• grandMA3 User Manual
    • Introduction
      • About the manual
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      • System requirements grandMA3 onPC
      • Installation of grandMA3 onPC
    • Device Overview
      • grandMA3 console
      • grandMA3 replay unit
      • grandMA3 processing units
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      • What are fixtures
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      • Create presets
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      • Store values of multi steps
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    • Worlds and Filters
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    • Fixture Types
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  • grandMA3 Quick Manual consoles
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual processing
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual nodes
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  • grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC solutions
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Version 1.0

Create Presets

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Requirement:

  • Patch fixtures 

For more information on how to patch fixtures see Add Fixtures to the Show.

Important:
-Every preset pool – except for the preset pools All 1 to 5 – has a filter as default setting. This filter allows to store values corresponding the pool. 

1. Example

  • Create a selective gobo preset

To create a selective gobo preset:

  1. Select fixtures.
  2. Assign gobo values to the selected fixtures. 
  3. Long press Store
    The Store pop-up opens:
Open store options
  1. Toggle the PresetMode to Selective.
  2. To store this selective preset in the Gobo preset pool, tap a pool object.
Hint:
If you store a second value to a preset already containing a value, the Store pop-up appears.
See the image in the position preset example

The selective gobo preset is stored in the Gobo preset pool. 

 

2. Example

  • Create a global position preset

To create a global position preset:

  1. Open the Position preset pool and in the Preset Pool Settings set the PresetMode to Global.
    For more information on the preset settings see Preset Pool Settings
  2. Close the pool settings. 
  3. Select fixtures. 
  4. Assign pan and tilt values to the selected fixtures.
  5. Press Store and tap a pool object in the Position preset pool.
  6. If you store a second value to a preset already containing a value, the Store pop-up appears. 
Select store mode
  1. Select the store mode.

A global position preset is stored in the Position preset pool. 

 


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