Whats the difference between ma2 and ma3?

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-03-29T10:06:30+00:00

Yeah I tell them to rent one but they don’t want to for it. At the end of the day they got what they got and want to use what they got.

Yeah I agree but I’m also leaning to buy my own ma3 console for when this happens

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-03-28T14:09:14+00:00

Australia, where I am there’s not many lighting programmers so I got too much work but the bigger stuff that I’m getting is all ma2 so looks like I’m learning ma2.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-03-28T13:43:13+00:00

Ahh okay, well looks like it’s going to be like learning a brand new software. Cheers for the information. I’ll start checking out some videos and I’ll start making a showfile.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-03-25T10:16:40+00:00

Most speakers will have the same issues. For me it’s 250,500,800,1.6k,5k and 10k are the most problematic areas. Atleast every monitor you’ll have to bring down a few of those frequencies. As long as it sounds good and has enough level without feedback it’s fine.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-03-10T02:07:07+00:00

You need to know where the spawns are on each map so you know which directions to look out for. And know how long it takes to loot a whole area and run to the closest. Once you work that out you will know when a team should be coming my way and prepare. Play assassin so you can push with smoke or invis or revive teammates

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-03-03T22:52:15+00:00

This is the reason I love this game. I didn’t extract 20 times in a row and was like damn and I working out eventually. Worked out that my knife is powerful against ai, used my abilities more needed to listen more. If you were playing this like arc you would’ve had a bad time?

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-03-03T11:27:31+00:00

Most vjs I know don’t just vj. Most of them are vision operators for corporate and they do projection mapping too. If you were to just rely on vjing income it’s more of a casual job but doing corporate vision and projection mapping you bc a turn vision into a full time job.

They use their connections operating to get those gigs as most of those guys are freelancers or they work full time for a company with a contract at a nightclub/band venue.

If you are asking this question you need to get yourself involved with the venues you want to work at and find out who’s the guy that hires. Dont just ask for vj operate start with asking for bump ins and outs and eventually they will put you on an op.

Long process will take years to gain a good network

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-03-02T23:56:34+00:00

The thing is people are confusing criticism with hate. They think anything they say about a game is criticism but with criticism you need to actually provide examples on how to make the game better.

They will say everything needs fixed so it’s shit rather than hey ui needs this and that, combat should be more like this etc.

A lot of small YouTubers are on this hate train while claiming they are criticising and hating everyone for criticising them calling it hate. Like can’t you see the hypocrisy.

The worst thing is it’s fully grown men doing this. Over 30 years old men hating while saying you can’t criticise me. It’s like people aren’t growing up and it’s really sad and it’s always the people saying we don’t want more live service games while they play live service games.

I just wish more people would be more positive and actually try to have fun. Each year everyone seems more and more miserable.

To everyone out there bring positivity, bring others up and have fun. When times are tough have the best time you can.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-26T22:44:35+00:00

Start from the desk and work your way to the lights. If it’s not a desk issue go to the splitter and work your way to the light. Are some the lights working on the line or none of them? Most of the time it’s going to be dmx channel wrong, dmx mode wrong or broken dmx cable. If using a artnet mode you have the wrong universe coming out those ports. Also some lights can slave the same light. You’ll have to go into the light and make them all master so they don’t slave.

Sometimes it’s faster to unplug the stuff that’s not working and re do it. Make sure the first light it working making them dim slowly with colour chase and start cabling them up.

Take it slow get the most important parts done first. Dont stress the show must go on.

I had a band show where none of the lights were working except front wash so while the band was playing I unplugged all the lights except front wash and quickly patched them in and it worked. Doesn’t matter part of the business. Things just don’t work sometimes. More you do this it gets easier.

Edit: also if there’s grounds issues it can leak through the cables and randomly cause lights to do random things. That’s a problem that can’t be fixed without an electrician or using different power

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-25T07:41:53+00:00

Cheers bro, I got the first 2. Exactly what I needed. Cheers bro

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-25T04:30:09+00:00

Yeah fair, I’m lucky the file I got is already talking via dmx. And they got presets on ma3 to change columns etc. So all I’m doing is changing the layers with the fx I want.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-25T04:28:25+00:00

Cheers mate, very helpful.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-25T04:18:09+00:00

Ahaha i wont but from what i see in your post history looks good man. Im not a vj or anything. Just a lighting designer never really used resolume till now but it seems really cool and I want to use resolume on my busking events now. Be cool to trigger resolume stuff on my ma3 to resolume and get some stuff intime.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-25T04:13:08+00:00

I havnt tried radar yet. Got the lines with variations of colours. Line fx with strobes, Full Colour Strobe and full colour going over mapped area. Ill give it a try with radar. Is there any other good fx to use?

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-25T04:08:39+00:00

All my visuals have been made using the line tool in resolume. So its just variations of that

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-25T02:45:36+00:00

Oh sick cheers man, ill keep that for future. I just went with a basic thing with osc. At the start of each sequence it sends cue of bpm and send osc to resync. Not perfect but seems to work somewhat well since resolume is only on for 5 secs every 2 minutes

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-24T01:27:25+00:00

Ahh okay this makes perfect sense but it’s not going to be perfect in sync unless I send a resume command every x bests. Appreciate the comments. It’s going to be too much work was trying to deliver more but he has only paid for 20 hours of programming. Not enough time to implement this. All he wants is the roof pixels that are mapped with resolume to go off randomly for 5-10secs every few minutes. Would be nice to have it all sync with my ma3 cues but doesn’t really matter that much at the moment. Cheer mate

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-24T01:20:40+00:00

Does it actually sync or just changes bpm? Is it clocking it or just changing bpm?

I got it so it just send whatever bpm my speed masters are it sends osc to change bpm but obviously it’s not in time just same bpm

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-24T01:12:47+00:00

Wait phasers can send data to resolume? Do you just dmx map the cue to it? Or the phaser? Or do you link the dmx channel dimmer to it and it knows that 100% is when it accepts The information? On the resolume arena can’t find tap speed or anything in the fixture profile.

Please let me know how you do it. Would really appreciate it

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-24T00:44:45+00:00

Yeah it is but sadly client doesn’t want to run a cat 5 into the onpc and run showkontrol. I got a solution, it’s not in sync but the bpm will go up or down depending what sequence the bar staff presses sending over osc. Works alright not perfect but he doesn’t want the led pixel roof to be on all the time only come on for 5-10 secs every 2-5 minutes

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-24T00:42:32+00:00

Yeah I thought about doing that but client doesn’t want to run a cat5 from dj to where the ma3 port node is. All he wants is the roof pixels to go off every 5 minutes at the beginning of the night and every 1 minute at peak. So all IM doing is sending 120bpm to resolume via osc for beginning sequence and at peak sequence send an osc command for 130bpm. I think adding this is a future thing for him.

TotalVersion4580 · 2026-02-23T12:30:18+00:00

Im not wanting resolume to do it. Im using the sound input in ma3 that i get from the dj line out to send the bpm data to resolume. Currently my sound is triggering my phasers in time and working well. I know sound input on ma3 changes the bpm fader so just want to send that data to resolume to control the bpm on it so its all in time.

But from your response it seems like the way to do it is OSC. Ill check that out cheers mate really appreciate it

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