LED

Before · AfterPlay with it

The sample with the Stadium Wall preset. Drag to compare, or press Play with it to tune it live. Open as a shared look

What it's like

Walk up to the big screen at a show and the picture falls apart into dots. Each dot is a pixel, lit or dark, with black between. From the back of the room it's a picture again. The wall is built from modules that never quite match, a few diodes have died, and a camera filming it picks up rolling bands and rainbow patterns.

When to reach for it

• Show visuals and stage screens, close up or from far away.
• Type and logos on a sign. Pick a single Color like Amber or Red for a message board.
• A screen caught on camera. Raise Refresh bands and Moiré.

How it works

Each cell of the grid takes the color at its center, rounds it to a few steps, and lights one diode with it. That's why fine detail turns into a mosaic and smooth gradients turn into bands as you lower Levels.

Controls

14 controls in 5 sections, in the order Tune shows them.

Panel

• Hero knobPitch 4px to 24px · rests at 10px

  The hero. The distance between diodes. Small is a fine screen, large is a wall you can count.

• KnobDiode size 0 to 100 · rests at 65

  How big each diode is in its cell. Smaller leaves more black between them.

• KnobGlow 0 to 100 · rests at 45

  Soft light around each diode.

Signal

• KnobLevels 2 to 16 · rests at 9

  How many brightness steps each color gets. Low bands the picture into flat steps.

• KnobUnlit diodes 0 to 100 · rests at 35

  In the dark parts of the picture you see the unlit diodes, as dim grey dots.

• SwitchShape RoundSquare

  Round or Square diodes.

Color

• SelectColor Full colorAmberRedGreenIce

  Full color, or a single-color sign in Amber, Red, Green or Ice.

Wall

• KnobModule seams 0 to 100 · rests at 0

  The wall is built from square modules. Each one sits a little brighter or darker, with dark seams between.

• KnobDiode variation 0 to 100 · rests at 0

  Each diode is a little brighter or dimmer than its neighbor.

• KnobDead diodes 0 to 100 · rests at 0

  Some diodes are out, and a few are stuck on red.

Camera

• KnobRefresh bands 0 to 100 · rests at 0

  Dark bands roll through the picture, the way a camera sees a screen refreshing.

• KnobMoiré 0 to 100 · rests at 0

  A rainbow interference pattern drifts over the wall, once a loop, like a camera filming the grid.

• FaderViewing angle -100 to +100 · rests at 0

  Seen from off to one side. The panel dims toward its edges and shifts color, warm on one side and cool on the other.

• KnobPWM flicker 0 to 100 · rests at 0

  A fast strobe, the diodes pulsing too quickly for the eye but not for a camera.

Presets

3 presets. Each one opens in the studio as a shared look. Add it on top of your picture, or save it to My looks.