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grandMA2 User Manual
- Overview
- New in the Manual
- Introduction
- Safety Information
- Device Overview
- System Overview
- First Steps
- Keys & Buttons on the Console
- Workspace
  - Overview
  - User interface
    
    Overview
    Screen layout
    User-defined area
    Command line
    X-Key labels
    View buttons
    Master section
    Time control
  - Encoder bar
    
    Overview
    Preset control bar
    Encoder toolbar
  - Encoder settings
  - Command wing bar
  - Command section
  - Mini executor bar
  - Work with views
  - Touch gestures
  - Calculator
  - Info
  - Oops and undo
  - Colors
    
    Overview
    System
    Marker
    Cue
  - Text indicators and symbols
  - Icons
  - Keyboard shortcuts
    
    Overview
    Turn on or turn off the keyboard shortcuts
    Edit keyboard shortcuts
    Add or delete keyboard shortcuts
    Export or import keyboard shortcuts
- Windows in General
- Command Syntax and Keywords
- Using the Backup Menu
- Single User and Multi User Systems
- Networking
  - Overview
  - What is networking
  - Set the IP address in the console
  - Set the IP address in the onPC
  - Using DHCP in MA devices
  - Session control
    
    Overview
    How to create a session
    Protecting the session and station
    Adding devices to the session
    How to end or leave a session
    Session collision
  - Getting DMX in and out of the system
    
    Overview
    Setting up DMX ports on MA devices
    Network DMX protocols
    What affects my DMX output?
  - Using CITP
    
    Overview
    Streaming CITP
    Thumbnail exchange
  - PosiStageNet (PSN)
  - FTP connection to console and NPU
- Patching, DMX, and Fixture Setup
- Basic Fixture Types
  - Overview
  - What are attributes, features & preset types
  - ColorMix vs. MixColor
  - Different fixture types
    
    Overview
    Conventional
    LED
    Mirror
    Moving lights
    Media server
    Virtual fixtures
- Operate Fixtures
- Pools in General
- Groups
- Presets
- Cues and Sequences
- Executors
- Advanced Sequence Functionality
- Advanced Executor Functionality
  - Overview
  - Executor pages
  - Channel pages
  - Executor options
  - Masters window
  - Special masters
    
    Overview
    Default masters
    Grand masters
    Speed masters
    Rate masters
    Playback masters
- Clone
- Search and Replace
- Image Pool
- Layouts
- Worlds, Filters and Masks
- MAtricks
- Chasers
- Effects
- Bitmap Fixture
- XYZ
- Remote Controlling the System
- Timecode
- Timer
- Agenda
- Macros
  - Overview
  - What are macros
  - Manually create a macro
    
    Overview
    Use variables
    Create pop-ups
    Conditional expressions
    Macro timing
  - Record a macro
  - Edit a macro
  - Command line interaction
  - Assign a macro to a key
  - Example macros
- Plugins
- Partial Show Read
- RDM
- DMX Profiles
- Other System Tools
  - Overview
  - Message center
  - Help
  - Clock
  - Sound input window
  - VPU pixel mapper view
  - Network dimmer
    
    Overview
    Views
    Errors
    Readout
    Edit properties of a rack
    Edit a module
  - Desk status
  - Performance window
  - System monitor
- Export and Import
- Update the Software
- Advanced Fixture Types
  - Overview
  - Anatomy of a fixture type
    
    Overview
    Module manager
    Instance manager
    Wheel manager
  - Attribute & Encoder Grouping
- grandMA2 onPC Details
- Control the MA NDPs
- Control the MA Network Switch
- Control the MA xPort Nodes
- Console Settings
- Shut Down the System
- Error Messages
- Technical Data
- Glossary

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Overview
Subtopics

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Overview
Subtopics

Device Overview

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The following chapters provide an overview of the grandMA2 products.

Subtopics

Section titled “Subtopics”

grandMA2 console
grandMA2 replay unit (RPU)
grandMA2 fader wing
MA onPC command wing
MA onPC fader wing

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