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MagicQ User Manual i
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MagicQ User Manual ii
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v1.6.6.9 06/03/2015 ChamSys

MagicQ User Manual iii
Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 MagicQ software and consoles ............................................ 2
1.2 MagicQ Pro Series .................................................. 2
1.3 MagicQ Compact Series ............................................... 4
1.4 MagicQ Wings for use with PC/Mac ......................................... 4
1.5 Plugging Up ...................................................... 4
1.6 DMX Connections .................................................. 5
1.7 Powering Up ..................................................... 5
1.8 Powering Down .................................................... 5
1.9 Resetting the Console ................................................. 5
1.10 Power Supply Protection ............................................... 6
1.11 Care of your MagicQ console ............................................. 6
1.12 Safety Information .................................................. 6
2 Installing MagicQ Software & Drivers 7
2.1 MagicQ software ................................................... 7
2.2 MagicDMX ...................................................... 7
2.3 MagicQ Wings & Interfaces ............................................. 7
2.4 MagicQ on Windows ................................................. 7
2.5 MagicQ on Mac .................................................... 14
2.5.1 Turning off App Nap ............................................. 14
2.5.2 Making the MagicQ folder writeable ..................................... 15
2.6 MagicQ on Linux ................................................... 16
3 Using MagicQ on PCs and Macs 17
3.1 Simple Generic Console ............................................... 17
3.2 Technician Test Fixture ................................................ 18
3.3 Demo Shows ..................................................... 19
3.4 Touch View ...................................................... 20
3.5 Playback mode .................................................... 20
3.6 MagicQ PC / Mac Restrictions ............................................ 20

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4 MagicQ Concepts 22
4.1 Show Storage ..................................................... 22
4.2 Output channels .................................................... 22
4.2.1 HTP / LTP channels ............................................. 23
4.3 Cues .......................................................... 23
4.4 Cue Stacks ...................................................... 24
4.5 Playbacks ....................................................... 24
4.6 Pages ......................................................... 24
4.7 FX ........................................................... 24
4.8 Window Layouts ................................................... 25
4.9 Shift Functions .................................................... 25
4.10 The Programmer ................................................... 25
4.11 Help .......................................................... 25
5 MagicQ Layout 26
5.1 Physical layout .................................................... 26
5.1.1 Touch Screen, Encoders & Soft Buttons ................................... 26
5.1.2 Windows ................................................... 27
5.1.3 Head Control ................................................. 28
5.1.4 Editor Buttons ................................................ 28
5.1.5 Playback ................................................... 29
5.2 Keyboard, Keypad, Select & Confirm Windows ................................... 29
5.3 Common Actions ................................................... 29
5.3.1 Items ..................................................... 29
5.3.2 Setting the value of items ........................................... 30
5.3.3 Naming items ................................................. 30
5.3.4 Moving items ................................................. 30
5.3.5 Copying items ................................................ 31
5.3.6 Removing items ............................................... 31
5.3.7 Recording items ............................................... 31
5.4 Icons .......................................................... 31
5.4.1 Actions on Playbacks ............................................. 32
6 Quick Start 33
6.1 Starting up MagicQ .................................................. 33
6.2 Calibrating the Touch Screen ............................................. 33
6.3 Starting a New Show ................................................. 34
6.4 Enabling Outputs ................................................... 35
6.4.1 Using Direct DMX Outputs ......................................... 35

