Taking the Plunge - GrandMA3 on the Euphoria Tour
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- In a few short months, I'll be heading back out on the road with the venerable Louis The Child crew on our first tour back after over a year of no in-person shows. I'm so excited to safely get back to doing what I love, and I hope to see you out at one of the shows if we are in your area. We have an entirely new show that we're all eager to show off as one of the first tours back in action in the USA as restrictions are easing up.
To make things more exciting, MA Lighting and ACT Lighting asked me to be a part of their user feedback program for MA3. I saw this as the perfect opportunity to really put the new hardware and software to the test out on tour. Don't worry, I'll also be bringing my MA2 as a safety net :)
MA3 is now in a phase of development that makes me excited to not only give it a try, but spend the required amount of hours necessary on it to become fluent.
Louis The Child Euphoria Tour - www.louisthechild.com/tour
MA Lighting - www.malighting.com/
ACT Lighting - www.actlighting.com/
I also want to give a special thanks to Michael Ferguson, my sales rep at Christie Lites who organized getting me an MA3 Light last year. Unfortunately the MA3 software was lacking a ton of features I needed at the time, so I never got around to building a full show with it.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - Euphoria tour
00:52 - MA3 feedback program
01:20 - Programming on the MA3
02:00 - Writing the new showfile in MA2 and MA3
03:33 - Picking up the console
05:18 - Sheesh
06:00 - Will it fit?
06:39 - Setting up the MA3
07:10 - Cold boot issue
08:55 - It Lives!
09:27 - Compact XT vs other MA consoles
14:10 - MA3 Version 1.4
15:10 - Scope of MA's work
16:10 - Looking forward
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Forget the Louis the Child, I’m getting tickets to see Christian Jackson live
This
There are many more LDs out there overusing circle effects
Including myself 🤣
Look at pretty much any LTC live video and at least half the comments are for CJ
FUCK YES
Yay! Always a good day when Christian uploads;)
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6:31 With 2 GrandMA consoles, your apartment is easily the most valuable in the building.
Those consoles are such a specific thing, only LDs really know about them, so I bet that most of thiefs won't even know the value of them ;-)
@@macieksoft Yeah, but imagine beeing a theif and see those gigant computers with like 3 screens. If i was a theif i at least consider it pricefull xD
@@macieksoft a buddy of mine his home got broken into. He had an MA3 full size in case standing in his home and they took almost everything except the console.
Man that boot up scene is pure tension. Pure relatable tension 😥.
8:56 *Frankenstein voice* IT'S ALIIIIIVEEEE
"Hey kids, today we're gonna watch some guy press a power button for a long time!"
Love it man :D
Love the "Lamp On Board" bumper sticker! 6:03
She was taking a nap the grandma she had just woken up 😂
Now I want a series on what other backseats will a compact XT fit in
This is so exciting to watch, and it’s really cool you’ve taken on this project with MA3! Best of luck on tour!!
Happy for you dude! Glad you’re getting back on the road with some fresh gear. Maybe I’ll see ya at an event this year
One thing to note about parameters is MA increased the XT mode 3 parameters to 8192 and the MA3 Light parameters to 16384
Good luck for your tour
Great vid as always
so excited to see the show
Oh so you talk to your electronics 2 🤣 guess I'm not crazy after all 🙃
So hope to see you in Missoula!!! I would love for that to be my first show if I can't make it to Bass Canyon. Great video as always, and hopefully soon well get some more show content!
Yes!!! I needed a lighting video 🤣
Happy for you to get back on the road with a new toy!
Christian, simple amazing what you have created for yourself.
So stoked get to work again 👌🏻
🤙🏼 I’m going for the MA3 lite soon. Company I work for has the Compact XT but I just don’t want to short myself on such a big decision. Can’t wait to see what you can do on the 3 😎
I love how he talks to it like it’s his child
Best of luck my man =)
Congrats on the MA collab! Every update I give the 3 a try, still not workable for film/TV. Hope it works out for you!
Also, do you think MA saw your Onyx video and was like "Oh heeeeell no, we are not losing CJ"
I use MA3 for film/TV as a board op - it's great
I have a 4runner and play with lights....good to know about the backseat!
We're gonna need some more MA3 videos now!!! XD
Nice !!! I hope it takes place 😇
So far so good!
I have been touring with an MA3 onPC with Command Wing in Australia for 2 months now and so far it has been fantastic. Couple of little bugs here and there, but for the most part it has been great! Really enjoying using the software and getting a nice head start on it.
Awesome to hear! I’ve had a few strange issues but also excited to finally “get it” and see what the vision for 3 is.
YOOO TOO SICK
Ayyy I’ll be at the LTC show in st aug at the amphitheater. That will by my first show back, I’m so ready
Great Video as always, Christian! So will you run the show simultaneously on your ma2 light and ma3 in mode3? How will you then establish a backup-capable system with the show running in two modes? Maybe by doing the show primarily in ma2 world and merging in the sacn stream from the compact xt? Can't wait for more videos! =)
Ugh that 4Runner tho 😍
And MA3 is about to get really good now that CJ is going to give feedback, being that everyone in the world knows who he is!
That 4 runner is in really good shape
OMG I CANT WAIT TO MEET YOU
Is that your warehouse with all of your gear or do you share it? Love the content!
