grandMA2 Console Fundamentals

Identify the grandMA2 front-panel controls, screens, executor sections, encoders, trackball and console navigation tools.

Explore the power, display, DMX, network, MIDI, timecode, audio and remote-control connections available across the grandMA2 console range.

Learn how to create, load, save, duplicate and manage show files, including USB storage, older software versions and automatic backups.

Understand how the Show, Console, User and Network tabs organise show data, desk settings, user preferences and network configuration.

Configure MA sessions, identify MA network devices and activate supported external DMX-over-network protocols.

Add fixtures from the library, assign IDs and DMX addresses, locate free channels, configure multipatches and diagnose patch errors.

Customise fixture defaults, highlight values, snap behaviour, parameter inversion, move-in-black timing, modules, instances and wheels.

Build, store, move and copy efficient screen layouts across the console and external displays.

Use the multi-touch colour and shaper interfaces to control colour mixing, gel references and framing shutters.

Create repeatable fixture selections and alignments with interleave, blocks, wings and separate X/Y control.

Build command-line macros, add timed steps, import predefined macros and assign them to X keys.

Work with Selective, Global and Universal presets, preset-based defaults, stored timing and Fast Call operation.

Create groups, presets, sequences and cues; manage timing, cue numbering, copying, deletion, tracking and updates.

Configure undo behaviour, review multiple previous actions and understand the limits of OOPS recovery.