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6.4.2 Using Outputs via network .......................................... 36
6.5 Connecting a MagicQ Playback Wing ........................................ 36
6.5.1 Setting Playback Wing IDs .......................................... 36
6.6 Connecting External Monitors ............................................ 37
6.6.1 Pro 2010 and Pro 2014 Operating System .................................. 37
6.6.2 Pro Operating System ............................................ 37
6.7 Patching ........................................................ 37
6.7.1 Naming and Numbering Heads ........................................ 40
6.8 Controlling Heads ................................................... 40
6.8.1 Selecting Heads ................................................ 40
6.8.2 Selecting heads from the Group/Heads Window ............................... 41
6.8.3 Recording a Group .............................................. 41
6.9 Naming a Group ................................................... 41
6.10 Recalling a Group ................................................... 41
6.11 Setting Levels for Dimmers .............................................. 41
6.12 Locating Heads .................................................... 42
6.13 Modifying Attributes ................................................. 42
6.14 Recording a Palette .................................................. 44
6.15 Adding in FX ..................................................... 44
6.16 Recording a Cue ................................................... 44
6.17 Recording a Cue Stack (Chase or Theatre Stack) ................................... 45
6.18 Selecting and recording complete window layouts .................................. 46
6.19 Saving the Show ................................................... 46
6.20 Playback ........................................................ 46
7 Patching 48
7.1 Patching on MagicQ ................................................. 48
7.2 Getting started with patching ............................................. 48
7.3 Patching a Head or Dimmer ............................................. 48
7.4 Head Names and Head Numbers ........................................... 50
7.4.1 Head Names ................................................. 51
7.4.2 Head Numbers ................................................ 51
7.4.3 Renumbering Head Numbers ......................................... 52
7.4.4 Patching to specific Head numbers ...................................... 52
7.5 Gel name and number ................................................. 52
7.6 Generating auto groups ................................................ 52
7.7 Multi Element Heads ................................................. 52
7.8 Inverting and Swapping ................................................ 53
7.9 Pan and Tilt Offsets .................................................. 53

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7.10 Applying Offsets using Update ............................................ 53
7.11 Minimum and Maximum levels ............................................ 53
7.11.1 Limits and Offset. .............................................. 53
7.12 Dimmer curves .................................................... 54
7.13 Testing channels .................................................... 54
7.14 Changing the DMX address of heads ......................................... 55
7.15 Patching a Head to multiple DMX addresses ..................................... 55
7.16 Unpatching a Head from a DMX address ....................................... 56
7.17 Patching scrollers ................................................... 56
7.18 Editing Heads ..................................................... 56
7.19 Cloning (Adding extra heads / dimmers to a programmed show) .......................... 57
7.19.1 Copy Head Programming .......................................... 57
7.19.2 Patch Channel Copy ............................................. 57
7.20 Morphing Heads (Changing Head type) ....................................... 57
7.20.1 Morphing Multi Part Heads ......................................... 58
7.20.2 Morphing Heads with virtual dimmers .................................... 58
7.20.3 Morphing between CMY and colour wheel Heads .............................. 58
7.21 Importing Heads ................................................... 58
7.22 Exporting Heads ................................................... 58
7.23 VL5 type channels (split personalities) ........................................ 59
7.24 Merging with DMX input ............................................... 59
7.25 Customising Locate, Default, Highlight and Lowlight values ............................ 59
7.26 Theatre Patch syntax ................................................. 60
7.27 Virtual Dimmers ................................................... 60
7.27.1 Quickly adding Virtual Dimmers to patched heads ............................. 61
7.27.2 Heads always with virtual dimmers ..................................... 61
7.28 Patch Head Filtering ................................................. 61
8 Setting Intensity levels 62
8.1 Using the on screen faders .............................................. 62
8.2 Using the encoders .................................................. 63
8.3 Using the keypad ................................................... 63
8.3.1 Setting fade times from the keypad ...................................... 63
8.4 Multi Element Heads ................................................. 64
8.5 Using Selected Heads ................................................. 64
8.6 Using gel colours in the Intensity Window ...................................... 64
8.6.1 Programming of Dimmers using gel colours ................................. 65
8.7 Setting levels whilst running a show ......................................... 65
8.8 Viewing Intensities in the Outputs Window ..................................... 65

