Nice to hear your thoughts on the Cham Sys. Anyone who knows me will know that I’ve been going on about the desk since I saw some of the first prototypes yet still there are people who have never heard of it. I’m pretty easy going about the desks I use but looking at functionality, ease of learning and the cost, the MagicQ is hard to beat IMO. Many Hog guys went with MA not long after the dodgy early Hog III years but I think Cham Sys haved picked up plenty of Hog users, Avolites fanatics and, most importantly, the next generation of programmers who just get it.

Just as an example, reading a little of the manual and trying things out as I went, on day one I was able to find most of the fixtures I commonly use throughout the year easily enough and built 2 LED profiles in no time; I was writing cues, creating custom effects, etc. no worries.
I love the movement view option and the grids are great for monitoring values coming and going on stage. I have not tried the pixel mapping feature in real life, but again, reading the manual and 10 minutes later, I had a viable working example of my cueing being played back as I expected it to.
When I showed some of my hard to convince coworkers’ these options they were more than impressed. When I told them that the smallest USB to DMX dongle was fully compatible with the Flagship model, they were floored! You aren’t investing in incompatible equipment and it all can be used together as a backup when you step up to a wing or console and all without paying thousands of dollars to see if you even like it.
I cannot think of a Console Company who wants you to use their program or hardware more than ChamSys. 18 universes, 50 different Media Servers, Free software, affordable solutions for playback or backup and the outstanding list of features sealed the deal for me before I even pressed “Patch”. Now, after I running a few real world examples to get acclimated and a show or two later, I’m glad to be “off the hog” I’m not looking back either.

thank you and best regard

Opening night, BAM! The console’s hard-drive died. We had an hour till doors and no lights. Borrowing an internet dongle from a sound boy we downloaded the software and then ran the season off a Mac powerbook G4. Slightly slow but it worked fine because it was all backed up on a USB!

Just saying, programming the show on a console was immensely helpful, but having the free option for the computer was completely invaluable. thanks chamsys. i just need to find a way to afford a console of my own now :S

- M

We have recently created the personality file for the Revo fixture so I’ll forward this onto you.

Best regards,

Matt Lemon
ChamSys Ltd

I can’t find the ADJ Revo 1 (or any other Revo device) in the MagicQ fixture personality library … so I’ll have to create a personality myself I guess.

Since I’m very new in this area … can anyone help me out creating the right personality ?
It uses 4 dxm-channels :
ch1 > Mode (Pattern, Chase, Stand Alone)
ch2 > Pattern / Chase
ch3 > Pattern Strobe / Chase Speed
ch4 > Dimmer

Thx !!!

The only snags were, inefficient moving light control via the computer (This would be rectified by buying the full or maxi wing which I’m definitely going to do) some gaps in the personalities from Chamsys (My LED’s run -Dim+Strobes,Red,Green,Blue- there appears to be no such personality??(Although they are cheap and cheerful Showtec LED’s)) And no pre set colour or gobo palettes for my GLP’s which was a tad annoying but may again just be a lack of pressing the right buttons whilst patching.

Anywho, I’m about to take this system to Russia in case I really can’t figure out the in house desks. Will let you know how it goes.

Thanks, Sam.