Release Notes - Version 2.6

Release Notes - Version 2.6.1

2012-07-27

Bugfix Release - Version 2.6.1

Fixed Bugs and improved functionality

• Move in black in combination with Release values has been fixed.
• Fixture sheet does not display the values centered at the feature column anymore, if the fixture is using only one attribute of this feature.
• Sequence executor sheet break lines are also drawn at narrow sheets.
• Crash fixed which occurred in some cases when deleting multiple lasso selected values at the tracksheet.
• DMX Tester encoder bar universe encoder follows the selected universe while DMX sheet link encoder option is enabled.
• Calling a filter at the layout view has been fixed.
• X-keys will automatically switch back to the previous X-key mode when closing a special dialog, setup or backup view at screen 1.
• Shaper dialog POV bug fixed.
• Crash fixed which occurred sometimes when touching multiple times at the color special dialog.
• Fading an XFade-executor using the command Executor X at Y Fade Z does not crash the desk anymore.
• Crash fixed when executing a Macro containing two locate commands without having added a wait time.
• Setup /? crash has been fixed.
• Edit none attributes fixture crash has been fixed.
• Deleting a form at the form pool while editing the same form crash has been fixed.
• Crash fixed when pressing the Identify button at the 2Port network configuration without having any network cable connected.
• View pool no symbol setting will be saved at the show file.
• Crazy effect dialog center/size low/high calculator readout bug has been fixed.
• Edit effect button activation/deactivation when deselecting/selecting attributes has been improved.
• Art-Net 2 implementation has been improved. The Art-Net 2 network protocol will send to up to two Art-Net 2 receivers unicast. If more than two receivers are requesting a specific universe, this universe will be sent broadcast.