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9 Controlling Attributes 66
9.1 Selecting Heads .................................................... 66
9.2 Using Groups ..................................................... 66
9.2.1 Recording a Group .............................................. 67
9.2.2 Naming a Group ............................................... 67
9.3 Selecting Heads using the keypad .......................................... 67
9.3.1 Selecting Heads on the keypad using @@ .................................. 68
9.3.2 Selecting heads on the keypad without @@ ................................. 68
9.3.3 Remove Dimmer (Rem Dim) Function ................................... 68
9.4 Selecting heads using the rig plan view ........................................ 69
9.5 Head Macros ..................................................... 69
9.6 Locating Heads .................................................... 69
9.7 Modifying Attributes ................................................. 69
9.8 Using a mouse or track-ball to control pan and tilt .................................. 70
9.9 Flip / Mirror ...................................................... 70
9.10 Setting attribute values using the keypad ....................................... 70
9.11 Selecting individual Heads .............................................. 71
9.11.1 Single Mode ................................................. 71
9.11.2 Pair ...................................................... 71
9.11.3 Odd/Even ................................................... 71
9.11.4 Segments ................................................... 72
9.11.5 All ...................................................... 72
9.11.6 Sub selecting Groups ............................................. 72
9.11.7 Sub selecting heads using specific palettes .................................. 72
9.11.8 Changing Overall Selection order ...................................... 72
9.11.9 Sub selection of heads from Groups / Overall Selection ........................... 73
9.12 Highlight Mode .................................................... 73
9.13 Lowlight function ................................................... 73
9.14 Reselecting heads using Palettes and Intensities (Active Palette and Intensity) ................... 74
9.15 Fan Mode ....................................................... 74
9.16 And Only ....................................................... 75
10 Palettes 76
10.1 Using Palettes ..................................................... 76
10.2 Recording Palettes .................................................. 77
10.2.1 Recording individual attributes into a Palette ................................ 77
10.2.2 Recording only the selected heads ...................................... 77
10.3 Intensity Palettes ................................................... 78
10.4 Naming Palettes .................................................... 78

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10.5 Updating Palettes ................................................... 78
10.6 Copying and moving Palettes ............................................. 78
10.7 Removing attributes from Palettes .......................................... 78
10.8 Linked Palettes .................................................... 79
10.9 Viewing / Editing Palette contents .......................................... 79
10.10Using Palettes with times ............................................... 79
10.10.1 Using FAN .................................................. 80
10.11Making Palettes into Cue Stacks ........................................... 80
10.12Selecting Palettes from the keypad .......................................... 80
10.13Merging of Palettes from another show ........................................ 81
10.14Modifying Palettes in the personality ......................................... 81
10.15Grabbing Palettes from DMX input ......................................... 81
11 FX Engine 82
11.1 Adding in FX ..................................................... 82
11.1.1 FX Speed & Size ............................................... 84
11.1.2 FX base values ................................................ 84
11.1.3 FX add modes ................................................ 84
11.1.4 FX Spread (offsets over heads) ........................................ 84
11.1.5 FX Parts ................................................... 85
11.1.6 FX Segments ................................................. 85
11.1.7 FX Direction & Inversion .......................................... 87
11.1.8 Pulse Width .................................................. 88
11.1.9 FX fade times ................................................. 88
11.1.10 Initial spreads ................................................. 89
11.1.11 FX on CMY and RGB fixtures ........................................ 89
11.1.12 Flicker FX .................................................. 89
11.1.13 Multiple FX .................................................. 89
11.1.14 Joining / Splitting multiple FX ........................................ 90
11.1.15 Modifying FX for selected Heads ...................................... 90
11.1.16 Changing FX ................................................. 90
11.1.17 FX Reordering ................................................ 90
11.1.18 Blocking FX ................................................. 90
11.1.19 One Shot FX ................................................. 90
11.2 Generating user FX .................................................. 90
11.3 Editing user FX .................................................... 91
11.4 Palette FX ....................................................... 91
11.5 FX colour flicks .................................................... 91
11.6 FX using base colour ................................................. 92
11.7 FX Window ...................................................... 92
11.8 Importing and Exporting the FX Library ....................................... 92

