Designer - Pharos Controls

Flexible, Versatile, Powerful

The Designer range boasts a wide selection of controllers to suit any DMX, eDMX and DALI lighting project. With comprehensive show control capabilities and free software that enables you to design and build your installation, the possibilities are endless.

FLEXIBLE

However you want to work,
Designer gives you the tools

VERSATILE

Wherever the concept takes you, Designer makes it happen

Why DESIGNER?

POWERFUL

Whatever the installation,
Designer meets your needs

Designer 2 Software

With Designer 2 software and our range of lighting playback controllers, you can control even the largest and most demanding installations. Programming with Designer 2 software provides you with a versatile, comprehensive feature set, powerful show control solutions and ultimate flexibility.

Free to download for Windows and macOS.

Intuitive Software

INTUITIVE
EASY TO USE
POWERFUL
FREE TO DOWNLOAD
MAC AND WINDOWS
TRAINING
TUTORIALS

Designer programming software is straightforward to use and is free – including all future updates. You don’t need a dongle, a specialised toolkit or a coding degree. We offer great flexibility with this software solution, perfectly complementing the whole Designer range of hardware. Simple for beginners, but powerful for experienced users, Pharos software gives you the tools you need for your project.

Intelligent Programming

TIMELINES
SCENES
GROUPING
LAYERING
HUMAN CENTRIC
VARIABLE PLAYBACK
MANUAL OVERRIDES

Our intelligent Designer Engine within our Lighting Playback Controller (LPC) family of products gives you complete control of your lighting installation. Based on timelines and scenes, Designer Engine lets you build dynamic, precise, fully customisable, human centric, pre-programmed lighting displays, all while giving you the freedom of real-time manual overrides.

Powerful Pixel Mapping

TWO DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS
PER-PIXEL MAPPING
VIDEO PLAYBACK
2D EFFECTS
MULTI MAPPING SUPPORT

Fine tune down to the pixel with Designer Mapping. Use a group of lighting fixtures as an array of pixels to display media clips or stunning built-in 2D effects. Maps can be quickly auto-generated from fixture layouts, or manually modify pixel positions for ultimate control over the result.

Sophisticated Triggering

REAL-TIME EVENTS
CONDITIONAL LOGIC
VARIABLES
SCRIPTING
IO MODULES

Timing is everything. Pharos Designer lighting control systems respond to a wide range of stimuli, from real-time events to serial messages, enabling the creation of human-centric or circadian rhythm-based lighting effects. Designer Trigger is a rules engine that uses a powerful conditional logic principle, to create exactly the behaviour you want, when you want it.

Designer Controllers

Programmed using our Designer 2 software and trusted to run day and night illuminating iconic installations around the world, our controllers offer you scalable embedded hardware you can rely on.

They are grouped into two families – the LPC (Lighting Playback Controller) family and VLC (Video Lighting Controller) family.

Our LPCs are the perfect go-to solution for almost every requirement. For larger projects, the LPC X, VLC and VLC+ offer more powerful, higher-capacity solutions.

Endless Scalability

FLEXIBLE CHANNEL COUNTS
ADDITIONAL PORTS
REMOTE DEVICES
TOUCH STATIONS
IO MODULES

The right equipment for every lighting installation, with impressive scalability. Whether it’s one controller or many, it’s all easily programmed via our Designer 2 software. Multiple Pharos Designer products can be connected via Ethernet to increase the channels controlled, the number of communication ports in your project or to achieve a distributed control solution.

Extreme Reliability

RELIABLE
5 YEAR WARRANTY
EMBEDDED HARDWARE
SELF – SUFFICIENT
MANUFACTURED IN THE UK
CE, AND ETL

All our controllers are engineered and manufactured in the UK, designed with 24/7 stability and reliability in mind. We are completely confident in our products, and to back this up we offer a 5-year warranty. Our hardware is fully CE and UKCA compliant, and either ETL or UL listed. Once programmed our control system is self-sufficient, so no PC needs to be left on site.

Extensive Fixture Support

MULTI-CHANNEL CONTROL
30,000+ FIXTURES
ONLINE LIBRARY
DMX
DALI
LEDS
DIMMERS
FOUNTAINS

Our fixture library has all the luminaires you could possibly need, with over 30,000 ready to download directly into our Designer 2 software. Includes a huge range of fixture types and modes, with more available on request. Use any number of fixture types together, including DALI alongside DMX.

Designer Remote Devices & Accessories

A comprehensive range of additional devices that complement our controllers and complete your lighting control solution.

Remote devices provide scalable remote input and output solutions for show control over an Ethernet network. Accessories deliver unified and reliable power and data infrastructure solutions, and wall stations offer easy, user friendly control access.

Easy Integration

IO MODULES
APIS
SCRIPTING
SERIAL
ETHERNET
DMX
IO
MIDI
DALI
INFRARED
TIMECODE
AUDIO

Pharos Designer controllers can react to, control or interact with other systems. Use a variety of protocols and commands to easily adapt and integrate your lighting, sound, vision, and effects. Build your own integrations with our comprehensive APIs or choose from our growing library of ready-made IO modules.

Remote Management

CLOUD
WEB INTERFACE
MOBILE
WEB APPS
SCHEDULING
MEDIA MANAGEMENT
LOGGING

Manage your installation 24/7 from any device and any location – using Pharos Cloud or one of our other remote management tools – for comprehensive security and access management. Discover a range of remote management solutions that provide the access you need on local networks or over the Internet, with extensive customisation options to tailor your management interface to be as simple or as sophisticated as you please.