Release - Version 2.6.0

New functions and features

• Playback
  • Xfade is now aborting x-fade if fader returns to 0%
• Pools
  • Pools: objects can be moved around as long as the "Move Button" is switched on.( similar to grandMA series 1)
  • New Command "Insert" in Pool ( press 2 times "Move"-Button )
• Sheets
  • Fixture, channel, tracking and content sheets: frames of empty cells can be suppressed in the option menu via "Hide Empty Cells"
  • New button in sequence view / option menu: "Hide timing countdown". If active absolute values will be displayed and not the cue timing countdown
  • Track Sheet: with the tracking options presets can be exchanged or the value of an attribute exchanged with a preset. The available presets are shown in the calculator with the preset numbers. The destination button in the tracking option pop-up is now also valid for preset exchange
  • New functionality in user options (setup/user/window settings/preset) ->"Reset all preset pool colors"
  • Running effect view: New Button: "Follow selection". This decides whether the current selection is respected in "Release Mode" or "Stomp Mode". If switched off then Release/Stomp will be executed for all fixtures of an effect, regardless of the fixture selection
  • View Pool: New option: Symbols / no symbols: content view of screen can be shown. Only possible when one monitor is in that view
  • Agenda: pressing the encoder pops up a new calculator which makes it easier to edit the entries
  • Profile editor: Scale conversion either percent or decimal
  • Exec Mini Dialog: When an executor is locked, the number in the exec mini sheet is displayed in red. Similar for the sequence number
  • MATricks Load predefined provide access to all predefined MATricks stored at the predefined.xml
  • Live effect bar ( Quick & dirty Encoderbar ) : Buttons "Off effect", "release effect" and "stomp effect" added
  • DMX view: New button in caption bar: "Only selected". If active only the DMX universes patched, current selected fixtures are shown.
  • First MAtricks pool object is now "Reset" (MAtricks)
  • MAtricks encoder bar: Circular copy, shuffle selection buttons added
  • Edit effect menu: New button "predefined". Predefined template effects can be loaded ( similar to the import function ). Effects corresponding to non-existing attributes in the show will be set to NONE.
  • Form Editor and DMX Editor: Table mode has a separate index column per row to display the point index
  • Preset in effect line is now shown in 2 lines: preset number and preset name
  • Presets which only containing timing do show an Indicator for selective, global or universal
  • Effect editor and effect special dialog: the button "value readout (for changing the columns "Low value" / "High Value" or "Center" / "Size" ) has an additional option "Auto". When "Auto" is selected columns are changing on their own - dependent on editing an relative or an absolute effect
  • Menu which were restricted to be opened in screen 1 or 2 can be opened on all available screens now using the select screen pop-up.
  • The store and the off menu can be opened at any screen using the select screen pop-up.
  • The encoder hardkey options have a new button "switch dialogs to default screen". This option will reset all dialogs back to their default screen.
• Command line
  • Is a view button in a pool pressed during an active move command the move command will not be interrupted
  • Random for chasers is "lighting random", not real random. (like grandma1). That means, that it will be avoided to play 2 directly following cues
  • During deleting Effect/Preset/Forms which are in use Console warn user that it is not oopsable. The elements will be restored but the link to the sequence lists not
  • New button combination "MA+At+4" ( 4 e.g. for a number ) means Stomp presetype color
  • New button combinations: 3 times <<< brings an master fader of an executor to zero. 3 times >>> to full
  • Playbacks are now divided into 4 sections: value / value timing / effect / effect timing. Example: When a fixture with dimmer values and individual dimmer fade times is played back out of a sequence it is now possible to take only the fade time active into the programmer.
  • Combining the store options "status merge" and "prog." will overtake the preset links. Combining "status merge" and "output" will not do so.
  • Increased max multipatch to 1024 ( had been 15 before )
  • New option for the commands "At", "Stomp" and release: "/IgnoreSelection" (Abbr. "/is" ). A command e.g. "Stomp Presettype Dimmer /is" does not regard the current selection
  • New: Hard key access to PresetType: MA+Preset
  • Goto Cue X works with executor ranges and sequence ranges
  • "Auto Stomp" in assign menu does now work for temp faders and temp buttons. Attn.; "Auto stomp" only refers to effects from other sequences.
  • Command "fixture x at cue y" is obeying filter now
  • Setting Effect Speeds via Command line works now in BPM. E.g. "Assign Effect x /Speed=y".
  • Remote via DMX - In ( Setup / Remote Inputs Setup / DMX Remotes; Executors, macros or hardkeys are triggered with value around 128 ( like grandMA sereis 1 ) (was 255 before )
  • Long press store does not cancel already active store anymore.
  • Import Export 3D cameras obeys camera name and rotation
  • With the AT filter it is possible to apply multidimensional forms to specified attributes. Select a presettype , set the link option to "link feature" and choose a form in the form pool. With the AT filter you can select all attributes to which this form should not be applied
  • New command line access : Art-Net input on/off. sACN on/off
  • Command DMX at full and DMX at 0 will be executed without "please"
  • OFF fixture thru or Off selection use now the programm time. "OFF fixture thru fade x" and "OFF selection fade y" follow the time as well
  • New Command: RESETDMXSELECTION: Resets the selection in the DMX Tester
  • New Hardkey to access "Mask": MA+2xGroup

   

• Setup
  • Create / change fixture types: the attributes Colordim do work with fixturetypes with a real dimmer
  • Colordim attributes extended to 17 : "COLORDIM1" = red "COLORDIM2" = green. "COLORDIM3" = blue."COLORDIM4" = amber. "COLORDIM5" = white."COLORDIM6" = warm white"COLORDIM7" = cool white"COLORDIM8" = orange"COLORDIM9" = red orange"COLORDIM10" = purple"COLORDIM11" = indigo"COLORDIM12" = cyan"COLORDIM13" = magenta"COLORDIM14" = yellow"COLORDIM15" = uv"COLORDIM16" = green cyan"COLORDIM17" = medium white
  • New and updated gobos from carallon lib 8.2
• onPC
  • grandMA2 onPC external displays: 800x480 possible
  • grandMA2 onPC command wing DMX-In support has been implemented.

