LSC MANTRA LITE User Manual Download

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Version V 2.05 June 2020

Lighting Control for LEDs,
Moving Lights and Dimmers

Quick Start Guide

LSC Control Systems
+61 3 9702 8000
[email protected]
www.lsccontrol.com.au

Version 2.06

October 2020

Summary of Contents for MANTRA LITE

Page 1: ...Version V 2 05 June 2020 Lighting Control for LEDs Moving Lights and Dimmers Quick Start Guide LSC Control Systems 61 3 9702 8000 info lsccontrol com au www lsccontrol com au Version 2 06 October 2020...

Page 2: ...Servicing of this product is recommended to be carried out by LSC Control Systems Pty Ltd or its authorized service agents No liability will be accepted whatsoever for any loss or damage caused by se...

Page 3: ...sity 8 8 Controlling Fixture Attributes 8 9 Selecting Fixtures 9 10 Controlling Colour 10 11 Controlling Position 11 12 Automatic Fixture De select 12 13 Animate Apps 13 14 Shapes App 15 15 Clearing F...

Page 4: ...ol might be A conventional lighting dimmer A multi colour LED fixture A multi colour fixture with additional controls for position and or beam shapes Each fixture is patched to a Yellow fader and butt...

Page 5: ...er input An external mains power pack is supplied 4 2 DMX 512 Output Connect a DMX data cable from the DMX512 output one universe of 512 channels to the DMX512 input of your first fixture dimmer LED o...

Page 6: ...oving a fixture fader automatically selects that fixture allowing its other parameters such as colour or position to be controlled by Apps on the touch screen Moving a fader to zero deselects the fixt...

Page 7: ...hrough the screens to the Home screen Double tapping Back quickly returns to the Home screen from any screen The Home screen is divided into two sections The top section yellow border has fixture icon...

Page 8: ...Intensity The 24 yellow fixture faders under the overall control of the yellow fixture master control the intensity of the fixtures that are patched to them To see the output of a fixture Fade up the...

Page 9: ...g that they are available for selection When a fixture is selected its button is lit Fixtures can be selected using several methods and multiple fixtures can be selected at the same time Move a yellow...

Page 10: ...olours Touch any of the recent colours to re use them 10 2 Fan When multiple fixtures are selected you can fan their colours to create rainbow effects Touching Fan selects Directional fanning Drag to...

Page 11: ...owing access to more sliders if the selected fixture has additional attributes Colour Sliders and buttons are provided for small increments The decimal values of each slider is shown on the right The...

Page 12: ...Centred fanning Drag to fan the positions around the centre fixture Touching Fan again selects Directional fanning Drag to fan the positions around the first fixture in your selection Touching Fan ag...

Page 13: ...and they shift the attribute settings such as colour or intensity position or beam from one fixture to the next and loop the settings of the last selected fixture back to the first There must be at l...

Page 14: ...ing fixture 4 button or tap them individually Touch Create and the animation runs as an intensity chase Fixture 1 Fixture 2 Fixture 3 Fixture 4 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 1 All animation Apps ha...

Page 15: ...g on the output fade up the red playback fader on which you make the recording See section 16 for details on how to record cues 14 Shapes App The Shapes App provides a quick and simple way of creating...

Page 16: ...New Shape and repeating the procedure above 14 1 Recording Shapes When you record the output of the Mantra as a cue it includes any shapes that are running Recording a shape will automatically clear...

Page 17: ...ect then tap and light the buttons of any fixtures with no intensity that you want to include in the cue The look on stage can now be played back from the recorded cue see Playback below This frees up...

Page 18: ...rent cues so that you can easily change the entire look on stage by only using the Red Playbacks Unlike the Yellow Fixture faders that only control intensity the Red Playback faders control all of the...

Page 19: ...ups of attributes are included in the playback For example you could choose to only playback colours from one cue list or choose to only playback positions from another cue list See section 18 for mor...

Page 20: ...ade down fader 3 and the fixture fades back to blue the previous latest Remember that when the latest red fader to be raised from zero is at full other faders controlling the same fixtures can be fade...

Page 21: ...ons below the playbacks Multiple playbacks can be selected and or deselected The LED in the playback button lights to show it is selected 17 5 Tap To Beat You can set the speed of a chase animation or...

Page 22: ...iate cues Re order the selected cue using the Up or Down buttons Include ICPB When a memory is recorded it includes all of the Intensity Colour Position and Beam I C P B attribute groups Touching an a...

Page 23: ...back icon then select Use as Chase The list will automatically increment through the steps using the speed and crossfade settings Traditionally chases will snap instantly switch from step to step but...

Page 24: ...n use the App to make the change Update the cue by pressing Record then press and HOLD for 1 second the button below the Red Playback fader which contains the cue Recorded animations and shapes cannot...

Page 25: ...al rig consisting of 12 dimmers starting at DMX address 1 and 12 RGB Red Green Blue LED fixtures starting from DMX address 101 From the Home screen touch Tools Setup Patch To patch 12 dimmers as fixtu...

Page 26: ...few moments to make the patches and automatically increments the DMX address for each fixture by 3 To see the details of your patch touch View Patch To finish patching and return to the Home screen do...

Page 27: ...n can be arranged geographically so that they are positioned on the screen as they actually are in your rig To arrange the icons tap and HOLD any of the fixture icons for 2 seconds A yellow flashing d...