r/GrandMA3

When I pan the lights, in real life, they rotate left. In the visualizer, they rotate right. The tilt is correct, but the pan is not. How do I reverse the pan in the visualizer only?

Working on our first show in 2.4.2.2 and we’ve found that faders give what we can best describe as a little haptic feedback when going to 0 or 100.

This is a show file we’ve used for a few years now and has never had an issue.

Starting from scratch we don’t see this. Could this just be a weird show upgrade bug or is this a hidden setting somewhere?

Pretty new to MA3, about four months on onPC with a command wing after years on a two scene board, so apologies if this is beginner territory.

Small venue house rig. The Robe and Chauvet fixtures that came with the room patched straight out of the library and gave me no trouble.

We added four more wash movers last year. What the room needed was movement and colour at a price a space our size could actually sign off on, since we run maybe two shows a week and nobody here was ever going to approve touring grade fixtures for that. We landed on four Betopper LM3715R, and those are the ones I can't find a GDTF for.

So I built one off the DMX chart. Main head as one instance, the outer halo ring as pixel subfixtures under it. It patches and addresses fine, and the ring lights up.

Where I'm stuck is the virtual dimmer. The ring cells ignore the master dimmer completely, so a fade to zero leaves the ring sitting at full until I pull it down separately. I've tried the relation both directions and rebuilt the instance twice.

Two questions for people who do this more than I do. Is a ring like that better off as subfixtures under the head, or as its own fixture type sitting in the same patch? And when the colour is obviously wrong in the visualiser on a hand built profile, do you chase it or just live with it and trust the real output?

Happy to share the file once it actually behaves, in case anyone else ends up with these.

Thanks

I am currently running dot2 onPC as my main system in our main hall at school. I did my course in GrandMA3 and seriously enjoy the workflow more with the option to run all encoders from the main go+ and go- and not having to move them to the main exec as with dot2. I just have one question. Does GrandMA3 onPC actually output any data? I don't have any offical MA hardware as I am still a student in high school. I know dot2 has a free universe but I am not sure of GrandMA3.

There might be a simple way to do this that I'm missing. What I'm looking to accomplish is this: Id like to have a phaser effect (dimmer attribute only) playing over a number of fixtures coming from one sequence. then Id like to be able to have a second sequence in which i can set static levels on fixtures individually and the result will be each fixture playing back with a scaled percentage of what its output would have been.

for instance if i have 801-803 just oscillating from 0-100% intensity on a phaser saved in sequence 1, id like to be able to then set 801 at 50% , 802 at 100% and 803 at 0% in a diferent sequence and have them output 801 oscillating 0-50, 802 oscillating 0-100, and 803 out. Is this possible? is it a fader priority thing? I know that I can do this kind of thing with group masters but I'd like to be able to do it at the fixture level without having to create a million groups

So when i use any other fixture i get a very steady 65fps, even on 250bpm strobe. but when i throw my spiiders on 100% i go down to only 20fps…

Does anyone know how this might happen? Theyre also way brighter than all the other fixtures

Edit: I have 32gb of ram, so i dont think thats the problem

I’ve build a simple chase effect in the phaser editor that runs from left to right and I can’t seem to find a way to make it bounce back and forth. I’ve seen the option to do that in the phaser recipe editor but is there a way to do it without? Can’t wrap my head around recipes in the first place but if I have to I will. Thanks in advance

So I’m making some MIDI to OSC buttons and I’d like them to work universally across show files.

For things like Store, Off and Delete I currently have the buttons triggering macros that add them to the command line but I don’t want to have to create those macros in other show files or if someone else uses my set up.

I found the cmd Lua function but it seems to just execute rather than append to the command line.

Any ideas?

Hello fellow MA users, specially the theatre/dance/…and related lockers.

We all know, that the color control stuff is not where the MA shines. Getting the right tone from f.i. (🤪) an ETC Lustr X8 with the MA is a pain. 8 different LEDs. And the console doesn’t help you, because ETC wants to sell also consoles.

I tested a few times the ETC console with their X3, and damn. Their color, hue, saturation control is next to none. But only with their own EOS family consoles… they call it metamers. And it truly is amazing. But without the EOS console….

So. Coemar HD-6 studio/theatre version is what I ended up getting. Less frequencies in the adaptive colorscheme to play with I know, BUT!

They have a really nice DMX-map that I have fallen in love with. They have a saturation channel.

So basically, set a color temperature from 2700-6500, use the color picker, and then adjust the saturation between those two. Damn thats a time saving innovation if you like playing with tones.

Just wanted to share, i love these fixtures.😘

It might be a dumb question but still how do you connect ma 3 to capture via sCAN or art-net?

I feel like pulling my hair out, I’ve searched this sub and every post has the same fixes in it that just don’t work.

I’ve been trying to use Chataigne to send OSC commands to GrandMA3;

I’ve checked and re-checked the IP address on both ends (127.0.0.1)

the receive input button is pressed

the toggles for receiving is checked as yes

I have echo turned on so I can monitor stuff on the system monitor and nothing ever comes through.

I feel like there’s something I’m missing. This is on a MacBook Pro, never had issues like this in the past.

I’m trying to update my command wing xt to 2.4. When updating, does it delete all previous show files on the local drive?

Hey all,

I'm running a show this weekend on a grandMA3 and I have never touched a grandMA3 before.

I am fairly decent at grandMA2 but I would like to know what is your must know/starters advice for someone who has never touched the 3 before?

Specifically anything to do with workflow, commands, or programming the console would be helpful!! If you know any good online tutorials that would be super helpful too.

Cheers

Made a free open-source plugin that mirrors your Resolume Arena/Avenue composition on a grandMA3 layout — thumbnails, live “what’s playing” highlights, and optional tap-to-trigger from the console.

​Handy for busking / hybrid lighting + video when you want the media deck visible (and optionally playable) on the lighting surface. Its also way more flexible and easier to setup then simple DMX out and Resolume shortcuts.

Requires Resolume webserver/REST API enabled. MIT license.

GitHub: https://github.com/Skoetting/MA3ArenaDeck

Happy for feedback / bug reports.

Edit/Disclaimer for transparency: I used AI (Cursor) to help me with the creation of the plugin.

Newbe question,how can i see hqze in my 3d viewer.

thank you .