Liberation User Manual
  • ✅Important! Read this first
  • ✅Installation / licensing
    • ✅Install for Mac
    • ✅Install for Windows
    • ✅How licensing works
    • ✅Authorising and de-authorising
    • ✅Upgrade / downgrade your license
    • ✅Cancel your subscription
  • ✅FAQ
  • ✅Quick start guide
  • ✅Hardware
    • ✅Compatible lasers and controllers (DACs)
    • ✅Emergency stop / interlocks
    • ✅LaserCube
  • ✅Setting up
    • ✅Laser set up process overview
    • ✅Setting up your project
    • ✅Adding / removing lasers
    • ✅Controller assignment
    • ✅3D Visualiser
    • ✅Laser output settings panel
    • ✅Copy settings between lasers
    • ✅Latency setting
  • 🟦Output view / Zones
    • ✅Overview
    • 🟦Zones
    • 🟦Copy zones between lasers
    • 🟦Re-ordering beam zones
    • 🟦Masks
    • 🟦Test patterns
    • 🟦Alt zone system
  • 🟦Clips & Clip deck
    • 🟦Overview
    • ✅Starting / stopping clips
    • ✅Assigning clips to laser zones
    • ✅What are the small icons on the clip buttons?
    • ✅Clip settings
    • 🟦Zone delay / chase
    • 🟦Clip groups
    • ◼️Global settings
    • 🟦Organising your clip deck
  • 🟦Effects
  • 🟧The Clip Editor
    • 🟧Introduction to the Clip Editor
    • 🟦Fundamentals
      • 🟦Co-ordinate system
      • 🟦Colour settings and HSB
      • 🟦Render profile
      • 🟦Resolution
      • 🟦Fills, masks and depth sorting
    • 🟦Creator nodes
    • 🟧Operator nodes
      • 🟦Transformations
      • 🟦Duplicators
      • 🟦Colour changer
      • 🟦Changers by position
      • 🟦Distorters
      • ◼️MIDI notes
    • 🟧Oscillator nodes
      • ✅Wave oscillators
      • ✅Sound input oscillator
      • ✅Parameter Control
  • ◼️Tempo / synchronisation
  • ◼️Live control
    • ◼️Live control example
  • ◼️Timeline
    • ◼️Overview
    • ◼️Adding an audio file
    • ◼️Recording a show
    • ◼️Adding clips manually
    • ◼️Fine tuning clips
  • ✅Timecode
  • ◼️DMX control
    • ◼️DMX zones
    • ◼️Connecting to an Artnet node
    • ◼️Creating DMX zones
      • ◼️Examples
  • 🟦Graphics and the Canvas system
    • 🟦Introduction
    • 🟦Canvas overview
    • 🟦Canvas view
    • 🟦Canvas settings
    • 🟦Canvas zones
    • 🟦Canvas target areas
  • 🟦MIDI control
    • 🟦MIDI control overview
    • 🟦Live control with the APC40
    • 🟦MIDI Send/Receive
  • 🟦Loading and saving
  • ◼️Tips for loading SVG files
  • ◼️Advanced
    • ◼️How Liberation generates laser content
    • ◼️Scanner presets & render profiles
    • ◼️Advanced laser settings
    • ◼️Render profiles
    • ◼️Colour calibration
  • ◼️Synchronisation
  • ◼️Network advice
  • 🟧Troubleshooting
    • ✅Intermittent / flashing output
    • ✅Live control
    • ✅Missing resources error on startup
  • ✅Reference
    • ✅Keyboard shortcuts
    • ✅APC40 reference
    • ✅MIDI send/receive default mapping
    • ◼️Glossary / jargon
    • ✅The Preset system
  • ✅Credits
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  • Starting and stopping clips
  • Flash mode
  • Stop all clips
  • The currently selected clip

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  1. Clips & Clip deck

Starting / stopping clips

You can use the on screen buttons to start and stop clips, but it's much better to use the APC40 midi controller. Liberation has been optimised to work well with this hardware and should be considered an important part of your investment into lasers.

Starting and stopping clips

To start a clip, press the button for that clip (either on screen or on your MIDI controller).

To stop the clip, press it again.

If you start a new clip (in the same group) the first clip will automatically stop.

To start a new clip without stopping other clips you can either

  • Press the shift key (or APC40 shift button) while starting the new clip; or

  • Re-press the currently running clip(s) while you start the new clip.

The clip groups are independent of each other so starting a clip in one group will not affect clips in any of the others. See Clip groups

Flash mode

If a clip is within a group that is set to flash mode, then it behaves slightly differently; the clip will only continue running as long as you have the clip button pressed. As soon as you let go it stops. (By default clip group 3 - the red one - is set to flash mode.)

Stop all clips

To stop all the clips running press the STOP button.

Press the STOP button twice to bypass clips' fade out time and immediately black them out.

To stop all the clips running in a particular group, press its group button, then press the STOP button.

To stop all clips except one, press the running clip you wish to keep, then while it is down, also press the STOP button. Then release the clip button. (This also works with multiple clips, as many as you can hold down at once!)

The currently selected clip

That the clip lights up on screen when it is currently running (and its mini clip visualiser representation flashes). You will also notice that the last clip you pressed also has a white outline around it. This indicates that it is the currently selected clip.

ALT/OPTION click on a clip to select it without activating it. Use ALT/OPTION + SHIFT click to select multiple clips.

You can also click and drag a lasso on the clip deck to select multiple clips.

The APC 40 also has ALT and SHIFT buttons for making selection! The

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Two clips that are currently running. The white outline denotes that the clip on the right is the currently selected clip.