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Lighting Control Desks

Models MP, L(P), XL(P) & XXL(P)

Operator Manual

Version 3.00

May 2008

LSC Lighting Systems (Aust) Pty. Ltd.

ABN 21 090 801 675
Building 3, 66-74 Micro Circuit

Dandenong South, Victoria 3175 Australia
Tel: +61 3 9702 8000

Fax: +61 3 9702 8466
email: [email protected]

web: www.lsclighting.com.au

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Page 1: ...ay 2008 LSC Lighting Systems Aust Pty Ltd ABN 21 090 801 675 Building 3 66 74 Micro Circuit Dandenong South Victoria 3175 Australia Tel 61 3 9702 8000 Fax 61 3 9702 8466 email info lsclighting com au...

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Page 4: ..._________________________ 14 4 27 REMOVE BUTTON ______________________ 14 4 28 ADD BUTTON __________________________ 15 4 29 FUNCTION BUTTON_____________________ 15 4 30 EDIT WHEEL ___________________...

Page 5: ..._____ 52 16 15 CLONE ___________________________ 53 16 16 SAVING SCENES ___________________ 53 16 17 NO STORE PARAMETERS ___________ 54 16 18 CLEARING PARAMETERS____________ 54 16 19 STORING INTENSITY...

Page 6: ...___________ 75 24 13 HTP Highest Takes Precedence ______ 76 24 14 LTP Latest Takes Precedence _______ 76 24 15 LOOK_____________________________ 76 24 16 SCENE ___________________________ 76 24 17 CHA...

Page 7: ...peration all mode is automatically activated All fixtures of the same type as the selected fixture are controlled simultaneously To toggle all mode off or on press all Selecting Loaded Fixtures To ste...

Page 8: ...Colour Beam Focus optional page f a Palette Number To clear all palettes E from parameters press clear palette To include a link to a Palette in a scene load the Palette then without altering any E p...

Page 9: ...ecord a step consisting of a snapshot of the current output press record scene To select an existing scene as a step press page optional red or blue page f a scene number To store a step consisting on...

Page 10: ...il the STEP number is displayed then HOLD function tap either stl 1 or stl 2 which are flashing Press yes To disconnect repeat the procedure STL SOUND TO LIGHT MODE To select STL mode HOLD function ta...

Page 11: ...xtures with associated Flash buttons Preset Wide and Playback modes of operation 9 pages of non volatile memory Separate In up and Out down fade times 0 to 999 seconds Scene Fade Times can be derived...

Page 12: ...oftware with activation dongle built into the maXim MAXLITE 15 Gooseneck desk light Dustcover Sizes available for all models Flight case Custom flight cases for all models are available to house the m...

Page 13: ...ew features are added and existing features improved The software version of your maXim is momentarily displayed on the LED display when the maXim is switched on The latest version can be downloaded f...

Page 14: ...up pad did not give the fixtures an order that can be used to create fans It now does give them an order 2 10 11 Scene Edit When a scene is selected for editing edit f a scene number simply pressing a...

Page 15: ...led by your maXim See the separate section on Capture for details 2 11 2 MIDI MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface is an international standard for data communication between musical instruments...

Page 16: ...will hear a click followed a few seconds later by another click The maXim keeps operating on its own power supply until the second click is heard During this time all memories are automatically saved...

Page 17: ...selected by the mode red bank button Preset mode The Red bank of faders provide a duplicate of the Yellow bank Wide mode The Red bank of faders control the intensity of dimmers or fixtures patched to...

Page 18: ...es or chase or stack steps when viewing channel levels on the FLASH ASSIGN button LED indicators refer below or when patching The LED indicators in each f a button are also multi purpose 5 CHANNEL LEV...

Page 19: ...ack 4 15 STACK FLASH It is a multi purpose button and can be used to Select the Stack Master when assigning editing or copying a stack FLASH bump the contents of the Stack Master See also FLASH level...

Page 20: ...om one memory location to another Copy scenes chases or stacks to or from the Grab master MP model Copy a Snapshot from the Grab master to a memory MP model 4 25 SELECT BUTTON Used to take control of...

