Comments on: Small Lighting Desk Review – Zero 88 Jester DMX Lighting Control

By: lee

lee — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:14:03 +0000

Hi there we are looking to buy a cheap desk for our church and this sounds like one how much would one desk cost

By: Brian Duran

Brian Duran — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:39:03 +0000

My school is possibly getting this desk, we are also replacing our MX 24.

At least it has a cue stack unlike the Strand MX, being the nice board it is you can only store scenes as submasters and play them back with the A/B crossfaders.

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:34:18 +0000

Gred, thanks for letting us know that the Jester now supports a USB keyboard. The original builds did not but the User Manual tells us the r2 board version does. Cheers.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:21:34 +0000

Just to let you know, it is possible to plug in a USB QWERTY keyboard to the Jester.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:52:50 +0000

Thanks Rob
That’s really good.
So, for a school show coming up, I can store a scene, by storing a chase, and then play each one individually? Would it store A and B, and then allow me to crossfade between?
Thanks again
K

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:49:15 +0000

Hi Kenneth, a chase is a series of scenes or looks that are linked together and loop round automatically creating a “chasing” effect. Scrolling through cues of a theatre show is reffered to as a cuse list or stack. You can store looks on the Jester as part of the stack or on individual faders that can be mixed together.

You can store scenes on the MX48 – the user manual will be at the Strand Archive.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:25:48 +0000

Our school is getting a new drama studio (lucky us), and I’ve just seen that we are going to be using this board. It’ll be installed within a few weeks, but I want to be able to show off when we start using it!
Can’t wait to play about with it.
What is meant by ‘Chase’ – is this the way that you store scenes, and scroll through them. If not, how do you store scenes?
Also, in our big hall we have an ancient Stand MX 48 – does anyone know if it’s possible to store scenes in it?
Thanks in advance,
Kenneth

By: Nick Ward

Nick Ward — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:05:02 +0000

The illusion 500 put me off zero88 for life, and we had a hugely reduced price

By: Rob Sayer

Rob Sayer — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:48:05 +0000

Hi Nat, from memory the Auxilliaries are fired by a SHIFT/Flash Button combination but I think that you can also fine control the Auxs by fader.
By complex patching I mean the process of assigning DMX values to the Auxilliary controls – it’s bit fiddly. Softpatching (the ability to assign specific DMX addresses to specific faders) and patching of multiple DMX addresses to one fader is simple enough.

I think the Jester is an ideal buy for a school.

By: Nat Pickett

Nat Pickett — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:28:50 +0000

hello,

i im looking to buy this desk for my school, you talk about “use of Auxillary outputs” how are these oprated? are there bottons you press for on and off? also “Complex patching” what do you mean by that? is it another way of saying soft patching?

Nat