THEY LISTENED TO US AND THE NEW PARAMETER ACCESS IS OFFICIALLY HAPPENING!! I AM BEYOND THRILLED THAT WE SECURED THIS VICTORY FOR EVERY DESIGNER OUT THERE!! STAY TUNED AS WE WATCH TO ENSURE THE ROLLOUT GOES PERFECTLY FOR EVERYONE!!
June 14, 2020
Final supporters
Pre-visualisation is the lifeblood of most lighting designers. From visuals, to training to programming a festival on a tour bus. When we are working we need to be able to control our own rigs and festival rigs from wherever we are in the world. Visualisers are moving on fast and yet we are restricted to a small select set of visualisers without having tens of thousands of pounds of additional network processors with us.
This just isn’t viable for the majority of LDs and is not economically viable for most rental houses - this problem is going to exponentially grow with the advent of MA3 when all other visualisers apart from MA3D are locked out of parameters. And in MA2, there is a much broader selection of visualisers not being given access - such as Depence2 and Capture which is crucially needed
This issue will also be a massive crush for all Wysiwyg users when they move from MA2 to MA3 as there will no longer be a WYG driver much like MA1 and MA2 an ability they have had for over a decade.
As MA users, designers and programmers we want to know the solution and timescale for this across both MA2 and MA3. Other major console manufacturers have solved this problem but MA have not. It’s an urgent one and will become a real massive issue very soon when we are all up to speed.
This time of lockdown should be one where we can all hone our design skills yet we are stopped from doing so by our console choice.
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Reached 500 supporters
April 10, 2020
Reached 100 supporters
April 10, 2020
194 Comments
Working for an equipment supply company, this is always an issue. Having to move LDs to one particular visualiser can only be done on occasion. Having made a large investment in MA3 Hardware, we are disappointed that this is still an issue.
As a long time MA2 user, making the switch to MA3 with it’s similar lack of third-party visualization/parameter support without a huge investment in additional hardware (NPU’s) is a basic need for designers to adopt and propose use of the platform.
I am using LIGHTCONVERSE 3D visualizer together with grandMA 1, 2 and 3 soon, from 13 years. Please do not restrict our choice of 3D visualizer to MA3D only. We invested so much time and money, which cannot be lost.
Currently Visualiser of choice would be Capture but also Depence2 is looking impressive. MA3D is a great tool, but not a client-friendly one, and we’d like MA to focus on the programming and control which is second to none, and let the visualiser companies focus on the visualisation.
Totally into this idea, as I do a lot with L8 & it kills me I can only make it work w/MA if I have a piece of MA hardware - which I actually do have (an old 2-universe node) but it only unlocks 1024 parameters & is therefore insanely limiting. I haven't run a rig that small since 2007.
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THEY LISTENED TO US AND THE NEW PARAMETER ACCESS IS OFFICIALLY HAPPENING!! I AM BEYOND THRILLED THAT WE SECURED THIS VICTORY FOR EVERY DESIGNER OUT THERE!! STAY TUNED AS WE WATCH TO ENSURE THE ROLLOUT GOES PERFECTLY FOR EVERYONE!!
June 14, 2020
Final supporters
Pre-visualisation is the lifeblood of most lighting designers. From visuals, to training to programming a festival on a tour bus. When we are working we need to be able to control our own rigs and festival rigs from wherever we are in the world. Visualisers are moving on fast and yet we are restricted to a small select set of visualisers without having tens of thousands of pounds of additional network processors with us.
This just isn’t viable for the majority of LDs and is not economically viable for most rental houses - this problem is going to exponentially grow with the advent of MA3 when all other visualisers apart from MA3D are locked out of parameters. And in MA2, there is a much broader selection of visualisers not being given access - such as Depence2 and Capture which is crucially needed
This issue will also be a massive crush for all Wysiwyg users when they move from MA2 to MA3 as there will no longer be a WYG driver much like MA1 and MA2 an ability they have had for over a decade.
As MA users, designers and programmers we want to know the solution and timescale for this across both MA2 and MA3. Other major console manufacturers have solved this problem but MA have not. It’s an urgent one and will become a real massive issue very soon when we are all up to speed.
This time of lockdown should be one where we can all hone our design skills yet we are stopped from doing so by our console choice.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
April 10, 2020
Reached 100 supporters
April 10, 2020
194 Comments
It’s completely impractical to expect users to have the hardware necessary for Viz always available. Why should users be reduced to using MA3D when they’ve paid thousands of dollars for professional Viz Software. Every other console manufacturer supports some sort of Offline Pre-Viz connectivity. It’s time MA stepped up.
Working for an equipment supply company, this is always an issue. Having to move LDs to one particular visualiser can only be done on occasion. Having made a large investment in MA3 Hardware, we are disappointed that this is still an issue.
As a long time MA2 user, making the switch to MA3 with it’s similar lack of third-party visualization/parameter support without a huge investment in additional hardware (NPU’s) is a basic need for designers to adopt and propose use of the platform.
I am using LIGHTCONVERSE 3D visualizer together with grandMA 1, 2 and 3 soon, from 13 years. Please do not restrict our choice of 3D visualizer to MA3D only. We invested so much time and money, which cannot be lost.
Currently Visualiser of choice would be Capture but also Depence2 is looking impressive. MA3D is a great tool, but not a client-friendly one, and we’d like MA to focus on the programming and control which is second to none, and let the visualiser companies focus on the visualisation.
Totally into this idea, as I do a lot with L8 & it kills me I can only make it work w/MA if I have a piece of MA hardware - which I actually do have (an old 2-universe node) but it only unlocks 1024 parameters & is therefore insanely limiting. I haven't run a rig that small since 2007.
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It’s completely impractical to expect users to have the hardware necessary for Viz always available. Why should users be reduced to using MA3D when they’ve paid thousands of dollars for professional Viz Software. Every other console manufacturer supports some sort of Offline Pre-Viz connectivity. It’s time MA stepped up.