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continue to take, as he has already decided to switch from grandMA2 to grandMA3 at his Hamburg-based company, Light Art Studios GmbH. “We plan to switch our equipment over to the new system in the coming [...] been impressed by the performance of the system within the network: “The entire system runs extremely reliably, thanks to its super powerful network connection. I definitely feel that I can rely on the consoles [...] consoles and the software. After these initial experiences, I am highly motivated to switch to grandMA3.” “It was great to have the MA support team at our side,” reported Flo and Raphael. “The support from
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director. Weber and programmer/co-lighting director Dave Hill manned two grandMA2 full-size consoles, networked together, for the tour. “We love them“, says Weber. “I handled the key lighting on one console and [...] Wheels. And both are veteran MA users. “We both spent a few years on the grandMA,” Weber says. “I switched over to the grandMA2 last year for Green Day, and found it a very fluid changeover. The grandMA2
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when MA Lighting introduced its sophisticated new range of ‘onPC’ solutions and totally switched its whole networking portfolio to 1Gbit. With the MA 8Port Node and MA 4Port Node, the higher speed has become [...] command wing. The MA 8Port Node and MA 4Port Node set an additional benchmark in MA Lighting’s networking product range as they feature the 1Gbit capability. They allow the conversion of Ethernet data
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jutting into the audience. 2 x grandMA2 full-size consoles with 14 x MA 2Port Nodes and 5 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) are used on the tour to control lighting and drive multiple media servers for the [...] worked live in the rig and Brian would sit next to me and prepare the next song in MA 3D. Then we’d switch it over to my desk,” Baeri explains. “We’d leap-frog: He’d do song one, I’d do song two, he’d do [...] Canada. Photos: © Lewis Lee Courtesy of Maroon 5 Used Equipment: 2 x grandMA2 full-size 5 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) 14 x MA 2Port Node
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four lighting programmers utilising 8 x grandMA2 light consoles. The grandMA2 network was running over 15 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and 28 x MA 8Port Nodes and was controlling around 1, 600 lighting [...] for six over-stage follow spots, together with some house lighting elements. Using an MA control network enabled Jonsson’s four programmer/operators - Calle Brattberg, Danne Persson, Fredrik Stormby and [...] Arena with all the production installed. The songs could be updated and tweaked as required, then switched back into the master show timecode session and the revised work viewed using MA3D. Complex and intense
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Germany and brought on-board as a network and lighting data specialist. He used Paessler PRTG software to monitor the entire lighting and video data / hardware control network. Another grandMA2 desk was used [...] maximum amount of 31 x MA class 1 network devices (desks and MA NPU) plus the MA 8Port Nodes and MA 3D on top! The total parameter count being controlled across the MA network was 88,466 and the fixtures being [...] rings running around the arena connecting these to FOH via switches - 34 in total, plus four 8port truss mounts - for the whole control network, running in RLinkX mode for full redundancy. Ring 1 was dedicated
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for both areas at the highest technical levels. This allows us to use network functionalities such as back-up solutions and networked controls to access elements like house lighting, and it also gives us [...] wide variety of protocols here, including MA-Net2, Art-Net and sACN. An example of how we use the network is that in the Small Hall we control the light from the backstage area via an MA onPC command wing [...] also use Art-Net for communication and value comparison. All signals are transmitted in a redundant network via separate V-LAN". Neumann concluded: "The Elbphilharmonie is a very complex building. Many of
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and 11 grandMA2 lights - six active and five backups - were also in the lighting network, created using 20 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit), 25 x MA 8Port Nodes and two Swisson 8-port nodes, running on [...] total of around 650 lighting fixtures. The fully redundant ethernet network infrastructure comprised 22 x Luminex 16xt and 12r switches, all monitored closely by Collins from his PRTG software. Operating [...] to suit your needs were two big advantages of the MA architecture”, commented Collins, “plus the network’s overall stability and troubleshooting facilities”. Once the installation was up and running and
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Programmer Chris Herman selected 2 x grandMA2 light – one main and one back up – and 2 x MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) to run conventional and moving lights as well as the wind, fog, snow and fire effects [...] grandMA2 feeds Art-Net directly out to PRG’s Series 400 system, which eliminates the need for DMX a/b switches and other failure points,” he says. Herman notes that, “the grandMA2 range is very versatile; its [...] “fantastic” and Binkley agrees. “The grandMA2 has been splendid with all of the different layers of networking and cue stacks that we’ve had in this show,” Binkley says. “Almost every department has cues triggering
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with different sized venues. “It was to facilitate this and also for the networking capabilities that I decided to make the switch to all grandMA3 for this project,” he stated, adding that he has been working