Page 21: ...p f a secondary function as printed below red and yellow bank f a buttons 4 30 EDIT WHEEL Continuously rotatable in either direction and can be used to Set fade and link times plus chase rate and cros...

Page 22: ...h above then select the first DMX slot number in the sequence HOLD the f a button of the channel number to be patched to that slot then tap the f a button of the channel to be patched to last DMX slot...

Page 23: ...rom the library to disk so that they can be archived or edited Press menu library CopyToDsk Use the PM buttons to select the manufacturer then the model 5 3 6 REMOVE A TEMPLATE To remove a Fixture Tem...

Page 24: ...n finished patching press edit The patch is automatically saved 5 3 12 PATCHING MULTIPLE FIXTURES Whilst patching above you can automatically patch a sequential range of Fixtures of the same type with...

Page 25: ...the library template is the newer version it will be used for the show and also saved to disk when the show is saved replacing the older show template If the show disk template is the newer version i...

Page 26: ...e fly The channel faders provide instant hands on 6 2 2 PRESET DISADVANTAGE Only half of the possible maXim channels fixtures can be intensity controlled by dedicated faders 6 3 WIDE MODE Wide mode ut...

Page 27: ...ged to scene mode or when a red bank page is changed whilst in p back playback mode the contents scenes and chases of the indicated red page are COPIED subject to any Page Freeze below into the red pl...

Page 28: ...cene or a step in a chase or stack and to insert or delete steps in a chase or stack 7 8 EXTERNAL STAORAGE The top USB connector allows you to plug in a USB flash disk memory device and then save or l...

Page 29: ...on choices then Playbacks already containing scenes in that page will light Playbacks containing chases flash quickly stacks flash slowly and empty playbacks are not lit This acts as a warning to you...

Page 30: ...buttons See the FLASH section for more details 8 3 3 PLAYBACK FADE TIMES To control the fade times of the scene you can either select the playback controlling the scene or edit the memory containing...

Page 31: ...then shows the OUT fade time The fade time may be edited by rotating the EDIT wheel When a time is set lower than 0 seconds it is controlled by the out time manual fader 8 4 3 Ending Edit Edit may be...

Page 32: ...next crossfade That is 50 of the time is used to perform a crossfade and 50 of the time is spent waiting before starting the next crossfade If the crossfade is set to 100 then the Chase will use all o...

Page 33: ...to change the speed crossfade mode and direction of the copy of the chase in the selected PLAYBACK without affecting the original chase memory To make permanent changes to a chase see Editing a Chase...

Page 34: ...parameters have their As Chase flag set to No by default They therefore use the times that are in the scenes that make up the steps They ignore the chase crossfade setting Focus parameter have their A...

Page 35: ...nnel number When the f a button is released the display shows the level of that channel in the step To edit the level of the selected channel rotate the EDIT wheel If the level is varied above its rec...

Page 36: ...the Grab master Preset the next look using any of the channel faders or Playbacks To crossfade to the next look simply fade up the Bank masters and fade down the Grab master You may continue to Grab a...

Page 37: ...t maXim output as a step press record scene A blackout can be recorded as a step To add a range of memories scenes and or chases select the page optional red or blue page then HOLD f a first memory in...

Page 38: ...the crossfade to the next step Note You do not have to wait for a step to complete before starting the next step 11 3 4 CROSSFADING TO THE PREVIOUS STEP To crossfade from the current step to the prev...

Page 39: ...the EDIT wheel Select the step after which the new step is to be inserted then press add To select a scene as the added step press page optional red or blue page f a scene number To record a snapshot...

Page 40: ...emove or add characters or spaces When finished press ok 11 5 6 ENDING EDIT Edit may be ended at any time by pressing edit Any changes that you have made will automatically be saved in memory 11 5 7 E...

Page 41: ...ll add the flashed channels to the output at the FLASH control level and at the same time it will KILL black out all other output of the maXim The flashed object s is now the solo output from the maXi...

Page 42: ...rs because colour was the only Filtered parameter when the scene was stored Fading up the blue scene only changes all of its Fixtures to blue Filters are a powerful tool that you will often use on the...

