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ABOUT

ARKAOS

Concerts, Tours and Festivals

Tiësto Kaleïdoscope Tour and Club Life Tour, Ferry Corsten, Chayanne “No Hay Imposibles” Tour, Night of The Proms, Milk Inc Blackout, The Killers Battle Born Tour, Jane’s Addiction (Lollapalooza Festival), Neon Judgement, Cradle Of Filth, Archive, Mayday, United Against Malaria, Rosenstolz, Herbert Grönemeyer Tour, Tokio Hotel, AHA Frogenpark, Robin Gibb, Dieter Thomas Kuhn & Band, Seal Copenhagen, Live 8 London, Pukkelpop, Stereosonic, De Phazz Natural-Fake Tour, Glastonbury Festival, Youssou N’Dour & Guests, Wang Lee Hom, DJ Bobo Pirates of Dance Tour, Voltt Loves Summer, Reverze, Hennesy Artistry KL, ..

Television

China INMTV (King Bonn) Awards, Australian Idol, Australia’s Got Talent, Australian Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, Benissimo, NRL Footy Show Finale, Big Brother Australia, MTV European Music Awards, The Brit Awards, STC Television Studios in Abu Dhabi, Manchester United Stadium Television Studios, Channel4 Paralympics TV Studio, ITV BTCC Final Opener, Euro 2012 ITV Poland, ..

ARKAOS IS A LEADING PROVIDER OF TECHNOLOGY

FOR LIVE VISUAL PERFORMANCES

The company develops visual synthesizers that trigger and manipulate graphic content for display on large screens at events, concerts, clubs and much more.

Founded in 1996, ArKaos started as a software company but today it also develops unique hardware media servers that delivers an unrivalled performance in speed, effects and manipulation of simultaneous high-deinition videostreams.

Lately, ArKaos engineers have also invented Kling-Net, a revolutionary protocol allowing the distribution of real-time video data to remote display devices, such as LEDs or LED panels, over Ethernet..

Clubs

World of Nightlife (Graz), Zouk Club (Kuala Lumpur), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Belly Up (Aspen), Mix Club (Paris), V.I.P. Room (St. Tropez), NOXX Antwerp ..

Multinational Clients

Dubai International Film Festival, Shanghai 14th FINA World Championships Opening Ceremony, Aria Resort New Year Party (Las Vegas), Shenzhen City New Year’s Eve Celebration 2011, Games of the Small States of Europe opening ceremony, Wankdorf Stadium opening ceremony, Scout Jamboree, Cullberg Ballet World Tour, Ball der Künste, Art On Ice, Beijing Tsinghua University Centenary Celebration, ...

A few references..


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MEDIAMASTER

PRODUCT RANGE

MediaMaster is a software solution for professional control of real-time video and effects that has been speciically developed for desk operators and lighting designers.

It is also probably the most affordable media server software on the market thanks to its upgradable license system: start with MediaMaster Express for simple control of your show through DMX or MIDI and later when you need it, upgrade to MediaMaster Pro for the difference and get access to full ixture control mode and advanced compatibility with professional lighting desks.

But no matter what your choice is, there is no compromise on the quality. Both versions are built around ArKaos’ latest generation of technology, embarking our multi-threaded graphics engine which delivers blistering performance by taking advantage of multi-core machines.

Theatre Mode

The Theatre mode interface of MediaMaster allows to prepare a visual show without the programming of a lighting desk. All parameters for visuals and effects are available to be edited in visual presets. Those can then be triggered via DMX, MIDI or computer keyboard.

Cue Player

The new Cue Player is an important addition for users who require reliable, accurate playback of visual sequences, for example, on shows or installations requiring repeated automated playback. The Cue Player is built on top of MediaMaster’s Theater Mode interface and can also be driven by Time Code as required.

Fixture Mode

In Fixture Mode, you get full parameter control for each layer, directly from your lighting desk. The support for MSEX, that allows you to preview your thumbnails on your console screen only makes it easier. No iddling around with the mouse anymore..