Fixed Bugs and improved functionality

• Bitmap effects do follow a virtual fade master. That means that on- and off switching times will work without a motorical move of the executor masters
• Calling macros and views does NOT reset the command filter anymore
• Effect option bounce: PWM does work even if attack and decay values are set
• Stage View setup mode encoder bar is now closing when closing the stage view. fixed in: Stage view, Layout view, Timecode, Agenda, DMX patching address dialog
• When a just executed temp fader executor will be overwritten from another one by the " off on overwritten" option , this temp fader now can be pushed to zero without being executed again
• Selective effects using presets are updated, when updating the preset
• Off presetype x respects program time
• When cues are updated in edit or blind this will be executed not directly , but calling the cues again
• TC shows with recorded temp faders are looking same with different start position of the temp fader
• Pressing the "Delete" button and clicking in the Headline does now work in Layout View, Smart View, Clock, Agenda, Encoderbar, CMD Line, CMD Section, Help View, Info View, Groupmaster View, running Effect View, Stage View, System Monitor View...
• Setup/ Full and Live access Sorting the layers by fixture or channel ID is now sorting correctly
• Fixed Executors in the Action button view are only display when the Option "Button Page floating" in the option menu is active. With the option "select page" the existing links on an executor are shown
• Autofix is cleared when switching off an executor using an OFF time
• Switching Abs/Rel mode of effect doesn't change size values anymore
• Command "Extract" also extract default link values in normal default values
• If an executor is assigned to "empty", Selfix will no longer be executed
• Layout view does not forget its internal layout data anymore after going and leaving to full setup ( arrange functions )
• When editing an executor the focus stays in the current cue
• Lasso renumber cues does now work when release of lasso is on a CuePart >0
• When storing a scrolled fixture sheet as a view the position will be stored regardless whether a mask is switched on or not.
• Executors on x-keys are usable even if an edit pop-up or assign pop-up or the off menu was open
• Form Editor: changing from graphical to table mode and vice versa sets the focus to the currently selected graph and point
• Assert effect bug fixed. Effect phasing at non tracking sequences will always assert its phasing.
• Invalid amount of pathport universes does not crash the desk anymore
• OOPs when adding effectlines will no longer crash the desk
• Import/Export for TimeCodeShow: all data will be exported
• Pool playback effects: network bug removed
• Track Option: Block/Unblock... with Encoder Grouping
• New: Per default selected preset type is Dimmer.
• Command "goto cue x sequence y" does now work ( without the sequence having to be assigned to an executor ( pool playback) )
• Oops for values called from the Smart View is working now
• Effect editor: when assigning low or high presets to attributes in columns they will be listed in numeric order
• Active highlight or solo will not be taken onto the blind or preview programmer
• Command "Executor 1 at full" is working right now
• PSR with effects is working
• grandMA2 Ultra-Light + Fader Wing bug with first motorfader on wing fixed ( channel fader mode )
• Changing the speed group using the crazy effect dialog speed group popup will not assign the wrong speed group any more.
• Manually adding Timecode events using the timecode editor will not generate additional unexpected events at other connected consoles any more.
• GUI glitch of the Mini Exec Dialog priority arrows has been fixed.
• Losing the master of a session will recalculate the currently running sequences in the correct order.
• onPC X-keys view thumbnails: when storing a screen 1 view using the onPC x-keys, the view thumbnail will be displayed with the original color.
• onPC Installer will add a link to the show folder at the start menu.
• onPC only: The enter key from the keyboard will open the “Patch new layer” popup.
• onPC only: Crash fixed when disconnecting and reconnecting onPC Command Wing.
• onPC: Automatic closing of the command overlay when switching screens will not leave non visible commands in the command line anymore.
• onPC freeze has been fixed when windows has been locked and unlocked while onPC2 was still running.
• onpc scaling bug fixed. Overlays can be operated by the mouse at the scaled onPC.

Appendix

Known Limitations