Chris Curran Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I saw the desks on eBay They would have been fine for the lamps you have The sirius is a level memory desk , you would have to store the moves as a chase Its cheap , its cheerful , and it would work Best Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I saw the desks on eBay They would have been fine for the lamps you have The sirius is a level memory desk , you would have to store the moves as a chase Its cheap , its cheerful , and it would work Um, I really don't think so... unless you are a retro programmer who enjoys doing things the hard way. They weren't the most reliable desks either.Much better to spend £80 on the Avo Titan dongle which is even cheaper and a lot more cheerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkPAman Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Its cheap , its cheerful , and it would work Yep, in much the same way as my car would go round a F1 track :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modge Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Yep, in much the same way as my car would go round a F1 track :DCloser I think to the way my push bike would do it actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicktaylor Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 I would pick up a second hand Frog style desk if you are familiar with the Zero 88 range. Forget sirius for any inteligent lighting control! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LXbydesign Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 What about the Sirius 250 ? Probably quite cheap now. If you want to go down the sirius route, its not bad for movers etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gottark Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 Thanks again for all your replies. I'm very much leaning toward to Titan One, going to download the software and get to grips with it using the very handy quick start guide. For this sort of purpose I would strongly recommend a TitanOne. While I am not sure its capable for control from a keyboard, on a budget, is a fantastic controller, especially if you are already familiar with the Expert. I did a short review of the TitanOne after we got it TitanOne Review I would advise giving avo a ring if you want more information but it is well worth a look into! SJ SJ, how did you find using the software without a touchscreen? I read in your review that it wasn't much of an issue, does it just make things more difficult? Would a touchscreen be an essential buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinntec Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 I would pick up a second hand Frog style desk if you are familiar with the Zero 88 range. Forget sirius for any inteligent lighting control!The snag is the smallest one with Moving Light control is the Fat Frog and they are still selling for £600+ on E-Bay. We replaced our Sirius with one a year ago to increase the dimmer channels and manage LEDs. Works brilliantly! Only dislike is the floppy drive, but you can't have everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhole Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Works brilliantly! Only dislike is the floppy drive, but you can't have everything. This might be helpful:http://zero88.com/forum/topic/6482-fat-frog-fdd-replacement/page__view__findpost__p__25555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinntec Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hi Jon - our floppy is working fine at the moment... However, if you had info about a swap out of a USB drive that looks like a floppy to the Fat Frog, that would be more interesting :) I know several people talked about this in the past, but I can't remember anyone ever saying they were successful? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulDF Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 I fail to see how the boot up time would be effected by a new floppy drive as mentioned in the thread on the Z88 forum, my Bull and Fat frogs load from an internal memory and only use the floppy for updating firmware, uploading fixture files and saving shows. I have stuck with floppy drives for now, the upshot of it is if you buy one of the floppy to USB emulators then you need to have the same device in a PC to upload to the USB stick, it uses a different format to normal USB sticks. From what I gathered at the time you just end up with a load of floppy disk sized partitions on a USB stick and you then have to select which partition you want to upload to using the up down buttons on the floppy emulator. I think I'll stick with floppy disks for now!! I have a couple of spare FDDs and a USB-FDD for my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicktaylor Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Works brilliantly! Only dislike is the floppy drive, but you can't have everything. This might be helpful:http://zero88.com/forum/topic/6482-fat-frog-fdd-replacement/page__view__findpost__p__25555 Very useful. I gather zero 88 had a slightly rogue set of drives at the manufacturing stage. It meant that something sourced from another formatted disk might not work in the desk. Having said that the disk is far more use than the old sirius memory card. By the way anyone want a couple of spares or repair 48 way siriuses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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