Martin Maxxyz User manual

Maxxyz
user manual
FOR USE WITH SOFTWARE VERSION 1.6

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P/N 35000115 Rev. D. May 2006

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T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 9
MAXXYZ SAFETY INFORMATION 9
INCLUDED ITEMS 9
UNPACKING/PACKING THE CONSOLE 10
UNPACKING THE CONSOLE 10
PACKING THE CONSOLE 10
SETTING UPTHE CONSOLE 11
CONNECTING DMX DEVICES 11
CONNECTING THE DMX LINK 12
AC POWER 12
POWER SUPPLY 12
POWER CONNECTION 12
MAXXYZ LAYOUT AND DESCRIPTION 13
TYPES OF CONTROLS 14
THE PLAYBACK CONTROLS 15
THE PROGRAMMER CONTROLS 16
TRACKBALL CONTROL 17
SLIDER POTENTIOMETER (FADER) 18
GROUP MASTERS 18
OPERATOR AUDIO 18
DISPLAY SCREENS 19
DEFAULT PLAYBACK SCREENS 19
DEFAULT PROGRAMMER SCREENS 19
EDITING DISPLAY SCREENS 20
STARTING THE MAXXYZ 21
PATCHING FIXTURES 22
ADDING FIXTURES TO THE PATCH 22
THE FIXTURE LIBRARY 25
FIXTURE NUMBERING 27
ASSIGNING DMX ADDRESSES 28
PATCHING AN INDIVIDUAL FIXTURE 28
PATCHING ARANGE OF FIXTURES 29
PATCHING CONVENTIONAL DIMMERS 29
PATCHING ONE FIXTURE TO MULTIPLE DMX ADDRESSES 29
PATCHING MULTI-PART FIXTURES 30
OTHER PATCH FUNCTIONS 32
PATCHING SUMMARY 33
ADVANCED PATCHING SYNTAX 34
PATCHING THE “TRAINING 1.4 MAXXYZ” FILE 34
EDITING AN EXISTING PATCH 34
CLEARING AFIXTURE FROM PATCH 34
CLEARING DMX ADDRESSES 34
DELETING AFIXTURE FROM PATCH 35
MOVING AFIXTURE IN THE PATCH 36
COPYING AFIXTURE 36
COPYING FIXTURES OF DIFFERENT TYPES 37

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THE MAXXYZ VISUALIZER 38
LOADING THE MAXXYZ VISUALIZER 38
MAXXYZ VISUALIZER TOOLBARS 39
THE MISCELLANEOUS BAR 39
THE OPERATIONS BAR 41
THE CAMERA OPERATIONS BAR 41
THE CAMERA BAR 42
THE DISPLAY MODE BAR 42
SELECTING FIXTURES 43
SELECTING FIXTURES USING THE MAIN KEYPAD 43
SELECTING FIXTURES AND SPECIFYING AN INTENSITY 43
SELECTING/DESELECTING ALL FIXTURES IN THE PROGRAMMER 44
USING THE SELECTED FIXTURES SCREEN 44
FIXTURE SELECTION ORDER 45
RANDOM FIXTURE ORDER 45
REVERSING FIXTURE ORDER 45
USING THE FIXTURE FILTER 45
FIXTURE SELECTION ORDER, FILTERING AND RECORDING GROUPS 48
USING THE FIXTURES SCREEN 48
SELECTED/DESELECTED AND ACTIVE/INACTIVE 49
DESELECTING FIXTURES 50
CLEARING SELECTED FIXTURES 50
MANIPULATING FIXTURES 51
THE 3DVISUALIZER 51
FAST FOCUS 52
FOCUS FANNING 52
OTHER FOCUS FANNING OPTIONS 55
PROGRAMMER CONTROL 56
THE PROGRAMMER TOUCH SCREEN 57
DISPLAY SELECTION 57
ATTRIBUTE CONTROL 58
ATTRIBUTE POP-UP (DIRECT ACCESS) WINDOW 59
EFFECTS AND FIXTURE FANNING CONTROL 59
MISCELLANEOUS CONTROLS 59
COMMAND LINE 60
CONFIGURING YOUR SHOW 61
GROUPS 61
RECORDING GROUPS 61
MOVING AND COPYING GROUPS 63
TOMOVE OR COPY AN INDIVIDUAL GROUP 63
TOMOVE OR COPY ARANGE OF GROUPS 64
EDITING GROUPS 66
TOADD FIXTURES TO AN EXISTING GROUP 66
TOREPLACE THE FIXTURES IN AN EXISTING GROUP 66
TOREMOVE AFIXTURE FROM AGROUP 67
DELETING AGROUP 67
SELECTING GROUPS 67
GROUP PAGES 67
PRESETS 68
THE PRESET SCREEN 68
RECORDING PRESETS 69
PRESET CONTENT CODING 69
PRESETS AND TIMING 70
PRESETS AND EFFECTS 70
EMBEDDED PRESETS 70
MOVING AND COPYING PRESETS 71

