The long-overdue grandMA3 is about to come!
- Time of issue:2018-01-10 16:50
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The long-overdue grandMA3 is about to come!
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The new range has been in development for several years and is evolutional in design. It has been designed so that existing users will instantly feel at home, whilst new converts will find the refined user interface easy to learn. The physical design detail of the grandMA3 range is extraordinary and focused on delivering the best possible user experience, now and into the future.
Huge screen real-estate
The grandMA3 full-size and light models feature huge multi-touch screen surface areas. All dedicated encoder and playback information is accessed directly on the letterbox screens allowing the larger screens to be fully-configured to suit user needs.
Work without boundaries
grandMA3 breaks the limitations of Local Area Networks (LAN) with the ability to access Wide Area Networks (WAN).
Software updates, technical support, online help and fixture downloads are all features to be supported within the WAN framework.
Using the advanced MA-Net3 protocol, grandMA3 systems can output up to 250,000 parameters. There are three sizes of grandMA3 Processing Units to expand the console parameter count.
Robust and durable
The grandMA3 full-size and light models incorporate a sophisticated thermal design, transferring heat to a cooling corridor, which isolates critical components from harmful dust and keeps fan noise to a whisper.
The lightweight chassis has been designed for durability and easy handling. The large screen housing on the full-size and light models have a dual friction hinge system, providing fast-folding for portability whilst ensuring maximum visibility for users.
Real-world fixtures
The grandMA3 control software utilizes a flexible new real-world fixture concept, developed with industry leading CAD software and fixture manufactures.
The new fixture models are built to replicate the physical reality of a fixture and allow intuitive control of all parameters.
Multiple color parameters are mapped to an advanced generic color space and can be adjusted both in color quality selection and set with various playback path options.
Dual-wheel encoders
grandMA3 features dual-wheel encoders, which provide users with intuitive control of additional features and functions. Feature-mapping of the dual-wheel encoders is customizable, facilitating ease of use and faster programming.
Enhanced playback capability
Long-life motorized playback faders are used across the entire grandMA3 range. The faders incorporate a color changing light-pipe, providing a fader-glow effect used to identify the functionality and state of the fader. A fully flexible assignment of playback functionality allows for 30% more playback handles than any previous grandMA series.
All playbacks have direct access to button pushes as well as intensity and timing changes thanks to the new rotary RGB backlit encoders.
Key to the future
New buttons have been specifically developed for grandMA3, to satisfy the needs of the most demanding users. The almost-silent buttons feature low travel and have a positive actuation-point, ensuring fast, accurate operation and a tactile experience that professional users will appreciate. Even the backlit button-caps have been ergonomically optimized to reduce mis-hits.
Improved workflow
grandMA3 has a refined user interface designed to be ergonomic yet fully featured. Users can customize their workflow to incorporate favorite options and features, without cluttering their workspace. Standard default-configurations for screen views and playback layout are fully featured but can be customized, providing a new level of flexibility that many grandMA users will appreciate.
Advanced processing technology
At the heart of the grandMA3 system is a powerful new MA designed processing engine featuring high performance Intel® technology. The capacity and power of the cutting-edge hardware is far in excess of current requirements, allowing plenty of headroom for future development.
Integration
In addition to the lighting control capabilities, the grandMA3 software features an integrated 3D visualiser for pre-programming, and the ability to manipulate and playback basic media content directly from within the console.
Designed from the ground-up to incorporate audio and video content, grandMA3 software provides seamless interaction across the platform. Optimum performance is resource dependent, therefore additional processing hardware will be required in some instances.
Connectivity
A consistent theme for MA Lighting consoles is connectivity, and the grandMA3 console is no exception.
All console variants come with a full set of hardware connections suitable for MIDI, LTC, audio in & out, local trigger inputs and multiple Ethernet connections for expanded functionality.
Improved effects
Dynamic effects are no longer restricted to just modulated parameters. The grandMA3 software has a totally new flexible effects concept: Phasers allow dynamic step sequences to be treated just like static parameter values.
This powerful functionality is consistent with normal programming syntax and is utilized across the platform. Presets, fade & delay times, priorities, MIB functionality etc. are all Phaser friendly.
grandMA3 onPC
onPC versions of the grandMA3 software are available for Windows 10 and macOS. The grandMA3 onPC Windows version can be used in conjunction with the grandMA3 onPC command wing and grandMA3 onPC XPort Nodes as standalone systems. The grandMA3 macOS version can only be used as a preprogramming tool, back-up or as a designer display.
grandMA2 compatibility
The grandMA3 control consoles are compatible with shows created on grandMA2 consoles. Where features allow, existing shows can be exported from grandMA2 software 3.4 for use in all grandMA3 console models. The grandMA3 full-size and light console models also incorporate fully featured grandMA2 Mode2, which runs native grandMA2 software version 3.4 and later.
Go-to-market timeline
In April 2018, it will be presented to the world at MA3’s Lightpower section of the Pro Light & Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany.
In May 2018,And it will again appear at the ACE section of the GET Show MA3 in Guangzhou, China in the following month. After the GET Show, the ACE lighting team will conduct a series of activities with MA3, including road shows, training, and product trials.
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