Edward Z88

How to’s added to my to-do list! Cheers Edward

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

Great glad you’ve got that working. Sure - any other questions let us know. Edward

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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

Done: http://support.zero88.com/1963020271

(I have updated the topic title just to make it a little more specific)

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

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

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. 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

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 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

^That isn’t a great example, as it looks like the forum has compressed the image too!

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

Hi Kevin, Thanks for the feedback. We did have an issue with background noise in the FLX session. Hopefully you should find the audio of the others is better? 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

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

Hi Kevin, 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. Hahaha!! No I think I’ll avoid the Zero 88 lockdown facial hair. I’ve been Edward.

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

Hello, Thanks for confirming. I have deleted your images just to keep your serial number hidden. I see where the confusion lies: These numbers are the part codes of FLX S variants, listed below... https://zero88.com/control/flxs#partcodes 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

This is covered from about 20 minutes in. Edward

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

Dear All, Zero 88 Fixture Library version 40 has now been released. For full information, including a list of included fixtures, please visit: http://zero88.com/library This release contains 12,228 fixtures from 392 different manufacturers. The library is released in 2 formats: Full version for desks running ZerOS software (FLX, FLX S, Solution range, ORB range and Leap Frog 48 & 96). Filtered version for other Zero 88 desks. This removes data that is not used by these other desks, so that the file is smaller. When using a floppy disk (original Frog series, Illusion 500) it is recommended that the floppy disk be freshly formatted before using it. Download & Installation The correct format of the library for your desk can be downloaded by clicking the product name below. Please ensure your console is running the latest software before attempting to update. The library (.ift file) should be placed in the root directory of the floppy disk or USB stick. ZerOS desks (FLX, FLX S, Solution range, ORB range and Leap Frog 48 & 96) To load this file into your console extract it to the root of a USB stick and plug into your console. Then tap SETUP, tap "Load", then select the GFT.ift file. JesterML & JesterTL To load this file into your console extract it to the root of a USB stick and plug into your console. Then tap Setup -> Update Fixture Lib -> Update Library. Frog Series and Illusion 500 Use 'Common Fixture Manager' (included in the Fixture Tools download) to select the fixtures you wish to use, and save this as a file to a floppy disk. Diablo The fixture library is used with the Diablo Fixture Manager PC software. Sirius 250/500 Use the Fixture Type Editor to import fixture types from the fixture library, and then use the ‘Export Sirius UFT’ function (under the ‘File’ menu) to generate data in the correct format for the Sirius 250/500. Further details of assigning fixtures on the desk to fixture types in the fixture library can be found in each desk’s operating manual. Additional Fixtures If you need a fixture type which is not in the library, please click here. If you have any questions let us know. Edward

Hi Eric, It is still sat in my inbox at the moment, as we have been very busy with all our online training. However, I will be taking a look at this, and will email you the steps we’ll need to make to get it on our website. Again thanks so much for all your effort and passion for helping others with FLX. Edward

Hi Eric, Great, thanks for the update, really glad to hear it. Edward

Hi Eric, Sorry I haven't replied sooner. Yes as Kevin says, these are fantastic. I saw you posted on Audio Fanzine too for people to see. We will be in touch so we can arrange creating a playlist of these videos on the Zero 88 YouTube channel. Hey Kevin! Haven't seen you on here in a while, hope you're keeping well. Edward

Hi Emrys, FLX only has a DVI-D monitor output, not a VGA output. The D-Sub connector on the rear of the console is a D-Sub 9 connector, used for remote switches. If you have any questions let us know. Edward