Adding Additional Arrays; Deleting An Array - Martin Audio MLA User Manual

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Adding additional arrays

It is very common to have additional arrays deployed at a venue, particularly side hangs in venues where the stage projects out
into the arena and there is perhaps banked seating either side of stage. With MLA Mini having a horizontal dispersion of 100⁰ it
is obviously impossible to achieve coverage right round the sides of a stage so side hangs are often essential. You may also have
to deploy delay hangs larger auditoriums. These can all be catered for in the same Display 2.1 Mini project by adding the extra
arrays as required and going through the same design process we have already used for each array.
If we select the Add tab and click on the add array button, we will see the same dialog window open that we used when we
created the original array. You will notice however that the tab for the first array is still present;-
We will add a second array of eight MLA Mini to be used as side hangs so will name them "Sides". Once you have entered the
name, click on Add and a new tab will be created;-
You can now go through the same design process defining the 2D slice, array position, audience planes and optimisation
coefficients exactly as we did for the main array, we can return to edit the main array at any time by clicking on the tab. As
mentioned previously, we can rename either of the arrays by selecting the correct tab, typing the new name in the Rename box
and pressing enter.
You can enter dozens of arrays, only seven will be visible at any one time as the dashboard cannot be expended on the present
version. Arrays added above seven cannot be accessed until you delete one of the visible arrays.

Deleting an array

To keep your Display project tidy and the file size reasonable you may need to delete arrays that are no longer required. This is
very simple, select the array by clicking on its tab and type 'delete' in the Rename box and press Return. The array tab will
disappear. Note that you must type 'delete' or 'Delete', if you or type the whole word in upper case you will simply rename the
array "DELETE".
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