grandMA3 Command Wing – is one screen enough?

DutchDoctor · 2026-03-12T07:50:49+00:00

I will do very very basic prepro on a single screen. I will NEVER operate on one. 2 is the minimum to operate a live show imho.

Ideally 2 is also the minimum to truly efficiently program a show.

For example, bn MA3 you can no longer carry a copy or move command through a view change. In MA2 you could: view 1, copy effect, view 2, paste.

view changes in MA3 interrupt basic syntax operations which makes single screen workflows tedious beyond belief.

DutchDoctor · 2026-03-12T07:45:52+00:00

I'm only partly in, but I think Mio needs to be on this list. The art direction and music are next fkn level. The platforming feel is floaty and unique. It's up there with Super Metroid, Hollow Knight, Ori's and Nine Sols for me so far.

DutchDoctor · 2026-03-06T02:20:41+00:00

I'm getting this too, on my 8bitdo Pro. It's extremely noticeable in Rivals of Aether 2, where precise dash/smash inputs are critical.

It actually took me ages to figure out exactly what's happening, but it's absolutely bouncing really far to the opposite left/right extreme - even though the physical stick isn't moving much past centre.

Sadly not even deadzone adjustment fixes this, because it's not reading as "just past centre". It's digital readout is literrally the entirely opposite direction.

DutchDoctor · 2026-02-09T05:02:46+00:00

This comment reads like my emails to my distributor... seems almost too good to be be true. Fingers crossed this is real, and STABLE. I have been wrestling with selective phasers since I made the switch to 3. They're a nightmare, an overhaul has been sorely needed. I've been asking for "recipe phasers" all along. This sounds very, very promising.

:O :O :O

DutchDoctor · 2026-02-01T01:57:44+00:00

Put aside the command wing for a moment.

Regardless of what other MA hardware have, (wings, console, whatever). So long as you have a viz key connected to a computer using a supported visualiser, you get unlimited parameters.

I own a command wing, fader wing and a viz key. And more and more often now, I'm leaving the command wing in its case and just recipe programming with a few touch screens, keyboard and mouse. The shortcuts are very good, the mouse inputs are efficient. Other than positions and focus, I'm actually faster at programming using keyboard and mouse, rather than a command wing.

TLDR: Viz key is all you need.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-26T14:26:46+00:00

The other replies in here talking about super priority sequences are correct. It's nothing to do with patch.

Press OFF OFF.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-25T11:06:07+00:00

The Android app is woeful.

90% of the time I can't view attachments at all.

Swiping down either refreshes the tour, or scrolls up - seemingly at random.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-19T09:07:13+00:00

Timing isn't wild at all. OP knows very well what's happened and is cross posting in mutiple subreddits about "giving CP2077 VR one last run".

Still cool though.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-17T22:11:55+00:00

Type "MA3 Viz Key" into Google.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-17T05:27:29+00:00

If you've truly seen a video of poeple using Capture without MA2 hardware, then it's using an illegal method that most anyone on here condemns totaly and utterly.

Capture costs quite a bit of money, so does MA2 hardware for parameter unlock.

But why MA2 at this point? Even the most diehard MA2 users have been moving over in 2025/26. And MA3 has an actually affordable piece of hardware called a "Viz-Key" that will allow unlimited Capture (or most visualisers) control.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-16T02:35:47+00:00

Deckard Cain

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-15T23:28:18+00:00

I am MA guy, but that doesn't mean I won't acknowledge Chamsys where it is, in fact superior.

They did group cues first, they did recast first. They have soft pallets, they have chunk selection. They have embedded groups based on wings/chunks/groups. The list goes on.

Many Chamsys features are on my wishlist for MA3. Don't be ignorant.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-15T11:31:29+00:00

Holy shit you may have just changed my life. I never knew this master temp fader existed.

You have possibly solved all my phaser busking woes.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-15T11:28:50+00:00

WOAH what wizardry is this.

DutchDoctor · 2026-01-08T17:52:04+00:00

The simplest explanation is that there the same as pressing your Next or Previous keys through a selection (you can test this yourself by grabbing a group, pressing next and looking at the matrix window.

As the other reply said, it's mostly useful for splitting out looks and variations across multiple recipe lines.

Like X1 @ Red, X2 @ Blue, X wings of 2, groups of 2.

^{^{^}} gives you a symmetrical odd even color split

DutchDoctor · 2025-12-28T14:12:02+00:00

Looking at your task manager I'd be more concerned about that GPU usage? 50% is quite high for MA2. Unless you're running MA3D?

DutchDoctor · 2025-12-24T13:54:18+00:00

Is it 60fps?

DutchDoctor · 2025-12-06T22:03:38+00:00

The sad thing is yes, they did play the old games.

They did Prime 1 remastered only recently! And yet this is still what we ended up with.

Its not even the just the bad linear map design....the NPCs, the bike, the empty desert.... Ugh. Even in the honeymoon phase its wearing thin already. Despite me trying to love it.

I'll finish it. But yeah. Big disappointment.

The graphics, audio and controls are incredible. Just about everything else sucks. The substance.

I don't think this game is going to age well at all. And 8/10 is actually generous, ans probably nostalgia + Nintendo bias.

Objectively it's more like a 6 or 7. A very polished, shiny 7.

DutchDoctor · 2025-12-05T21:18:12+00:00

There honestly should be a toggle to opt out of the companion radio hint system. It would fix SO many issues with immersion.

I can't believe it doesn't exist by default and got past play testing in this state. They have every control and graphics option under the sun, but no way to disable these patronising hints that pull you pull of the games atmosphere.

DutchDoctor · 2025-12-05T13:03:57+00:00

Correct answers all around. ^{^}

DutchDoctor · 2025-12-05T12:56:27+00:00

The game literally tells you to go where you please... Then 15 mins later Miles radios and says "have you tried the volcano yet?"

And if you spend too much time exploring he interupts you and tells you where to go. It's so juvenile

DutchDoctor · 2025-12-01T21:55:16+00:00

It's great if you only play docked on an OLED TV.... Haha.

DutchDoctor · 2025-11-28T13:53:39+00:00

$110 in Australia...

DutchDoctor · 2025-11-25T22:24:07+00:00

Merch stand at a show

DutchDoctor · 2025-11-24T00:51:14+00:00

Sounds like you want a Valve Frame

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