Every function, explained like at the desk.

• 💡 One .lmproj per gig + date in the name: "2026-10-31-club.lmproj".
• 💡 Copy the file to a USB stick before you leave — that's your backup.

Create a project, patch one fixture, save with Ctrl+S.

• 💡 Trim silence and spoken intros before analyzing: more accurate tempo.
• 💡 A track with drifting tempo stays a challenge — set the BPM by hand.

Analyze a track and find its drop on the timeline.

• 💡 Strobe too violent? Lower the strobe limit before touching anything else.
• 💡 Live: Grand Master or Blackout, always within reach.
• 💡 Guaranteed harmony: all identical heads execute the same move — the wave sweeps the rig left to right, the chorus rotates as one. No more random mismatched patterns between fixtures.

Play a whole track without touching a slider after hitting play.

• 💡 Fewer colors = more pro show. 3 max per track.
• 💡 White breaks everything: save it for peaks (drop, finale).

Redo one of your tracks with a single 3-color palette.

• 💡 A lit tile stays on even when you switch tabs — click again to kill it.
• 💡 Effects tiles move the heads: check where they point before the audience does.

Find a moving Effects tile + a slamming Colors tile, chain them.

• 💡 Photo of each fixture's DMX display before teardown. Always.
• 💡 Overlapping addresses = two fixtures freaking out together.
• 💡 Fixture without a dimmer channel (e.g. ACCU UFO)? It's supported: "NO DIM" badge in the patch, intensity fixed at 100%, not a bug.

Patch your first fixture and light it from the sheet (test).

• 💡 One fixture can live in several groups (front + all).
• 💡 Name them like you talk at the desk: "front", "back", "strobes".

Create a "front" group and flash it from a scene.

• 💡 Duplicate instead of starting from scratch: 80% of looks resemble each other.
• 💡 Duration 0 = infinite hold: perfect for working, avoid in chasers unless you want no end.

Create "Red front": washes in red at 100%, everything else dark.

• 💡 A tight 2-step chaser beats a messy 12-step one.
• 💡 Speed at the track's BPM = a chaser that breathes with the music.

A clean 2-step (red/blue) chaser running at 120 BPM.

• 💡 Number and name each cue like your script ("Q12 - finale").
• 💡 Follow for timed transitions, manual GO whenever a human speaks.

A 3-cue list played on GO without a miss.

• 💡 Order the matrix like the stage seen from the audience, or the pattern runs backwards.
• 💡 Slower = more readable. A slow chase reads; a fast chase smears.
• 💡 Cell order = group order (Groups panel). An off cell is truly off (LTP) — and if a group fixture has neither RGB nor a color wheel, a red alert warns you (it would stay dark).

A circle running on 4 PARs, clockwise.

• 💡 Small amplitude + slow speed = class. Big + fast = funfair.
• 💡 Test on the floor first: too wide a circle ends up in the audience.

A slow figure-8 on 2 movers, 30 seconds hands-off.

• 💡 A wrong plot = beams going nowhere in 3D.
• 💡 Update the plot every time the venue changes.

Recreate your last real rig in 2D.

• 💡 Never Store without looking at what's purple: you'd save the dross too.
• 💡 The programmer takes priority over almost everything: if it's full, nothing else gets through.

Build a look in the programmer, Store it as a new scene, Clear.

• 💡 No driver to install: FTDI interfaces and clones are recognized as-is.
• 💡 Test the output with a single fixture before wiring the whole chain.

Plug in your interface and watch a scene play on the real rig.

• 💡 Big tiles for panic actions (huge blackout, bottom right).
• 💡 One page per track + one "backup" page: blackout, full, strobe.

One 4-tile page: 2 scenes + 1 chaser + 1 giant blackout.

• 💡 Grand Master at 80% during soundcheck: headroom to build the show.
• 💡 A channel slider on the backup dimmer saves you when a scene goes sideways.

Bring a running show down mid-song using only the Grand Master.

• 💡 Map blackout + 4 scenes first: the rest is bonus.
• 💡 If an LED lies, the mapping is wrong, not the tile.

Map 2 pads (scene on/off) + 1 fader (Grand Master).

• 💡 Test the venue Wi-Fi BEFORE: a saturated network = lost commands.
• 💡 The Remote stays local: never exposed to the internet, by design.

Fire a scene from your phone via the Remote.

• 💡 Sign in once BEFORE heading out to a venue with no network.
• 💡 Never sign out live: offline = back to free.

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