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Make sure your lights are powered up and the bulb has warmed up.
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Check your DMX connections and your base channel addresses. A handy DMX test
program has been included with your software to check that your connections are
working properly. Evoke the program, called dmxtest.exe, and use the sliders to set
any of the 512 DMX channels to any value. If the test program is working as
expected then there is some configuration problem with the software. Use the
DMX map screen to resolve possible base channel conflicts.
Map control and tracking remote control are not working
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Make sure your controller is connected to the appropriate MLD input (DMX, MIDI
or serial).
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Check your map's load and unload trigger assignments (under map control) and the
tracking system's stop and go assignments (under tracking remote control).
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In real time mode ensure that trackers are enabled and that tracking is in progress.
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To test the actual DMX sequence that the console is sending to the MLD you may
use the DMX monitor program included with your software. Evoke the program,
called dmxmon.exe, to see the values received in all 512 DMX channels.
My moving yoke fixture flips 360 degrees all of a sudden
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Moving yoke fixtures do not generally have continuous rotation. This means that at
one point, depending on how your fixture is hung, you may reach the limit of its
rotation, at which point the fixture will "flip" to continue tracking. To fix this,
physically turn your fixture 180 degrees horizontally.
My Mac 600, Mac 1200 and/or StudioColor are not lighting up under MLD
control
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Lighting these fixtures is a two-step affair i.e. send one dmx value, wait for a while,
then send another value. For proper and reliable operation of these lights, select the
MISC channel for static control in all cases (the MLD chooses the "right" value in
this channel to light up the fixture, so simply select the channel for static control,
accepting the default value that the MLD proposes).
The MLD software crashed or froze
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Restart your computer. If you can replicate the bug that caused the crash please
email the bug terminator at mld@martin.dk. Please include "MLD bug" in the
subject heading of your email and relevant information on your system set-up.
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If after restarting, the MLD software seems to be behaving erratically, delete the
mld.cfg file and replace it with your back-up copy.
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If you have enabled the MLD's serial port communication make sure the COM
ports used are not the same as the port used by your mouse.
I am getting very erratic, jumpy tracking
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Check ultrasonic speaker connections. Make sure that all speakers are connected to
the MLD card. If you suspect that a speaker is not firing, use the "test speakers"
function to hear an audible tone when properly connected; if this is not happening
with all of them, something is likely wrong with the cabling.
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Check ultrasonic speaker assignments. If speakers have been incorrectly connected
(i.e. the MLD card output from speaker 1 has been incorrectly plugged into speaker
2 and vice versa) there will be severe tracking problems such as "jumping" or other
strange behaviour.
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Check speaker calibration. Remember that speakers should not change position
once they have been calibrated.
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Calibrate trackers to set an ideal radio receiver volume. The tracker microphone
should be unblocked and have a line of sight to at least 3 MLD speakers at a time.
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