• grandMA3 User Manual
    • Introduction
      • About the manual
      • Symbols used in the manual
    • Device Overview
      • grandMA3 consoles
      • grandMA3 replay unit
      • grandMA3 processing units
      • grandMA3 nodes
      • grandMA3 onPC command wing
      • grandMA3 onPC command wing XT
      • Screen Allocation
      • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Keys
        • . [Dot]
        • <<< [GoFastBackward] | Black
        • >>> [GoFastForward] | Flash
        • - [Minus]
        • + [Plus]
        • / [Slash] | * [Asterisk/Multiply]
        • At
        • Assign
        • Align
        • Blind
        • Clear
        • Channel
        • Copy
        • 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
        • Dual encoders
        • Level wheel
        • Grand master
        • Executor elements
        • Custom section
        • Master section
    • 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 mouse and USB keyboard
      • Connect DMX
      • Connect Audio In
      • Connect SMPTE (LTC)
      • Connect Ethernet
      • Connect DC Remote In
      • Connect grandMA3 extension
      • Turn on the console the first time
    • grandMA3 onPC
      • System requirements grandMA3 onPC
      • Windows installation
      • Optimize Windows
      • macOS installation
      • Optimize macOS
    • Show File Management
    • Workspace
      • User interface
        • Configuration of displays
        • Desk lock
        • User-defined area
        • Command line
        • Control bar
        • View bar
        • Tables in general
        • Trackpad window
      • Gestures
      • Command section
      • Master controls
      • Playback controls
      • Displays in grandMA3 onPC
      • Encoder bar
        • Feature group control bar
        • Encoder toolbar
      • Calculator
      • Playback bar
      • Colors
        • System
        • Markers
        • Color theme
    • Command Syntax and Keywords
      • General syntax rules
        • Object keywords
        • Function keywords
        • Helping keywords
      • All keywords
        • / [Slash]
        • . [Dot]
        • .. [DotDot]
        • = [Equal]
        • <<< [GoFastBackward]
        • >>> [GoFastForward]
        • - [Minus]
        • * [Asterisk]
        • % [Percent]
        • + [Plus]
        • Absolute
        • Acceleration
        • Action
        • ActivationGroup
        • Align
        • AlignTransition
        • Appearance
        • Assign
        • At
        • Attribute
        • Black
        • Blind
        • Block
        • BPM
        • Camera
        • Call
        • ChangeDestination
        • Channel
        • ChannelSet
        • Chat
        • Clear
        • ClearActive
        • ClearAll
        • ClearSelection
        • Clone
        • CmdDelay
        • ColorTheme
        • ColorThemeLibrary
        • Configuration
        • Console
        • Copy
        • Cue
        • CueDelay
        • CueFade
        • CueInDelay
        • CueInFade
        • CueOutDelay
        • CueOutFade
        • CurrentUser
        • CurrentUserProfile
        • Cut
        • DataPool
        • Deceleration
        • Decimal8
        • Decimal24
        • Default
        • Delay
        • Delete
        • DelGlobalVar
        • DelUserVar
        • Dismiss
        • Display
        • DMXAddress
        • DMXReadout
        • DMXUniverse
        • Down
        • Drive
        • Echo
        • Edit
        • EditOption
        • Eject
        • Effect
        • EndIf
        • Exchange
        • Executor
        • Export
        • Extract
        • Extension
        • Fade
        • FaderMaster
        • FaderRate
        • FaderSpeed
        • FaderTemp
        • FaderX
        • FeatureGroup
        • Filter
        • Fix
        • Fixture
        • FixtureType
        • FixtureTypeLibrary
        • Flip
        • Flash
        • Fog
        • Font
        • Freeze
        • Full
        • GDTFLibrary
        • Gel
        • GetGlobalVar
        • GetUserVar
        • Global
        • Go+
        • Go-
        • Goto
        • Grid
        • Group
        • Help
        • Hex8
        • Hex24
        • Highlight
        • Houselights
        • Hz
        • If
        • IfOutput
        • Image
        • Import
        • Index
        • Insert
        • Integrate
        • Interface
        • Invert
        • Invite
        • IP
        • JoinSession
        • Keyboard
        • KeyboardShortcuts
        • Knockin
        • Label
        • Language
        • Layout
        • LearnRate
        • LearnSpeed
        • LeaveSession
        • Library
        • List
        • ListOwner
        • ListRef
        • Load
        • Loaded
        • LoadShow
        • Lock
        • Login
        • Logout
        • Lowlight
        • Lua
        • Macro
        • MacroLibrary
        • Master
        • MAtricks
        • MAtricksPool
        • Media
        • Menu
        • MenuLibrary
        • Move
        • MyRunningMacro
        • MyRunningSequence
        • NewShow
        • Next
        • Node
        • NonDim
        • Normal
        • Off
        • On
        • OnPC
        • OSC
        • Oops
        • Page
        • Part
        • Park
        • Paste
        • Patch
        • Pause
        • Percent
        • PercentFine
        • Phase
        • Physical
        • Plugin
        • PluginLibrary
        • Preset
        • Press
        • Preview
