Is there any news or updates on R4? @jack.moorhouse casually referenced it a few days ago on a forum post. A timeline for release and/or a feature list would be awesome.
It’s pretty much good to go. We expect one of the final versions to be compiled today. We will then run it through some formal tests and if the results of that are as expected we will release as public beta #1. We will post news of that on this forum along with any download links. Hopefully within the next week.
As for the feature list, it’s too long to mention in a forum post. We have changed over 230 things in this version, and since we are bumping up version number, most of them are new features and improvements. With the sum of all of the parts, the user experience is much improved.
Some stand out features would be:
Support for the NDI protocol. This includes being able to apply it directly to a matrix. See video.
and also to be able to stream in any NDI source as a dockable window. This could be from a media server, visualizer, or even live studio or stage camera. See video 2.
Ableton link support - You can now link FX masters or chases to any other device on the network that supports Ableton Link. This could be a DJ deck, band click track… or of course Ableton.
See video of FX auto in sync with a DJ deck.
The ability to scale cue output to live time - great for live show playback
Numerous GUI improvements and larger elements for touch screen support.
… stay tuned for full details within the release notes.
Jack
Fantastic news, thanks for the update.
I just installed V3 R4 and it is giving me an error that my dongle is not being detected even though it is plugged in. Suggestions?
If you go to the About Vista window and it shows the channel count you can ignore that message. It appears that Vista is throwing up that message a bit to quickly on some newer systems. That is to be adjusted in the next update.
I’m getting error issues and no dmx control - the S3 controls the Mac but no dmx output on the back of the console.
Best thing to do is submit a support ticket
Info to send:
- operating system
copy of the showfile
export of the log files after the crashes.
what were you doing when the node errors happen?
Can you recreate it regularly, if so how?
The playback nodes are Vista’s background processing processes.
There are a couple of things that could cause this, are you letting the computer hibernate/sleep? This would be a common cause of this happening because the computer is shutting down the background processes but keeping the main app active. Needless to say, Vista doesn’t support sleep/hibernation.
Do a full machine restart and make sure your sleep settings are set to always on
thanks - I did submit a ticket.
I had requested a fixture profile - they sent me an update and download. I downloaded it but vista 3.2 wouldn’t install it so I upgraded to v4 and that’s when I had the problem. as soon as I went back to 3.2 everything was ok, except the new fixture still wasn’t able to install.
Mac mini m2, s3 console