November 18, 2017, 6:40 pm
@Aryto wrote:
I'm new to this and I've been following the tutorials on the M-PC software, but when I got to programming Pan/Tilt FX, the behavior of my software doesn't seem to work at all like it should. From what I understand, if you hit Pan or Tilt, then switch from Base to FX, then increase the swing of either pan/tilt, and then increase the Speed, I should see results. Instead what I see is my fixtures moving ONLY when I click on something, and even then ONLY the tilt seems to be doing anything; the pan is dead still. The little FX position display doesn't move either (and I believe it should be following the selected pattern).
What the heck am I missing?
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November 19, 2017, 6:09 am
@bvanenk wrote:
Hello all,
I've a question about my M-touch console.
Often I have the problem that's my UP and DOWN button on my M-Touch console works fine on the console. On the led screen (@console) you can see that the number is goin up or down. BUT on the screen with the software the bank is standing still.
Thats means that the bank number on the console is 25 and the bank number on my screen with the m-pc software displayed bank number 11. When I pushed the up button the consloe moves to 26 but de software stay by number 11.
How is that possible?
I don't have this issues with the M2PC wing.
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November 19, 2017, 9:56 am
@L1t7l3ph0o7 wrote:
Hi guys,
I've been trying to figure out if this even possible so here it goes...
I have some chases I'd like to run at half or quarter the current global bpm, that way I could tap out bpm and have my movers fade between cues at half the speed and stay in sync with my chases that hold intensity data, which I want at normal global rate.
Does anyone know if this can be done?
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November 21, 2017, 12:03 am
@Roi wrote:
I have been trying for forever to understand how to connect my trackball to mpctools to control P\T to no end!!
i bought a cheep Kensington trackball that connects via USB and when i try to configure it with mpctools, the program wont recognize it and the trackball it will just act as a regular mouse courser.
under "joystick", after i give a name, In "input devise" it wont show anything and in "function assighinment", the "events" and "devise controls" are empty.
if anyone has an answer pleas reply!!!! i am desprit!!!!!!
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November 21, 2017, 11:28 am
@syber_jedi wrote:
First off, I'm new to Martin software and to this kind of lighting control in general. Up until now we've been using an ETC Smartfade to program our DFD Preset 10. I am the Technical Director at a medium sized church in the PNW.
A little about our system for context:
Our worship center was built just over 10 years ago, long before I arrived.
At the last minute our A/V/L budget was cut drastically and the installer had to scramble to redesign everything. Over the last few years I've worked towards bettering our systems and my focus is now on lighting control.
We have 2 Lightronics AR-1202's, each with a AE-4020 expansion module. The 1202's have 12 channels, each with 2.4kW per channel. The add on modules run our house lights.
As part of the budget reduction many of our stage power breakouts share the same dimmer. In MANY cases we have multiple Source4 Pars sharing the same dimmer channel.
The reason for this post:
Because multiple lights share the same dimmer channel I can not find a way to patch each fixture into the M-PC software, which means when I try and use the 2d view for layout one icon gets used for multiple lights and I can't keep an accurate inventory of fixtures that are not being used.
I've tried searching for the problem online and I did a search in this forum. I can't figure out a way to fix this problem.
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November 21, 2017, 2:21 pm
@A_Face wrote:
Hi there,
I just replaced the Main CPU in one of our standard Mac Auras and I am trying to load firmware onto it. I am on a Windows 8 laptop (and before you ask, yes, I did put it in Advanced Startup before trying to download). I have tried both versions 1.1 and 1.2. I am able to download the initial .exe setup file, but when I open that and try to actually set up the USB Tools software, the setup file acts like it is downloading and then the USB Tools icon never appears on my Desktop. I've searched through my entire PC to make sure it did not "get sent" anywhere else. It is like the setup manager is doing nothing.
I've restarted multiple times, tried running setup in both Advanced Startup mode and in just regular boot mode. Is it possible that I NEED Windows 7 in order to use USB Tools? The compatibility notes say I should be okay but something is obviously off. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Laptop Specs:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700HQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
Installed RAM: 16.0 GB
System Type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Edition: Windows 8.1
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November 22, 2017, 1:00 am
@s.o.ovtg wrote:
To reconstruct the problem
create an override playback button with several cues and put it to flash and go.
Problem: It is stuck on the first cue.
It is working fine with cuelists instead of overrides, or by using the playback module instead of playback buttons.
Is there a solution to this problem?
Best regards,
Martin
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November 22, 2017, 5:39 pm
@Mark_Amber wrote:
Coming from an MA, Avo, and being a long-enough time M-PC user as well I still can't understand the whole FX group thing... I feel like I am still working around a bug or maybe it is something that I fundamentally do not understand about this engine.
1) Whenever I make changes to the grouping after starting effects I am unable to see the fruits of my labor. I change to a different mode or change my X amount but nothing really seems to happen to the effect until I change a parameter of the effect itself. I see this as a bug but I don't know... Am I experiencing unusual behavior.
2) There are some groupings that I just cannot nail all the time: For instance, what if I wanted to mirror an effect across the center of the rig... So I group "Divide by X" then select 2 as the mask... Then I set my "Waves per X" to 2... What I would expect to happen is that one side of the rig goes on then the other side goes on... To get that I have to go with "FAN <> ..." So then what are the non-fanning groups for? Is that just for selection?
3) How do I put in specific values? Like use my keypad to type those in for a specific parameter...
