Creating A Patch With Different Fixtures

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a patch with 3 different fixtures.

Date: 09/2014
MADRIX Version: 3.3 (Created with)

We will use several #G-Lec Phantom 60 DVI screens, several Elation LED 60 Tri Strip fixtures, and several Martin Stage Bar 2.

Start MADRIX. Go to Preferences > Patch Editor or press F3. Now the Patch Editor appears:

Click New on the toolbar, go to File > New, or press Ctrl+N

Click Yes to confirm that all fixtures should be deleted.

Now you will get a new, empty patch.

Click Matrix Size on the toolbar and enter Sixe X: 100, Size Y: 100, and Size Z: 1. Now there is enough space for all the devices we want to add.

Click Add and let us add the first 4 Elation Professional Design LED 60 Tri Strip fixtures in horizontal position starting from X: 2, Y: 1, and Z: 1

Set up the following settings in the Add Fixtures window:

▪	Protocol: Should be DMX. If it is not, change it to DMX.

▪	Fixture: Click on the arrow on the right side and search the list for Elation Professional Design LED 60 Tri Strip 60 ch mode. Select it.

▪	Rotation: Should be Original. If it is not, change it to Original.

▪	Count: X = 4, Y = 1, and Z = 1

▪	Offset: X = 0, Y = 0, and Z = 0

▪	Start Position: X = 2, Y = 1, and Z = 1

▪	Start Corner, Main Orientation, and Snake Mode: Leave the default settings. These options are explained in a previous tutorial (»The First Patch).

▪	DMX Start Channel: Should be 1. If it is not, change it to 1.

▪	DMX Start Universe: Should also be 1. If it is not, change it to 1.

Now click Add

Click Add on the toolbar again. Now we want to add 20 #G-Lec Phantom DVI Phantom 60 Frame DVI fixtures. The dimensions will be 5 rows with 4 columns.

▪	Protocol: Change it to DVI

▪	Fixture: Search for #G-Lec Phantom DVI Phantom 60 Frame (16x16) and select it.

▪	Count: X = 5, Y = 4, and Z = 1

▪	Merge Fixtures: Please enable it. The checkbox will be illuminated in green.

▪	Start Position: We want to add the screens directly below the Tri strips. Set X to 2, Y to 2, and Z to 1

In addition, we want to add another 4 fixtures. But this time they should be positioned below the DVI screen.
Click Auto Address on the toolbar. The button should be Elation Professional Design LED 60 Tri Strip illuminated in green.

Now select all Elation Professional Design LED 60 Tri Strip fixtures in the Patch (Press and hold down the Ctrl key and click on every single fixture one after another). Afterwards, hold down the Ctrl key again, click on one of the Elation fixtures, and drag it to the desired position. In our example, the left corner of the left fixture should be at position X = 2 and Y = 66. The advantage of this method is that you do not need calculate the DMX addresses. MADRIX does it automatically for you.
Now the patch should look like shown in the following picture.

In this step, we want to add 22 of Martin Stage Bar 2; positioned to the left side of the DVI screen. The fixtures will be rotated by 90°.

Click Add on the toolbar and configure up the following settings:

▪	Protocol: Should be DMX.

▪	Fixture: Search and choose Martin Stagebar 2 15 Ch (RGBW Mode, 3 Pixel). (For a faster search, press M on your keyboard in the drop down menu and it will jump to the fixture manufacturers beginning with M.)

▪	Rotation: Change it to 90° and the fixtures will be added to the patch with an applied rotation of 90°.

▪	Count: Set X to 1, Y to 22, and Z to 1

▪	Offset: X = 0, Y = 0, and Z = 0

▪	Start Position: Set X to 1, Y to 1, and Z to 1

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DMX Start Channel: Set it to the next free DMX channel. The next free channel is 481 on DMX universe 1.
Why? We have already added 8 Elation Professional Design LED 60 Tri Strip and every strip utilizes 60 DMX Channels. That means that all strips together require 480 DMX channels in total (8 fixtures x 60 Channels).

▪	DMX Start Universe: 1

Let us add the last fixtures of this tutorial.
Click Add on the toolbar again. Because we already did add several Martin Stagebar 2, we do not have to change the Fixture type.

But please change the following settings:

▪	Rotation: 90°

▪	Count: Set X to 1, Y to 22, and Z to 1

▪	Offset: X = 0, Y = 0, and Z = 0

▪	Start Position: Set X to 82, Y to 1, and Z to 1

▪	DMX Start Channel: 301

▪	DMX Start Universe: Set to 2. We are using more than 512 DMX channels. That means we need to use more than one DMX universe.

Now, the Patch Size we have set up initially is too large. We will change it to the correct size. Click on Matrix Size on the toolbar and change the dimensions. Set Size X to 82 and set Size Y to 66.

Now, the whole patch should look like this:

Note: For this patch we need to use 3 DMX universes. If there are no more channels available in the current universe for the next fixture, MADRIX automatically adds the fixture to the next universe.
You can save the Patch if you need it for other Setups. In the Patch, go to File > Save Patch As, choose a directory, type in a file name, and click Save. Close the Patch. MADRIX updates the new patch automatically.

Congratulations! You have created a Patch with 3 different fixture profiles and 53 fixtures.