The Fixture Mode, combined with the other great features from MediaMaster Pro, turns any powerful computer into a professional Media Server that will let you program the most advanced shows in a really easy way, directly from your lighting desk.

Miguel Bosé Papitwo World Tour

2013–2014Design & programming:

Alain Corthout

“Working with Alpha Channels and the impressive audio-generated content that reacts exactly with the music is a real improvement to our show. The real-time effects give some very dynamic and exciting new ways to play back live cameras on the screens. But most importantly, MediaMaster is rock stable; at this point we have done about 50 shows and it has never failed on us.”

Koen De Puysseleir, LD - Tiësto Taour


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Common features

• Independent video layers (8 in Express, 12 in Pro)

• Advanced Graphic engine: Fully hardware accelerated and

Multi-threaded on multi-core CPUs

• Optimized for HD movies, HD output support

• Internal MPEG2-MPEG4 codec for enhanced reliability

• Intuitive user interface

• 60+ effects

• 50+ text animations

• Audio Visualization Generators

• Media library of 255 folders and 255 visuals

• Multiple video inputs (PCI card, FireWire DV / HDV, USB, etc.)

• Cue Player (in Theatre mode)

• Total control of your media: 3D position/ rotation, movie

speed, color levels, etc.

• Master brightness-contrast, keystone, volume, Soft Edge

• Multi-Screen and Wide-Screen with soft-edge

• Support of all common media formats (AVI, MPEG, QuickTime

MOV, Flash, WMV, picture iles etc)• Supports mixing audio from your video loops

• Global audio volume control through DMX

• Support for Quartz Composer .qtz iles as Sources and Effects (Mac OS X only)

• Support for Actionscript3 in Flash animations and Flash Texts

• Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Mac OSX compatible

Version Comparison Express Pro

Layers 8 12

Theatre Mode Yes Yes

Fixture Mode No Yes

LED Mapper Yes Yes

Kling-Net Mapper Yes Yes

Video Mapper No Yes

ArKaos Hub No Yes

Geometrical Correction Basic Advanced

Soft Edge Basic Advanced

Optional Dongle Yes Yes

Cue Player (in Theatre mode) Yes Yes

Tiësto at StereosonicLD: Koen De Puysseleir Photo © Dean Hammer

New protection system

The new system gives you the lexibility to activate and deactivate your product, so that you can move your license from one machine to another. This activation system requires an occasional connection to the internet to maintain the license activated.

If you want to always move your license with you, we also offer an optional license dongle. You then can instantly activate any prepared machine or even switch live during a show to another machine with our unique hot swapping feature. The software reacts instantly if you plug your license dongle to switch from demo mode to activated mode.


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MEDIAMASTER EXPRESS

MediaMaster Express is all you need to quickly setup a show that includes video.

If you have basic needs of DMX or MIDI synchronization but still want to beneit from the powerful media management and eficient media playback of MediaMaster, the Express edition is your best choice.

Prepare your visual show in the software itself simply by dragging and dropping visuals and effects on the interface, then take control of your visual presets with a few channels on your lighting desk or notes on a MIDI controller.

Simply put, it’s the easiest media server software that ever existed.

Main features

• Control video layers with a few DMX dimmers or MIDI notes

• Work on a single DMX universe or MIDI channel

• Drag & Drop visuals directly on the main interface

• Organize your shows with up to 64 patches of 64 cells

• Control up to 3 parameters per cell via DMX or MIDI

• Optional fade time on trigger

• LED Mapper and Kling-Net Mapper included

• Cue Player in Theatre mode

Control interface

• Computer keyboard

• Any MIDI controller compatible with your system

• Any DMX lighting desk

System requirements (PC)

• OS: Windows™ XP, Vista, 7 or 8

• Processor: Pentium™ IV 2Ghz,

Core Duo 1.83Ghz recommended

• RAM: 1GB, 2GB recommended

• Media Player: QuickTime™ 7 (and up),

Adobe FlashPlayer™ 9 (and up),

DirectX™ 9.0c (and up)

System requirements (Mac)

• OS: Mac OS X 10.5 (and up)

• Processor: Any Intel Mac, Core Duo 1.83Ghz (and up)



Adobe FlashPlayer™ 9 (and up)

TV studio - Abu Dhabi Media Company / Endemol ME

Technology partner: Shock Solutions

MEDIAMASTER

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MediaMaster Pro will turn any powerful computer into a full-ledged professional media server capable of running live or programmed video shows in sync with music and light.

