Welcome to LMX
What LMX is, how a show is put together, and where to start.
Docs
Learn the console.
The whole operations manual, the same one built into every copy of LMX: quick start, task guides, a complete command reference, a control reference and troubleshooting playbooks. Read it here, or press F1 in the app.
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Quick start
Your first ten minutes.
- 1Launch and orient: confirm the status line is updating and your output target is set before patching.
- 2Patch and select: add fixtures and groups, then select them from the Fixtures & Programmer tab.
- 3Build a look: set intensity, pick a colour, position with pan/tilt and fan tools.
- 4Store and run: STORE CUE 1, press GO, refine with UPDATE CUE.
- 5Save your show: SAVE myshow.lmx. Autosave and backups have your back from here.
HELPLIST FIXTURES | GROUPS | CUES | PRESETS | SFX | FADERSSTORE CUE 1 ; GO ; STOPLOAD CUE 7 AT FADER 4SHOW LAYERS ; WHY FIXTURE 3SAVE myshow.lmxevery command is case-insensitive andanswers with usage hints when unsureContents
Every subsystem, documented in depth.
The same pages the app shows under Help → Help Contents. Two of them - the command reference and the control reference - are generated from the console's own code, so they cannot drift away from the build you are running.
Getting started
Your first show
Patch a rig, build a look, store a cue and play it back - end to end.
The main window
Every panel, tab and toolbar on the main window, and what each is for.
Recipes
Common jobs, start to finish: patch a rig, build a stack, chase a target.
The command line
Typing commands, id lists, autocomplete, history and the command echo.
Programming
Selecting fixtures
Choosing what you are about to change: fixtures, heads and groups.
The programmer
Where you build a look: attribute controls, banks, live and blind.
Fanning and spread
Spreading one value across a selection, plus wings, blocks and randomise.
Quick Access
One-click tiles for the palettes, presets, effects and targets that fit the current selection.
Groups
Saved fixture selections, and how a group value differs from a fixture value.
Stored looks
Palettes
Reusable attribute values - a colour, a gobo, a beam shape - applied by name.
Presets
Whole looks stored against fixtures and groups, recalled at any level.
Effects (SFX)
Waveform and chase effects, frequency masters and tap tempo.
Frequency masters
Shared clocks that keep several effects locked to one tempo.
Targets and aiming
Points in the room that fixtures can be aimed at or bound to.
Playback
Cues
Storing, editing, splitting and timing the states your show plays back.
Cue lists and GO
Running cues: GO, STOP, KILL, follows, jumps and multiple cue lists.
Tracking
Why a value stays on after the cue that set it, and how to stop it.
Faders and pages
Loading cues, presets, palettes, capabilities and effects onto faders.
Output and master controls
Grand master, blackout, solo, highlight, lowlight, emergency, mute and panic.
Premove (move in black)
Moving dark fixtures into position before their cue brings them up.
Rig and patch
Fixtures and patching
Adding fixtures, addressing them, and placing them in the room.
Patch Wizard
Patching a rig in bulk, with addresses and positions worked out for you.
Fixture Editor
Editing and creating fixture profiles, modes, capabilities and gobos.
2D stage layout
Arranging fixtures on a plan view, and the truss geometry behind it.
3D visualiser
The realtime 3D preview: beams, haze, shadows, exposure and camera.
Scene objects
Stage, walls, furniture and people in the 3D scene.
Calibrating fixture positions
Working out where a fixture really hangs by pointing it at known targets.
Generate from rig
Building groups, palettes, presets, effects and targets out of the patch.
Setup
Showfiles, saving and backups
Saving, opening, exporting, autosave and the backup rotation.
DMX output: Art-Net, sACN and USB
Getting light out of LMX and onto the rig.
The phone remote
Running the show and setting targets from a phone on the same network.
Configuration
Every setting in the Config window and its CONFIG command.
MIDI and keyboard mapping
Driving LMX from a MIDI surface or from mapped keyboard keys.
Macros and variables
Recording command sequences, replaying them, and prompting for values.
Licence and activation
Activating LMX, offline codes, device seats and what happens offline.
Reference
Command reference
Every command the console understands, with its full syntax.
Control reference
Every button, table and control on the main window, and its command.
Keyboard shortcuts
Keys the console reserves, and the keys you can map yourself.
Glossary
The words this console uses, in one place.
Troubleshooting
No light on stage, a cue that plays back wrong, output that will not send.
The best documentation is a running console.
Download the free beta, then read the manual with a rig in front of you. Every chapter's examples paste straight into the command line.