scottydog75
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Ah yeah you're probably right.
I remember 10 or so years ago programming Joseph's Tech Dreamcoat on the Jester and had an excel spreadsheet with all the RGB values required for each colour.
It was red, and yellow, and green, and.... 😄 (spoilt rotten with the colour picker on FLX now!)
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Fixture editor available here if you don't have it already : https://www.vari-lite.com/global/products/zeros-software (under Latest ZerOS Library > Zero 88 Fixture Tools 2.6)
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I've not touched a Jester for a long time, however I've fired up the old Zero88 Fixture Editor tool, and it is possible to assign Hue, Saturation, and Intensity, against the colour parameter, so this could be possible if you've got some time to test it!
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On 4/7/2025 at 8:49 PM, kgallen said:
The answer to that lies in this forum over the last few months. As a 30 year user/buyer myself, it’s spelled out in big fat letters. It’s the end of the line folks I’m afraid, they’re not interested.
Jon managed to get in a last gasp with ZerOS 8 before he left. That will be the last, I’m sure of it. Zero88 and its beloved products and employees are no more.
Hear hear...
Where's the downvote button when you need one ⬇️I wonder how long until the FLX S is canned - I had slight optimism at the ZerOS 8 launch that it sounded like FLX S would be hanging around for a while (https://www.vari-lite.com/global/news/releases/zeros-8-0) - perhaps not much longer with the 'core' Z88 team all gone now.
Still wonder if we'll ever hear from our new Vari-Lite admins on this forum?
(it's not too late to introduce yourselves, we don't bite! Would be great to get some of your insights on the future of FLX to allay our concerns!)
Signed - a loyal Z88 user
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Firstly I would double check your patch, if memory serves correctly, unless you have a fixture(s) patched onto Uni 5 (as an example) I don't think the desk will spit out Artnet beyond what it has been patched to.
Secondly some nodes can start on Artnet Uni 0, which is then Desk Uni 1, Artnet Uni 1 which is Desk Uni 2 - so this may also be a contributing confusion factor!
Good luck!
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Spam seems to be getting worse on the daily! Perhaps some sort of user verification is required?
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You may get a reply from Vari-Lite if you're lucky!
Try Graeme at https://ultralightsound.co.uk/service-repair-maintenance/
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Update as promised:
Using the personality in the desk, and when viewing the DMX Output charts under the Z Key, the values corresponding to CMY remained on '0' even after changing colour parameters, or running colour effects etc. Definitely confirmed it was a personality error at this point.
So using the inbuilt fixture editor, I took a copy of the existing personality and amended the CMY control channels to be 'Other Colour' control parameters. This worked and enabled the encoders to control the CMY parameters, however colour palettes or picker didn't work as the desk didn't know what colour they actually were.
So I then edited the 'copied' personality, changed the 'Other Colour' parameters back to CMY, which then worked as it should have done so in the first place. I now have full control of CMY, using colour palettes or the colour picker!
No idea what was going on, but quite the oddity and an annoying time sponge trying to resolve!
Either related or unrelated, I also had the desk crash four times throughout plotting, so will forward on the crash reports to the team after the show is done.
Thanks again all for suggestions, research, and the created fixture profile @kgallen
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Have fixed.. full update tonight. Thanks both!
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Hi all,
Hoping our new moderators, or other skilled & experienced users may be able to assist. Ideally need to sort before programming starts tomorrow at midday (GMT).
I have hired four Martin Mac Quantum Profiles, running in extended (27ch) mode. I have no control of CMY, but all other parameters work on the fixture.
Have tried swapping to 'basic' (19ch) mode, still no control of CMY.
The fixture personality looks like it matches the DMX charts in the manual when I got into the edit options on the desk.
I have patched 27 standard dimmer channels and have proved that CMY does in fact work on the fixture, leading me to believe there is an error with the fixture personality?
Hire company said these fixtures worked fine on an ETC ION only the other week.
Any advice what I might be overlooking?
Manual here for ref: https://www.martin.com/en/site_elements/mac-quantum-profile-user-guide
Thanks in advance,
Alex
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I'm a big convert of using groups as much as possible! Definitely speeds up programming no end, and as David has mentioned I'm 99.9% sure you can save intensity within a group.
(From a FLX user) I've also found sensible fixture numbering really helps (although it sounds like your venue is fairly small) to pick up your Fresnels, PAR side lights, cyc etc. e.g. 1X fixture numbers for Fresnels, 2X numbers for PARs etc (add the hundreds digit as required..!) I'm not experienced on Solution to understand how this would translate, but I'd definitely be looking at doing syntax based control via keyboard if it allows.
Copy/Paste of cues is obviously another big time saver for when you're moving back and forward between locations.
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Nice work @Jon Hole & team!
New features gratefully received on FLX! Not being a FLX S user its good to see these desks also get a big capability upgrade by doubling the fixture count - a FLX S 48 may almost become a legitimate option as a 'show week' backup desk for my FLX now.
It's also good to read Vari-Lite's ongoing support for the FLX S and integration between RigSwitch and other Vari-Lite fixtures (although not been shouted about on your news page yet! 😉 https://www.vari-lite.com/global/news#page=1). Here's hoping the support is long lasting for this very valuable control surface and OS!
Noting the cut off for ongoing support for the 'legacy' ZerOS consoles with the release of V8 & V7.14.4, are you able to share any insight in the development roadmap for ZerOS going forwards? It must be a lot simpler with only the FLX range to consider within your future software updates now?
Or if nothing official - what would be your top three wishes be for ZerOS's next feature set?!
Wishing a Happy Christmas & NY!