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12 Programmer 93
12.1 What is in the programmer? ............................................. 93
12.2 Clearing the programmer ............................................... 94
12.3 Activation by Channel or by Head? .......................................... 94
12.4 Recording a Cue ................................................... 94
12.4.1 Levels ..................................................... 95
12.4.2 Timing .................................................... 95
12.4.3 FX ...................................................... 95
12.5 Split Cue Times .................................................... 95
12.5.1 View Simple ................................................. 95
12.5.2 View Advanced ................................................ 96
12.6 Fade Type ....................................................... 96
12.7 Recording to a specific Cue Id ............................................ 97
12.8 Snapshot Icons .................................................... 97
12.9 Record Options .................................................... 97
12.9.1 Record Short cuts ............................................... 97
12.9.2 Masking ................................................... 98
12.9.3 Options .................................................... 98
12.10Active ......................................................... 98
12.11Removing channels from the Programmer ...................................... 99
12.11.1 Removing channels using the REMOVE button ............................... 99
12.11.2 Removing channels using the Programmer Window ............................. 99
12.12Making channels hard values .............................................100
12.13Copy between heads .................................................100
12.14Blind programming ..................................................101
12.15Parking (freezing) channels ..............................................101
13 Outputs Windows 102
13.1 Heads View ......................................................102
13.2 Intensity View .....................................................103
13.3 DMX Channels View .................................................103
13.4 Movement View ....................................................104
13.5 Plan View .......................................................104
13.5.1 Creating rig plans ...............................................104
13.5.2 Selection of heads in Outputs Plan View ...................................105

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14 Editing Cues 107
14.1 Including Cues into the Programmer .........................................107
14.1.1 Including Cues at a specified level ......................................107
14.1.2 Snapshot ...................................................107
14.2 Editing using Include and Update method ......................................108
14.3 Record Merge (Updating a Cue with the contents of the programmer) .......................108
14.4 Making changes to multiple Cues ...........................................108
14.4.1 Changes to multiple Cues using keypad ...................................108
14.4.2 Changes to multiple Cues using Cue Stack window .............................108
14.5 Editing using Update .................................................109
14.6 Direct Modification of Intensities in Cues ......................................109
15 Cue Stacks 110
15.1 Cue Stack Window ..................................................110
15.2 Chase Timing .....................................................111
15.3 Cue Timing ......................................................111
15.3.1 Cue Timing Example .............................................111
15.3.2 The Halt field .................................................112
15.3.3 Cue Delay and Fade times ..........................................112
15.4 Tracking ........................................................112
15.4.1 Tracking on MagicQ .............................................113
15.4.2 Viewing Cue Data and Tracking Data ....................................114
15.4.3 Copying Cues in tracking mode .......................................114
15.4.4 Blocking / Unblocking Cues .........................................114
15.5 Cue Only .......................................................114
15.6 Mark Cues .......................................................115
15.7 The Cue Store and Cue Stack Store ..........................................115
15.8 Assigning Cues and Cue Stacks ...........................................116
15.9 Copying and Moving Cues ..............................................116
15.10Linked Cues ......................................................116
15.11Removing Cues and Cue Stacks ...........................................116
15.12Cue Stack Defaults ..................................................117
15.13Audio Sound FX Cues ................................................117
15.14Cue Stack Macros ...................................................117
15.15Timeline ........................................................118

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16 Playback 119
16.1 Playback Display ...................................................119
16.2 Activating and Releasing Playbacks .........................................119
16.3 Fader control .....................................................120
16.4 Playback Buttons ...................................................120
16.4.1 Grand Master & Sub Master .........................................120
16.4.2 Dead Black Out (DBO) ............................................121
16.4.3 Add / Swap ..................................................121
16.4.4 Page Select ..................................................121
16.4.5 Current Playback ...............................................121
16.4.6 Playbacks across multiple Pages .......................................122
16.4.7 Manual Control ................................................122
16.4.8 Goto .....................................................122
16.4.9 Manual Split Crossfade ............................................122
16.4.10 Rate Sub Master ...............................................123
16.4.11 Tap to time ..................................................123
16.4.12 Global Tap to Time ..............................................123
16.5 Playbacks Window ..................................................124
16.5.1 Testing playbacks ...............................................124
16.5.2 Naming playbacks ..............................................124
16.5.3 Copying and moving playbacks .......................................124
16.5.4 Removing playbacks .............................................124
16.5.5 Playback Rate .................................................125
16.6 Wing Playbacks Pages ................................................125
16.7 Default Cue Stacks ..................................................125
16.8 Synchronising Playbacks ...............................................125
16.9 Set lists ........................................................126
17 Cue Stack Options 127
17.1 Faders .........................................................127
17.1.1 Fader activates stack .............................................127
17.1.2 Fader releases stack ..............................................127
17.1.3 Fader controls HTP chans ..........................................127
17.1.4 Fader controls LTP (IPCB) chans ......................................128
17.1.5 Fader controls Absolute chans ........................................128
17.1.6 Fader controls FX size ............................................128
17.1.7 Fader controls FX speed ...........................................128
17.1.8 Fader controls manual crossfades ......................................128
17.2 Buttons ........................................................128

