Nine effects
Blackout, solid, strobe, wave, rainbow, chase, sparkle, split and pulse. Waves and chases roll across the stand because every phone knows where it is.
ColorControl
IN DEVELOPMENT
The audience as a light show.
Like the LED wristbands at big concerts, but with the phone everyone already has on them. The audience scans a QR code, every screen becomes a pixel, and you drive them from your lighting desk.
- JoiningIn the browser, no app
- ControlDMX over Art-Net
- NetworkWi-Fi or 4G/5G
- ScaleUp to thousands of phones
How it works
From a QR code to a stand full of colour.
Nothing needs to be installed. Anyone who joins opens a web page, and their phone screen becomes a field of colour that moves with the show.
01
Scan
The audience scans the QR code on the screens in the venue, or opens the address.
02
Pick a spot
People tap 'join' and pick where they are on a small map of the venue.
03
Become a pixel
The screen turns into a field of colour and stays on while the show runs.
04
Show
You run it from the lighting desk or the built-in console. Every phone follows along based on where it is.
Live busking
A console of its own, or just your lighting desk.
Without a lighting desk you run everything from the browser on your laptop. With a desk, the desk takes over, and the console steps back in as soon as DMX stops.
Master, speed, size and strobe
With two colours per effect. Size sets how wide a wave or chase runs across the audience.
Flash and blackout
Flash goes to full white for as long as you hold it, just like a bump button on a lighting desk. Blackout turns everything off at once.
From your lighting desk
The audience as an 8-channel fixture.
Send Art-Net to the ColorControl server and patch the audience as a regular fixture from your start channel, from grandMA and ChamSys to Avolites. That puts it in your cue list next to the rest of your rig.
| Channel | Function |
|---|---|
| +0 | Dimmer, the master from 0 to 255 |
| +1 · +2 · +3 | Red, green, blue |
| +4 | Effect, spread across the effect list |
| +5 | Speed |
| +6 | Size |
| +7 | Strobe, 0 is off |
If no Art-Net arrives for more than one and a half seconds, the console takes over again by itself.
Good to know
Honest about what a phone can do.
Does the audience need to install an app?
No. Joining happens in the browser, on iOS and Android. Scan, tap 'join', done.
Does it work over Wi-Fi or mobile data?
Both. Over Wi-Fi at the venue or simply over 4G or 5G. If you use Wi-Fi, pick a dedicated network without a login page: guest networks with a sign-in screen often block the connection ColorControl needs.
How bright does a phone get?
As bright as the audience sets the screen: a browser isn't allowed to raise the brightness itself. So ask the audience to turn the brightness all the way up. ColorControl asks the phone to keep the screen on while the show runs, although iOS can still dim a screen now and then.
Why the screen and not the torch?
A browser can't control the torch on iOS, but it can control the screen. And with the screen you get colour instead of just white.
When is ColorControl available?
ColorControl is in development. If you'd like to use it at your own event or concert, email us. We're happy to work out together what your show needs.
Demo
Put your audience in the light.
Tell us about your event, the venue and your lighting desk. We'll show you ColorControl live, with your own phone as a pixel.
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