Guides

• Audio reactive effects and the RTA display Driving LMS from live audio, what the RTA modes show, and why it is not a measurement tool.
• Getting started with Smartshow LMS From downloading LMS to your first moving lights — matrix size, choosing an output, and the handful of checks that solve most first-time problems.

Hardware

• USB DMX adapters with LMS — what works Open DMX (FTDI) and Enttec USB Pro with LMS: which platforms, and the serial-number gotcha that stops the right adapter being found.

Troubleshooting

• Art-Net and sACN universe sizes — the colour rotation bug If your colours are rotating (red shows as green, green as blue) along a run of pixels, the universe channel count is almost certainly wrong.
• The rig stays lit after Stop or Quit Why LED fixtures hold their last look when playback stops, and what LMS does about it.
• Whole-frame output vs the patch — why nothing is lighting up The single most common reason an LMS output sends nothing: as soon as the patch has any rows, the patch decides everything.