Expert is now known as Express
Featuring innovative new ways to organise and control fixtures, Expert 2.0 delivers a more versatile and feature-rich programming environment than ever before. Expert 2.0 also includes numerous other enhancements, new features, tweaks, and bug fixes.
Groups
A new way to organise fixtures within a space.
- Create sets of fixtures that belong to the same space.
- Perform overrides on groups via touch devices.
- Program directly onto groups within timeline scenes.
- Access groups through the controller’s HTTP API and Simple Ethernet API for external control and integration.
Static overrides in dynamic scenes
Editing capabilities from static scenes are now available in dynamic scenes.
- Apply static programming over Expert’s built-in dynamic effects.
- Adjust output on a fixture-by-fixture basis.
- Full control of colour, intensity, and even extended parameters.
Place static scenes on timeline scene rows
Reference your existing scenes within a timeline scene.
- Add static scenes from your project directly into timeline scenes.
- Static scenes can be added to a timeline on the space in which they were created, or to its child spaces and groups.
- Updates to static scenes automatically apply to all timelines that reference those scenes., and even extended parameters.
Improvements to tags
Expert’s flexible way to program your lighting changes.
- Create up to 40 tag sets.
- This includes up to 20 instances of 24-hour rhythm, Season and Custom tag sets.
- Schedule a tag set’s default tag.
Support for RIO D4
DALI four-port device.
- Each RIO D4 supports four DALI buses, with up to 64 DALI ballasts per bus.
- Link up to four RIO D4s to Expert Control, enabling as many as 16 additional DALI buses in one system.
- Compatible with interactions, allowing an Expert system to respond to DALI messages via RIO D4.
- Connects to an Expert system using a single PoE connection.
Updated control options for different fixture types
Useful controls for fixtures with different control capabilities.
- Dedicated touch device override controls for colour, intensity, and colour temperature fixtures.
- Colour and colour temperature override controls on touch devices extended with intensity override.
- Quickly select fixtures according to their control type while editing static or dynamic scenes.
Tools for RDM management
Make RDM changes via the controller’s web interface.
- Update fixture properties using the controller’s web interface, saving the need to upload a new project.
- Replace missing devices with new devices discovered using RDM.
- Associate new devices discovered using RDM with existing fixtures.
Improved patch interface
Introducing a faster and more intuitive patching experience.
- Drag fixtures straight from the canvas onto the correct device, protocol and universe in a single action.
- Expert automatically selects the correct protocol, simplifying programming for projects that use both DMX and DALI.
Expert Enhancements
Improved ‘Add’ menu interface
Access custom colour palette in dynamic and timeline scenes
Create up to 500 scenes
All of that, plus:
- Ability to restart Expert Touch from touchscreen Settings Page
- Offset scheduled scenes and tags by up to 24 hours from an astronomical event
- Support for custom SSL certificates for controller web connections
- Support for a wider range of values in many dynamic scene parameters
