Wolfmix W1 Lighting Controller

Description

Create spectacular light shows with the Wolfmix W1 Lighting Controller. With brilliant effects modules such as Colour FX - mixing up to 16 colours, Move FX - create moving patterns on scanners and moving heads and Beam FX - create custom patterns with the step sequencer with chase, wave or dimming effects. Colour control is right at your fingertips with up to 4 DMX universes for you to get truly creative with.

Wolfmix W1 is a standalone performance DMX lighting controller - designed for creating light shows on the fly without a computer.
A toolbox of FX modules, music sync, and up to 4 DMX universes - packed inside robust hardware with a powerful processor. Choose from 1000’s of light fixtures, or build your own directly inside the controller. Whether it’s for a live performance, disco, club or show - Wolfmix has you covered.

Hands-on standalone control of your DMX lights
Wolfmix has been designed with the performer in mind, with 37 colored silicone buttons and a 4.3” touchscreen giving direct access to the most important FX and features.

Inside the beast

Dedicated CPU
Robust beam engine, coded low-level straight onto the silicon, unlocking the raw power of the WOLFs 220 million heartbeats per second.
Flash memory
16MB of lighting fast readable NOR flash memory ensures the Wolfmix never misses a beat, with changes written on-the-fly.
Strong construction
Powder-coated steel base with VESA mount, and reinforced steel back-plate armour the WOLF for tough conditions.
High End finishing
A laser printed matt oil finish for durable, yet soft-to-touch silicon pads, backlit with color changing LEDs.
Touch screen
4.3” capacitive touch display with tinted glass. Fine-tune your project with the color picker, pan/tilt grid and on-screen keyboard for naming presets.
Push encoders
4 incremental push encoders with acceleration, for fine-tuning parameters whilst flying from 0-100% with a single twist.
The Wolfmix toolbox
WTOOLS app for PC & Mac computers
Wolfmix operates as a standalone controller without any computer required. Wolfmix can also be connected to a computer's USB3 socket for some additional functionality with the WTOOLS app.

Wolfmix W1 Features:

Setup

Standalone (no computer needed)
Compatible with any DMX device
Up to 4 DMX universes (2048 channels. Add-on required for U3+4)*
Up to 680 fixtures & beams
Up to 50 fixture types
Up to 5000 fixture features (color/gobo etc...)
8 fixture groups
6 projects
15000+ available fixtures (3500+ on the controller)
DMX address, fixture order & group setup
Use as a DMX splitter with DMX universe mapping
Palettes & FX

Color FX module with 8 effect types & 16 definable colors
Move FX module with 8 effect types
Beam FX module with 8 effect types
6 Flash buttons for controlling Special FX, Strobe, Blinder, Speed, Blackout & Smoke
Static color palette with 10 user definable colors per group & gradient control
Static position palette with 5 user definable positions per group with fade & fanning
Gobo palette with 5 user definable gobos per group
20 namable live edit buttons with flash triggering mode and ‘Park’ function
100 namable presets for storing snapshots with hold and fade timings
Preset playback cue list- all presets or per page of 20 presets
Control & Sync

Group and master dimming with encoder acceleration
Group FLASH, FULL and Blackout
16 bit Pan/Tilt control
Multi-beam LED bar control
FX music pulse sync from Microphone or Line-In
FX BPM sync with Ableton Link, OS2L or BPM TAP
Effect Speed, Phase, Order, Size, Fade, Fan & Flick
Live control of move FX registration point
Global FX speed and freeze control
Map DMX IN with group dimmer and patch to output channels (add-on required)*
WLINK - sync with another Wolfmix controller (add-on required)*
Built-in tools

Fixture Builder
Fixture calibration tool, to limit the area of moving fixtures
X-Y touch controlled positioning grid
RGBW touch controlled color picker
8-step real time sequencer for creating beam and move FX
Live view of DMX levels with default value override and DMX channel tester
Beam Editor to override Min and Max values used in generated FX
Other neat features

Calibrate and RGB, White, Amber, UV mixing with automatic fixed color wheel translation
Automatic matching of similar gobos across different fixture types
Timed release of flash and preset buttons
Fixture FLIP function, for reversing beam order
Fixture SPLIT function, for splitting up multi-FX bars
Lock full controller, or lock editing with a password
Project & fixture backup with WTOOLS app
Offline 3D visualization with Easy View & WTOOLS over USB (add-on required)*
Auto-recovery of active project (no manual saving needed)
Import different fixture setups into the same project
Starts in under 2 seconds. Starts sending DMX in under 1 second
Factory firmware startup recovery mode for times of crisis
*some features require an add-on purchase available through the WTOOLS app

Wolfmix W1 Specifications:

Housing

ABS Plastic
Powder-coated steel base plate with 100mm VESA (M4 6mm max)
Powder-coated steel reinforced back plate
Display

4.3” Color TFT with tinted glass
Capacitive touch
Encoders

Full body alloy
Incremental push with acceleration
Button pads

37 Silicone buttons with matt oil finishing
LED color backlit
Processing

220Mhz CPU with ARM core
8MB RAM
16MB Flash
Audio

Omnidirectional electret mic
3.5mm Jack Line-In
Analog adaptive peak detector
DMX

2x 3pin DMX OUT XLR connectors
1x 5pin DMX OUT XLR connector
1x 5pin DMX IN/OUT XLR connector with WLINK
USB

USB-B connector- 900ma required (USB3 rating)
High-speed USB communication
Size & weight

195 x 220 x 62 mm / 7.68 x 8.66 x 2.44 in
1070g / 2.36lb