Unlock the Power of GrandMA3: Programming a Song with Recipes

hi and welcome to event lighting if it's  your first time here my name is Tue and I do tutorials on grandMA3 and today we're  going to look at recipes once again on the channel we've definitely covered this before but  I think it's an essential part of the grandMA3 platform so that's why we're going to have a look  at it one more time so today we're going to build a song using only recipes and let's just get  right into it as you can see here on my screen I have made a sequence here with a few c

ues 12  cues with a standard cue and we go into the song we go into a verse A Chorus a verse a break  a guitar solo another chorus a large ending an end break and we go back to our standard cue so  let's just start building our recipes here you can see right now on my sequence sheet here  I can't see my recipe programmer or my recipe workflow so if I go up to the ma logo up here I go  into mask and I go down to show recipes you will see it pops up here in this region over here so  this is my st

andard cue every time I change my cue here you will see the change down here in  the recipe section so if we start by the standard cue and say we need to build some sort of look  so I can go in here in my selection I can right click on my mouse or I can add a new recipe and  right click on my mouse as well if you're on a console you simply just push your finger and just  hold it there it's going to pop up with this popup right here and the first selection here is  where you choose your group a r

ecipe only works if you have a group with some fixtures in it and  you need a preset to point the group to so a recipe is basically a reference between a group  and a preset so let's just start building it the first thing we want to do is to turn off some of  our lights on stage we can say our auras here this is my side light on stage you'll see that  in a second I go into dimmer and I pair it up with my dimmer percentage which is 100 and you can  see over here in the 3D they turn on and they're

pointing straight up in the air so we need to give  it a position as well what we can do here is copy and paste this line here which makes it  a little bit easier then you don't have to choose the group again then you only need to change is  the preset so if I say contrl C and control V you now have all the auras again pointing at the  same preset but we're want to change this one to position and we go down here to side light or sidelys in Danish and as soon as I do that you can see they Point

down to the the band right  here so I want to add a zoom information as well because they are standard Zoom right now I want  to add a narrow Zoom so I copy the line again and I right click and I go into beam here and I see  if I can find sorry I go into my focus and zoom narrow and now you can see uh they are all zoomed  in we need to give it a color as well so we once again copy this and paste it and we go down to  our color here and we go down to a CTO and you can see now they are nice lookin

g here so that's  my side light now I usually add an empty line here so everything separated and then we start  over here and we say all our roxxes we turn those guys on at 100% you can see they now turn on so  we need to give it a color as well so we just give it a color of maybe blue here so now all the  roxxes are on and the colors are blue so what else do we need to do in this case we add another empty  recipe line and we move down to our clfs here on the backdrop you can't see that right no

w but I  do actually have some clfs here in the background so if I put the dimmer at 100% they turn on and I  copy this line and I make them blue like the rest of it if we find the blue preset right here  you can see they're blue now so all our roxxes are blue and all our clfs there are blue I do have  some extra clfs I use for the sideline so we just copy this one we can actually copy both of them  and we can simply just put in another Target here and say anders which is our guitarist over here

and  we copy these two again and we add rud here so now they are both on and they are in blue but maybe  we don't want them in blue let's say we take this one and this one we right click and we give them a  color of CTO and you can see with a control click I can actually select more than one recipe line  and change them which makes it a lot easier to work with so let's see that's that's it here we  need to cover what's in the roof as well so if we go in here and we right click and we find all o

ur  house washes here and we turn them on at full and you can see they now turn on that's cool we need  to give it a position as well so we copy the line again we go into position number one and you can  see they're now in position we want those guys to be blue as well so we copy the line again we go  into color and we go into blue and now they are ready as well we need to set up our spots as well  they are in the roof right now so what we could do is just copy all these guys here like this and 

we just paste it in right here and we just change the group to our house spots you can see they turn  on as well we don't need them in blue and we don't need them to point down on position number one  so what we could do here is just go into color and give them a color of white and position we  could put them somewhere up in the roof like this and maybe we could add a gobo to it now we don't  want to do that but we could add a gobo here if we wanted to as well so that's basically our main  look

here the thing about our main look is that I use the main look at the start of every song and  at the ending of every song so I would have to do this over and over again to be able to reach  the same state in in my entire programming but instead of doing that I could do something  different and that is to create an all preset down here you can see I've opened my preset  pool number two my all preset pool number two and if you don't know how to do that I can just  show you I have an empty space

