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Zero 88 FLX S Lighting Console 

– User Manual 

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“HTP” means the channel faders will only affect a 
channel if they are higher than anything else affecting 
that channel (so, if a channel is programmed at 50% in 
a cue, the channel fader will only affect that channel 
when it’s above 50%).  

“LTP” means the channel faders can “catch” the 
intensity (by taking the fader above 50% in the above 
example) and then pull it back down to 0% and keep 
control of the channel. 

“Show Record & Update Window” can be changed to 
decide when these two windows should be shown during 
programming. 

“When held” means the windows will only be displayed 
when the  Record  or  Update  buttons are held for 

around half a second. 

“On internal display” means the windows will be shown 
on the internal display as soon as the  Record  or  

Update  buttons are pressed. 

“On external display” means the windows will be shown 
on the external display (FLX S48) as soon as the  

Record  or  Update  buttons are pressed, but only on 

the internal monitor if the buttons and pressed and held. 

“On both displays” means the windows will appear on 
both displays as soon as the  Record  or  Update  

buttons are pressed. 

“MFF Window Playback button action” defines what 
happens when you press a Playback Button in the MFF 
window. By default this opens the Playback’s Setup 
Window, but it can instead match the physical button 
action (for example Flash or Tap Tempo), or set a Fader 
Level. 

“Auto Select Channel on Fader Movement” automatically 
selects a channel when a channel fader is moved. This can 
be disabled if you wish. 

Attribute Settings (Colour, Beamshape, Position) 

These options allow you to change various settings for 
each attribute. The same windows can also be opened 
outside of the Setup Window, by pressing  Setup  and the 

attribute tab together. 

For example,  Setup  + 

 Colour 

 together will open the 

Attribute Settings for colour, as shown below. 

 

The “Attribute Settings” window for the Colour attribute

 

The options in each Attribute’s window are the same (apart 
from colour, which has one extra option), but the setting for 
each option can be changed per attribute independently. 

“Wheel mode” allows you to change how the encoder 
wheel will affect the selected fixtures. The options are 
explained below. 

A secondary “shifted” option can be 

chosen whilst holding down the  Shift  key on the 

console, which allows you to select how the encoder 
will work when you rotate it whilst holding  Shift . 

“Absolute” will change all the selected fixtures to be 
exactly the same value for that wheel’s parameter. 
For example, if all the moving lights have different 
gobos, changing the gobo wheel in absolute mode 
will switch them all to the same gobo, and then alter 
them all together. 

“Relative” will change all the selected fixtures 
relative to the values they currently have. For 
example, if lots of moving lights are all pointing 
centre stage, they are all at different angles. Moving 
them “relative” will move all their Pans and Tilts 
together rather than snapping them all to the same 
angle (which is what “absolute” would do). 

“Fan first” fans the change you make across all the 
selected fixtures, so the first fixture’s parameter 
doesn’t change, the last fixture’s parameter changes 
as expected, and all the fixtures in-between will 
scale between these two values. 

Summary of Contents for FLX S24

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Page 2: ...12 Multi Touch on the picker 13 Mood boards by Lee Filters 13 Beam 13 Palettes 13 Position 14 Palettes 14 Pan Tilt Grid 14 Multi Touch on the P T Grid 14 Effects 14 Palettes 14 Speed Size Offset and R...

Page 3: ...lt Times 38 Playback Defaults 38 Save Show 38 File Types 38 Phantom ZerOS 39 Load File 39 ZerOS Showfiles 39 ASCII Showfiles 39 User Fixture Types 40 Zero 88 Fixture Library 40 Installing new software...

Page 4: ...ghout this manual the following conventions are used References to physical front panel controls and buttons appear within a solid border for example Record Update References to soft buttons which app...

Page 5: ...ramming or Palettes Which one is currently being viewed can be switched using the two buttons in the bottom right corner of the external display or by pressing Shift and View together Programming desk...

Page 6: ...nt panel FLX S24 Master Playback Command Function Keys Z shift Multi Touch Monitor USB Multi Function Faders MFFs Encoder Wheels Master Playback Command Function Keys shift Multi Touch Monitor USB Mul...

Page 7: ...you to switch between faders 1 24 and faders 25 48 on FLX S24 or faders 1 48 and faders 49 96 on FLX S48 Switching between Channels and Playbacks will automatically change the page to the page you ha...

Page 8: ...he Output Window You can select multiple channels on the faders at the same time by pressing and holding the first button and then tapping the last button Once selected press the key and then use the...

Page 9: ...palette After that those channels will remain selected until you press on another group which will start the selection again The previous channels being deselected can be avoided by typing and first...

Page 10: ...attribute s window on the internal display and put the attribute s parameters onto the four encoder wheels ready to be controlled Encoder wheels Parameters can be controlled directly by the four enco...

Page 11: ...re created based on the fixtures you have patched so it s recommended to fully patch your console before choosing Automatically create palettes Palettes window without any palettes offering to automat...

Page 12: ...above the desk generates an auto palette for each colour available on every colour wheel in the fixture These palettes are labelled with the stock colour names as supplied by the manufacturer The des...

Page 13: ...ingers The first selected fixture will be at your first finger the last selected fixture will be at your last finger and all the ones in between will spread between these two points Mood boards by Lee...

Page 14: ...ll spread between these two points Effects Effects are different than the other four attributes in that they do not directly control features and parameters of the fixtures patched Instead effects are...

Page 15: ...Effect again will page to the second effect and so on Once the last effect has been reached pressing Effect again will return to the global settings Rotation cannot be performed on a per parameter bas...

