- GALS PANIC S3 SHOWTIME SERIAL
- GALS PANIC S3 SHOWTIME SOFTWARE
- GALS PANIC S3 SHOWTIME PROFESSIONAL
- GALS PANIC S3 SHOWTIME SERIES
Connecting the PC to the first LOR controller requires a serial port on the PC or a USB-to-serial adapter. (This second option is often used by people who want car occupants to be able to hear the music without inconveniencing their neighbors.) Most Light-O-Rama customers currently run their shows using PCs. The ShowTime Director then directs all your controllers and supplies a stereo line level output that you can feed into an amplifier or a low power FM transmitter. The Director has an SD memory card that you load on your PC and then place in the ShowTime Director. The ShowTme Director is a circuit board that can fit inside of a Showtime Pro/Commercial 16 channel controller or is a stand-alone device.
GALS PANIC S3 SHOWTIME SOFTWARE
Not enough? Add more LOR networks.įor sophisticated displays and any display choreographed to music, the show must be directed by either a Microsoft Windows based PC running the Light-O-Rama ShowTime Sequencing Suite software or one of our ShowTime Directors. Currently, the largest possible LOR network would have 240 controllers yielding thousands of controllable circuits. Each controller has an “address” which is a number between 1 and 240. Controllers are daisy chained together using either phone cables (RJ11 connectors) for shorter cable runs or CAT5E cables (RJ45 connectors) for longer runs. These units require a computer to be connected to them the first time to set their unique ID address. You typically must supply the enclosure and the electrical connectors. Residential controllers are built and tested circuit boards. In this case, the controller is called a Director and controllers it controls are called Companions. The sequence in a stand-alone controller can also contain commands for other controllers. They can be configured to run this sequence continuously when they power up or in response to an external trigger switch. Professional/Commercial controllers can operate stand-alone, meaning they have an animation sequence downloaded into them. Professional/Commercial versions are ready to go, fully assembled controllers in outdoor rated enclosures with power connectors. The key to remember is these controller are UL approved (in the USA) and are easier to service in the field.
GALS PANIC S3 SHOWTIME PROFESSIONAL
A ShowTime Professional controller is the same as a ShowTime Commercial controller.
Each of these controllers is available as either a residential version or a Showtime Professional/Commercial version. A 4 channel controller gives you independent control of 4 lighting circuits, an 8 channel controller gives you independent control of 8 lighting circuits and a 16 channel controller doubles that. LOR computerized controllers come in 4, 8 and 16 channel models. Musical Sequences must be run on a PC or ShowTime Director because the PC’s or Director’s sound hardware is used to generate the sound. A musical sequence maintains timing with the associated audio file, allowing lights to be illuminated in synchronization with the music.
GALS PANIC S3 SHOWTIME SERIES
A musical sequence is also a series of steps to be executed by the lights connected to your LOR controllers with the addition of a linked audio or video file (MP3, WAV, WMA, MIDI, etc.) The music or video file is played while the lights change. The PC or ShowTime Ditrector can execute them or they can be downloaded into a Light-O-Rama controller and executed by the controller. Animation Sequences do not have any associated sound.
An animation sequence is a series of steps to be executed by the lights connected to your LOR controller(s). There are two types of sequences: Animation Sequences and Musical Sequences. A sequence may contain a series of steps for many LOR controllers. As the sequence is executed, the lights connected to the controller follow the series of steps in the sequence. Once a sequence is created it can be sent to a Light-O-Rama controller. For example, a sequence could be as simple as a loop where a light is on for one second then off for one second. A sequence is a series of steps that the lights will follow. Using Light-O-Rama software, a file called a sequence is created.