LSC MANTRA LITE Quick Start Manual
Lighting control for leds, moving lights and dimmers
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- Page 1 Version V 2.05 June 2020 Lighting Control for LEDs, Moving Lights and Dimmers Quick Start Guide LSC Control Systems +61 3 9702 8000 info@lsccontrol.com.au Version 2.06 www.lsccontrol.com.au October 2020...
- Page 2 Information contained in this manual is subject to change without notice. In any event, LSC Control Systems Pty Ltd cannot be held liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages or loss whatsoever...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide Contents Overview ..............4 Help................4 Undo ................5 Getting Connected ............5 Front Panel ..............6 Touch Screen ............... 7 Controlling Fixture Intensity .......... 8 Controlling Fixture Attributes ........8 Selecting Fixtures ............9 Controlling Colour ............ -
Page 4: Overview
Each fixture is patched to a Yellow fader and button. The Mantra Wing is an accessory for the Mantra Lite lighting console. It can only be operated when it is connected to a Mantra Lite console. Connecting a Mantra Wing provides... -
Page 5: Undo
Note: The undo list is automatically cleared whenever you save your show, start a new show or load an existing show. Getting Connected 4.1 Power Input Two models of Mantra Lite are available: • The MANTRA/LT has an IEC mains input (90 volts to 260 volts). -
Page 6: Front Panel
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide • A USB keyboard. • A memory stick for show backup and software upgrades. • A USB LED desk lamp (up to 250mA). • One or two Expansion wings. • QX1 node. Provides an additional DMX universe. -
Page 7: Touch Screen
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide The current output can be recorded into any of the Red playbacks by tapping [Record] then tapping a Red playback button of your choice [1-10]. Different looks can be recorded on different Red Playback faders so that you can easily change the entire look on stage by using the Red Playbacks. -
Page 8: Controlling Fixture Intensity
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide screen above each button. You can tap the button or touch the screen to operate them. Touching anywhere in the top “fixtures section” of the “Home” screen or touching Apps opens the “Apps” screen. Apps are used to control the attributes of selected fixtures. -
Page 9: Selecting Fixtures
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide “Clear”+“Clear All” See section 15 Apps Screen There are 4 columns (Intensity, Colour, Position, Beam/Other) that have Apps for their type of attribute. Touch the App for the attribute that you want to control. Selecting Fixtures When you use an App, you need to select the fixtures that you want to control with that App. -
Page 10: Controlling Colour
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide 10 Controlling Colour 10.1 Picker From the “Home” screen, open the “Apps” page (described above) then touch the colour Picker app icon. Fixtures that have colour attributes will flash their buttons. Select the fixtures (described above) then drag your finger to change the colour. -
Page 11: Controlling Position
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide Previous selections can be re-used by tapping the [Select] button. 10.2.1 Sliders Touching Sliders opens the “Colour Sliders” screen that provides individual sliders for all colours. Red, Green and Blue are located in a fixed section at the top of the window. Other colours, White, Amber, UV and Lime, as well as Colour wheels are located in the scrolling bottom half of the screen. -
Page 12: Automatic Fixture De-Select
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide flash their buttons. Select the fixtures then drag your finger around the touchscreen to move the beam around the stage. You don’t have to touch the current position icon to move a fixture, you can touch and drag anywhere on the screen and the selected fixture(s) will follow your movements. -
Page 13: Animate Apps
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide fixtures stop flashing. This tells you that selecting another fixture will cancel the previous selection and start a new selection process. This speeds up operations because you don’t have to de-select fixtures once you have set their attributes. - Page 14 Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide • The animation runs and the blue steps through the 4 fixtures. Fixture 1 Fixture 2 Fixture 3 Fixture 4 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 1 Example 2: Let’s create a 4 fixture intensity animation (a chase) using fixtures 1 to 4: •...
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Page 15: Shapes App
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide The only limitation for animations is that there must be at least 2 fixtures selected and there must be at least one different setting in one of the fixtures. Multiple animations can be running simultaneously. -
Page 16: Clearing Fixtures
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide • Random. • Pan Amplitude. • Tilt Amplitude. • Speed (in seconds). • Spread (in percentage). Applies when 2 or more fixtures are selected and spreads them around the movement shape. When set to 0%, all fixtures are focused on the same point as they move around the shape. -
Page 17: Recording The Output
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide Note: Recording a cue (see below) that contains an animation or shape automatically clears that animation or shape from the yellow faders. 16 Recording The Output When you have adjusted the intensity and colour of your fixtures... -
Page 18: Playback
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide • Repeated taps of the [Page] button will step through the 10 pages of memory. • To switch directly to a page number; HOLD [Page] and TAP a red fader button [1 to 10]. The current page number is shown in the top left corner of the “Home”... - Page 19 Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide • If the Link Time is set to “None”, then the button below the red fader must be used to manually play the next To crossfade in the reverse direction HOLD the [Back] button whilst tapping the playback button.
- Page 20 Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide We have 3 cues recorded on red playback faders 1 to 3 with a single LED fixture in each cue. In the first fader the fixture is red, in the second it is blue and in the third it is yellow.
- Page 21 Tap the Tap to Beat button at least 4 times at the desired rate. Mantra Lite averages all of your taps to set the speed. If you have tapped a speed and then want to change it, pause for 2 seconds then start tapping again (at least 4 taps).
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Page 22: Editing Memories
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide 18 Editing Memories If you touch a playback icon you can edit its contents. Playback Icon The “Edit Memory” page opens with the current cue selected. Jump To Selected Cue Use as Chase Touch a cue to select/de-select it. You can: •... - Page 23 Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide • Change the “Link” time of the cue-list • Re-name the selected cue • Duplicate the selected cue • Delete the selected cue • Delete Memory (all cues in the list) • Use the list as a chase (see below) or a cue-list.
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Page 24: Save/Load
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide 18.2 Editing Cues To edit a fixtures intensity or attributes in a cue, first bring down all yellow and red faders, then push up the red playback fader that contains the cue/cuelist and play the cue that you wish to edit. - Page 25 Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide Multiple fixtures of the same type can be patched in one operation. See the examples below. In this “quick start” guide we will patch a typical rig consisting of 12 dimmers starting at DMX address 1 and 12 RGB (Red, Green, Blue) LED fixtures starting from DMX address 101.
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Page 26: Fixture Editor
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide • Use the +10, -10, +1 and -1 buttons to set the DMX address to 1 (the address of the first dimmer). • Fixture numbers are selected using the buttons below the yellow fixture faders. To select all 12 dimmer channels, hold [1] and tap [12]. -
Page 27: Rig View
Mantra Lite Quick Start Guide More details can be found by opening the fixture editor and tapping then reading the information on the touch screen. 22 Rig View The fixture icons on the “Home” screen can be arranged geographically so that they are positioned on the screen as they actually are in your rig.
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