For the program to learn about your light, a fixture needs to be added to the project. All the ways are gathered in a single “Add fixture” menu button — from manual creation to recognition from a photo.
Add
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Manually — a ready preset | Opens a window with presets: PAR, wash, pinspot, UV, moving head, wash head, bar, bar with tilt, strobe, blinder, laser, fog machine and more. The fixture immediately gets the right kind and an approximate channel set — adjust it to your model using its manual. The first item is an empty fixture for those who map everything themselves, the last one opens the constructor for complex fixtures (spider, scanner, mirror ball). |
| From the library | Opens the library of ready-made profiles (built-in database + community). The simplest route — find the model, add it. |
| Extended profile | Opens the fixture constructor to build a complex profile (multi-beam, matrices, etc.). |
Import from file
If you have a profile file from another program — import it (in detail in 02.05):
| Format | From where |
|---|---|
| SvetoMaster (.svf) | A profile saved in our program |
| Freestyler (.fxt/.pff) | From the Freestyler program |
| QLC+ (.qxf) | From the QLC+ program |
Recognize
From a photo / text — take a picture of the fixture’s back panel or a page of the manual with the channel table, and the AI recognizes the profile automatically.
As text (AI) — if the channel chart spans several pages of the manual and is hard to photograph legibly, press “Paste as text” in the same recognition window. Open the manual as a PDF or on the maker’s website, select the chart (all pages at once is fine), copy it, paste it into the field and press “Recognize”. If the manual lists several modes (e.g. 7 and 16 channels), the AI takes the fullest one and adds the channel count to the name; for a different mode, copy the chart of that mode only. You can also paste just the model name — the channels are then suggested from memory, approximately, and must be checked against the manual. Only plain text is pasted: formatting, images and hidden characters are dropped.
What is taken from the chart. Besides channel names and types, the AI also transfers value ranges when the chart lists them: for example, “0–7 — no strobe, 8–255 — strobe speed” or the modes of a program channel (“manual control”, “color select”, “sound mode”). They appear in the patch table under “Channel functions (ranges)” and as buttons in PROG mode, and the strobe fader follows them right away: at zero there is no flashing, above zero the speed rises. Dimmer and color channels (red, green, blue…) get no ranges — they are plain levels. Program, speed, reset and lamp channels get their purpose, such as “Program speed” or “Fixture reset”. Check the result against the manual: range limits and labels can be corrected in the Patch.
After it’s added, the fixture immediately lands on the first free DMX address — you can change it in the patch table.
The fixture is also named automatically, taking the first free sequential number: “PAR can 1”, “PAR can 2” and so on. Copies are named the same way: duplicating a moving head gets the next free number instead of a “(Copy)” suffix. If you delete, say, “PAR can 2”, the freed number goes to the next fixture you add.
The program never rewrites a name you typed yourself: a copy of a fixture called “Wash 575” becomes “Wash 575 2” — the digits of a model name are not turned into a sequence number.
