcut
- Kill
- KnockIn
- KnockOut
- Label
- Layout
- LearnSpeed
- LeaveSession
- Library
- List
- ListOwnership
- ListReference
- Load
- Loaded
- LoadShow
- Lock
- LogIn
- LogOut
- Lowlight
- Lua
- LuaFile
- Macro
- MArker
- Master
- MAtricks
- Measure
- Media
- MemoryInfo
- Menu
- Mesh
- Move
- Multipatch
- MyRunningMacro
- MyRunningPreset
- MyRunningSequence
- MyRunningTimer
- Natural
- NDI
- NewShow
- Next
- NextY
- NextZ
- NetworkNode
- NonDim
- Normal
- Note
- Off
- Offset
- On
- onPC
- OSC
- Oops
- OutputLayer
- Page
- Part
- Park
- Paste
- Patch
- Pause
- Percent
- PercentFine
- Phase
- Physical
- Plugin
- Preset
- PresetUpdate
- Press
- Preview
- Previous
- PreviousY
- PreviousZ
- Programmer
- Property
- ProcessingUnit
- Pyro
- Quickey
- Rate1
- RDM
- Readout
- Reboot
- Recast
- Record
- Relative
- Release
- ReloadAllPlugins
- ReloadUI
- Remote
- RemoteHID
- RemoteCommand
- Remove
- RenderQuality
- Reset
- Restart
- Root
- RealtimeChannel
- RunningMacro
- RunningPreset
- RunningSequence
- RunningTimecode
- RunningTimer
- SaveShow
- ScreenConfiguration
- ScreenContent
- Scribble
- Seconds
- Select
- Selection
- SelectFixtures
- Sequence
- SendMIDI
- SendOSC
- Set
- SetGlobalVariable
- SetUserVariable
- Shuffle
- ShutDown
- SnapDelay
- SoftwareImport
- SoftwareUpdate
- SoundChannel
- Solo
- SpecialExecutor
- Speed
- Speed1
- SpeedMaster
- Stage
- Station
- StationSettings
- Step
- Stomp
- Store
- SwitchTograndMA2Software
- SwitchTograndMA3Software
- Swap
- Temp
- Thru
- Time
- Timecode
- TimecodeSlot
- Timer
- Toggle
- TopUp
- Top
- Transition
- Type
- UIChannel
- UIGridSelection
- Unblock
- Universal
- Unlock
- Unpark
- Unpress
- Up
- Update
- UpdateContent
- User1
- User2
- User
- UserProfile
- Video
- Version
- View
- ViewButton
- Width
- World
- Zero
- Option keywords
- /Active
- /ActiveForSelected
- /AddNewContent
- /All
- /AllForSelected
- /Ask
- /Auto
- /CopyCueDestination
- /CopyCueSource
- /CreateReferenceObject
- /CreateSecondCue
- /CueOnly
- /Date
- /Default
- /DiscardChanges
- /DMX
- /DMXProtocols
- /Embed
- /Enumerate
- /File
- /ForceGlobal
- /GDTF
- /Gaps
- /Global
- /GridMergeMode
- /Indirect
- /InputFilter
- /KeepActivation
- /LocalSettings
- /Look
- /MAtricks
- /Merge
- /MergeHighPriority
- /MergeLowPriority
- /MoveValues
- /NoAutoClose
- /NoConfirmation
- /NoDependencies
- /NoOops
- /NoRefresh
- /NoSave
- /NoShowData
- /NoSubfolders
- /OriginalContentOnly
- /Output
- /OutputStations
- /Overwrite
- /PatchOffset
- /Path
- /PhaserData
- /Programmer
- /Release
- /Remove
- /Save
- /Screen
- /Selection
- /Selective
- /Single
- /Tab
- /Type
- /Universal
- /Wrap
- Extended command line syntax options
- Windows, Views, and Menus
- Add window
- Rearrange
- Store and recall views
- Remove windows from a screen
- Window settings
- Title bar configuration
- Menus
- Change menu locations
- Pool windows
- Create pool objects
- Label pool objects
- Move pool objects
- Insert pool objects
- Copy pool objects
- Lock and unlock pool objects
- Delete pool objects
- Networking
- Interfaces and IP
