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  1. Default Color

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi Martin,

    Yes, colours can be stored as Default values.

    To do this, first create your colour you would like. I would recommend you store this as a colour palette when you’re happy with the colour. Then with no playbacks running, and the programmer cleared, select your fixtures, and apply your colour palette. Then tap RECORD, and ensure SmartTag is disabled in the Record Options menu. To open the Record Options on the internal screen, press and hold RECORD. Then tap HOME, and choose Default. You can then double press clear, and when you raise the intensity of the fixtures they will raise in the colour of your palette.

    You may want to also update these fixture’s home value with this colour. To do this, select the fixtures, press HOME, apply your colour, and then tap RECORD -> HOME, and choose Home.

    The benefit of using a colour palette to store your home and default values, is that if you update the palette, the default and home value will update too, as they will be referencing the palette. For more information on storing defaults, see below...

    http://support.zero88.com/1011707631

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

    Edward

  2. Effects / use and control effects

    in Solution & Solution XL

    Posted

    Hi Roger,

    2 hours ago, RogerA said:

    I tried again from the beginning  "programmation effects + edit " and now it works.  

    That's great, glad to hear it.

    2 hours ago, RogerA said:

    Are feffects enabled only with fixtures and not with presets ?

    Effects can be applied to selected fixtures. To store all parameters into a palette, hold SHIFT and tap RECORD, before choosing an empty effect palette.

    Hope this helps,

    Edward

  6. FX palette automatic creation not working

    in ORB & ORB XF

    Posted

    Hi Sven, 

    After installing ZerOS 7.9.5, if you press "Automatically Create Effects palettes", how many are generated? 45 auto palettes should be generated. You can then select your fixtures, and ones available for those fixtures will be highlighted.

    If only one "No Effect" palette is created, you will need to reinstall ZerOS. This can be done following the instructions below...

    http://support.zero88.com/1518910761

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

    Edward 

  7. Creating CCT presets and general advice...

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hello,

    14 hours ago, SMSweep said:

    under desk Universe, and  i've also disabled Output 1 and Output 2 (I assume that's for when you're using both the 5 pin and 3 pin o/p on the back of the desk for 2 universes?)

    When RigSync is disabled under "Remote Device Management", it is disabled globally. However when this is set to enable, to RigSync options per Desk Output, allow you to configure whether the 3 pin or 5 pin XLR output has RDM enabled from the console.

    14 hours ago, SMSweep said:

    even more impressively, if I press the centre encoder button I get a 15 panel on-screen matrix of selectable CCT values (i'm really impressed... I've uploaded an image) I know they use a shed load of these at ITV in Leeds so didn't think a chap had to keep running up and down a ladder to change the CCT. If I can do the same (or something similar) for the fresnels, I think I'm home and dry! 

    That's great, really glad to hear it. When pressing the middle button of a parameter's encoder, this opens the parameters details. An indication to whether a parameter has details, is if the parameter has a function name below the parameter name, rather than simply a DMX level value.

    As Kevin says, if you need a fixture file feel free to send us an email to FixtureSupport@zero88.com, and we'll be able to create this for you.

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

    Edward

  8. Effects / use and control effects

    in Solution & Solution XL

    Posted

    Hi Roger,

    2 minutes ago, RogerA said:

    I try this option also, but effects are not enables for individual dimmers. 

    Of the 45 auto effects, effects 2 through to 10 are intensity effects. Do you find these are greyed out, and therefore cannot be applied?

    3 minutes ago, RogerA said:

    not possible to edit effects 

    Auto Effects cannot be edited, as they are used to create custom effect palettes. To edit custom effect palettes, apply the effect to your fixtures, make changes using the encoder wheels, tap UPDATE, and then press the effect palette to store the edits.

    Hope this helps,

    Edward

  9. Creating CCT presets and general advice...

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hello,

    Firstly, welcome to the Zero 88 Forum.

    3 hours ago, SMSweep said:

    I'm after a bit of advice on how to set-up the desk for studio use.

    Is it possible to set some presets for the RGB capable lamp-heads, maybe 2800K, 3200K, 5600K, 6500K & 10000K. The idea being to set all the fresnels at once to one of the presets?

    Yes you can store colour presets, referred to by ZerOS as Colour Palettes. To do this, select either all fixtures of this type, or just one of them, and use the colour parameter encoder wheels to create the colour temperature you would like to store. Then tap RECORD, and in the Colour window tap an empty colour palette, marked with an asterisk. You will then be able to use this palette to quickly recall the colour temperature. Hold SETUP and tap the palette to give it a name.

    3 hours ago, SMSweep said:

    I did notice that the non RGB panels actually show a CCT value and not DMX value on the desk on the temp tab (the wrong value mind, but there we are!) I didn't really want to hobble the RGB capable lights by setting a them to  a 'tungsten' mode  that might offer a different read-out... any thoughts?) 

    Could you elaborate a little? Are you referring to the number displayed above each encoder wheel? This is the raw DMX value the console is sending to that parameter.

