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Hello, Two questions... 1/ French importer have making a translation about FLX S 24 and 48 in French. Do you thing that there will do for the FLX ? 2/ Last update Manuel I was looking about fresh information. What is the last Manuel version ? Still 7.9.1 ? Or having you newer version ? thank

Hello, in fact I thought a lot about this alignment problem. In the facts : 6 projector on a bridge. And two of them are not aligned with others. 1 OK 2 OK. 3Wrong. 4 OK. 5 OK 6 Wrong As mentioned above on some console, this can be corrected to have 6 projectors when the values at 50%, the points of light are all in the right place. (Like Grandma ...) 1 OK 2 OK. 3 -2% tilt. 4 OK. 5 OK 6 + 1% Tilt everything becomes OK But in practice this implies that making a correction at the level of the tilt, when we go on the 6 projectors at + 50% or - 50%, the number 3 and 6 will have a more limited displacement in one direction and more important in the other direction. (Which is logical since the projectors are badly hooked) So this implies either to limit the other projectors so that everyone is aligned or accept the fact that the end of races will not be identical for all. But the advantage of such a correction at the level of ZERO OS and to be able to have in "home position" all the projectors aligned with each other and thus to have something clean. Question 1 : I see somewhere that we can use SETUP + Position (or Colour Or Beam, etc...) for coming different setting... Is it stil working on 7.9.4 ? Question 2 : "Edit Fixture" was also on 7.9.1, .... In 7.9.4, how can we find this different options ? thank for your help Eric

Thank for your help. Just a other question when I using in (Setup, Clear Option ) "Reset Desk", is it clearing Time Programmer in Off ? thank

Hello, I m download 7.9.5 and see what news on ... Really interesting I prefer to wait and finish performance... But it s look good !

Hello, Glad to see that new version is here. Questions : What news on for FLX ? I will finish my seasons and going on this new version on middle July. For a actual manual, have you news ? The last manual I find was for 7.9.1.... And some things are different between 7.9.1 and 7.9.4 Thank a lot Eric

hello The programmer time is exactly what I Was needing. In fact, I find this option really good. Because like you've said, it's working for all the action ! Thank for your help. Eric VDA (France )

Hello, I have questions about the aspect of the effects. 1 / For some light consoles (Chamsys, GrandMa, etc.), the aspect of the effects is a great strength. We can quickly do something that can be thrilling for an audience ... The effects can as much play on - the movement of a projector - Color change - gobo change - play on the opening of the Zoom, - opening prism closure, etc .. - and several actions grouped with some ease ... . For the FLX, this part will be able to evolve to increase during a show the capabilities of animations? 2 / if I program imagine in the "playback 1", a sequence of various motions in chase version (40 cues for example), can I recall this playback in a master cue playback and if so how to proceed? Thank you for your patience to answer us and see you soon, Eric

Hello, To understand a little more on this option "time programmer". From what I read, if I want to enter "2s" of time for the clear button to be fade, for all other actions it will take 2 seconds ...? Does this imply that it plays on the fades when we press the "GO" button of the master fader? Does this also affect the actions of parameter modifications of the fixtures? (Color, Beam, Position, Etc ...) thanks for the help

Thank you for this precision.

Hello, Do you think that you'll ever have a New udpate with all news Fixtures ? Last Update was un febuary... Take care, Eric From France

Olé, Thank you for your message. Yesterday and the day before yesterday on the show where I worked I did not have any worries at all. But as I said sometimes, everything is fine and sometimes in 1 or 2 hours, I have several times the concern "ghosts" mentioned above. I think it's actually the easiest thing for me to pray that I can finish my season this way, (8/9 July) and so be able to send the console to Thomann, and explain the problem with maybe the copies of our discussions. As they can understand that it is a random failure, unpredictable, so to consider a solution. I will write you on the support to talk more precisely, especially that my desire is to know the FLX and make the Pub to give the opportunity to type structures Theater to go on a console that is easy to use. .. Thanks for your help.

thank you so much Yes indeed in my case, it is the option to correct a position. Either 8 spots installed on the bridge, and 1 spot that is too advanced (radius ground in "home" position) and that to be properly positioned, it should go down the bridge. Except when there is no time ... So if in fact in ZerOS, it is possible to correct this problem, so that the 8 spots are correctly aligned it can join the possibilities of other consoles type Chamsys, Avolites and GrandMa ... So I'm going on my next edit, if time allows me to go in Fixture Edit and try to see what it's like to fix the right placement ... Thank you

Thank I did it this morning, because, some fixture where missing... and in your last fixture update, I find what I need... Thank for your help. Eric

Thank I Buy my console on Thomann (Germany) My problem is that I can not do without the FLX until mid July because I have shows every week and no console, no shows ... so no money ... And I do not think that Thomann be able to lend one ... My other solution "not immediate" is to buy a second FLX, to have a help, but I will not be able to do it either ... So I'm a bit stuck ... Thank Eric