here I can just push this one go into presets and choose my all  preset or all pool number two so that's it here so if I go in and I take all this stuff here  which is my main look and I need to repeat this again and again what I can do now is just copy  all this stuff go into this one turn it into a recipe and then paste everything in here now I  created a preset down here which is identical to what I just built up here so what I can do now  is just basically just delete everything up here whic

h we just built like this and I'll show  you an easy way to recreate it we used our auras for this guy here sorry our clfs we used our  clfs for that one we used oops we copied this one we used the backdrop we create an empty space  here we used our auras here another empty space we used our house spots Another Empty one and we used  our house washes over here so what we can do now is just take everything here let's just take these  three here and this one this one and this one and point it to a

ll preset number one and you can see  everything is recreated over here we need to add the roxx´s as well like this we copy this one  and we add all the roxx´s here and we point it to the same all preset and now they are on as well so  everything should be on we even have the backdrop over here you can see we recreated the entire look  but with less work so now we need to label this to standard Q oops like this and you can see now it's  our standard cue over here so if we need to add any changes

if we say we need to add a gobo to our  standard cue we could do that we could simply just go in and edit our settings here we could  find our spot fixtures we could just say we need all our house spots we could add a gobo number  two for instance and you can see now we have a gobo up here as well but what we don't need is that  all our house spots is on in the first cue we don't want that so we just take this line up  here and we simply say delete and now they just turned off so now we have a

reference between our  standard cue here down to our standard cue preset down here so if we need to change something  we can easily do that so let's clear this and say this is our standard cue Let's see we need to  start Our Song and as you can see here everything here is in our standard cue if I press the next  cue everything disappears so let's just go to the next cue we need to go through this one  there we go so now we not only need to add the changes because the values track from cue to cu

e  of course like any other grandMA3 console so let's say what do we want to do here we need to make  make something another color let's take all our house washes let's make the color red like  this let's copy this one oops we need to add a new recipe line here and we need to copy this we  just need some space between them we choose all our roxx´s they are now red as well so maybe this  is cue number two and let's say we need all our spots to change position or maybe turn on we can  turn them on

like this now they're on and we need to make them move down into position number one  let's do that and they move down so if we clear this like this and we go back you can see this is  our standard cue we go into cue number two and they move down but they do it fairly quickly and  we don't want that we could change the fade times up here we could simply give it a fade time of  two let's go back and let's move down you can see they come down in two seconds we could also do  something different l

et's just let's keep the timing here at two and see the position we need  the we need them to turn on a little bit faster and we need to move them down very slowly so let's  say we fade from from when we turn them on this is the dimmer preset here let's turn them on in  one second like this and let's give the position maybe 8 seconds to move down let's do it like  this so if we go back now now this should turn on pretty fast and should move down very slowly  so let's try to go this you can see t

hey turn on and they move down very slow and very nicely so  it's very very easy to see what you've done it's very easy to change only one recipe line if  you want to do some changes of if you want to fade something like split timing or something  like this you can see it's very very easy to do with recipes so you can see it's very very easy  to see what you have done it's basically not necessary using your tracking sheet anymore  because everything is laid out in front of you all the changes ar

e laid out and you can even if  you want to do part cues if you are doing theater you can still do part cues and have different  recipes in different parts of your cue as well we're not going to do that here so now we  started our song Everything faded down into the the band and we could start working on the  verse so let's just say we need some movement to start let's say we need to start a phaser of  some sort we need to pan maybe the spots on stage so I can select my spots I can go in to the

values  here and I can go into my phaser effects here I have all kinds of different phasers and you can import  all these faces and you can build your own you can see I built some on my own here and  the other ones are just imported straight from the console so if I go into pan like this and  I go into the cue they should start panning and you can see they just pan all together so we  need to fix that somehow so let's give it a phase we can do that right in here let's give it a phase  from sorry

from 0 to 360 like this you can see they now start doing a a phase like like we  we would expect let's say we need to have a wing of 2 and we need to invert the pan you can see  that's already selected and we need to mirror the movement so now we've created a symmetrical  pan effect very very easy from our standard effect standard phaser effect and we could even go in  and Shuffle it if we wanted to give it a shuffle of 5,000 you can see it's now shuffled so that's  a very easy way to do it and

