Martin Professional Maxxyz, User Manual

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Manipulating Fixtures 57
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Below each attribute column is an associated hard key (directly above the track belt). By double
clicking on this hard key, or pressing the blue box with the attribute name found on the touch
screen, you can bring up a pop-up window that contains all the preset values for that attribute.
Below is the pop up screen for “Gobo 1” selected from the Gobo attribute group of a Martin MAC
500.
With the pop-up window open, you can rapidly select the desired value by touching it and then
closing the window.
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The right side of the programmer touch screen contains information regarding the creation of
effects on the Maxxyz console. Effects creation will be covered later in the manual (see“Effects”
on page 140).
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Located at the bottom center of the programmer touch screen are four miscellaneous controls.
Control resolution Located in the lower left-hand corner of the menu is the control
resolution box. Pressing or clinking on this box will cycle the
setting between 16 and 8 bits in one step increments with 16
bit providing the highest degree of resolution and 8 bit
providing coarser, but faster control of selected attributes.
Relative/Absolute toggle This toggle determines how fixtures with different values for
the same attribute will react with each other. If, for example,
we select fixtures 1 thru 5 and 1,2,4, and 5 are set at an
intensity of 10% and fixture 3 is set at an intensity of 50%,
when “relative” is selected, rolling up the intensity trackbelt will
increase the intensity of the selected fixtures relative to one
another. If the toggle is set to “absolute” then all fixtures will
jump to the level of the highest numbered fixture when the
trackbelt is moved. This feature is particularly useful with the
pan/tilt attributes however, please note that while it works well
with the trackbelts, it does not function with the trackball.