A question came up recently with another console. Obviously there has been a shift in how console size is measured. If I have an EOS4000, is that 4000 DMX channels, or 4000 parameters?
For example, a hypothetical fixture has dimmer, pan, tilt, and cmy, pan and tilt are 16 bit. This fixture would take up 8 dmx channels (dimmer, pan high, pan low, tilt high, tilt low, cyan, magenta, and yellow) but only 6 parameters (dimmer, pan, tilt, cyan, magenta, and yellow).
So an EOS4000 isn't necessarily an 8 eight universe console, but a console that can calculate 4096 DMX channels, regardless of where those are placed in regard to universes.
Does that make sense?
-Chris