"Lamp on board" sticker is hilarious haha
13:30 is the quote that made me buy a command wing.
Using letterbox screens for macros would be quite smart thing to do. Or maybe even some small layout with various custom buttons on them.
Cool! I’m going on tour with the National Touring Theatre of Sweden in the fall season. The shows are already programmed on MA2 though, so I’ll stick to that. We have bought a couple of Compacts, so if any of those are available I’ll probably switch to MA3 in the beginning of 2022 for the next show I’m doing.
Hopefully a couple of big updates has been implemented by then. There still is some functions that I would like to have that is not there yet.
Hey Martin, what functions are you missing?
I am going to do my finals in eventteknik in Denmark in about a month, and i will be using a MA3 xt with showkontrol, a media server and a bunch of fixtures.
I am really looking forward to use 'recipies' and 'MAgic'
Hej @@mathiashakonsson2448 There is a couple of larger things. For one, MIB doesn´t work with multi instance fixtures yet.
Another pretty anoying bug can be read about here forum.malighting.com/thread/4961-preses-fade-cue-fade/?postID=12367#post12367
I also think that the phaser engine needs some more funktions. I´m missing features like "take selection", "take MATrixs" and whatnot at the moment.
It´s getting there, definitely, though, in my mind. I think recepies especially is going to be a game changer, once we learn where and when to use it in the most efficient way:-)
Good luck with your finals!
dang grandma really didn’t wanna wake up
An MA3 compact XT will also fit in the trunk of a 2003 Toyota Camry.
For LTC tour the song “every color” are you just going full PC Gamer with the RGB?
Hey, did you do the festival of the lion king show at Disney world? I think I talked to you after the show. 🙂
Negative so far about the 3 is that it breaks down way more often even with the ma 2 software. Since the TV Studio I work in upgraded to 3/20 lights had to be repaired. Also: how do you open this thing? It doesnt has a proper hinge like the 1 used to have.
Молодец 👍🏿
I yet also have a gen3 4runner from 2000. somehow still runs fine 6:11
Jarrad Donovan took the MA3 out on the last The Wiggles tour using the 3 software. In Australia.
Will you be watching any tutorials? I literally got a command wing a week or two ago and I am brand new to MA. Paid or unpaid have you suggestions
Have you checked out an Avo D9 ?
Any update on this by chance?
It would be perfect if the grand MA can change the order of the lamps like the Avolites taitan lamp console. The order of the lamps and lanterns of the MA lamp console is very rigid. I sincerely hope that you can give feedback to the software and technical developers of MA Company.
I love to controlsith MA3 lol 😂
damn, he really did sheesh in lowercase
Where’s the Lamp on Board sticker from
My website
It would be perfect if the grand MA can change the order of the lamps like the Avolites taitan lamp console. The order of the lamps and lanterns of the MA lamp console is very rigid. I sincerely hope that the order of the lamp selection of the MA lamp console can be changed at will according to your own ideas. The ma technique is very troublesome to use with different lamp numbers or odd number of lamps.I sincerely hope that you can give feedback to the software and technical developers of MA the company .
I'm going to be honest the only reason I got tickets to the show near me is to see your light show
Which show?? Come say hi
@@christianjackson St. Louis MO I'll definitely come say hi!
If I'm a newbie about GrandMA, would you recommend start from MA2?
if you're a newbie then you can learn how to program and operate via GrandMA2onPC
@@loisoklm I only saw MA2onPC has windows version, did you have the Mac version?
@@ciaochiang3060 As far as I know grandMA2onPC is a Windows exclusive. You either run a virtual machine with Windows on your MAC or create a DualBoot with both Windows and MAC on your PC. Unless you wanna waste a shit load of money on a MA2 Console
So it's finally worth it to stop putting off getting an MA3?
I think so
But how could u explain such errors in the beginning, why does it happened? That was scary though 😅
TIL it’s pronounced Louis (Loo-is) and not Louis (Loo-ee)
The fact that it doesnt have a UPS in it feels like a huge yikes to me for the money like EVERYONE ELSE has one, why not this?
Can always go for a light or full or crv versions of those. That’s probably what I would do. Or just throw a ups in my foh rack for next to nothing. It’s nice to have the option
Its less about the cost and more about it being an extra thing to worry and deal with which is just a bit annoying thats all lol
Then go for the light I suppose
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IS THAT A REFERENCE TO THE HIT GAME AMOGUS?!
amogus?
hey Christian, im coming over in a couple of years time to the states From New Zealand, i would like the chance to meet up with you maybe work as a tech on one of the shows (will work for free :) ) my father in law passed away two weeks ago and he wants his ashes spread along route 66, we are starting Missouri finishing in Vegas, then we are going to head to Washington and back down the coast to Santa Monica before we head over to Florida for our departure back to New Zealand,,
Thanks for the offer, but you should not work for free. It can undermine the efforts of people who need to make a living and can’t afford to work for free. Very sorry to hear about your father in law and I hope you can enjoy your time stateside :)
It would be perfect if the grand MA can change the order of the lamps like the Avolites taitan lamp console. The order of the lamps and lanterns of the MA lamp console is very rigid. I sincerely hope that you can give feedback to the software and technical developers of MA Company.
Sorry, not sure what you mean exactly.