I have it on a speed master over here so I can simply just turn  the speed all the way down if I wanted to all the phasers are connected to a speed master I  have connected it all the movement to one speed master all the dimmer things to another speed  master all the color changes to a third speed master so you can easily change that during  your programming so let's say this is our verse maybe we need to add something more let's say  we need all our all our washes we need to put some sort of d

immer effects on that one so we go  into our phaser effects here and we go into into intensity medium maybe and you can see they start  flashing and we can manipulate it if we want to we can go in and say we need it to phase up to 360  like this you can see they start right away maybe we want to adjust the speed as well so maybe we  just say the speed needs to be 50 let's see what that's what that does that's a speed of 50 maybe  that's a bit too slow let's put it up to 80 like this let's change

this one to 80 as well so now  we have a effect running here in our verse so we just finished our verse this is what we like  let's just go into the next cue like this and start building from here so what do we need to  do let's say we need to stop the movement and maybe change the position of the the spots  so we choose all our spots we go into our phasers in here and I have a stomp for the position it's  going to stump in a weird location because it's an absolute stump I just want to make cer

tain  that everything stops so what I need to do is at the preset where I wanted to end up and let's  just say I wanted to end up in the roof where we started so that is stopped we add new recipe lines  here and we choose our house washes and we need to go into phaser here and we need to Stomp The  dimmer and now it's stomped maybe we need to change the position as well so let's put it into  position audience nah we need to go into position we just stay in position number one and two yeah  that'

s cool so now we stopped everything now we need something else to start happening let's  add our roxx´s here like this and let's see if we can find a funny phaser for those guys we have a  white and red and we have a 10K and red here that should do it you can see it starts moving here or  starts flashing I need to phase it from 0 to 360 you can see they now go across from side to side  and let's just give these guys a wing of two as well like this you can see now it is symmetrical  let's say we

need to add a speed thing to this one we need to make it a little bit faster Let's  put it up to maybe 80 that help yeah yeah maybe put it up to a 100 now it starts moving let's  put this one to 100 as well yeah and let's say we need let's say we need to do a circle up here  it's kind of boring they're just stopping up here so let's just say we put it into the roof we copy  this one and we add a phaser effect here and we go in and find a circle template they start moving  from that position star

t moving in a circle as a relative position and let's say we need to also  phase these guys 360 you can see it starts working now let's also give this one a wing of two and  let's just say we need it to mirror like this so now we made a nice effect as well or a nice phase  or everything starts moving up in the chorus and this is this could be our chorus cue and  we need to stop everything here and go back to verse so what we can do is start by going into  this with these two guys here from our v

erse I'm in the verse cue here copy this and maybe paste  it in here like this and maybe go into the cue and now we need to go back and have a look we  right now we don't have any we don't have any cue-only functionality in the recipe programming  as of version 1.9.7.0 I'm hoping that's going to be part of the recipe workflow at a later  update but right now we have to we have to see what we what we've done so you can see all  the spots are panning and all the washes are just flashing like this

so if we go into the next one  here we need to stomp our Circle up here so if we go into this one and we copy this one oops  we need something wrong here I take the house spots and we need to Stomp the position we need to put  it into our position number one and we need to start panning you can see it did that right now  and if we go back into our verse up here you can see we need the roxx´s to be static so let's go  back here and go into recipe and another recipe line choose our roxx´s and we s

imply need to stomp  I think we need to Stomp The dimmer and the color because this phaser is both of them so we  stomp dimmer and we copy this one and we stomp the color as well and now you can see it goes  back to Blue because the stump is an absolute one so we need to go back and give it a color of  red like this so now we almost recreated all of it do we need to stop the no I think we are actually  here now everything is moving like it's supposed to yeah the state is the same so now we need 

to create some sort of break where everything maybe starts flashing in white and stuff like  this so let's say we need to start by selecting all of the fixtures and put them into white we  start by taking all our washes we put these guys into white and we make sure we go into the cue  let's say we need to Stomp The phaser we Stomp The dimmer what else do we need to do we need to take  our roxx´s and do the same thing we need to put these guys into another color let's put them  into 10,000 Kelvi

n we need to maybe do something about the spots we could take the Gobo out like  this we could ask it to stop moving let's say we Stomp the position and we give it the position  we wanted to end up in could be position number one so everything is now stopped it's white  and we need to do something about let's just say we need everything to start flashing what we  can do is simply just go in here and take our house spots and we go into our phaser and  we go into our snap on maybe n that's kind of

