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and playback screens. With a keyboard and a wing under my left hand and the tablet under my right, the system is now starting to feel like a real lighting control solution. Although still in its infancy, Clarity already seems to be mature enough to take on its competitors in a fairly tough market. The scalability of the hardware makes it a product that is definitely viable for small schools and theatres, right up to production houses and mid size touring productions. LSC has done a great job in creating a control package that can be scaled to suit most needs. Although currently there is no option for a networked system, the fact that Clarity is able to run on a Mac or Windows, means that standard screen sharing applications will allow for basic network configurations. Overall this is an impressive combination of software and hardware. Clarity will be released through the LSC distribution network in September.
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Programmer window showing the pixel mapping controls transforming a QuickTime movie. The floating Matrix Output window is showing the actual output on the LED matrix which is useful for offline programming.
Pricing Trying Clarity comes as a downloadable 30-day free evaluation version with unlimited DMX universes output via ArtNet, LSC’s QX and VX hardware, or a single Enttec USB Pro device. After the 30-day trial, the system reverts to 128 channels of DMX via the same devices and VX wings become DMX nodes only. Download your copy from www.lscclarity.com Buying A one-universe (512-channel) licence with an LSC QX2 Node: $2519 A VX10 wing with a one-universe licence: $3729 A VX20 wing with a two-universe (1024-channel) licence: $6919 Pricing of other configurations on request. Special ‘pre-release’ pricing is available for a short time.
QX2 node and VX10 wing