- Session
- Create a session
- Join a session
- Leave a session
- Invite to a session
- Dismiss from session
- Create a custom key
- Session master selection
- Web remote
- Network design
- Protocol details
- WLAN (WiFi)
- Regulations and standards
- DMX In and Out
- DMX port configuration
- Ethernet DMX
- Art-Net menu
- sACN menu
- Transmit DMX using Art-Net
- Single User and Multi User Systems
- Create user
- User settings
- Object ownership
- Patch and Fixture Setup
- What are fixtures
- Add fixtures to the show
- Add multipatch fixtures
- MVR
- Live patch
- DMX sheet
- DMX universes
- Remove fixtures from the show
- Position fixtures in the 3D space
- 3D viewer
- Render quality
- Camera pool
- Stages
- Classes and layers
- Attribute definitions
- Activation group
- Feature group
- Deactivation group
- Parameter list
- DMX curves
- Operate Fixtures
- Select fixtures
- What is the programmer
- Fixture sheet
- Graphics
- Encoder resolution
- Using the color picker
- Gel pool
- Selection bar
- Align
- Selection Grid
- SMArt view
- Scribbles
- Create scribbles
- Edit scribbles
- Assign scribbles
- Delete scribbles
- Images
- Screenshots
- Video
- Meshes
- Gobos
- Symbols
- Import symbols
- Delete symbols
- Appearances
- Create appearances
- Use appearances
- Delete appearances
- Notes
- Groups
- Create groups
- Edit groups
- Delete groups
- Group masters
- Presets
- Preset pools
- Create new presets
- Recipe presets
- Use preset
- Edit or Update presets
- Worlds and Filters
- At filter
- Create a world
- Create a filter
- Use a world or filter
- Delete a world
- Delete a filter
- MAtricks and Shuffle
- Blocks
- Groups
- Wings
- Widths
- Shuffle
- Transform
- Cues and Sequences
- What is tracking
- Tracking distance
- Break
- Sequence sheet
- Content sheet
- Sequence settings
- Store cues
- Update cues
- Copy cues
- Cue recipes
- Store settings and preferences
- Play back cues
- Move in black
- Cue timing
- Renumber cues
- Delete cues
- What is tracking
- Executors
- Assign object to an executor
- Executor configurations
- Running playbacks
- Special executors
- Masters
- Selected masters
- Grand masters
- Time control
- Speed masters
- Playback masters
- Recipes
- Phasers
- Phaser editor
- Create sinus dimmer phaser
- Create circle phaser
- Create circle phaser around position
- Create color rainbow phaser
- XYZ
- Activating XYZ for fixture types
- MArker fixture
- Macros
- Create macros
- Import macros
- Edit macros
- Assign macros to keys and buttons
- Variables
- Examples
- Agenda
- View modes
- Create an agenda entry
- Edit an agenda entry
- Agenda toolbar
- Timers
- Stopwatch
- Countdown
- Timecode
- What are timecode slots
- Timecode settings
- Track groups
- Time ranges and events
- Toggle view mode
- Record a timecode show
- Record an external timecode show
- Edit a timecode show
- External sources
- Layouts
- Create a layout
- Assign multipatch fixtures
- Edit layout
- Layout view settings
- Edit layout view
- Edit layout elements
- Layout encoder bar
- Plugins
- What is Lua?