Page 16: ...rs When the MFF faders are set to channels this window displays the Channel s number name and current intensity Pressing one of the buttons selects deselects that channel When the MFF faders are set t...

Page 17: ...r that fixture Latest takes precedence or Soft LTP the intensity of fixtures will match the latest command rather than the highest If one active playback has a fixture at 100 and another playback is a...

Page 18: ...converted to a chase the button changes to Revert from Chase and additional options appear in the chase tab split into six parts as detailed below Chase Direction This option determines which order t...

Page 19: ...k fader is lowered the stack is released Trigger Release Level The level at which the playback is triggered or released in If set to 10 the playback will not be triggered until the physical fader is a...

Page 20: ...e Fade Time The time with which FLX S fades the attributes that move on dark Delay Time The time the FLX S waits after a fixture reaches blackout before move on dark kicks in Don t Move Colour Beamsha...

Page 21: ...operated as a tracking console This means that if a parameter is programmed in one cue it will track through all subsequent cues until it is programmed to do something else If you program playbacks se...

Page 22: ...oices making programming simpler but restricts the flexibility of your programming capabilities Fixture Attribute Parameter Filters These options filter which values are and aren t stored into cue Fir...

Page 23: ...in the window it will be by default and then type the number of the cue you wish to copy in the from field and the number of the cue you wish to copy it to in the to field To copy a cue to or from an...

Page 24: ...ntially Don t Move on Dark settings This option allows you to disable a specific attribute from moving in dark during this specific cue For example you may not want colour scrollers changing during a...

Page 25: ...subsequent Pauses will step backwards through the playback using the current cue fade times To continue running the playback press the Go key Releasing playbacks Once you have finished playing back cu...

Page 26: ...are selected with different original values the movement of the encoder will be applied to each fixture individually eg each fixture will increase or decrease by a percentage from its original value S...

Page 27: ...y of channels 3 4 7 8 and 9 to 0 Note how Except is used twice to exclude two different channels from the range 1 Thru 3 And 7 Thru 9 2 5 Enter This sets the intensity of channels 1 2 3 7 8 and 9 to 2...

Page 28: ...lt the fixture s operating manual Attributes Parameters are grouped together into three attributes for easy access and control These attributes are called Colour Beam and Position A fourth attribute c...

Page 29: ...nnels down a single cable is known as a DMX Universe Therefore when more than 512 channels are needed a second DMX Universe is required to be plugged into the console The fixtures on this universe are...

Page 30: ...mple you may label them Stage Left LED Unit Centre Stage LED unit and Stage Right LED Unit Fixture names are shown in the Output Window as shown below When sequential names are identical the name is o...

Page 31: ...on the monitor with the current universe and start address selected if present as shown below Patch window Select the required Universe by clicking on the Universe button and selecting the universe f...

Page 32: ...part fixtures DMX In Some ZerOS consoles support linking fixtures to the DMX In to control them remotely The option is shown on FLX S for showfile compatibility with other ZerOS consoles Deleting fix...

Page 33: ...B RGBWA Video 1ch and Dimmer Scroller Selecting a manufacture fixture and mode Once the manufacture fixture and mode has been selected press the Next button to move on and select the quantity fixture...

Page 34: ...xternal touchscreens are supported by FLX S48 Although we will endeavour to add support for other screens where possible we make no guarantees about this since the drivers may not be available in the...

Page 35: ...led if you wish Attribute Settings Colour Beamshape Position These options allow you to change various settings for each attribute The same windows can also be opened outside of the Setup Window by pr...

Page 36: ...one parameter within an attribute should automatically tag all the other parameters within that attribute too By default this is set to No for Colour and Position as all the values within those attri...

Page 37: ...the DMX Universes For example on smaller rigs you may choose both outputs to be the same Universe 1 so it doesn t matter which output you plug your rig into The default setting is Automatic which mea...

Page 38: ...e will save the show automatically to its internal memory at regular intervals External copies of the show data can be saved to a USB Storage Device It is highly recommended to save external backups r...

Page 39: ...File The single Load File window can load several different types of files ZerOS Showfiles Any ZerOS Showfile can be loaded onto the FLX S from a USB Storage Device For ultimate compatibility it is su...

Page 40: ...t the console before you can continue The software installation process completely removes all data on the console including any current show files If the current show file is still required please en...

Page 41: ...est an available IP address from the router This will only work if your router supports DHCP Alternatively disable DHCP to display two more options IP Address and Subnet Mask At the bottom of the remo...

Page 42: ...disabled This port must be matched with the Art Net receiving device The DMX Universes can be linked to the Art Net ports Streaming ACN sACN Streaming ACN is another lighting protocol which sends DMX...

Page 43: ...w a truly configurable accessory and multiple wings can be supported simultaneously In the settings window select and assign IP addresses as required Once the desk is at the correct IP address you sho...

Page 44: ...tures selection and patching via the Ethernet connection For more information on Light Converse please visit their website at lightconverse net WYSIWYG Recent versions of WYSIWYG support Art Net direc...

Page 45: ...55 0 indicating that a device with an IP address of 192 168 0 1 can see any device whose IP starts with 192 168 0 x but cannot see anything starting 192 168 1 x Switch vs Crossover There are two ways...

Page 46: ...lly see the manual for full details If you have upgraded your FLX S ensure the DMX cable is plugged into the correct output Some fixtures require the lamp to be lamped on If this is required a Macros...

Page 47: ...o download the full manual please visit zero88 com Reporting a problem Before reporting a problem to Zero 88 please obtain as many of the following pieces of information as possible The console s curr...

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