Skip to content
PixDrive
All articles

The output monitor

See in the Output Monitor what goes out on the wire: channel values, paging through universes and the 2D view.

Updated

Step 1 of 5

Open the Output Monitor

The Output Monitor shows the DMX values PixDrive Studio sends to your controllers, frame by frame. Click Output Monitor in the toolbar.

All steps

  1. Open the Output Monitor
    The Output Monitor shows the DMX values PixDrive Studio sends to your controllers, frame by frame. Click Output Monitor in the toolbar.
  2. Read the channels
    Each cell is one of the 512 channels of a universe: the small number is the channel, the large one its value from 0 to 255. The colored edge marks the fixture it belongs to; hover a cell to see the fixture and color. The bar on top shows the universe, the target address and how many channels are above 0.
  3. Change how values are shown
    Click Percent to read the values as brightness from 0 to 100 %. Hex shows them as hexadecimal, and Bars adds a level bar under each value.
  4. Page to the next universe
    The monitor shows one universe at a time. Click the arrow on the right to page to universe 2, where the backdrop starts at channel 1.
  5. See the LEDs in 2D
    Click 2D. Every LED in this universe becomes a small square in the color it receives, in wiring order. A quick way to check that the right pixels light up.