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EDITING PRESETS 72
TOADD FIXTURES TO APRESET 72
TOREPLACE THE FIXTURES IN AN EXISTING PRESET 72
EDITING THE CONTENTS OF APRESET 72
DELETING APRESET 73
THE PROGRAMMER WINDOW 74
PROGRAMMER MODES 74
THE PROGRAMMER DISPLAY 74
LOADING FIXTURES INTO THE PROGRAMMER 76
LOADING THE PROGRAMMER USING FIXTURE SELECTION 76
LOADING THE PROGRAMMER USING EDIT 77
LOADING THE PROGRAMMER USING LOAD 78
THE LOAD OPTIONS WINDOW 78
LOADING GROUPS 80
USING “LOAD LOAD” 81
CAPTURING ASNAPSHOT OF THE STAGE USING LOAD 81
LOADING AN INDIVIDUAL ATTRIBUTE 81
USING LOAD TO CLONE FIXTURES 83
OTHER CLONING COMMANDS 84
LOADING AFIXTURE WITH CUE INFORMATION 84
REMOVING ENTIRE FIXTURES FROM THE PROGRAMMER 84
SAVING CHANGES MADE IN THE PROGRAMMER 85
RECORDING ACUE 85
UPDATE 85
CLEAR AND THE PROGRAMMER 85
THE CLEAR OPTIONS WINDOW 86
FAST CLEAR COMMAND CATEGORY 87
CLEAR OPTIONS CATEGORY 87
EXTRA FILTERING CATEGORY 87
CLEARING INDIVIDUAL ATTRIBUTES 88
FIXTURE FANNING 89
EXAMPLES OF FIXTURE FANNING 91
MIRROR VS. SEPARATE FANNING 92
2-POINT VS. 3-POINT FANNING 93
CURVE VS. LINEAR FANS 94
OFFSETTING THE FAN 95
OTHER FAN TYPES 96
RECORDING CUES 97
THE RECORD OPTIONS WINDOW 97
RECORD OPTIONS CATEGORY 98
RECORD REMOVE 98
SOURCE OPTIONS CATEGORY 100
EXTRA FILTERING CATEGORY 100
EXTRA OPTIONS CATEGORY 100
FILTER CATEGORY 100
DEFAULT CATEGORY 101
MODIFYING RECORDED CUES 101
RE-RECORDING ACUE 102
RECORDING ARANGE OF CUES 102
DELETING ACUE 102
COPYING ACUE 103
FILTERING COPIED CUES 103
COPYING ARANGE OF CUES 103
MOVING ACUE 105
MOVING ARANGE OF CUES 105
RENUMBERING CUES 107