Page 43: ...oaded on the PatPad but with an intensity above zero on the output 13 6 FIXTURE INTENSITY CONTROL 13 6 1 INDIVIDIDUAL FIXTURES Each fixture that has been patched has its own intensity fader The fixtur...

Page 44: ...n wide mode fade all red faders fully down and then tap mode red bank until the preset and wide LEDs are both lit Fade up the Yellow master and the individual red faders of the desired fixtures In wid...

Page 45: ...arameter Name Value and Time Tapping an active PM button will toggle its parameter displayer between Name and Value Tapping a parameter displayer that is showing a Name will also change it to Value Na...

Page 46: ...its of that wheel stop If you touch the central area on a displayer its yellow LED flashes and the EDIT wheel can also be used to vary the value Tapping either end of the displayer will step to the ne...

Page 47: ...so on the PaTPaD is that any Parameters that are included when you use the store or store level buttons will be flashing 14 16 SAVING SCENES When you have adjusted the parameters of your fixtures you...

Page 48: ...bove zero the levels of the parameters in that scene will be immediately played back subject to their individual times Any further movement of the scene fader will not affect the parameters The scene...

Page 49: ...f the red scene and the chase turns red Raise the fader of the yellow scene and the chase turns yellow Raise the fader of the blue scene and the chase turns blue The chase changes to the latest colour...

Page 50: ...low To control only the currently selected fixture turn off ALL mode by pressing all toggle action Hint Use All mode to quickly select the same colour or gobo etc on all Fixtures of the same type Use...

Page 51: ...ve when and in the same move time as set for the PAN parameter of the fixture This flag is not available for the Pan parameter PanEnd Tapping the centre of the displayer toggles between N No or Y Yes...

Page 52: ...WITH P Trig The times that you set on the PaTPaD are saved in any scene that you record or store When a scene is eventually played back the parameters will use these times to move from their current...

Page 53: ...16 7 3 LOADING GROUPS To load a group of fixtures onto the PaTPad press get group The group buttons lights orange and the f a buttons of all yellow bank faders that have a group stored in them will fl...

Page 54: ...ixture press filter it lights orange PM parameter to filter Whilst the filter button is orange other filters can be applied by pressing their parameter PM buttons To de select a filter press its PM bu...

Page 55: ...f fixtures press clear HOLD f a first fixture in range then tap f a last fixture in range Both selected fixtures and all fixtures in between them have their Hi lights cleared To Hi light a fixture aga...

Page 56: ...will be shown on the Pad View screen for every parameter that was affected by the preset Hint Include all of your fixtures in every preset that you store Then when loading a preset use groups to hi li...

Page 57: ...Filtered One MAC2000 is loaded onto the PaTPad and has its Cyan Magenta and Yellow parameters are adjusted to match the yellow of the Trackspot All Colour parameters are Filtered A palette is now stor...

Page 58: ...s 4 optional pages f a source palette number Colour Beam Focus 4 optional pages f a destination palette number 16 11 9 LOADING THE PaTPaD WITH THE FIXTURES IN A PALETTE To load the PaTPaD with all fix...

Page 59: ...PaTPaD to a single Fixture press clone f a Fixture Number To clone the Fixture to a group press clone group f a destination group number 16 16 SAVING SCENES The maXim provides several ways of program...

Page 60: ...that they are the only parameters flashing then press store clear page optional f a scene number Only FLASHING parameters will be CLEARED 16 19 STORING INTENSITY ONLY SCENES When scenes are saved usi...

Page 61: ...been programmed in the effect it will stop when that number of cycles has been completed Effects consume much less memory and programming time than using conventional programming techniques 17 2 BASIC...

Page 62: ...ined shape Shaper 2 User defined shape Shaper 3 User defined shape Shaper 4 User defined shape SIZE Size overall Size PSize Pan Size TSize Tilt Size PHASEs Phase the point in the waveform where the Pa...

Page 63: ...point in the cycle and hence the circle moves upstage from the pan and tilt position If Phase is set to 25 the circle begins at the 25 point in the cycle Hence the circle is to the left If Phase is s...

Page 64: ...ed from the Shape menu To create a custom shape firstly reset to defaults to ensure that the effect is running continuously Press menu effects control then tap the end of the displayer to show reset P...