        • Previous
        • Programmer
        • Property
        • PU
        • Pyro
        • Rate1
        • Readout
        • Reboot
        • Recast
        • Relative
        • Release
        • ReloadPlugins
        • ReloadUI
        • Remote
        • RemoteCommand
        • Remove
        • Reset
        • Restart
        • Root
        • RTChannel
        • RunningMacro
        • RunningSequence
        • SaveShow
        • ScreenConfig
        • ScreenContent
        • Scribble
        • Seconds
        • Select
        • Selection
        • SelFix
        • Sequence
        • SendOSC
        • Set
        • SetGlobalVar
        • SetUserVar
        • Shuffle
        • Shutdown
        • SnapDelay
        • SoundChannel
        • Solo
        • SpecialExec
        • Speed
        • Speed1
        • Stage
        • Station
        • Step
        • StepCreator
        • StepRecipe
        • Stomp
        • Store
        • Temp
        • Thru
        • Timecode
        • Toggle
        • Top
        • Transition
        • Unblock
        • Unlock
        • Unpark
        • Unpress
        • Up
        • Update
        • User1
        • User2
        • User
        • UserProfile
        • Version
        • View
        • ViewButton
        • Width
        • World
        • Zero
    • Windows, Views, and Menus
      • Add windows
      • Rearrange
      • Store and recall views
      • Remove windows from a screen
      • Window settings
      • Menus
      • Change menu locations
      • Pool windows
        • Create pool object
        • 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
        • Leave a session
        • Invite to a session
        • Dismiss from session
        • Create a custom key
      • Web remote
      • SFTP connection
    • 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
    • Patch and Fixture Setup
      • What are fixtures
      • Add fixtures to the show
      • MVR
      • Live patch
      • DMX sheet
      • DMX universes
      • Remove fixtures from the show
      • Position fixtures in the 3D space
      • 3D Window
      • Camera Pool
      • Stages
      • Classes and Layers
      • Attribute definitions
        • Activation group
        • Feature group
    • Operate Fixtures
      • What is the programmer
      • Fixture sheet
      • Using the color picker
      • Selection bar
      • Align
      • Selection Grid
      • Smart view
    • Scribbles
      • Create scribbles
      • Edit scribbles
      • Assign scribbles
      • Delete scribbles
    • Images
      • Screenshots
    • Appearances
      • Create appearances
      • Use appearances
      • Delete appearances
    • Groups
      • Create groups
      • Edit groups
      • Delete groups
      • Group masters
    • Presets
      • Preset pools
      • Create presets
      • Assign input filter
      • Edit presets
      • Update presets
      • Preset pool settings
      • Embedded presets
      • Store values of multi steps
      • Delete 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
    • Cues and Sequences
      • What is tracking
      • Look at cues and sequences
      • Sequence settings
      • Store cues
      • Update cues
      • Store options and preferences
      • Play back cues
      • Move in black
      • Cue timing
      • Renumber cues
    • Executors
      • Assign object to an executor
      • Executor configurations
      • Running playbacks
      • Special executors
    • Masters
      • Selected masters
      • Grand masters
        • Time Control
      • Speed masters
      • Playback masters
    • Phasers
      • Step bar
      • Phaser editor
      • Create sinus dimmer phaser
      • Create circle phaser
      • Create circle phaser around position
      • Create color rainbow phaser
      • Step creator
    • Macros
      • Create macros
      • Edit macros
      • Assign macros to keys and buttons
      • Examples
    • Timecode
      • Record a timecode show
      • Edit a timecode show
      • Timecode settings
      • Toggle view mode
      • What are timecode slots
    • Layouts
      • Create a layout
      • Edit layout
      • Layout view settings
      • Edit layout view
      • Edit layout elements
    • Plugins
      • What is Lua
    • Data Pools
    • System
      • Date and time
      • Clock
      • System information
    • Remote Inputs
    • Control Other MA Devices
      • grandMA3 xPort Nodes
    • Update the Software
      • Update grandMA3 consoles
      • Update grandMA3 xPort Nodes
      • Update grandMA3 onPC command wing XT
      • Network update
    • Fixture Types
      • Import fixture types
        • Import GDTF
      • Build fixture types
        • Insert fixture types
        • Insert DMX modes
        • Insert geometries
        • Insert models
        • Link models to geometries
        • Link DMX modes to geometries
      • Export fixture types
        • Export GDTF
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual consoles
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual processing
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual Nodes
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual DIN-Rail
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC command wing XT
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC command wing
  • grandMA3 Quick Manual onPC fader wing
  • Release Notes
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Version 1.3