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17.2.1 Flash activates stack .............................................128
17.2.2 Flash releases stack ..............................................129
17.2.3 Flash always swaps ..............................................129
17.2.4 Flash acts as Go/Pause ............................................129
17.2.5 Flash acts as Flash + Go ...........................................129
17.2.6 Flash toggles .................................................129
17.2.7 Flash acts like fader .............................................129
17.2.8 Go jumps out of loop .............................................130
17.2.9 Go exits loop after end ............................................130
17.2.10 Go stop/starts .................................................130
17.2.11 Pause swaps .................................................130
17.2.12 Pause releases .................................................130
17.3 Function ........................................................130
17.3.1 Cue Stack is an Intensity Master .......................................130
17.3.2 Cue Stack is a Size Master ..........................................131
17.3.3 Cue Stack is a Speed Master .........................................131
17.3.4 Group ID (0 is not used) ...........................................131
17.3.5 Cue stack is a Prog Master ..........................................131
17.3.6 Intensity Master to 200% ...........................................131
17.4 Activate/Release ...................................................132
17.4.1 Halt at last step ................................................132
17.4.2 Release after last step .............................................132
17.4.3 Release resets to first step ..........................................132
17.4.4 Release steps 1 step ..............................................132
17.4.5 Release time .................................................132
17.4.6 Activate on page change ...........................................132
17.4.7 Release on page change ...........................................132
17.4.8 HTP always active (Use HTP) ........................................132
17.5 Advanced .......................................................133
17.5.1 All chans controlled LTP ...........................................133
17.5.2 Block FX from other playbacks .......................................133
17.5.3 Masters affect level ..............................................133
17.5.4 Playback priority ...............................................133
17.5.5 Move when dark ...............................................133
17.5.6 Recalculate state on jumps ..........................................134
17.5.7 Stomp other playbacks ............................................134
17.5.8 Sync next Playback to this one ........................................134
17.5.9 External timecode ..............................................134
17.5.10 Send playback state to other consoles ....................................134

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17.6 Chase Options .....................................................134
17.6.1 Skip first times ................................................134
17.6.2 Speed .....................................................135
17.6.3 Xfade .....................................................135
17.6.4 Direction ...................................................135
17.6.5 Repeat type ..................................................135
17.6.6 Number of repeats ..............................................135
17.6.7 Running ....................................................135
17.7 Chase Times ......................................................135
17.7.1 HTP in fade, HTP out fade, Position fade, Colour fade, Beam fade .....................135
17.8 Audio .........................................................136
17.8.1 Audio bumps Go ...............................................136
17.8.2 Audio sets BPM ...............................................136
17.8.3 Audio jumps to Cue Step ...........................................136
17.8.4 Audio channel ................................................136
17.8.5 Audio level ..................................................137
17.8.6 Audio parameter 1 ..............................................137
17.8.7 Audio parameter 2 ..............................................137
17.8.8 Rate Divisor .................................................137
17.9 Step (View Defaults only) ...............................................137
17.9.1 Step controlled as a chase ..........................................137
17.9.2 Step follows last ...............................................137
17.9.3 Step halts before executing ..........................................138
17.9.4 Zero old HTP (from previous steps) .....................................138
17.9.5 Zero old FX (from previous steps) ......................................138
17.9.6 Release old chans ...............................................138
17.10Step Times (View Defaults only) ...........................................138
17.10.1 HTP in fade ..................................................138
17.11HTP out fade .....................................................138
17.11.1 Position fade .................................................138
17.11.2 Colour fade ..................................................139
17.11.3 Beam fade ..................................................139
17.11.4 HTP in delay .................................................139
17.11.5 HTP out delay ................................................139
17.11.6 Position delay .................................................139
17.11.7 Colour delay .................................................139
17.11.8 Beam delay ..................................................139
17.12FX (View Defaults Only) ...............................................139
17.12.1 Default in fade ................................................139
17.12.2 Default out fade ................................................139