Page 65: ...e fanned onto the PatPad If the fixtures exist in a group you can get the group Hint To avoid confusion when fanning clear the PatPad clear all before loading the fixtures to be fanned To select fans...

Page 66: ...with fanned Tilt delay times Use the PaTPad to focus the fixtures upstage and then use the fan menu to fan the tilt delay times Before recording this new upstage scene playback the existing down stag...

Page 67: ...laced on that Playback by either changing pages or changing the red mode 19 2 2 Connect to Chase To permanently connect a STL to a chase memory whilst recording or editing a chase repeated presses of...

Page 68: ...nd the STL s SyncoBEAT has total control of stepping SyncoBEAT allows for a syncopated non regular pattern to be learned You tap out a beat pattern and the maXim learns the pattern then repeats it ind...

Page 69: ...on the bottom of the video screen 20 4 MAXIM MIDI MAPPING The MIDI protocol uses many different types of messages One type of message that MIDI sends is the note ON OFF message Each note on the MIDI k...

Page 70: ...he timing and duration of each note on a MIDI sequencer 20 6 CONTROLLING A MIDI DEVICE FROM THE MAXIM The maXim can send MIDI commands to a MIDI device allowing it to play sounds or trigger other MIDI...

Page 71: ...f a 16 red f a 16 blue f a 16 64 add yellow f a 17 red f a 17 blue f a 17 65 function yellow f a 18 red f a 18 blue f a 18 66 no Yellow f a 19 red f a 19 blue f a 19 67 OK step stop yellow f a 20 red...

Page 72: ...ets palettes scenes etc for you maXim that match the capture demo show When you connect your maXim to your computer you will be able to control all of the fixtures on your computer using the maXim pan...

Page 73: ...y magenta The page number that the memory is recorded in is shown in the PGE PAGE row This may be different to the current page due to a page freeze In this example playbacks 6 and 7 contain chases fr...

Page 74: ...age number yy preset number Ex yy PalEtte x page number yy palette number P Trig PaTPaD Trigger memory whl Directly from the edit wheel To scroll the display to other channel numbers rotate the EDIT w...

Page 75: ...s F A filter has been applied to the parameter a The parameter has been altered by the PaTPaD E The parameter is linked to a palEtte not shown above P The parameter is linked to a Preset not shown abo...

Page 76: ...To step through the 4 palette pages repeatedly press colour beam focus If you select a palette by pressing its f a palette number the pop up window automatically closes To manually close the window p...

Page 77: ...ntents of the maXim s memory will be erased and cannot be recovered To load a show from USB flash disk HOLD function tap f a disk no yes Rotate the EDIT wheel to select the show number To load the sho...

Page 78: ...lling message finishes then release the two buttons 23 5 PREFERENCES 23 5 1 DEFAULT FADE AND SPEED TIMES HOLD function tap f a setup Lock no MIDI no Set Preferences yes Fade and Speed times yes Follow...

Page 79: ...ue the upgrade or no to abort If you start the upgrade process the desk and the display on the video will go blank This is normal DO NOT REMOVE THE FLASH DISK OR TURN THE POWER OFF DURING THE UPGRADE...

Page 80: ...tween the connectors and report the condition Remove the plug from the top USB connector and place it in the bottom USB connector then press red bank f a 7 The maXim will test both directions of commu...

Page 81: ...r can also be used to control multiple attributes of a Fixture This allows a single parameter on the PaTPad to very easily perform a complex task on the Fixture 24 7 WHEEL STOPS Parameters on the PaTP...

Page 82: ...via another scene or alter it via the PaTPad 24 15 LOOK A lighting LOOK is the collection of channels at their various levels intensities that are contributing to the output of the maXim at any one t...

Page 83: ...duct design and documentation In light of this policy some detail contained in this manual may not match the exact operation of your product In any event LSC Lighting Systems Aust Pty Ltd can not be h...

Page 84: ...r 52 Distributors in 36 Countries Users of LSC equipment range from high profile corporate and professional clients to churches museums schools amateur theatre groups convention and exhibition industr...

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