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  1. Touch Screen Monitor Recommendation

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi Kevin,

    32 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    "P-Cap" or "Projective Capacitive"

    P-Cap and Projective Capacitive are the same thing - basically means it will feel more like a smart phone touchscreen, allowing for multi-touch, rather than the feel of your resistive touchscreen.

    Regarding aspect ratio, FLX doesn't mind 4:3 or 16:9, so it is up to you which you'd prefer.

    Regarding resolution, FLX can support 1920 x 1080, but will auto adjust and accept the standard resolutions. Looks like the max resolution of iiyama's 15.6" is 1366 x 720, which is fair enough. 

    Most of these integrate a USB hub, which is always nice too.

    Edward

  3. Mise à jour

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hello,

    Yes, FLX S24 was released in 2017, and is still regularly recieving software updates bringing new features and enhancements. The latest software for FLX S24 is ZerOS 7.9.7, which can be downloaded from our website below...

    https://zero88.com/zeros#download

    Bonjour,

    Oui, le FLX S24 est sorti en 2017 et reçoit toujours régulièrement des mises à jour logicielles apportant de nouvelles fonctionnalités et améliorations. Le dernier logiciel pour FLX S24 est ZerOS 7.9.7, qui peut être téléchargé à partir de notre site Web ci-dessous ...

    https://zero88.com/zeros#download

    Edward

  4. Fade times not working

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Mark,

    1 hour ago, Mark Alington said:

     

    Thanks for your help Edward - everything is doing what I want. I have yet to see what it actually looks like!

     

    Great, glad to hear it.

    1 hour ago, Mark Alington said:

    I have noticed various helpful pages with hints/videos/forums etc,

    The below resources should get you started...

    https://www.zero88.com/live
     

    http://support.zero88.com/Consoles/FLX-S/
     

    If there’s anything else you need let me know. 

    Hope this helps,

    Edward

  7. Fade times not working

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Mark,

    If you program a completely blank cue (as it sounds like you have in playback 1 to use as macro triggers), there won’t be a fade time displayed, as that cue itself has no information for intensities to change.

    Triggers and releases uses the cue fades, so if you need to customise the timings, you’ll need to put dummy intensity information into each of your macro cues - you could do this by just patching an extra dimmer channel you don’t need, and just have it fade on and off from 0% to 1%. This will bring the fade time controls back for you to configure. 

    Hope this helps,

    Edward

  10. Intensity Chase whilst adding Colours over the top

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    🤣 ... duly hidden away under Legacy Consoles -> Orb XF! 😂

    Thanks!

    Yes - what would be best is to just remove the legacy products for now. Will do that shortly.

    Just to give you a heads up, we will soon be bringing our manuals online. As this is done, information on the knowledge base will also be transferred and included in the relevant parts of the manual. The knowledge base will then be surplus to requirements. 

    Edward

  13. Intensity Chase whilst adding Colours over the top

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Mark,

    To do this, you can program your chase which will control just the intensity of the fixtures, and you can then program playbacks that just control colour.

    The simplest way to do this, is firstly push up the intensities of all your fixtures to full, and then record this to a playback fader. Then push this playback fader up, so the fixtures come on in their default colour (white).

    Then select the fixtures and choose the colour you wish to store, and then press and hold RECORD. From the Record Options window that opens, ensure SmartTag is disabled, indicated with a blue stripe. If it is enabled (red stripe) the console will include intensity with your colour. You just want colour to be stored, not intensity, that way intensity can be controlled by the chase playback separately. Then tap the flashing playback button you wish to store your colour to. Then repeat this process for all of your colours. You won't need to press and hold RECORD each time, as once SmartTag is disabled in the Record Options it will stay disabled until you enable it again. 

    If you cannot see a SmartTag button in the Record Options window, see below...

    http://support.zero88.com/1014189311

    Then double tap CLEAR, and program your intensity chase, ensuring not to include any colour information. Once you have done this, you should find you can raise your chase playback, and introduce colours over the top using your colour playbacks.