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18 Advanced Playback / Cue Stack Options 140
18.1 Interaction of HTP and LTP channels between Playbacks ..............................140
18.2 HTP handling .....................................................140
18.3 HTP always active (Use HTP) option .........................................140
18.4 LTP handling .....................................................141
18.5 Interaction of FX between Playbacks .........................................141
18.6 Playback Priority ...................................................141
18.7 Playbacks ignore masters levels ...........................................142
18.8 Playback Stomping ..................................................142
18.9 Group Masters (Inhibit Masters) ...........................................142
18.9.1 Intensity Masters ...............................................143
18.9.1.1 Group based Intensity Masters ..................................143
18.9.1.2 Channel based Intensity Masters .................................143
18.9.2 FX Size and FX Speed Master ........................................143
18.10Advanced activate and release options ........................................143
19 Live Programming (Busking) 144
19.1 Adding individual channels using preset faders ...................................144
19.2 Over-ride / take-over .................................................144
19.3 Viewing Cues and Cue Stacks ............................................144
19.4 Modifying chase speed / contrast ...........................................144
19.5 Modifying FX parameters ...............................................145
19.6 Stop / Starting Cue Stacks ..............................................145
19.7 Jumping to a Cue in a Cue Stack ...........................................145
19.8 Over-riding using the programmer ..........................................145
19.9 Adding in new FX ...................................................146
19.10Applying palettes with time ..............................................146
19.11Releasing / Clearing with time ............................................146
19.12Busking Master ....................................................146
19.13Programmer Master ..................................................147
20 Execute Window 148
20.1 Design View ......................................................148
20.2 Full Screen View ...................................................149
20.3 Password Protection ..................................................149
20.4 Automated Start ....................................................149
20.5 Faders .........................................................149
20.6 Buttons ........................................................150
20.7 Button appearance ..................................................150

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20.8 Speed Encoders ....................................................150
20.9 Attribute Encoders ..................................................151
20.10Preload ........................................................151
20.11Wallpaper .......................................................151
20.12Special Options ....................................................151
20.12.1 Changing Execute Page ...........................................152
20.12.2 Automating Setup options ..........................................152
20.13Execute Window on ioS/Android remote .......................................152
21 Automation 153
21.1 MagicQ Automation Window .............................................153
21.1.1 Autom Events .................................................153
21.1.2 Autom Functions ...............................................154
21.1.3 MIDI events .................................................154
21.1.4 Serial Port events ...............................................155
21.2 Scheduled Events ...................................................155
21.2.1 Dates and days of the week ..........................................155
21.2.2 Sunrise + Sunset (astronomical) .......................................156
21.3 Automated Start of Playbacks / Executes .......................................156
21.4 Keyboard macros ...................................................156
21.4.1 Quick Macro Toolbar .............................................156
21.4.2 Keyboard Macro Timing ...........................................157
21.4.3 Recording Playback faders ..........................................157
21.4.4 In built Macros ................................................157
21.4.5 Scheduled events in Cue Stacks .......................................157
22 LED & Pixel Mapping 158
22.1 Patching LED on MagicQ ..............................................160
22.2 Using the Grid view in the Outputs Window .....................................160
22.3 Inserting heads into the grid .............................................160
22.4 Pixel Mapper .....................................................162
22.4.1 Using Bitmaps, Movies, Text and FX on Grids ...............................163
22.4.2 Media Priority ................................................164
22.4.3 Inbuilt Bitmaps ................................................164
22.4.4 User Picture Support .............................................165
22.4.5 Gobo / Colour Libraries ...........................................165
22.4.6 Movie support ................................................165
22.4.7 Live feed support ...............................................165
22.4.7.1 MagicCap .............................................165