- Handle
- Interface functions
- Progress bar
- Variable functions
- Functions - Object-Free API
- AddonVars
- BuildDetails
- ClassExists
- CloseAllOverlays
- CloseUndo
- Cmd
- CmdIndirect
- CmdIndirectWait
- CmdObj
- ConfigTable
- Confirm
- CreateUndo
- CurrentEnvironment
- CurrentExecPage
- CurrentProfile
- CurrentUser
- DataPool
- DefaultDisplayPositions
- DelVar
- DeskLocked
- DeviceConfiguration
- DrawPointer
- Echo
- ErrEcho
- ErrPrintf
- Export
- ExportCSV
- ExportJson
- FromAddr
- GetApiDescriptor
- GetAttributeByUIChannel
- GetAttributeCount
- GetAttributeIndex
- GetChannelFunction
- GetChannelFunctionIndex
- GetClassDerivationLevel
- GetDisplayByIndex
- GetDisplayCollect
- GetDMXUniverse
- GetDMXValue
- GetExecutor
- GetFocus
- GetFocusDisplay
- GetObjApiDescriptor
- GetPath
- GetPathSeparator
- GetRTChannel
- GetRTChannelCount
- GetRTChannels
- GetSample
- GetSelectedAttribute
- GetShowFileStatus
- GetSubfixture
- GetSubfixtureCount
- GetTokenName
- GetTokenNameByIndex
- GetUIChannelCount
- GetUIChannelIndex
- GetUIChannels
- GetVar
- GlobalVars
- HandleToInt
- HandleToStr
- HookObjectChange
- HostOS
- HostSubType
- HostType
- Import
- IncProgress
- IntToHandle
- IsObjectValid
- KeyboardObj
- MasterPool
- MessageBox
- MouseObj
- ObjectList
- Patch
- PopupInput
- Printf
- ProgrammerPart
- Pult
- ReleaseType
- Root
- SelectedSequence
- Selection
- SelectionCount
- SelectionFirst
- SelectionNext
- SerialNumber
- SetBlockInput
- SetLED
- SetProgress
- SetProgressRange
- SetProgressText
- SetVar
- ShowData
- ShowSettings
- StartProgress
- StopProgress
- StrToHandle
- TextInput
- Time
- Timer
- TouchObj
- UserVars
- Version
- Functions - Object API
- Addr
- AddrNative
- Children
- Dump
- Export
- HasActivePlayback
- Import
- ToAddr
- Quickeys
- Quickey editor
- Use quickey pool objects
- Example
- Data Pools
- System
- Date and time
- Clock
- Desk lights
- System information
- System monitor
- Info window
- Sound
- Remote In and Out
- DC remotes
- MIDI remotes
- DMX remotes
- OSC
- Examples
- TouchOSC
- QLab
- Open stage control
- zactrack
- Protocol viewer
- PSN
- MIDI
- RDM
- Control other MA Devices
- grandMA3 nodes
- MA network switch
- RemoteHID
- Update the Software
- Update grandMA3 consoles
- Update grandMA3 Nodes
- Update grandMA3 onPC windows hardware
- Update grandMA3 viz-key
- Network update
- Delete update files
- Troubleshooting
- Fixture Types
- Import fixture types
- Import GDTF
- Conflicts in fixture types
- Build fixture types
- Insert fixture types
- Insert DMXModes
- Insert geometries
- Insert models
- Link models to geometries
- Link DMX modes to geometries
- Environmental fixture types
- Export fixture types
- Import fixture types
- File Management
- SFTP connection
- Import / Export menu
- Folder structure
- Shut Down the System
- Troubleshooting
- Clean start
- Update does not work
- Station does not connect
- Panic macro
- Glossary
- About the Help
- grandMA3 Quick Start Guide
- grandMA3 Quick Manual consoles
- grandMA3 Quick Manual processing units
- grandMA3 Quick Manual Nodes
- grandMA3 Quick Manual Nodes DIN-Rail
- grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC command wing XT
- grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC command wing
- grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC fader wing
- grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC rack-unit
- grandMA3 Quick Manual viz-key
- grandMA3 Quick Manual I/O Nodes
- Release Notes
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The complete grandMA3 documentation consists of the grandMA3 User Manual and the respective grandMA3 Quick Manual with technical specifications, safety instructions, and declaration of conformity.
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| Display | Definition |
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| At | Keys found on the control surface of the hardware are displayed in a white font on a dark gray background. |
| Dimmer | Buttons found on the screen are displayed in a white font on a light gray background. |
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Step-by-step instructions are displayed in a numeric list. |
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One-step instructions are displayed with the help of bullet points. |
| Menu - Settings - User Configuration - User Profiles | Navigation to specific menus in the console is displayed in bold. |
| Assign [Object] (At) [Object] | The description of the syntax is underlined and displayed in bold. |
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