Alex
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@Jon Hole just announced a ZerOS 8.0 'Release Candidate' in the beta-release testing forum yesterday. (7.15 is no longer a thing..!)
I should imagine a couple more weeks with final testing and it'll be published.
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Simple question first, you're not trying to draw more than 32A from the Betapack?
If not, there is likely something inside the Betapack, or from one of the lanterns connected to the Betapack, which is leaking current to earth, causing the RCBO to trip.
If you move all of the lanterns on Betapack #5 to Betapack #4, does the fault move across with them? That should hopefully rule out a lantern or dimmer issue.
Intermittent faults are always the worst to try and diagnose, good luck!
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Yeah exactly that! I'm sure someone else might come up with another better idea, but that's how I would approach it.
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Cool looking units - however some of those DMX charts look a mess!
Personally looking at the manual I would run them in 192 Ch Mode, and then create a custom fixture profile for each strip, something like this (although there is already a Zero88 profile for these units in the desk)
This way you could patch this 'custom fixture' for each of your strips, easily run FX across all 24 strips, or dive into the multicell control and run FX on each individual strip. This should also avoid the complexities of trying to work out what 'cell' 1.28 is compared to cell 1.49 for example if you were to use the Z88 provide fixture profile.
Hopefully ZerOS 8 will be out well before your show, so you should have plenty of disposable DMX channels to play with!
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I was thinking we might have heard something with PLASA being on..! 😅 One day left to go perhaps..?
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Wow Edward, big news! A real shame for us here on the forum & FB community groups, as your support was always immediate and spot on!
Wishing you all the best with whatever you turn your hand to next!
Cheers
Alex
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16 hours ago, Wolfspeltz said:
The question I now have is, will the FLX S consoles get syntax support?
FLX S already has syntax support when used with a keyboard. See guide here: https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts?filter=1
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2 hours ago, frostyboy said:
I can't think how to achieve this now we don't have a flash button.
You can record any combination of lights to a single Playback or "Multi Function Fader" (MFF), and when the desk Fader Function is in "Playback" mode (which sounds like you are), the button below each MFF should act as a Flash button by default (it's function can be changed: Hold SETUP and press the button). However, I can't immediately think of a way how you can make this button act as a 'reverse' flash button. Perhaps a 'Latch' might work with a couple of extra button presses?
As you've probably experienced, if the Fader Function is in "Channels" mode, the button acts as a select key, rather than Flash in this instance.
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3 hours ago, Edward Z88 said:
This is indeed strange behaviour, and is most likely down to the venue’s dimmers. What dimmers are they? Sounds like they could be doing some form of load limiting (either intentionally or incorrectly!).
The DMX Outputs window on the console shows the raw outputs of the console, and won’t lie.
Strand LD90 Dimmers.
Yes, DMX outputs window would have been a good idea to check, but I'm pretty sure the FLX was doing what I thought it should be! I'll have to dig the desk out and have a look at what it is doing.
3 hours ago, Edward Z88 said:Copy your playback to an empty playback, hold SETUP and tap the button of the playback you pasted, Advanced > Renumber. The “last cue” field now shows the total cues in that playback.
Great, thanks!
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Evening all,
I'm back after another successful week at the theatre with the FLX.
Encountered a rather peculiar bug(?) or gremlin in the theatre infrastructure (in which case ignore this post) but the house technician hadn't seen this before..!
I had a Fresnel on LX1, Channel 101. When running my rig check each day "1 Thru 812" and slowly dialled up the intensity encoder, this Fresnel would not illuminate. When selecting 101 only and setting intensity, fixture comes on. If I selected my Fresnels group, all Fresnels expect 101 illuminates, even though the output window suggests it should be on. Fresnel 101 also did not respond to cues within the Master PB.
I ended up resolving this by physically plugging the Fresnel into a nearby dimmer circuit, and re-patching the desk, which then resolved all issues (so this makes me suspect it could be a dodgy infrastructure issue) however as mentioned earlier the house tech, who runs an ETC Ion, has never seen this behaviour before.
Any thoughts?
Completely unrelated, is there anyway the desk can calculate total cues (including . cues)? I know there is a 'last cue' number in the PB view, but this number does not include . cues. (Purely for bragging rights with my local lighting folk..!
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Thanks,
Alex
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Thanks again both. Will keep that guide to hand on the tech Kevin!
Remote Control
in FLX S24 & FLX S48
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Rem Dim (or Remainder Dim) is a feature common on most lighting desks which dims all active outputs to 0%, and sends all channels you have selected to 100%. This feature is particularly useful during focusing sessions or rig checks.
E.G. Dimmers 1 thru 12 are at 50%. You want to specifically pick out dimmer 6 to allow you to focus it better. Select channel 6 and 'Rem Dim', channels 1 thru 5, and 7 thru 12 go to 0% and channel 6 goes to 100%. In ZerOS, channels affected by Rem Dim are shown in Yellow as @kgallen has pointed out earlier.
I don't believe Rem Dim is a feature that is enabled on the FLX S range consoles, and is exclusive to full FLX only (unaware of other legacy consoles). On review of the ZerOS Shortcuts (https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts?filter=1) "Shift + F" enables Rem Dim on FLX but I have tried this on Phantom and it doesn't work for FLX S. This may be an error that this feature works via an Apple Watch (unable to test this unfortunately!)
You do have access to the 'Highlight' feature (Shift + Home) on FLX S range. Highlight allows you to temporarily bump the intensity of a selected fixture up to 100%, which again can also be useful during focusing.
During testing on Phantom ZerOS, both Rem Dim and Highlight can be 'CLEAR CLEAR'-ed.
Hope this is of some help! Good luck!