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22.4.7.2 MagicQ Media Center .......................................166
22.4.8 Using text strings ...............................................167
22.4.9 Text display modes ..............................................167
22.4.10 Manipulating bitmaps and text ........................................169
22.4.11 Pixel Map FX .................................................169
22.4.12 Pixel Map Audio FX .............................................174
22.4.13 Mixing between Pixel Mapping layers ....................................176
22.4.14 Colour Mixing ................................................176
22.4.15 Apply Type ..................................................176
22.5 3D Pixel Mapping ...................................................177
22.5.1 Configuration .................................................177
22.5.2 Effects ....................................................177
22.5.2.1 Slide ................................................177
22.5.2.2 Particles ..............................................177
22.5.2.3 Col Offset .............................................179
22.5.2.4 Heightmap .............................................179
22.5.3 Full Up and Fill Down ............................................180
22.5.3.1 Particle bounce ..........................................182
22.6 Multi Element Heads .................................................182
22.7 Making Grids of Groups ...............................................182
22.7.1 Auto Groups .................................................182
22.8 Programming LED using standard FX ........................................182
22.8.1 Using groups auto generated from the grid ..................................183
22.9 Making groups out of LED pixels ..........................................184
22.10Making new LED personalities on MagicQ .....................................184
23 Controlling Media Servers 185
23.1 Patching Media Servers on MagicQ .........................................186
23.2 Connecting via network ................................................186
23.2.1 Setting up control of the Media Server ....................................186
23.3 Configuring MagicQ to retrive thumbnails ......................................187
23.3.1 MagicHD ...................................................188
23.3.2 Arkaos ....................................................188
23.3.3 Catalyst ....................................................188
23.3.4 Coolux ....................................................188
23.3.5 Hippotizer ..................................................189
23.3.6 Maxedia ....................................................189
23.3.7 Mbox .....................................................189
23.3.8 Other Media Servers .............................................189

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23.4 Thumbnail view ....................................................189
23.5 Live Previews .....................................................189
23.6 Media Window View .................................................190
23.7 Using MagicQ and Media Server software on the same PC .............................190
23.7.1 Using MagicHD ...............................................190
23.7.2 Using the loopback IP address ........................................190
23.8 Troubleshooting ....................................................190
23.8.1 CITP (MSEX) live feeds ...........................................191
24 Head Editor 192
24.1 How Heads are stored in MagicQ ...........................................192
24.2 Loading new heads into MagicQ ...........................................193
24.3 Modifying existing heads ...............................................193
24.4 Removing old heads .................................................193
24.5 General View .....................................................193
24.5.1 Names ....................................................194
24.5.2 DMX .....................................................194
24.5.3 Params ....................................................194
24.5.4 Options ....................................................194
24.5.5 Multi .....................................................195
24.5.6 Media .....................................................195
24.6 Channels View ....................................................195
24.7 Ranges View .....................................................198
24.7.1 Importing Ranges ...............................................198
24.7.2 Capturing Ranges ...............................................199
24.7.3 Attribute Test .................................................199
24.8 Palettes View .....................................................199
24.8.1 Importing Palettes ..............................................199
24.8.2 Capturing Palettes ..............................................199
24.8.3 Attribute Test .................................................200
24.9 Macros View .....................................................200
24.10User Icons .......................................................200
24.11Heads with multiple elements .............................................200
24.11.1 Patching Heads with Duplicated attributes ..................................202
25 FX Editor 203
25.1 View General .....................................................204
25.2 View Chans ......................................................204
25.3 Palette FX .......................................................204

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26 Network Manager (SnakeSys) 205
26.1 Normal (non ChamNet mode) ............................................205
26.2 ChamNet Mode (MQ Net) ..............................................205
26.3 Upgrading SnakeSys firmware ............................................206
26.4 Older ChamSys 4 Port Ethernet interfaces ......................................207
26.5 Output Setup .....................................................207
27 Networking of MagicQ systems 208
27.1 Network addresses and host names ..........................................208
27.1.1 Setting IP addresses on a PC .........................................208
27.2 Checking IP addresses - Ping Test ..........................................210
27.3 Checking consoles on the network ..........................................210
27.4 Grabbing shows from other consoles .........................................211
27.5 Zoning .........................................................211
27.6 Setting up Network Sessions .............................................211
27.6.1 Manual Takeover ...............................................212
27.6.2 Auto Takeover ................................................213
27.6.3 Inhibit Outputs ................................................213
27.7 Multi Console Programming .............................................213
27.7.1 Checking Slave synchronisation .......................................214
27.8 Selective Channel Control ..............................................214
27.8.1 Selecting which console controls which channels ..............................215
27.9 Inter Console Messaging ...............................................216
28 Manual configuration of Multi Console operation 217
28.1 Manual configuratuion of Hot take-over .......................................217
28.1.1 Hot Takeover Mode ..............................................217
28.1.2 Hot take-over type ..............................................219
28.1.3 Swapping control between multiple consoles ................................219
28.2 Manual configuration of Playback synchronisation .................................219
28.2.1 Configuration .................................................219
28.2.2 Configuring which consoles Playback sync to which consoles .......................220
28.3 Manual configuration of Show Data Synchronisation ................................220
28.4 Manual configuration of Selective Channel Control .................................221
28.5 Automatic backing up of shows from other consoles .................................221

