Designing a Static Look
A Static Look is a fixed lighting mood for a special moment, such as the first dance, a speech or the cake. In the Studio you set every fixture group – or every single fixture – with everything it can do: intensity, color, strobe, position, movement (circle, figure 8 …), gobo, rotation, prism, focus, zoom and all other channels. On top of that come fade in and fade out times for the whole look.
Step by step
- Tap a look mood on the right, e.g. “First dance” or “Speech & cake”. It sets all groups to match.
- Below “Your lights in this look”, tap a fixture group, e.g. “Moving Heads”. The settings panel opens below it while the preview stays large.
- Choose at the top how the group takes part in the look: Thru (the look leaves it alone), Off (dark) or On.
- Set intensity, color, strobe and, for moving heads, the position. “Show where the light lands” shows every position from above.
- Under Movement, tap a shape – circle, scan, oval, figure 8, square or triple 8 (horizontal or vertical) – and set speed, size and direction: forward or backward (SoundSwitch calls this “Reverse”). Below that, choose the phase: together (all in sync, like in SoundSwitch), wave (one after another) or opposite.
The shapes under “Movement”. - Under Gobo, prism & more, tap a gobo image, plus “Gobo rotating”, prism, focus, zoom and so on. The preview shows the gobo right away.
- To change single fixtures only, tap their numbers at the top of the panel (⌘/Ctrl = several) or click the fixture in the 3D preview.
- Below the fixture list, Fade in and out sets how softly the look comes and goes (up to 30 s).
- Tap “Done”, then “Save to SoundSwitch”.
More from “Studio: designing shows”
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- Customize your layoutYou decide what the Studio shows: hide sections, collapse them, reorder them (also into the other column), drag their height and make their content larger or smaller. You can also make the preview taller and the columns wider. The Studio remembers all of it for every Autoloop, Static Look and song show.Summary
- Fill bank“Fill bank” fills empty pads with Autoloops and Static Looks that suit your event and your lights. You decide how much you want to do yourself: everything automatic, a quick look, pad by pad, or playing the show together live from scenes.Summary
- Just say it (AI)With “Just say it” you describe the light you want in one sentence, for example “first dance, romantic, rosé and gold, slow movers”. The AI then sets the mood, colors and sliders, and the designer builds the show as usual. You can also name single lights and moments, for example “uplights red, movers white, strobe in the second chorus”.Summary
- Show rules: limits, favorites and no-gosShow rules let you decide once what Droplit should use, what it should avoid and where the limit is. Everything it builds afterwards follows them: moods, song shows, the Fill assistant, the Look assistant and AI. You can lift any rule for a single case.Summary