    You will probably find you want to enable fader controls colour on the colour playbacks. To do this, press and hold SETUP and tap your colour playback's button, and then choose Colour under fader controls, so that it has a red stripe.

    Fore more information, see below...

    http://support.zero88.com/1011405471

    To turn SmartTag back on for future programming, press and hold RECORD, tap SmartTag so it has a red stripe, and then tap RECORD to save and close the window.

    Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know.

    Edward

  14. Zero 88 Online Training Sessions

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    Hi All,

    We had a suggestion to post an announcement here, just to ensure forum users are aware.

    Zero 88 has completed a series of training sessions which were live streamed on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. These are now available to watch “on demand” via social media, or here:

    https://zero88.com/live

    For more information, see below...

    https://zero88.com/news/live-streamed-training-sessions-now-available-on-demand

    As always if you have any questions let us know.

    Edward

  15. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Kevin,

    A good place to start with Capture is by using one of the predefined performance spaces - you can drag in a proscenium stage for example and define all the dimensions. 

    12 hours ago, kgallen said:

    Placing the fixtures I agree is not so bad apart from the 3D aspect - I always seem to end up dropping a fixture onto completely the wrong bar!

    That’s definitely something you have to get the hang of! I tend to have an overhead window, a front on window, a rendered window (shortcut Ctrl-X) and the settings window. The front on window I then toggle sometimes to the side on view depending what I’m doing.

    Hope this helps,

    Edward

  16. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    I have a paid-for Capture 2019 license - I really need to try hooking that up to FLX like you guys do (I need to find one of your videos).

    The nice thing about Capture, is it is pretty “plug and play”, when you have your console and laptop in IP range. If you want to be lazy, just connect your laptop and console to a router, and then the laptop and CITP protocol on the console can both just be set to DHCP with no need to configure IP addresses. You then just need to match your patch. 

    See the article below on how to configure your console to communicate with our demo files...

    http://support.zero88.com/1004254221

    If you want to connect Phantom with Capture on the same PC, as we were doing for the training, see below...

    http://support.zero88.com/988883201
     

    16 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    I do find that software a bit clunky to set up a rig on though. I've tried to demo ideas to our directors but it was a bit of a PITA. Not very intuitive I find and pretty clumsy to position and move stuff. Must have taken you hours to rig those 10 movers and that band on the YouTube demos I'm watching.

     

    I personally really like Capture, and find it easy to use - I have been using visualisation software for quite a while now though. 

    Drag in the truss, drag pieces and they snap together, then drag in your fixture, snap to the truss, copy it, and duplicate it across X, Y or Z axis with even spacing. 

    If you have any questions let me know. 

    Edward

  18. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    You gotta be kidding! We know what the buttons say, but Home, Setup etc, each letter gotta be 3 pixels by 3 pixels at best! And if you can read REC or DBO then you're "makin' it up"!

    On the external monitor window? I can see that fine. The front panel is not readable.

    image.thumb.png.8b9b6c17daabfc1c214faa0d4bef238c.png

     

  19. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Kevin,

    4 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    I'm currently having a Z88 feeding frenzy on YouTube. Tyler is up at the moment and doing a sterling job!

    Thanks for the feedback. 

    4 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    You chaps should invest in some microphones though - either some USB headset/mics or some half-decent USB table-top condensers.

    We did have an issue with background noise in the FLX session. Hopefully you should find the audio of the others is better?

    4 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    Also the graphics/legends on Phantom are really totally unclear - even with the YouTube maximised on a large 1920x1080 monitor they are all unreadable - and the "External Monitor" pane is not much better. I know the desk, but it would be tough for a newcomer to try and keep track.

    We deliberately made the front panel window small as it wasn’t needed (other than for pushing up faders) - the buttons required to be pressed were named in the session. At 720p resolution the external monitor window seems to be clear for me in the videos. Some of the small fonts are a little broken but still legible. 

    Any questions let me know.

    Edward

  20. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Kevin,

    Apologies you didn’t see these. They were very popular and it would have been great for you to have joined us. 

    6 minutes ago, kgallen said:

    Don't do Facebook or Twitter.