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29 Remote control of MagicQ 223
29.1 Remote mode (PC/Mac) ...............................................223
29.2 Remote control from MagicQ .............................................223
29.3 iOS / Android Remote ................................................224
29.3.1 Setting up an access point ..........................................226
29.3.2 MagicQ Pro 2010 / Pro 2014 Console with USB to Wireless interface ...................226
29.3.2.1 Making a connection to MagicQ .................................227
29.3.2.2 Modifying palettes with the remote app ..............................228
29.3.2.3 Using the Execute Window ....................................228
29.3.2.4 Idiot user mode ..........................................228
29.4 Remote control via web server ............................................228
29.4.1 Custom Web Server pages ..........................................230
29.5 Remote control using Magic Wand simulator ....................................231
30 ChamSys Remote Protocol Commands 232
30.1 Remote Playback Commands .............................................232
30.1.1 Remote programming commands ......................................233
30.1.2 Attribute numbers ..............................................234
31 Controlling MagicQ using TCP/IP 235
31.1 ChamSys Remote Ethernet Protocol .........................................235
31.2 Writing to the network port ..............................................236
31.3 Reading from the network ..............................................236
31.4 Sample code fragments ................................................236
32 Controlling MagicQ using serial port 240
32.1 Enabling the serial port ................................................240
32.2 Writing to the serial port ...............................................241
32.3 Reading from the serial port .............................................241
33 Audio 242
33.1 Audio Input ......................................................242
33.1.1 Audio input ports ...............................................242
33.1.2 Audio options .................................................242
33.1.3 Global audio settings .............................................242
33.1.4 Cue Stack audio options ...........................................243
33.1.5 Pixel Mapper and Audio ...........................................243

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34 MIDI 244
34.1 MIDI Notes Receive .................................................244
34.1.1 MIDI Autom events .............................................245
34.1.2 MIDI mapping file ..............................................245
34.1.3 Advanced MIDI mapping ..........................................245
34.1.4 Default miditable.txt file ...........................................246
34.2 MIDI Notes Transmit .................................................246
34.3 MIDI problems ....................................................247
34.4 MIDI Show Control ..................................................247
34.4.1 MIDI Show Control Command Format ...................................248
34.5 MagicQ MIDI/Timecode firmware versions .....................................248
35 Timecode Support 249
35.1 Timecode Decode ...................................................249
35.2 Enabling / Disabling Timecode ............................................251
35.3 Using External Timecode ...............................................251
35.4 Timecode Simulator ..................................................251
35.5 Learn Timing .....................................................251
35.6 Timecode Generation .................................................251
35.7 Timecode Re-transmit .................................................252
36 Remote Input port 253
36.1 Connection (MagicQ Consoles, MagicQ PC Wing Compact and MagicQ MaxiWing) ...............253
36.2 Connection (Original PC Wing) ...........................................253
36.3 Enabling the remote input in MagicQ ........................................254
37 Scene Setter 256
37.1 Powering the Scene Setter ..............................................256
37.2 Configuration .....................................................257
37.3 Using the Scene Setter ................................................257
37.4 Changing the IP Address ...............................................257
37.5 Setting up the Serial Port ...............................................258
38 MagicQ Visualiser 259
38.1 MagicVis .......................................................259
38.1.1 Using the Separate MagicVis Application ..................................259
38.1.2 Using MagicVis with other consoles .....................................260
38.1.3 Using the Visualiser in MagicQ .......................................261
38.2 Using MagicVis ....................................................261
38.2.1 Patching Fixtures in the Visualiser ......................................261