Macros

A Macro is just a recorded set of commands. They're mainly used to save time when plotting a show as you can put commonly used syntaxes together.

If for example a Lighting Designer always liked cues to have a time of 2, 5 or 10 seconds, I could record 3 macros which Say [Cue] [Time] X [Enter], then I can just hit those to set the cue timing.

You can also attached macros to cues, so for instance you could enable receiving Midi Show Control, just before you are triggered by Sound.

Hope that's a help.

Dan

A Macro is just a recorded set of commands. They're mainly used to save time when plotting a show as you can put commonly used syntaxes together.

If for example a Lighting Designer always liked cues to have a time of 2, 5 or 10 seconds, I could record 3 macros which Say [Cue] [Time] X [Enter], then I can just hit those to set the cue timing.

You can also attached macros to cues, so for instance you could enable receiving Midi Show Control, just before you are triggered by Sound.

Hope that's a help.

Dan

Thank you very much. This makes a lot of sense now. It's another time saving device like magic sheets .

How would you set up macros. I'm guessing there's a display tab?

You can either record them from Live by hitting [Learn] followed by a number and [Enter]. Any keystrokes will then be recorded until you hit [Learn] again, or you can go into the list by double hitting [Macro], and create one there and edit it directly.