Playback Bar

The playback bar displays the objects currently assigned to the corresponding executors. The bar includes the playback status of each object as well as the available controls assigned to the executor keys, faders, and knobs.

The playback bar appears permanently on some screens and optionally on other screens. Depending upon where an instance of the playback bar appears, the bar may contain additional information about the assignment and status of the Master Section or Custom Section as well as page navigation controls.

Playback bar with master section and page navigation.

Tap the display of any executor in the playback bar to open the Assign Menu for that executor. For more information about the Assign Menu, see the Assign Object to an Executor topic.

Tap and hold the display of any object assigned to an executor in the playback bar to edit the object. When editing a sequence, a temporary version of the Sequence Sheet appears. For more information about the Sequence Sheet, see the Look at Cues and Sequences topic.

The playback bar with the master section and page navigation always appears on screen 9. To show or hide this version of the playback bar on screen 2 on any grandMA3 console or the grandMA3 onPC software, tap Show Playback Bar in the Configure Display pop-up on screen 2.

Playback bar with custom section and page navigation.

The playback bar with the custom section and page navigation always appears on screens 10, 11, and 12. To show or hide this version of the playback bar on screen 3, 4, or 5 on any grandMA3 console or the grandMA3 onPC software, tap Show Playback Bar in the Configure Display pop-up on the desired screen.

Playback bar with XKeys.

The playback bar can also appear on screen 7, showing the assignment and status of the XKeys. To show or hide the playback bar on screen 7 on any grandMA3 console or the grandMA3 onPC software, tap Show Playback Bar in the Configure Display pop-up on screen 7.

A window showing the assignment and status of the XKeys is also available under the Common and All tabs in the Add Window pop-up. Likewise, a version of the playback bar is also available as a window under the Common and All tabs in the Add Window pop-up. The Playback window does not include the custom section, master section, or the same page navigation controls as the Playback Bar. For more information on adding windows, see the Add Windows topic.

Both the Playback window and the XKeys window additionally include on-screen copies of the relevant faders, knobs, and keys. To show or hide these additional controls, tap Executors in the Window Settings pop-up. To show or hide the labels, tap Labels in the Window Settings pop-up. To display a specific page in the current instance of the Playback or XKeys window, tap the Page button in the Window Settings pop-up and tap the desired page in the Select Page pop-up. Tap <Link Selected> at the top of the Select Page pop-up to always display the current executor page.

In the Playback Window Settings pop-up, tap the Row400, Row300, Row200, or Row100 button to show or hide labels and executors for the specified executor row. Tap the WingID button to open a pop-up to choose which set of executor columns to display. Each WingID represents a different set of 15 columns of executors.

For more information about the Configure Display pop-up, see the Configuration of Displays topic.

For more information about screen allocation, see the Screen Allocation topic.

For more information about executors, page navigation, and the playback window, see the Executors topic.


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