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jack2609

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  1. Here is the latest information on Vista by Chroma-Q if you want to download the latest software and take a look at it for yourself: https://vistabychromaq.com/ As others have mentioned, Vista was designed so that you could use 100% of it on just a PC or Mac. The supporting physical console hardware then complimented that software design with physical faders and buttons. This is one of the primary reasons why the original consoles used a stylus instead of a touch screen, it allowed the accurate control of that same pointing device (mouse). Vista was one of the first lighting consoles to offer GUI based lighting control, which is everywhere in some form today. Vista has progressed a lot in the last couple of decades but these core concepts are still at the foundations of its ethos. Let me know if you have any further questions about it.
  2. A good question. You could be outputting DMX on the physical DMX port (which would use 1 engine), but you could also (for example) be converting Artnet to sACN on the second. If and when it ever gets to the point where entire rigs are connected by Ethernet I think there will still be a place for products such as Luminodes. These boxes will be doing things like handling multiple data sources and offering really sophisticated merging and cross fading policies (as currently implemented). For example crossfading between Lighting console and media server for just a number of DMX channels within a universe. Of course, some lighting consoles can do this internally but a lot of them also can not, at least at this level of this of sophistication or ease of use.
  3. Luminex Luminode 1 would be perfect for this. It would even give you another Ethernet port on your PC, as well as being a swiss army knife of other converters. Artnet to sACN, DMX to sACN. Artnet/sACN to DMX.... etc etc. It actually has two processing engines inside it.
  4. Just to add to Nic's comments - The Prolights diamond series do actually have "FX" macro channels. There are 4 of them, namely foreground colour, background colour, pattern (of which there is a mixture of static virtual gobos and moving animated ones) and then a pattern speed channel. The channel count per fixture here would only be 20 channels. As Nic mentions the foreground and background macro colors are red,green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow and white (due to the on/off nature of how the individual LEDs are driven). In normal wash mode though you of course get the usual colour mixing. I think the macros are fine though, most of the time you likely want to use saturated colours anyway to be able to get the contrast between the pixels. At the tightest zoom the focus is actually on the individual LED breakdown, so you can get some nice in air effects (assuming you can use haze/smoke). All in all its a pretty solid fixture. It's also nice that Prolights don't seem to rush to discontinue or replace a product in their portfolio. The diamond series has been around for at least 4 years now and is still current and going strong. I would suggest this is largely down to the Osram Ostar LED chip. Its still a great chip and suitable for most applications.
  5. Just to add to Nic's comments - The Prolights diamond series do actually have "FX" macro channels. There are 4 of them, namely foreground colour, background colour, pattern (of which there is a mixture of static virtual gobos and moving animated ones) and then a pattern speed channel. The channel count per fixture here would only be 20 channels. As Nic mentions the foreground and background macro colors are red,green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow and white (due to the on/off nature of how the individual LEDs are driven). In normal wash mode though you of course get the usual colour mixing. I think the macros are fine though, most of the time you likely want to use saturated colours anyway to be able to get the contrast between the pixels. At the tightest zoom the focus is actually on the individual LED breakdown, so you can get some nice in air effects (assuming you can use haze/smoke). All in all its a pretty solid fixture. It's also nice that Prolights don't seem to rush to discontinue or replace a product in their portfolio. The diamond series has been around for at least 4 years now and is still current and going strong. I would suggest this is largely down to the Osram Ostar LED chip. Its still a great chip and suitable for most applications.
  6. Hi Matt, Take a look into Lumen Radio's latest product, Moonlite This is designed to do exactly this sort of thing, with all the robustness of Lumen's wireless communication.
  7. Hi Paul, As the others have mentioned the best thing to do when looking to purchase new kit, whatever it is, is to to try it out in your actual venue. ColorForceII is arguably one of, if not the, best theatrical cyc fixtures currently on the market which will work well for your type of shows. Just google "colorforceII reviews" and you should be able to find quite a lot of stuff. Due to the homogenized optic though you can actually turn these around and use them for "eye candy" and other effects if required. See photo Some other alternatives to consider for your other fixtures are: RA 2000 Profile StudioCOB FC Eclipse Fresnel Eclipse FC You should also be aware of some of the latest LED engines that are making their way into some of the new Prolights products. They use a super bright warm white LED combined with traditional RGB. Providing great colors and amazing whites. PixieZoom XB Pixiewash XB Eclipse PAR A.C. Entertainment Technologies would also be more than happy to demo the kit in your venue. If you are interested give them a call. EDIT: In the interest of transparency, I do work for A.C.
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