I have been trying to utilize the LED touch controllers that we bought from AMDJ.
This product had great potential and we were hoping to use it widely as a small
somewhat simple controller.
I had high hopes, according to the documentation this unit would exactly what we need.
To my dismay i have come to the realization that just like so many other AMDJ products
that we have attempted to use the LED Touch has a critical flaw in its software lay out
that makes it usefulness very limited with professional grade fixtures.
The issue is this: You can set the LED touch in 4 different DMX Configurations.
They are RGBD/S, RGB/D, RGB/W, and RGB.
The first three configs are used with 4 ch led fixtures the last one (RGB) is to
be used with 3 ch fixtures.
The problem is that the LED touch only outputs data in 4 ch blocks regardless of what configuration mode it is in.
Even if you put it in RGB mode it still spits out data in 4 ch blocks.
Usually if you were using a 3 ch RGB fixture your addresses would be
fixture # Dmx #
1 1
2 4
3 7
4 10
and so on
But the LED touch in RGB mode puts out data in 4 ch blocks
Fixture # Dmx #
1 1
2 5
3 9
4 13
and so on
This layout is unpractical. It is very annoying and it does not enplane this anywhere in the manual.
I'm smart, I was able to figure it out,but I'll bet that most of your clients would not be able to figure this out.
If you have fixtures you can set individual address on then you can work around this flaw by setting the address on each
fixture, but here is the problem.
Most professional LED fixtures, such as Color Kinetics Color blast (a widely accepted industry standard)
or Chroma Q Color Blocks plug into a power supply, the address for the group of fixtures is set on
the power supply and the power supply automatically sequentially addresses the fixtures.
There is not option to give individual fixtures septate addresses.
They automatically are spaced 3ch apart.
Because of this the LED Touch is USELESS for controlling most of our inventory of LED fixtures
I Strongly recommend AMDJ attempt to fix this critical flaw in the design of this product.
I can say for sure that I will not be trying to sell any of these controllers as it stands.
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