Force 1 vs Maestro

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NickNZ

NickNZ

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Force 1.0 from AI Lightshow blew my mind when it first launched. Then everything went quiet, some speculated they were done and never really got past the basic launch.

Then this year, they turn up at DJX in full force, and are now talking about Force 3.0 (what happened to 2.0 I wonder).


But at the same time, Maestro DMX seems to be pushing their product too.


I've had a little experience with Sound Switch (born right here in New Zealand), but it's overkilll now for my use. I use 2 moving heads and a couple of uplights, occasionally.

Anyone have much experience with both Maestro and Force 1.0?
 
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I don't really do DJ lighting anymore I'm more into the full venue or tent illumination rather than a dancefloor. But, putting that aside, the trick to landing the perfect marriage with these new autonomous controllers is to match the right fixtures with the right controller. Each of them has design assumptions, and specific fixture class expectations in it's library definitions.

Things can get hokey when a fixture has shared range functions and the controller and/or fixture library doesn't account for that. (A shared range is when a single fader controls two different functions, For example, color values 0-124 and color chase/speed values 125-255.) If you end up having to operate something as "Generic" or as some other similar fixture, a split range could produce unexpected results. It would be necessary to manually go in and limit or correct these mappings or define your own. The controller would need to include that ability, and the user would still need to know something of how this all works in the background.
 
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