boring phaser again what do we have here somewhere  intensity medium maybe yeah that's nice let's say we want to manipulate that with a phase to  360 they start doing like this maybe this is fine we need all the fixtures to do that so  what we can do instead of recreating everything we can simply just cut sorry copy and paste  this one twice and we can select our washes they should start doing that and we can select  all our roxx´s to do that as well so this is how easy it is we just built the

the phaser effect  or the reference once we manipulated the way we wanted it and then we just copied it and choose  different groups to put into it so this could be our break and now we need to go into our guitar  solo and I think the guitar solo we need to go we need to stop everything here and we needed to  go back to the color we wanted and now we need to put some fixures into the guitarist so  let's just say we need all our roxx again we can copy this we can put in our spots we  need this em

pty line here we don't have to use the empty line I just think it's easier  to figure out what you've done like this we put this one into our phaser here and we say stomp  dimmer and do the same thing here and I could have just copied everything here but I didn't like  this and now we need to go into the cue and you can see everything is stomped so let's take  the roxx´s give it a color of red let's take the house spots actually we don't need to do that  with the house spots let's just say oops

oops oops like this let's do the house washes as well  we copy this and we give it a color of let's just say red again again like this we could take all  the house spots and move them somewhere else just put them into the roof up here and let's  say we need to put some spot or some light on our guitarist I add a new recipe line here  and I actually created a group I'll show you over here our guitarist his name is anders  I have a selection of three fixtures here and and I have a position over he

re and that's the  only thing you need because you can take the color information from somewhere else so let's  go back to our recipes and we choose our solo group here and we choose our position which is  the same thing you can see they move here now and we can just copy this one paste it in and  give it a different color let's just put it into white and you can see the guitarist is now  highlighted with three fixtures and the cool thing about the recipes is you can just  use two fixtures or th

ree fixtures you can just change the content of the group update the  position and then it will work throughout your entire show and that is really really cool and  really really simple to do so let's say we now have a guitar solo just pointing at him  we need to go back to our chorus and we could go up here and we can just copy everything like  this go into our chorus and just paste it in and see where that brings us you can see they  now start doing the same thing again from our chorus and of

course you can see the group up  here has gone back to its original position which is kind of the the intention we the  only thing we need to do is we need to put it back into red and we can just do that with  the entire group we don't have to do that with only the fixtures pointing at him so let's just  put these guys back into red like this and now I think we are back into our chorus look if we go up  to this one up here it looks almost the same do we need to add maybe a gobo down here yeah we

  need to add a gobo to our spots like this one that's go to gobo gobo number two and I think we  almost have the same look now let's say go to cue 4 yeah almost the same thing go to 8 cool  so that is our first few cues let's go into our large ending here and I think this is just some  of the moving lights start flashing again stuff is starting to move around so let's say  we need our spots we needed to change position to audience which is like this let's go into  the cue you can see they move

down maybe they need to speed up the movement here let's add this  one let's go in and start the circle here again you can see it now resets because it's tracking  this information now let's phase it to 360 let's do the same thing with wings of 2 and let's  just mirror the position here and let's speed it up we can do that here we speed it up to maybe 50  maybe that's a little too fast n maybe 50 is fine maybe do 50 in this one as well here that could be  part of the ending let's take the Gobo o

ut in this cue like this what else do we need to do  we could say we need our wash this to do the same thing if we open this up we can see the  the circle template we just copy this line make an empty line here we paste it in here and we  choose a different group our house washes you can see they start moving as well and just  above that let's put it into our audience position as well like this they're doing the  same thing you can see they're doing exactly the same thing just by copying the lin

e which  I think is just really really amazing we could Shuffle it a little bit if don't want it to  do exactly the same thing let's Shuffle it to 5,000 H maybe that helped a little bit on it  not really never mind let's say we needed to go into some sort of flashing thing and change to  White we take the washes again we go into color we put it into white and we could copy this  again and we could add add a phaser of some sort we can say intensity medium they start  flashing once again we can go

into the recipe line and start phasing it to 360 this might  be cool this is our large ending let's say we need to do something about our roxx´s as well  we put the roxx here and we need to what do we need to do we need to change color into our  10K here we need to add some sort of phaser to it let's say what do we have here we have  the same intensity medium let's manipulate that as well into 0 to 360 like this maybe we want  to shuffle it see if that does something for us actually it didn't b

ecause we didn't do any  wings of anything let's just take a wing of 2 here this is fine so this is our large ending  and now we need an end break here which I think is just everything going into the audience and  just standing still so once again we could actually go into here and we could copy one  of each here then it's just going to be easier to build the next one so we just paste this  guy in here and we go into the cue let's see where we are go into the cue here oops  we need to go up here

