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    Laser Warning HELP with 3 lasers and Phoenix Live

    Hi. First of all I want to introduce myself. My name is Fausto a.k.a. Matapixels. I am a filmmaker and vj in Argentina and finally after many years I could afford my laser and my controller.

    Some days ago I found this forum and I īd like to congratulate you on the quantity of quality information that you have.

    I make this small question, since for days I am investigating and cannot get to understand.

    I have a controller phoenix live and a laser of 2w full colour.

    In a few weeks I will take part in a mapping with my laser. Recently I found out that the surface in which I am going to draw is bigger than I had thought. So I am going to rent 2 more lasers of 2 w with its cables to make a big rectangle with the 3 of them.



    My question is the following:

    Soft Phoenix has the chance to select to which chase or laser I want to assign a drawing. I mean, when I select the drawing of the dog that will go out through the laser 1, when I select a cat, it will go out through the laser 2 and when I select a ball, it will go out through the laser 3. I need to project 3 independent drawings, one with each laser. To do this, Do I have to make an update to phoenix pro or to phoenix pro plus???



    I understand that if I have the activated and hidden option if I connect the lasers I should work. But since I don't have the 3 lasers till one day after the show I cannot try.



    Thanks a lot!!

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    Hi Matapixels-

    Welcome to PL!!!

    "vjaiwaz" who is a member here can probably help you. He is very good with Phoenix and does a lot with Video and Laser also.

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    well are you using phoenix live or pro/pro+ as they are 2 different software's

    well here is the short answer live can use upto 8 lasers if you have 8 phoenix dac's (the black boxes)
    pro can only use one laser
    pro + can use 8 lasers i think ( it keeps changing )

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    HI!
    THANKS!!

    Then I need one box for each laser??
    I can not connect ILDA between them?

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    yea in your scenario of different images on each screen you need 3 boxes but if you want all the same image then a Y splitter will work

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    well
    know if any offer or configuration that allows me to buy 2 black boxes without having to pay for the soft
    Here in Argentina is way too much money

    thanks again!!!

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    yea you can buy just the boxes here
    http://shop.phoenix-showcontroller.d...OENIX-Hardware

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    Hello,

    Yes the Phoenix Micro Interfaces can be purchased seperatly.
    In Phoenix4 Live you can use up to 8 interfaces to control laser independently.
    In Phoenix4 Pro you can use 1 interface.
    In Phoenix4 ProPlus you can use up to 32 interfaces to control laser independently.

    Kind regards

    Daniel

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    oh so pro+ is back to 32 dacs i cant keep up it was 32 then it was 8 now i
    guess its 32 again

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