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November 23, 2017, 5:03 am
@Leon wrote:
Hi to all ![:slight_smile:]( ":slight_smile:")
I am learning mpc for the first time and after month and a half I am rely happy with what I learn, thank to high amount of references on Internet. But still I couldn't find a right answer for my question.
So to keep it sort, the problem occur when I try to change from one effect to another.
For example I have first effect that will just make light go from left to right on the stage, pretty simple. So in one point I want to change to effect that rotate my fixtures all around stage and as I change from one effect to another fixtures twitch and go around until they come in some position even if I didn`t specify pan and tilt under that cuelist, just fx for pan/tilt.
So I tried to change those two cuelist to override(at first I made them chase with just one cue) and situation is a little better but still when I start one of those cuelist I have a little twitch in the beginning. I hope somebody will understand what am talking about :D.
Cheers
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November 23, 2017, 8:20 am
@SteveIrwin wrote:
Is either of these an option for a Maxxyz?
Can it talk as a wing to MPC?
I saw something about installing MPC on Maxxyz. Is that possible and if so how does one go about it?
Just curious but look forward to playing with the Maxxyz OS if I can get this Maxxyz to work again. I bought a dead unit so wish me luck! ![:wink:]( ":wink:")
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November 24, 2017, 7:40 am
@Hai wrote:
Hi,
screen is broken and not supported for replace. you can support to be able to work on another screen
Thanks !
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November 24, 2017, 4:50 pm
@Vassillius wrote:
I was wondering, if I were to upgrade M-PC to 64 universes, will it allow an Enttec USB DMX device to use more than one universe? (Specifically an Enttec USB DMX Pro Mk2, not that it's pertinent to the question)
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November 24, 2017, 6:08 pm
@RikSolo wrote:
Hey everyone.
i recently ran into an issue with M-PC when making color chases. what I have is several single cue color cuelists with block global release enabled so i can quickly set groups of fixtures to certain colors without having to select groups/presets first. the chase consists of 2 cues, one where a color gets applied to all odd fixtures, then one where that color gets applied to all even fixtures. this works great until i enable any kind of fading. because the cuelist isn't tracking to make the colors go back to whatever i had using the color cuelists the colors in the chase aren't fading out. they're fading in fine but it seems that when a parameter gets untracked it straight up snaps out instead of adhering to any kind of fade times.
Does anyone have any idea what i could do to fix this, or perhaps a different way to program my color cuelists and chases to circumvent this issue?
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November 25, 2017, 10:41 am
@holywoodpower wrote:
Hi fellow martin users !
I’ve a weird issue with my M1 today.
The main touchscreen is not working and when I try to calibrate them it says no elo touchscreen found.
Also the front panel is not working at all.
I checked all the connections they seems correct.
I installed a new version of the OS with the latest release, still not working.
I checked in the USB view menu, it sees 2 DMX cards, one USB mass storage (license USB key) and nothing else.
It worked last week without any issue
If anybody as any idea it will be very appreciated !
Thanks !!
Thomas
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November 26, 2017, 1:15 pm
@Sylas wrote:
Please consider adding a way set default global bpm or remain same bpm from last session. thanks
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November 26, 2017, 6:21 pm
@CoryGira wrote:
I have done all my programming and playback with my M-Play connected to "laptop A" with no issues. I want to designate "laptop B" as a backup PC, but it does not let the M-Play function. I see that the M-Play driver is installed, the device details say it's functioning properly, it's recognized as a Martin M-Play, but no action on the M-Play. The M-Play does have those very dim green LEDs lit at the top and bottom of each fader though. The "laptop B" is an Acer Aspire Pentium 2.4GHz w/ 4GB of RAM, but I hope I don't get the response "just get a PC that meets the requirements." I really want to understand what the issue is. Thanks!
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November 27, 2017, 6:00 am
@jp_ridgard wrote:
Hey Friends.
I need some help with Mpc Tools.
I’d like to map the commandline to my laptop Keyboard (Numeric Keypad side)
Is there anybody out there willing to help me achieve this, I have tried with no luck.
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November 27, 2017, 6:27 am
@jp_ridgard wrote:
It would be great if you can add customizable presets to the beat-master,
Lets say 4 presets that I can customize to desired bpm’s
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November 29, 2017, 7:43 am
@Sylvain_Guiblain wrote:
Hi all,
I've been solicited by a people which have a nice idea:
Is it possible to have standard automated Pan/Tilt Preset creation?
My first feedback is that it will be hard to put something strong enough to work well and being time saving.
But I have some ideas in mind where I will need some support from you.
For that, I need to see if the following requirement can be achieved:
- Can we extract the Pan/Tilt personality settings in LUA (8 or 16bits)? If yes, how?
- Does the fixture personality contain the angular value of each axis (540° for Pan & 210° on Tilt as exemple)? (Maybe this question can be bettered answer by you @Ofer_Brum?)
- Is it possible to extract actual Pan/Tilt DMX value from LUA? (to allow relative positioning and offset WoW)? If yes, how?
Thanks in advance for your support!
For sure, the result of this worksharing will be shared to everybody, as usual ![:slight_smile:]( ":slight_smile:")
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November 29, 2017, 9:01 am
@n.webber wrote:
Hi,
I patched a new fixture into M-PC and while creating presets I noticed the color table in the fixture's profile didn't match the actual one of the fixture. So I corrected the fixture profile via the library editor, but it didn't update the profile in M-PC..
Is there a way to update a profile of an already patched fixture? Or must the fixture be removed and re-patched?...
TIA ![:slight_smile:]( ":slight_smile:")
Nimrod
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