How to connect Martin Professional M-PC to WYSIWYG? TUTORIAL

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How to connect Martin Professional M-PC to WYSIWYG? TUTORIAL

Thomas Gentilhomme 01/10/2016

Martin Professional M-PC & WYSIWYG – TUTORIAL Thomas Gentilhomme

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Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2 Note .............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Requirements................................................................................................................................................ 2 M-PC Settings ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Connecting WYSIWYG ................................................................................................................................... 5 Embedded Art-Net .................................................................................................................................... 5 Wygalizer................................................................................................................................................... 8 Important ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................................... 9

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Introduction Cast Software WYSIWYG, standing for What You See is What You Get (for those who didn’t know), is a powerful 2D and 3D Visualizer well known in the lighting industry. It allows you to pre-cue your show, render images for to your clients, create 2D plans and lighting paperwork as well as a lot of other useful functionalities.

Note I’m just a beginner who wants to share a working solution. I don’t know if this is the best one but since it’s not so much documented on the internet, I think it’s better than nothing! So there might be some mistakes here and there and faster ways to do things but this is a fully tested and working solution. Enjoy ;) In this tutorial, I’m using the R32 and 3.52.718.0 Releases of WYSIWYG and M-PC alongside an M-Touch.

Requirements Install Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback Adapter via the Device Manager:    

Hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced) Common hardware types list: Network adapters Manufacturer list: Microsoft Network Adapter list: Microsoft Loopback Adapter

Optional: The ArtNetominator (Art-Net monitoring software) www.lightjams.com/artnetominator/

Wygalizer (If WYG version embedded Art-Net receiver is not working) www.luminex.be/products_details.php?cat=3&prod=0100022&display=description/

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M-PC Settings Now that you’ve installed ArtNetominator, always launch it before launching M-PC otherwise it won’t detect Art-Net.  

Go in the Network tab inside the M-PC Menu window. Select your Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback interface (I’ve renamed mine “Art-Net” in Windows so it’s easier to identify) and click on the “EtherDMX” tab on the right top side of your screen.

This will automatically assign a IP address to your interface so applications can communicate between each other. 

Validate settings by clicking Apply on the right corner



Go to EtherDmx on the left side then Artnet on the bottom



Make sure Artnet On/Off is on the ON position

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Here is what it should look like in ArtNetominator: The “Unknown” node on the left corresponds to M-PC. Art-Net output is working if: 1. You can see the realtime output for each channel on the right 2. ArtNetominator appears in M-PC menu under Network  EtherDMX as follows

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Connecting WYSIWYG Now that M-PC is outputting Art-Net and we can monitor it with ArtNetominator, it’s time to configure WYSIWYG. There are two ways: 1. Using the embedded Art-Net Utility 2. Using Wygalizer Both works with R32 Release and newer but I know that Art-Net has been recently supported directly by WYSIWYG so if you can’t find a WYSIWYG ArtNet Configuration Utility in C:\Program Files (x86)\CAST Software\WYSIWYG Release 32\Bin then you’ll probably need to do it the Wygalizer way.

Embedded Art-Net Before launching WYSIWYG, use the WYSIWYG ArtNet Configuration Utility to specify on which network interface it should listen for Art-Net. Just select the IP address that appears on the M-PC menu or on the ArtNetominator window. Here it is 2.208.79.80. Once done, launch WYSIWYG and select your show.

// For the following part, I assume you’ve already add some fixtures to WYSIWYG and patched the corresponding ones in M-PC, I won’t explain how to in this tutorial, sorry //

In WYSIWYG, go in the DATA tab then Patch (the button is on the bottom on the page).

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Right click in the left empty space and add a new Patch Name it whatever you want, mine’s called “MPC” Simply drag and drop your fixtures from the view above to the desired DMX addresses.

Once this is done, you can go to the LIVE tab and open the Device Manager window:

(Do not mind the view, I made the screenshot while it was already configured)

Now we need to add the Art-Net Interface

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Click on New Under Connectivity\Networks\All select Artistic License Art-Net then Insert Now select it in the Device Manager view and click Properties

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Page |7 Now we need to assign the patch to the right Art-Net Universe. M-PC Art-Net Universe 1 corresponds to Output 0 in WYSIWYG.  Select the right Output and under the Universe column, assign the patch you’ve previously created, here “MPC”.  Close the window and click Connect If everything’s fine, the status should change from “Not Connected” to “Connected”. You can enable “Connect on load” if you wish, this will automatically try to connect to M-PC when you open this project.

Now, ArtNetominator should look like this:

Try moving some faders in M-PC, the output on ArtNetominator should change and you should have a realtime 3D output on WYSIWYG. If everything’s fine, congratulation, you’ve successfully configured WYSIWYG with M-PC!! Otherwise retry from the beginning of this part.

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Wygalizer In order to make it work correctly: you need to launch Luminex interface before launching WYSIWYG. It will ask you to select the Interface on which it should listen for Art-Net. Validate and close it, it will still run in the taskbar.

Now, back to WYSIWYG: Basically, everything from the Embedded Art-Net is the same for Wygalizer, except for the Device Manager part which I will explain here. Instead adding Artistic License Art-Net you need to add the Eth-DMX from Luminex.  

Go to Connectivity\Devices\Manufacturer\Luminex LCE Select Eth-DMX Be careful not selecting Eth-DMX8, which won’t work at all!

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Click Insert Select it and click Properties



As we did for the Artistic License Art-Net, assign the right patch and click Close. Click connect and Voila!



The Node tab on ArtNetominator should look like this:

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Important There is a “Launch Sequence” to respect otherwise you’ll get errors: I. II. III. IV.

ArtNetominator M-PC Wygalizer (if used) WYSIWYG

Note that M-PC will only output 1 universe on Art-Net without an additional license so keep it in mind if you do big shows! In case it was not clear, this tutorial teaches you how to connect the two software that are running on the same computer using what we call a loopback interface. If you want to run WYSIWYG on a different computer, you don’t need the Microsoft looback interface but you’ll need to make sure that both computers are on the same LAN and select IP addresses in the softwares accordingly. If you want to run WYSIWYG on a different computer, you don’t need the Microsoft loopback interface but you’ll need to make sure that both computers are on the same LAN and select IP addresses in the software accordingly. However, I did not test this setup, so there might be some surprises.

Conclusion Now you’re capable of connecting M-PC to WYSIWYG! I hope this tutorial was helpful and if you think there is something wrong or that can be improved, or you just simply want to say thanks, feel free to send me an e-mail at [email protected] Special thanks to Ofer_Brum who helped for the correction of this document.