Showeditor SND Show Controller Laserworld Pro Light and Sound 2019

0:01 It's ProLight and Sound PLS 2019

Alright guys, it's ProLight and Sound PLS 2019. We're in the Laser World booth. Very good friend of mine, Norbert, and you're going to show us this rather nice software called Show Editor. What can you tell us about the software? What lasers can you use it with? How easy it is to use? Who can use it? In other words, go ahead and give us some info on it, sir. Yeah, hey everyone. This is the brand new show controller software. This is something we just launched here at the show. This is something to ease up laser control, especially for those that want to get started or that are professionals already. This is a software solution that basically caters for all requirements in laser control. What we see here is the live part of the software which is most important to DJs and nightclubs because they actually have live

Laser operation usually in place. What you can see is that we have a MIDI controller attached here, that we have a fancy colored selection of different patterns. We have color options here so we can select colors pretty easily and quickly. We have faders down here which correspond with the faders on our MIDI controller. We have the options to select different patterns, pattern sets. There's many, many preset patterns already built in. To the software which is very helpful and you can control many different output channels so it's not only one laser you can control but with a basic version you can control even up to three lasers and if you get a plus version it goes up to 20 lasers so you can scale it and if we add more scanners, you can do chaser effects something like that so depending on

2:57 The hardware that's required for handling the control signal already i

Let me ask you a quick question. Let's imagine we have someone who is a complete novice with lasers. How easy is it to set up from, for example, someone plugs their laser in, they have The program on their laptop. How easy is it for them then to just get everything working together and to start making shows? Yeah, basically we launched another product that this Pro light and sound which is the Shonet card integrated into most of the laser systems. So starting from the diode series up some so even with a DS1000 RGB, so the one watt diode series unit, there is the Shonet integrate from now on. The hardware that's required for handling the control signal already integrated to the lasers. So there is no need anymore to fumble around with the iller cables, you know the old type printer cable thing with all these kind of bulky connectors and all that stuff. That's all gone. It's just network. And it's normal network so we don't need any special switches, routers or stuff. We just use a normal network cable. We can use standard switches from just the normal...

4:49 Is LaserWorld the first company that have integrated the software into

So this is it. So we have it in the small lasers and up to the highest... Power lasers we have. This show net is integrated and the show net is the interface that works with the show controller and also with the show editor. And the show editor comes for free with every laser that has the show net integrated. That's pretty good. So there is a basic version, so the show editor is basic version. Show editor, basic version is included for free now with all lasers with the show net integrated. And the show controller is the more advanced software version that you can use You just hook up the interface, you start the software, you press laser on and you select the patterns you want to use. It's as easy as that. That is amazing. Is LaserWorld the first company that have integrated the software into the hardware now? Are you the first company to do this? Basically, there is different kinds of integration. So for us it's the first time to use that as mainboard. So the hardware, the Shonet interface substitutes the existing mainboards.

In the smaller lasers and the larger lasers, so we now add further features. We probably have a view at the show net. ...thing in a separate video because it's so, so powerful, so mighty what we integrate to the lasers that it's a separate thing to the software. So the software and the hardware play one part but the show net adds much, much more to the lasers themselves. Okay very quickly I want to point out as well that you know these are preset patterns but of course let's imagine you're a wedding DJ and you want to say congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Smith Then we can go to a separate page, can't we? It is super simple to program that on your own. Because it's just a drag and drop programming. So if you have something you want to add, you can create your own artwork with other software parts. So the software is split in different parts. With PickEdit you can create your own artwork. You can create text, you can create logos, whatever.

6:58 This is a pro feature basically, a very pro feature

In real time you can make laser shows, so create your own laser shows. There is 200 laser shows coming for free with the software, so you can already just get going. You hook up the software, load the shows and press play and it works. And we have the Tracer. Tracer is the software part that enables you to... Get your own logos as JPEG files, load it there and the software traces it in a way that the laser can display it. Wow, that's crazy. That's a super simple feature and if you have vector graphics, even vector animations like with Blender or 3D Max or whatever, you can use the SVG tool to convert these to laser compatible frames which is super, super cool. There is in Blender, which is an open source 3D program, there is an export feature that has been specifically programmed for the show controller software that enables the conversion so you can get it out of the software in the proper format to use it with a laser software. So this is a pro feature basically, a very pro feature. So that's a funny thing. And if we now want to program it,

Do a right click on a free pattern and then it opens up the programming track. So we just want to put something on the timeline, I double click and it opens up the different options. I select trick film to add some animation, I double click it and I can select from assortment of different already preset patterns. But I can also load the pick from temp so I can use the other software part This one here, pick edit for example, create my own artwork and then I send it to temp, it's kind of a buffer, and then I get it in here and I can use the artwork I just created in the live window. So what we do now, we select this pattern, I say okay, and this is, I select F and then it goes to the full length and we have the effect already that I just put like this. And there it is. Okay.

We want to add some more features to it. I just right-click again, I double-click again and I want to put rotation on it. I have the rotation and I let this to the full length pressing F and you see it's already rotating. So it's so simple. You just put it in, drag it in and it already rotates. Now I want to have it rotate in a different way. I want to have a sine rotation not just linear rotation. I just go type of rotation and I select sine. Now what you see, the rotation is a different way. It rotates like a sine effect. And it's the same with adding different effects. You can add intensity, fading effects, all this. And you see, it's super simple. It's just drag and drop. So there is nothing complex about this software. It's easy to use, it's super versatile, and exactly what the DJ needs. He wants to select the different patterns, the different... Yeah, that's it. I mean, again, I'm...

9:24 I must admit, I'm very slow with using software and lasers

I must admit, I'm very slow with using software and lasers. I will use software if I'm doing a big show. But if I take lasers out to small gigs, I'll usually let them do sound to life. But at least here, very simply, you can get a star, you can get a tunnel. So you don't have to go too complicated, do you? The cool thing about it is that even if you're not used to using software... You have the option to have better control over what's your laser doing. Because in the past it was just the sound-to-light mode, so built-in patterns, something like that. But if you use this software, you can use all this to work for you. So for example I just press beatmode and it changes the patterns to a certain beatframe. I can select the BPM and I can also use...

Speed faders, whatever, to adjust the speed and it just steps through the different patterns. So it allows for much more vivid live sound-to-light operation or automatic operation than you have with the built-in patterns. But regarding the built-in patterns... A lot has changed as well. This is the Shonet integration, because this is what I previously explained. With the Shonet we added much, much more into the lasers than we had before. Many new features, especially the SD card inside that allows you to bring in your own patterns to all these laser systems. That's amazing. But this is a different thing we're talking about later. Yeah, yeah, no, sure. But what I'm really pleased about now is, as you say, with the integrated software.

You don't need any external hardware or anything and do you think as well lasers are getting to the stage now where we're cutting almost like cutting out the middleman there's no need for the the hardware it's all in one do you think every laser will go that way yeah basically our lasers basically do it that way so all the from the diode series up basically all the lasers are just uh yeah make more or less plug and play now we don't need any Thanks for watching, and see you next time. Thank you very much Norbert.

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