Lighticians Apollo Control vs Photon 2

Lighticians Apollo Control — the next generation lighting control app designed for experienced lighting professionals and newcomers alike. Effortlessly control cutting edge LED lights and mix color wirelessly. Gaffers, cinematographers, lighting professionals, and lighting enthusiasts want precise control over every aspect of their fixtures. Lighticians Apollo Control is the next generation wireless lighting app designed both for experienced lighting professionals as well as newcomers to the field. This app introduces a powerful yet easy new way to mix color when driving the most cutting edge LED lights. Lighticians Apollo Control enables you to directly control your lights using sACN E1.31 over WiFi, save your favorite settings, and share projects with colleagues using AirDrop or Email. Even without any experience using a conventional lighting console, you will be able to enjoy creating beautiful lighting setups with Lighticians Apollo Control. UNIFIED LIGHTING CONTROL INTERFACE • Expressive hue/saturation wheel controls enable mixing from the perfect pastel all the way to super saturated deep colors • Precision white light controls with green/magenta slider and accurate CTO/CTB direct adjustments • Popover controls for quick and interactive tweaking • Save your favorite colors as swatches for future use • Manufacturer-specific and direct parameter controls available COLOR SCIENCE • Robust and accurate color mixing algorithm that always derives the best quality of light possible • Carefully tuned white light algorithms to enhance white light quality • Virtualization of color parameters available within the color wheel interface including color temperature, green/magenta tint, hue, saturation, and intensity making these parameters available to all light-modes that have color capabilities DIRECT LIGHTING CONTROL “SCRATCHPAD" • Dashboard view of lights and their state • Drag and drop collections to organize and quickly access multiple lights at once PROJECTS • Organize all patching, lighting metadata, and network connectivity in one place • Share projects using standard iOS techniques including AirDrop and email — ideal for rigging gaffer handoffs • Projects can be built prior to being connected to a network to prepare for installations and rigging PATCHING • Add lights to your project using a calendar style interface • Each patched light can be identified with a unique number, descriptive text, and an optional color code and shape icon • includes a curated fixtures library which supports all common motion picture lighting parameters • Fixture profiles editor allows you to build custom profiles for various modes of control • Patch editor enabling changes to the patch once created PROTOCOLS & NETWORKING • One universe of sACN E1.31 connectivity • ArtNet and additional universes coming soon COMPATIBILITY • WiFi connection to local network to control lights that receive sACN E1.31 streams directly from ethernet • sACN E1.31 compatible bridge hardware is required to connect Lighticians Lighting Control to lights over DMX interfaces • although hardware is required to interact with lights, the app can be used without a connection at any time for rigging, project prep, and brainstorming Many more features coming soon including looks, timeline sequences, effects, multiple DMX universes, ArtNet, RDM, and more…

Let's create your show with Photon 2. The next generation of professional DMX & Philips Hue lighting console has been rebuilt from the ground up for a better live experience. User-friendly and customizable, Photon 2 is perfect for musicians, nightclubs, live events, filmmakers, theater, stages… ◈ Wireless (Art-Net or sACN through WIFI) and ready to use, Photon reinvents the way to control DMX devices & Philips Hue*** with its single interface for all your lights. ◈ Create presets, combine them in sequences and synchronize your lights to music. Our beat tracker listens and animates your devices to the music rhythm. Live events will have no more secret for you. ◈ Want to turn your iPad into a real elegant personalized lighting control platform? The app features ground-breaking concepts that let you create your own user interface designed to make tasks practical and more intuitive. Connect external MIDI controllers like keyboards, pads, timecoders or others apps/softwares to control your fixtures. FEATURES (FREE VERSION) - 16 DMX channels - Multi-touch interface designed and optimized for iPad - Light group management. Link multiple lights together to perform the same action (colors, positions, brightness...) - Supports advanced controls (gobos/fog machine, focus) - Scene management: create presets, animate them in sequences - Create your dashboard and organize it as you wish - Art-Net/sACN/DMX channel monitor - Art-Net/sACN in multicast or unicast - Philips Hue Entertainment connection*** - Database with hundreds of pre-configured devices (fixtures) - Fixture creator to configure your devices STARTER (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) - 128 DMX channels - Create as many buttons (widgets) on your dashboard as you want - Enjoy the power of automatic BeatTracker and sync your lights to live music - Ableton Link support: sync your lights with your favorite DJ app or musical instruments - Background operation mode (Live Mode) PHOTON+ (SUBSCRIPTION) Everything in Starter included, plus: - 512 DMX channels (full universe) - Multi-Dashboard: create multiple dashboards to organize your widgets by lighting type, zone, or function. Swipe between them instantly during live performance - MIDI inputs: control dashboard buttons/faders with physical MIDI controllers (pads) or virtual ones (apps) - All next features on going * Requires an Art-Net to DMX bridge. Photon relies on Open Lighting Architecture (Open Lighting Project). *** Philips Hue Entertainment requires a Hue v2 or Pro bridge.