grandMA3 | MA Tips [EN] | Generators

hello there M3 is all about creating new tools for our users to expand their creativity after all repeating the same thing over and over can be boring sometimes random changes can Dazzle the brain of a spectator by presenting a new look or view each and every time the shuffle and random we know and loved from previous versions or other lighting consoles are always bound to some pattern in some way and we thought we could improve on that for this purpose the random generator was created this engine will create truly random values across a set of

pictures of your choosing imagine for example a fire burning this is hard to recreate in lighting as this image is made up of endless variations in both color and intensity let's open up a generator pool and edit a new generator object this will open up the generator dialogue there are several manipulations available to create our true random effects the attribute column specifies which attribute is affected multiple lines can be added to Generate random values on different attributes speed determines how quickly values change the speed variance sets the variation in speed phase sets the starting phase

from 0 to 360° the phase variance defines the variation in Phase low high will Define the range of the values while the low high variance will control the variance in those low high values ATT teack Decay will set the linear transitions to low or high value vales ratio and ratio variance set a proportion of time using low high values and its variance speed ones will decide whether speed changes need a restart phase ones will set whether phase changes need a restart and the random start determines if random starts the same each time or differently of

course we can cut and copy our values delete lines and use oops there's also an Import and Export option to import some predefined generators to spark your imagination let's import the candle effect select one spot and apply the generator to it you can now see a true random dim effect that mimics the intensity of a candle we talked earlier about recreating fire as was explained to us in Disney's Jungle Book man's greatest achievement was mastering fire we are now very happy to say we have achieved the same in lighting software let's import the fire generator

and apply it to a group of fixtures marvelous now just add a wood crackling sound via the sound pool and enjoy your ma just as much as your fireplace at home or you can use it for theatrical applications another use can be to combine the power of recipes with the potential of generators we have made a sequence that contains a single recipe line it holds a selection and the value is this random generator we have created let's take a look at the values in the generator we can see that speed and phase are at zero

the phase at 100 with a slight variation to give us another selection every time time the low and low variance are at zero the high value is 100% to give maximum output attack and Decay are at 100% because we do not want any transition between the phase the sequence settings of our sequence pool have been set to flash so we can replicate an Executor with a flash key every time we hit the key a truly random selection of pictures with intensity is the result we get we cannot imagine all the Great Looks youu our lovely

users will create with this but we are sure will amaze us like always happy programming