It comes with all the features from MediaMaster Express but adds DMX ixtures management, advanced geometry correction, video mapping through multiple outputs, support for MSEX allowing thumbnails preview and live output to the console screens.. All you need to program and control large shows from any popular lighting desk.

Easily create a huge projection seamlessly spanning across several screens, setup a pixel precise display with any coniguration of LED panels in just a few clicks, modify effect parameters live from your console or setup a complete pre-programmed visual show; you can do it all with MediaMaster Pro, it’s the Swiss Knife of media server software!

MEDIAMASTER PRO

Main features

• Includes all the features from MediaMaster Express

• MSEX Compatible: thumbnails preview and live output on your

MSEX compatible lighting desk

• 3 available ixtures: micro, tiny and full• Geometric Correction & Soft Edge Settings per Output

• Supports ixtures customization to add new effects• Video Mapper, LED Mapper and Kling-Net Mapper included

• Cue Player in Theatre mode

Control interface

• Computer keyboard

• Any MIDI controller compatible with your system

• Any DMX lighting desk

System requirements (PC)

• OS: OS: Windows™ XP, Vista, 7 or 8

• Processor: Pentium™ IV 2Ghz,

Core Duo 1.83Ghz recommended



Adobe FlashPlayer™ 9 (and up),

DirectX™ 9.0c (and up)

System requirements (Mac)

• OS: Mac OS X 10.5 (and up)

• Processor: Any Intel Mac, Core Duo 1.83Ghz (and up)



Adobe FlashPlayer™ 9 (and up)

The Killers - Battle Born TourLD: Steven Douglas

Photo © Torey Mundkowsky


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Geometrical Correction & Soft Edge

MediaMaster Pro makes it incredibly easy to project video on non- planar surfaces; you can do it all from the Geometrical Correction tab in the application’s Preference window.The geometrical correction and Soft Edging operates directly by transforming the output of MediaMaster, and so works on top of both Simple and Fixture mode. Several test patterns and grids are available to help precisely align your visuals or real-time video content over non- planar or curved screens.MediaMaster Pro’s advanced geometrical correction, combined with pixel-precise edge blending per output will let you easily achieve even the most complex screen setups.

LED Mapper

The LED Mapper extension for MediaMaster allows mapping of the server’s video output directly to any coniguration of LED panels, without the need of using expensive hardware to convert video signal (VGA or DVI) into DMX signal.Pixel colors or intensity are sent directly from the media server to the panels through the ArtNet protocol (DMX over Ethernet) which, if needed, can easily be converted into a standard DMX signal using simple Ethernet-DMX node. The LED Mapper extension can import your own mapping of LED devices into MediaMaster, making it possible to control many of them from a single MediaMaster server (the only limitation being the 256 DMX universes).

Main features

• Fast and intuitive user

interface

• Personalities for most common

• LED ixtures on the market• Easy custom ixture design• window

• Drive RGB, RGBl (level/in-

tensity) and level only

ixtures like bulbs and dimmers

• Extremely lexible and eficient programming

• Mac and PC compatible

Main features

• Fast and intuitive user interface

• Full management of display speciications (resolution / frequency) • Supports output to multiple video cards

• Easy to use deformable surfaces (rectangles, grids, triangles)

• Each surface can have an optional mask

• Surface cropping, allows to select a part of the layer output

• Surface grouping, to send one layer to many surfaces

• Full undo / redo implementation

• Import and export your mapping

• Works with MediaMaster Pro (Simple Mode or Fixture Mode)

• Mac and PC compatible

Car presentation Pro Light + Sound 2013LMP Booth

Video Mapper

The ArKaos Video Mapper is an extension for MediaMaster Pro which allows easy mapping of video onto irregularly shaped surfaces and through multiple outputs. Designed to let you setup mapping projects in very short times, it makes it incredibly simple to low visuals around complex objects with just a few clicks.

