The lighting and video desk in a road case.
Lights and screens on one cue list, run from the same show file you drew in Forectra. Sign in on the box and your show is there: every fixture patched, every screen on its output. Press GO.
By ordering you agree to the Hardware Terms of Sale: 30-day returns, a one-year warranty, shipping and more.
A real desk. Just type.
FOR-Control is the box's home screen: an Eos-style desk in the same file as the drawing. The stage in plan or 3D, a fader for every light, a command line, and one cue list for the lights and the screens.
CHAN 1 THRU 8 AT 50 · 3 FULL · 5 OUT | Levels, by number. Add TIME 3 and they fade. |
RECORD CUE 5 TIME 3 FOLLOW 2 | Record the stage as a cue, with a time, a follow, a hang and a label. |
RECORD CUE 5 LIGHTS · VIDEO · BOTH | Choose what the cue carries. A lights cue never touches the screens; a video cue never touches the lights. |
GO · BACK · GOTO CUE 5 TIME 0 | Run the show, step back, or jump to any cue. |
BLIND CUE 5 · SNEAK · UPDATE | Edit a cue without touching the stage, release hand changes back to the cue, or write the stage into it. |
RECORD SUB 3 · LOAD 3 GM | Submasters on top of the cue (highest wins), and load any fader as a sub, the master, an effect rate, the time scale or a crossfader. |
EFFECT 6 RATE 50 | Sixteen effects: pulse, chase, strobe, twinkle, rainbow, colour chase, circle, figure 8, pan and tilt sweeps, ballyhoo and more. |
MOVERS · AIM | Select every moving light, then tap the stage in plan or 3D and they point there. The aim is recorded in the cue. |
Colour, gels and tint
Hue and saturation, the LEE and Rosco gel books (with "similar" to find the nearest gel), and a tint row: warmer, cooler, saturation and green. Colour temperature in Kelvin for CCT lights.
Encoders that follow you
Pick LEVEL, FOCUS, COLOR or BEAM and the knobs become pan and tilt, zoom, edge or iris for the selected lights.
Three layouts
DESK shows everything. STAGE fills the screen for aiming by touch. CUES gives you the cue list as cards and tall faders. The box remembers your choice.
Patch and RDM
RIG opens the patch: every light's universe and address, auto-patch, and RDM discovery on the network, matched to the fixture library.
Haze, lock and dim
HAZE 70 shows the beams on the stage. LOCK locks the console; DIM 10 dims it after ten idle minutes.
DEMO
Press DEMO and the console runs a show by itself, with a moving cursor and captions: Keynote, Theatre, Band and Show day. Esc stops it and leaves nothing running.
A video switcher, cued with the lights.
Every screen in your show (LED walls, IMAG, TVs and projectors) goes on an output. Each output gets a preview and a program row. Record a cue and the screens go with the lights; a video cue can follow a lights cue.
Preview, then take
CUT, AUTO at your rate, the T-bar by hand, fade to black, or ALL OUTS to take every output at once.
Gang outputs
Gang two IMAG screens and they preview, take and fade together while the main wall stays on its own.
Live sources
Drop in stills and clips. A USB capture card brings in a camera or a laptop as a live source.
1080p or 4K outputs
Set each output's size, its monitor and its fade time. Each screen sits at its place in the output's raster.
Multiview
One window with every output's program and preview, the cue line and the gang tags, on the monitor you choose.
One cue list
GO moves only what a cue carries, so lights, screens or both run from the same list and the same GO.
The 5-inch panel. A second desk in your hand.
The touch panel on the deck runs the show by touch, with pages across the top.
The box.
A standalone console in a road case. Any Forectra user signs in on it and loads their show, or brings it on a thumb drive. The show file is the same one you drew, specced and printed.
| Screens | 14-inch touch screen in the lid; 5-inch touch panel on the deck |
| Controls | Eight faders with OLED labels, GO, BACK and BLACKOUT, two encoders |
| Lighting | Eight universes: DMX A and DMX B on the rear, the rest over sACN or Art-Net on the network. RDM discovery. |
| Video out | Four switchable outputs: HDMI 1 and HDMI MON on the side, and two more from the rear USB-C |
| Video in | A USB capture card in any USB port is a live source: a camera or a laptop |
| Rear panel | USB-C (video, USB and power), DMX A, DMX B, mains |
| Your show | Sign in with your Forectra account, or load a show from a thumb drive |
- The FOR-X 8 console in its road case
- Two years of the Forectra license and support. After year two the license renews at the standard rate.
- Ready to ship in 4–6 weeks. Join the waitlist and we’ll contact you to order
- 30-day returns and a one-year warranty on parts and labour. See the Hardware Terms of Sale.
- The whole app on the box: design, the Spec PDF and FOR-Control, lights and video
Launch pricing in US dollars, subject to change.
More of the family.
The same show file, in smaller boxes.
FOR-X Mini
The small one. An 8-inch touch console that slides into a wall plate or a desk cradle, for studios, boardrooms and small stages. 15 display keys, a 12-key pad and two lit knobs. One Cat6 cable brings data and power, one DMX universe goes out. Same show file.
Pricing to come. Drawn from the design set; specs may change before it ships.
FOR-X Micro
The DMX node on its own. Run it from your own tablet or phone, or add our preloaded tablet.
Pricing to come.