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WORKING WITH CUES 109
PLAYBACK CONTROLS 109
SELECTING ACUELIST 110
PLAYBACK COMMAND 110
DISPLAYS WHEN CUELIST TYPE IS “NONE” 111
LCD KEY DEFINITIONS 111
DISPLAYS WHEN CUELIST TYPE IS “CUELIST” 111
LCD KEY DEFINITIONS 112
DISPLAYS WHEN CUELIST TYPE IS “CHASE” 112
LCD KEY DEFINITIONS 112
DISPLAYS WHEN CUELIST TYPE IS “OVERRIDE” OR “TIMECODE” 113
DISPLAYS WHEN CUELIST TYPE IS “SUB/GROUP DIM”: 113
THE “MAIN GO” BUTTONS 114
SNAP KEY 114
PLAYBACK PAGES (BANKS) 114
LABELING ABANK 115
CREATING AND WORKING WITH CUELISTS 115
CUELIST TOUCH SCREEN BUTTONS 116
LABELING ACUELIST 117
CUELIST COLUMN HEADERS 118
LABELING ACUE 118
LABELING ACOMMENT 118
SETTING CUE TIMING 119
SETTING ACUE’SBASE FADE TIME 119
SETTING ACUE’SBASE DELAY TIME 120
SPLIT CUE TIMING 120
SETTING AN INDIVIDUAL ATTRIBUTE FADE TIME 121
SETTING THE FADE TIME FOR AN ATTRIBUTE GROUP 122
SETTING AN ATTRIBUTE DELAY TIME 123
SETTING ASTAGGERED DELAY TIME (DELAY FANNING) 124
DELAY FANNING FROM MULTIPLE POINTS 125
SETTING ASTAGGERED FADE TIME (FADE FANNING) 125
CHANGING CUE OVERRIDES 126
SETTING CUE TRIGGERS 128
SETTING AWAIT TRIGGER 128
SETTING AFOLLOW TRIGGER 128
CUELIST OPTIONS 129
CHANGING THE CUELIST TYPE AND OPTIONS 129
COMMON CUELIST OPTION GROUPS 129
PRIORITY CUELIST OPTION GROUP 130
ADVANCED CUELIST OPTIONS 133
DEFAULT RELEASE TIME 133
DEFAULT BUTTON BEHAVIOR 133
DEFAULT FADER BEHAVIOR 134
UNBLOCK CUELIST 134
CHASE 135
OVERRIDE 136
SUB/GROUP DIM 137
SUBMASTER 138
GROUP MASTER 138
TIMECODE 139
TIMECODE CUELIST HEADER 139
WORKING WITH THE TIMECODE CUELIST 140
USING MACROS 141
MACRO TYPES 142
CREATING AMACRO 142
MACRO MODIFIERS 143
DELETING OR EDITING AMACRO 144
MASTERING THE LEVEL OF ACUELIST USING AMACRO 144
MIDIMACRO 144

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MIDIMACRO PHYSICAL CONNECTION 144
MIDIMACRO PROGRAMMING 145
PLAYING MIDIMACROS 149
GLOBAL MIDIMACROS 150
MIDIMACRO SUMMARY 150
MIDI TIMECODE (MTC) 150
LINKING CUES 151
RELEASING ACUELIST 152
RELEASING AN INDIVIDUAL CUELIST 152
RELEASING ALL CUELISTS 152
REL/SNAP 152
SNAP/REL 153
MOVING, COPYING, AND DELETING CUELISTS ON PLAYBACK FADERS 153
MOVING ACUELIST TO APLAYBACK FADER ON THE SAME BANK 153
MOVING ACUELIST TO APLAYBACK FADER ON ADIFFERENT BANK 153
COPYING ACUELIST TO APLAYBACK FADER ON THE SAME BANK 154
DELETING CUELISTS ON PLAYBACK FADERS 154
OTHER CUELIST LOCATIONS 155
CUELIST DIRECTORY (FORMERLY “VIRTUAL CUELIST”) 155
CUELIST DIRECTORY DISPLAY 156
MOVING AND COPYING FROM THE CUELIST DIRECTORY 156
TOCOPY FROM CUELIST DIRECTORY TO PLAYBACK FADER 156
TOCOPY FROM CUELIST DIRECTORY TO PLAYBACK BUTTON 157
MOVING AND COPYING WITHIN THE CUELIST DIRECTORY 157
TOCOPY FROM ONE CUELIST DIRECTORY BUTTON TO ANOTHER CUELIST DIRECTORY BUTTON 157
TOMOVE FROM ONE CUELIST DIRECTORY BUTTON TO ANOTHER CUELIST DIRECTORY BUTTON 157
DELETING ACUELIST DIRECTORY 158
TODELETE ACUELIST DIRECTORY 158
CUELIST DIRECTORY SPECIAL FUNCTIONS 158
“ASMAIN” 158
HIBERNATE 158
RESTORE 159
SETTINGS 160
PLAYBACK BUTTON PAGE 160
PLAYBACK BUTTON DISPLAY 161
MOVING AND COPYING CUELISTS WITH THE PLAYBACK BUTTON DISPLAY 162
DELETING CUELISTS IN THE PLAYBACK BUTTON DISPLAY 162
TODELETE APLAYBACK BUTTON CUELIST 162
ACTIVE CUELIST DISPLAY 163
EFFECTS 164
EFFECTS CONTROLS 164
REGULAR EFFECT 164
BASELINE - A QUICK CONCEPT 165
SWING 165
SPEED 165
MODE 166
REGULAR EFFECTS EXAMPLES 167
TIME EFFECTS 168
DELAY/WAVE 168
SHIFT/STEP 169
THE “AMOUNT * 1” BUTTON 169
PAN/TILT AND “P/T COMB” 169
WORKING WITH EFFECTS 170
“SPEED” AS IT’SOWN CUELIST 170
SPEED IN THE SAME CUELIST 170
SHOW FILE MANAGEMENT 172