Once you launch the extension, MediaMaster Pro will send the output from each layer to virtual “surfaces” that can be scaled, deformed, and assigned to any physical output. One output can display a full screen visual or a composition of several mapped visuals; output to a video projector and you can map the surfaces to any physical volume (like objects or building).


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Stage Server

The Stage Server is a perfect solution for live entertainment, theatre, educational, audio-visual and worship applications.

Available with MediaMaster Express or MediaMaster Pro and two full HD outputs, it’s your perfect partner to produce smooth visuals that can be controlled over MIDI / DMX or just your keyboard.

Studio Server

The Studio Server runs Full HD video on up to four EDID managed outputs and comes standard with one HD-SDI input and fast SSD drives.

The custom made case features a very convenient display on the front which allows using the server without having to connect any additional screen. A large LED strip conveniently provides a quick visual feedback on the server’s state of operation at any time.

Shock-resistant up to 2G. Heat tested. Providing easy access to fans and dust ilters. It’s totally road ready.

Stadium Server

The Stadium server is an incredibly powerful system designed as a top of the line solution for professional Lighting Designers.

It offers six EDID managed outputs, two HD-SDI inputs and doubles the amount of storage space.

ArKaos Stadium servers

The ArKaos Media Servers are designed for those looking for a high performance turnkey solution to seamlessly run real-time video shows. They are the result of the latest research made by ArKaos in terms of raw performance but also structural strength, vibration and heat tolerance. The ArKaos Media Servers are built to deliver outstanding performance, stability and durability.

These powerful systems embark a vast library of high quality digital media from the world’s best visual content providers and a fast recovery system by Acronis which allows extremely simple reset of the server from the boot menu.

They are pre-conigured to work directly with all market leading DMX lighting desks.

Everything has been done so you just have to plug and play.

MEDIA SERVERS FAMILY


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SERVER COMPARISON TABLE

I/O Speciications Stage Server Studio Server Stadium Server

Interface output 1 (VGA/DVI/HDMI/DP) 1 (VGA/DVI/HDMI) 1 (VGA/DVI/HDMI)

Output 2 (VGA/DVI/HDMI) 4 (DVI/HDMI) 6 (DVI/HDMI)

EDID Management No Yes Yes

Input (Standard) No 1 x HD-SDI 2 x HD-SDI

Input (Upgrade) Up to 2x HD-SDI or 2 x DVI Up to 4 x HD-SDI & 2 x DVI Up to 4 x HD-SDI & 2 x DVI

Output resolution 2 x Full HD 4 x Full HD 6 x Full HD

DMX- 5- pin connectors Yes Yes Yes

Firewire 400/800/e-sata No Yes Yes

USB 4x USB 3.0 + 4x USB 2 2x USB 3.0 + 4x USB 2 2x USB 3.0 + 4x USB 2

Balanced audio in/out (XLR) No Yes Yes

Network 2 2 2

Storage

System Drive SSD 256 Gb SSD 128 Gb SSD 128 Gb

Separate Data Drive No SSD 256 Gb SSD 480 Gb

Software

MediaMaster Express / Pro Pro Pro

CuePlayer (in Theatre mode) Yes Yes Yes

LED Mapper Yes Yes Yes

Kling-Net Mapper Yes Yes Yes

Video Mapper Yes (Pro version only) Yes Yes

Acronis Backup System Yes Yes Yes

Layers Full HD 3 Up to 12 Up to 12

Layers HD 5 12 12

Soft-Edge / Geometrical Correction

Yes (Pro version only) Yes Yes

Control

Control Display (front panel) No Yes Yes

LED Strip (front panel) No Yes Yes

DMX / MIDI / Keyboard Yes Yes Yes

ArtNet / MA-Net Yes Yes Yes

Hardware

Voltage 107-240V auto switching 107-240V auto switching 107-240V auto switching

Professional Connectors No Yes Yes

MEDIA SERVERS


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JUST 3 STEPS AWAY FROM YOUR

FULL LEDSHOW

LedMaster is a all-in-one solution to run LED light shows for

everyone. Originally designed around Kling-Net this fast and

easy application will take your LEDshow to the next level.