Hello In any case, several consoles allow a ground alignment (values 50% Tilt and 50% Pan) so that the projector is not perfectly in the middle and therefore in the vertical of its position, that a correction is possible without having to bring down a bridge, which on large assemblies with reduced time is sometimes not possible. Thus the correction on the console saves the situation. So I thought that the alignment that I described above allowed just to be able to put the alignment to the vertical of the projector, .... So I do not understand the usefulness of this function "Pan and Tilt alignment" on Fixture Edit ... What is really for what? Thank for your different answers

Hello, I See In the manual (page 42) I will try this week if I Have time to do it... Eric FROM THE MANUAL 7.9.1 Edit Fixtures Edit Fixtures is the third option in the Setup menu, and allows you to carry out various functions relating to the fixtures already assigned to the desk. Per fixture, you can adjust each of the following : - Name and fixture number - Default, Home and Topset parameter values - Pan and Tilt alignments - Various Patch functionality The Default values for fixture parameters are the values that are output when the fixture is “released” (ie, notcurrently being used / controlled). The initial values for all of these settings are taken from the Zero 88 fixture library. They are set to values that will produce an open white beam (no gobos or effects) at a central position (Pan and Tilt at 50%) but with an intensity of 0%. These values can be edited on an individual fixture or group basis as required (as described on page 42 under “Edit Fixtures”).

I don't understand the difference between "duck + record" and "Hold record" ? So I see in your explain, that if I use Hold Record, I must press One time Record for close the window and one time more for recording... So for me it taking more time to do Three operation for recording. My problem on Artistic danse, that we have about 8 hour for recording about 300 Cues with more than 60 fixtures... And I must go the most quickly possible... Thank for your help dear Edward, (The man with so much answers and solutions.... )

Yes I will try to do that to do video or photo. I will try to explain better. So I'm in rehearsal. I have my hands off the console. (My Console is on 7.9.4, having One year, with Two Wings extension, two universe and touching monitor, nothing more) And without doing anything, the "GO" button of a fader lights up and on the screen I see the window "programming view" that the number of the GO button in relation to the Fader is selected and that the intensity value that was zero has gone all alone to 30 or 40. And at the same time the corresponding projector on scene is lit. So I go as fast as possible on the Fader of the channel in question to mount the bland and go down to put the value to zero! and find the normal state of things. thank for your help... Is it possible that there is a matériel problems, because this strange thing come on fews days after my first use...?

Hello, I had indeed seen that it was possible to reverse the Pan and the Tilt. But I have marked all my projectors, to install them in the same direction and so be sure to be correct vis-a-vis directions. But what seems to me more interesting is when on fast installations, we must quickly intervene and that on a line of 6 SPOT several are not aligned. In this case, rather than lowering the bridge, it is easier to change the settings on the Console ... And the fact that the FLX can do this kind of thing, move the position of the projector in the fixture patches, it is a great advantage ... Can you just tell me that when we want to calibrate the position of the lyre, how is it done? When are we on the settings of each fixture? This is it ? Thank a lot for your différents helping. I know that we re several to ask you same questions... Take care Eric

Hello Just a question, If I want to Update Fixture, I just have to do the update. (after having Download gft37_00.ift) ? Or must I do something special ? Erasing Fixture ? thank

Thank a lot Edward

Hello, news about update ? What news for us ? Other question... About Fixture is it possible to make a update on FLX ? Because I ve my FLW since 1 year and I m sure that many new fixture were created... thank for your helps

If I understood the manual, it is possible following a wrong mounting and misplacement on a bridge of some projectors, correct their positions to have a good adjustment. This is done well at the Fixture? That is to say apart from inverting the Pan and Tilt, we can change the position of the projector? In fact, are the changes directly visible when we change the values ? Or we must going out setup window ? The basic values being "50", I imagine that when we go to 49, 48, 47 etc. we will go in one direction and when we go to 51, 52, 53, etc. we go to another direction. ..? Thanks for your help

Yes in my case, I am for example recording hands on my legs, and without me doing anything, the LED of fader 12 (without moving) will light and on the screen I see a percentage that has passed from Zero to 33% for example and on stage the corresponding projector was lit ... A few minutes later, I can have the LED of Fader 33 that will light (always without any action on my part) and that will indicate on the screen an intensity of 70% and of course the spotlight on stage is lit at 70%. This happens more or less depending on the moment but for the moment I have had it by chance only during rehearsals and not during shows ... But sometimes it is done more often (several times per hour) and other times never ... I will try to photograph that ...

Thank. A other question Edward ... I go on the article like you told me, but on the screen, there is playback 1 to 24, and so an... Is it working also with Master playback ? In fact what I think is missing is a kind of mode that is on one side to record and the other to play, on which we can add things without it changes anything to the memories ... That what is added manually during a show can remain like priority value, and that it can return to the values program in fade when the added things are not any more useful ... Indeed in artistic dance show, I record all the events with "shift + recording" (no tracking) so as to have each Cues with all the elements of recorded (as much what is lit that what is not alight. ) So when I then add things in a cue, normally I do not have to go to the next to take into account the added things. (though sometimes it does not always work ...) Then I think my need is special because in 90% of shows, nobody sees if a projector is added or not, because in many cases, the lighting is aesthetic to give a good dimension to a concert. There or in a dance show, everything is visible and important. So each cue supports what happens on stage ... And catching up is essential to make everything bright ... Thank you for your listening and your patience ...