    So maybe worth dropping a post into News and Announcements on the Forum for this sort of thing?

    We certainly can for any future sessions. We were originally running the sessions over Zoom. We then live streamed them, so they are now available to watch back, so the main thing is you haven’t missed any content!

    Cheers,

    Edward

     

  21. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Kevin,

    3 hours ago, kgallen said:

    I was completely unaware you were running these online sessions - although clearly they were publicised somewhere as I heard you mention @Lufferov early on. I must be going blind - I  don't see any mention of them in News & Announcements, General Discussion or the FLX Forums (FLX Training and Videos last updated in 2015) - so where/how? I didn't get any email notifications either that I'm aware of (I do indeed receive a fair number of Forum notification emails and they don't go into 'Spam').

    These were announced on the home page of the website, and also on our social media channels.

    Take a look at https://www.zero88.com/live for more information. 

    3 hours ago, kgallen said:

    (ps Is Jon morphing into Tyler with that facial hair? 🤣 Oh no! I see it's worse than that! Tyler has GIVEN Jon his facial hair!!! Watch out Edward, Keith's hair is comin' after you....!!! Arrrrggghhh It's already happened!!! Nat - run, run, run, NOW!!!                            Oh dear, working from home must finally be getting to me....)

    (pps What's going on at Z88. Tyler thinks he's Ronnie Corbett!)

    Hahaha!! No I think I’ll avoid the Zero 88 lockdown facial hair.

    I’ve been Edward. 

  22. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    1 minute ago, drscoop said:

    Though I couldn’t seem to retrieve the part no. from the link you referred to, only an option to upgrade.  

     

    11 minutes ago, Edward- Z88 said:

    You can find this below by clicking Enter details manually...

    https://zero88.com/upgrade/

    After clicking Enter Details manually, you should see a drop down menu. In the drop down shows the starts of the serial numbers. 

    Edward

  23. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hello,

    Thanks for confirming. I have deleted your images just to keep your serial number hidden.

    I see where the confusion lies:

     

    2 hours ago, drscoop said:

    we bought a 1 universe FLX S24, model 0020-000022-00, vs the 2 universe -000023-00 version. 

    These numbers are the part codes of FLX S variants, listed below...

    https://zero88.com/control/flxs#partcodes

    2 hours ago, drscoop said:

    it seems we have a 000018-00

    This is the part of the console's serial number which defines the product, which is different to the part code. You can find this below by clicking Enter details manually...

    https://zero88.com/upgrade/

    Apologies for any confusion, if you have any questions let me know.

    Edward

  25. What console do I have...?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hello,

    2 hours ago, drscoop said:

    Firstly, Ed and team, thanks for all the video training sessions recently - despite having had the console for over a year now, I've learnt a whole lot of productivity and time saving tips from these...

    Really glad to hear you’ve found the training sessions useful. 

    2 hours ago, drscoop said:

    On digging around, I appear to be able to output DMX independently on both XLRs, as 2 discrete universes.

    Yep, that’s correct on both a 1 universe and 2 universe FLX S. The difference between a 1 and 2 universe console is the number of DMX channels you can patch. Therefore a 1 universe console has a maximum of 512 channels, and 2 universe console has a maximum of 1024 channels. These channels however, can be patched across 64 universes - in SETUP -> Universes you’ll see all 64 universes listed, which you can configure to route from the console.

    As an example you could patch half the channels on universe 1, and the other half on universe 2 on a 1 universe FLX S - or indeed fill both universes on a 2 universe FLX S. I hope that clears things up- let me know if you’d like me to elaborate. 

    2 hours ago, drscoop said:

    it seems we have a 000018-00??  So, I'm curious - what type of desk do we have, how many universes and, therefore, how many DMX channels can we work with?  I can't find any record of this model number. 

    Where abouts are you seeing this number in the serial number? That is the order code for a Chilli 12 dimmer! Feel free to email me a picture of your serial number if you’d like me to confirm. 

    Hope this helps, if you have any questions let me know. 

    Edward

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