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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
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Overview
Subtopics

Timer

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Use Timer to set and manage stopwatches and countdowns.

Control the timers using the Timer keyword.

Subtopics

Section titled “Subtopics”

Timer pool
Timer pool options

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