    3 hours ago, SMSweep said:

    Second question:

    I turned the flx off yesterday and back on to today, to find it had added new channels and generally had had a good shuffle; any idea what that might be all about? Is there something that needs to be disabled? Does the desk auto detect the attached lights in some way? I'd saved the complete show previously, and tried to reload that... it showed the correct set-up briefly on screen and then reverted to the today's 'switch on' state. I then went through and deleted the extra channels it'd allocated, by tapping on the address for each of the extras in the 'all patched fixtures' screen of the set-up menu. The lamp-heads then seemed to operate as they did before... right light working with the fader channels i'd allocated. Tried the on / off sequence after that, and it was the same odd behaviour again.

    FLX S consoles are able to automatically discover and patch RDM enabled fixtures on the DMX line. This is due to a feature called RigSync. For more information, see the article below...

    http://support.zero88.com/995963301

    If you don't want the console to discover and keep RDM enabled fixtures synchronised with the console, you can disable RigSync, by tapping SETUP -> Universes -> RDM -> RigSync -> Disabled.

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

    Edward

  10. Effects / use and control effects

    in Solution & Solution XL

    Posted

    Hi Roger,

    Auto effects cannot be used across individual lamps of a single fixture, hence you need to build the effect using Waveforms. 

    If the strip blinder was patched as 10 individual dimmers, you would be able to use auto effects.

    23 hours ago, RogerA said:

    when I select my fixture Stripblinder and the press Home the lamps ar not on. And I have to select one by one and move weel to turn on all individual dimmer. It is possible to add modifictaion to mode HOME in this kind of fixture to turn on all dimmer one touch or one weel ? 

    Yes, fixture Home values can be edited. For information on editing fixture Home values, take a look at the article below...

    http://support.zero88.com/1011411491

    Hope this helps,

    Edward

  11. Software downgrade

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi Jake,

    Yes, you can downgrade software if you wish. Show files are not however guaranteed to be backwards compatible, only forwards compatible.

    Before you downgrade, if you haven't seen the video below, it might be worth watching, as it goes through the operation of the console running ZerOS 7.9.2 or later...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjnbGuTHbFA

    Installation instructions can be found here...

    http://support.zero88.com/1518909581

    ZerOS 7.8.2.39 can be downloaded from the website here...

    https://zero88.com/forum/files/file/2-zeros-frog2/

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

    Edward

  14. ZerOS 7.9.5 Released

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    Hi Steve,

    2 hours ago, Gingersteve91 said:

    Working fine now. Some nice new effect in there too.

    Great, glad to hear it. 

    For reference, the reason the effects didn’t load, is due to installing the software via the old installation method. Loading the software into the console via SETUP -> Load, loads the new effects. 

    All the best,

    Edward

  16. Connecting FLX S24 to capture

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Jarno,

    If you had the FLX S and the PC connected directly with a single Ethernet cable, DHCP won’t work. This is because there has to be a DHCP server on the network, such as a router. You will therefore have needed to configure the console’s CITP IP address to be in the same range as your PC’s IP address. An example could be the PC set to 10.1.1.1, and the console set to 10.1.1.2, both with a subnet of 255.255.255.0.

    Once the IP addresses are in range, start Capture on the PC. On the FLX S tap Z/Shift -> System Information -> Network overview. You should see the console displays that it is connected to your PC, and Capture and your console are communicating.

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

    Edward

  19. ZerOS 7.9.5 Released

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    Hi Roger,

    You will only be given the option to automatically create macros, if you have fixtures patched with macros included in the personality. Examples of fixture macros could be Lamp On, Lamp Off or reset commands.

    An example of a fixture that does have fixture macros is a Martin MAC250 Entour. If you were to patch this fixture, you would see you are given the option to automatically create macros. 

    If you would like fixture macros adding for your fixtures, please send us an email to FixtureSupport@zero88.com, and one of the team will be able to add these macros in for you.

    Hope this helps,

    Edward

  22. Different shows stored in the internal FLX S memory?

    in FLX S24 & FLX S48

    Posted

    Hi Carpo,

    As Eric says, ZerOS consoles can only store the current show file on board. Other show files can be saved to external storage. 

    There’s no issue leaving USB sticks plugged in all the time on FLX series consoles. Many people use the nano USB sticks and leave them in, to ensure they don’t get snapped off.

    On Solution series and legacy ZerOS consoles, leaving USB sticks in on start up will cause a boot error. 

    Hope this helps,

    Edward

  23. just a querey about patching a star cloth

    in Leap Frog 48 & 96

    Posted

    Hello,

    If you have tried these fixture files in the library, and can confirm the address and mode on the star cloth matched those on the console, it sounds like your star cloth is slightly different to the one in the library.

    Do you have a manual that came with this Star Cloth, or are you able to find one online?

    If so please send this to FixtureSupport@zero88.com, and one of the team will be able to make you a fixture file.

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

    Edward

  24. Odd Behaviour

    in FLX

    Posted

    Hi Olly,

    Really glad to hear you have the console back and the issue has been resolved. They're very solid PSUs, so as you say, that is very unusual.

    If you have any questions as always feel free to get in touch.

    Edward

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