so let's say what do we need to do we need to stop all the flashing  here let's Stomp The dimmer now everything is stomped what else do we need to do we could  stump the position as well like this and we need to add a position to this one one once again  it is a relative sorry an absolute stomp let's just add an empty line here and here so  we need to do the same thing with house washes so let's just say we stomped the dimmer let's  just copy this one here and go down here paste it in and just

change the group to our washes  they do the same thing all the roxx´s have stomped everything is okay so what do we need  to do now that's our end break we need to go back to our standard cue so what we can  do here is just select our let's say our roxes we copy the line here we add this one  we add this one and let's put this one into our house wash let's put this one into our spots  and let's point it to our all preset our standard cue like this and like this and if we go into the cue  you can

see we almost back to the state we want the only thing we need to do is to turn our house  spots off we can do this by they should actually be off now which they are not let's just put the  dimmer on here and put it at zero so now we are basically back to our standard cue which with  with only a few lines here because we used the press the the the preset down here which  is a recipe preset we have all this information in it and we just pointed which whichever fixtures  we needed to change into

this recipe preset and I only need to to point one line into the preset and  it will take everything that is interesting for this fixture so this is very very easy and  then we are done and we could go to the next page but let's just go back and see what we have  done let's play with some timing maybe we have our first cue we are almost ready to go into cue  number 2 what did we do here we gave it a fade time and we did some individual timing down here  to make it go more simple and more slow in

to the into the cue our verse let's go in here it  starts immediately let's give that one a phase time sorry a fade time as well let's go back and  see how that looks it looks a little bit better comes up maybe we need to change the timing of  the the washes we need to snap them on so if we go into our verse here and we go into our was  washes here you can see right now they don't have a fade time because they're taking the two  seconds from up here so let's just set this one to can we set to ze

ro yeah we can if we go back  let's see if it's finished you can see they start immediately but everything else Fades let's go  into our course you can see that also happens very very quickly so let's give that we want it  to happen quickly we just need the spots maybe to move a little bit slower so we give that a fade  time of two as well we go back we come from here and we needed to finish moving down here and  if we press play here you can see it happens more slowly it doesn't happen instantl

y like  like on the other one but that's a very very easy way of controlling it that's because it's  zero to two we changed is from 2 to two so 2 seconds now on the movement let's just go back and  run the cue again let's just finish it moving down now this is in our cue we press go you can  see they move slower into the position instead of just instantly jumping there let's go into  verse you can see once again it happens very slow let's just give it a maybe a two second  fade here we have a br

eak and we need that to be very instant and we need to go back to the  guitar solo like this which is okay let's say we need we need the movement to be slower on  the spots here we take the preset we fade it on maybe 5 Seconds just to try it like this we go  back like this it stops immediately and then it moves up in 5 seconds which is is cool then  we go into our chorus and once again it just snaps into the chorus let's see what happened  we come from here and we needed to maybe fade the positi

on as well if we can let's say we  find the roof position here we find the fade let's just do it over 5 Seconds as well just  because we can like this we go back like this we have it right here now we go into our large  ending and everything starts flashing I think the timing has to be zero here that's fine  and we go into our end break which is also cool to have very instant and then we go back  to our standard cue and we basically need that to happen over let's say 5 Seconds without any  movem

ent on the spots so let's see what happens you can see the spots put in a gobo and they start  moving up so we need to delay that more than 5 seconds so let's say we come from this and we  need to delay the movement we don't want it to start moving before it's all the way off  and if we go into the standard cue here we can see we have it going into the standard  cue so we need to delay the transition into the standard cue with more than 5 Seconds  so we assure that everything is turned all the w

ay off before it starts moving so let's  say delay our transition into the standard cue let's just say 5.1 second we need to make sure  it's finished let's do it with the in and out let's go into the cue you can see they start  moving which is fine the spots turn off and now they are moving so this is basically how easy  it is to build a song using recipes and the cool thing is when you go back here and you need  to change something we used our house spots here we used our house washes we used o

ur roxx´s  we used our auras sidelight here you can put anything into these groups you can just change  the content of the group and everything will be working as as long as they are represented  in the presets we have used so I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did give it a  like that's going to mean a lot for me and YouTube and it's going to spread it out to more  people and if you're not subscribed to the event lighting Channel be sure to do so and click the  little bell icon so you get

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