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IMPORTANT NOTICE! 172
BACKING UPYOUR SHOWFILE DATA 172
BACKING UPYOUR VISUALIZATION FILE 172
SAVE ASHOW 173
LOADING ASHOW 173
DOWNLOADING AND UPLOADING FILES 173
RECOMMENDED FILE LOCATION 173
SERVICE 174
LOADING MAXXYZ SOFTWARE UPGRADES 174
CLEANING 174
TECHNICAL SUPPORT 174
OTHER MAXXYZ RELATED PRODUCTS 175
MAXXYZ PC 175
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 175
MAXXYZ PC INSTALLATION 175
INSTALL MAXXYZ PC THEME 176
MAXXYZ PC APPLICATION NOTES 179
MAXXYZ PC USB DMX 179
ASSIGNING DMX UNIVERSE NUMBERS 179
UPDATING FIRMWARE ON USB DMX 180
MAXXYZ MANAGER 182
MAXXYZ MANAGER SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 182
MAXXYZ MANAGER RELEASE HISTORY 182
VERSION 1.0 182
VERSION 0.8.7 183
VERSION 0.8.6 183
VERSION 0.8.5 183
VERSION 0.7.0 183
VERSION 0.6 BETA 183
VERSION 0.5 BETA FIRST OFFICIAL BETA RELEASE 185
INSTALLATION 186
START UPSCREEN 186
MAXXYZ MANAGER LAUNCHER 187
SETTING UPMAXXYZ MANAGER 188
SETUP:GENERAL 188
SETUP: SCHEDULER 189
SETUP: ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK 190
SETUP: RS-232 191
RS-232 RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS 192
RS-232 SEND 192
SETUP: NET REMOTE 193
MAXXYZ MANAGER SCHEDULER 196
SCHEDULER EVENT TYPES 196
TIME 197
ACTION 197
STARTUP ACTION 197
LIST OF SCHEDULES 199
SAVE SCHEDULE CONTROL 200
SCHEDULER CALENDAR RULES 200
SCHEDULER CALENDAR EXPLORER 202
LIST OF ACTIONS 203
SAVE ACTION CONTROL 204
ACTION EDITOR 205
ACTION EDITOR EXECUTABLE 207
ACTION EDITOR SCRIPT 208
ACTION ITEMS LIST 209
HOW TOUSE MAXXYZ MANAGER 209
HOW TO CREATE AN ACTION GROUP 209

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HOW TO CREATE ASCHEDULE 210
HOW TO CREATE ACALENDAR RULES 210
HOW TO LOAD/SAVE DATA 211
SHORTCUT KEYS AT STARTUP 211
APPENDIX 1: MAXXYZ SPECIFICATIONS 212
PHYSICAL 212
AC SUPPLY 212
HARDWARE 212
CONTROL & PROGRAMMING 213
PLAYBACK FACILITIES 213
SOFTWARE 213
ORDERING INFORMATION 213
APPENDIX 2: SHORTCUTS 214
APPENDIX 3: WIRING CHARTS 215
APPENDIX 4: COMMAND LINE DOCUMENT 218
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