1-2-3 GO

Designed in a very smart way this LED control application allows you to do much more then just RGB. Designed in 3 steps, it is fast and easy to use and will do most of the coniguration automatically for you.

Mapping mode

Your Kling-Net device will be automatically recognized by the soft-

ware, after which you can place them on the grid. By using Kling-

Net, you can forget about Art-Net, DMX, nodes, addressing and

everything else. It is all done for you. When mapping the devices on

the grid we allow you to make virtual groups of devices called Zones.

These will make your setup even more easy and lexible.

Scene programming mode

The programming mode allows you to create scenes in a very simple

way. You can use our Live Pattern Generator or you can use imported

visuals from your own library.

Timeline basedOur Timeline based function means you can easily pre-program your

full show, but of course you can also go for live interaction to make you

show completely interactive.

Live pattern generatorsUsing our completely new Live Pattern Generators will allow you to have

hard edged visuals on the smallest or biggest LED installations. Forget

about buying expensive visuals or the headache of creating them yourself.

We will generate them live for you, based on the mapping you have made.

Performance mode

Live performance is the key to the show. Trigger the scenes you creat-

ed live, automatically, random or sequentially. You have all the options

available to create the show that you prefer. Our easy beat detection

make sure that every look will be different with none repeated through-

out your evening and all will be adapted to the atmosphere created.

LEDMASTER


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Added Intelligence = Simplicity = Economy

Kling-Net brings LED lighting within reach of the smallest clubs

and venues by making it less technical and less expensive. LED

lighting is now easy to use and cost effective; thanks to the Kling-

Net protocol you no longer have to use expensive devices to

obtain sophisticated control.

Universal Application

Kling-Net has been designed to work with mostly any manufactur-

ers’ LED products. It relies on a source code which is capable of

transforming even the most simple LED device into an intelligent

Kling-Net device.

Licencing Kling-Net

Kling-Net can be embedded in any manufacturer’s product under

licence from ArKaos. Since it was launched at PLASA 2011, the

Kling-Net protocol has been adopted by major brands from the

Show & Lighting market such as Chauvet, Elation or Highlite.

If you are manufacturing LED devices and would like to add Kling-Net

support to your products, contact us and let us know about your project!

LED lighting for everyone!

Many basic and irst time users are afraid of using LED lighting because of the complexity of networking and control issues. Using and networking LED lighting has required a high level of technical knowledge which has been a deterent for many. We wanted to remove all this complexity and replace it with an easy protocol which automatically takes care of the magic numbers for the user!

Gouden Schoen 2014, award show BelgiumDesign: Never Fear Shadows (Michiel Milbou/

Kristof Devriese)

The purpose of Kling-Net is:

• To allow the automatic coniguration and connection of display devices to a computer

• To add some ‘intelligence’ into display devices, which enables auto

coniguration• To ensure a perfect time synchronization of multiple display devices

• To avoid using expensive hardware video converters to send video

to display devices

• To allow the creation of an heterogenic network of display devices

from different manufacturers, which can all be controlled from one

computer

Simpler than ever

Kling-Net uses a Media Server to do all the work, making

operation simpler than ever. It adds a layer of ‘intelligence’ to

even the most simple LED device, enabling it to talk directly to

the Media Server. This then enables the LED devices to conigure themselves automatically, removing the need for complicated

setup processes.

Auto ConigurationKling-Net’s auto coniguration capabilities allow a large range of devices to be controlled by the same Media Server, thus avoiding

the painful process of creating and matching proiles between the Media Server and each individual device.

Because the Media Server performs the image clipping and

transformation then outputs the correct pixel format, the work to

be done by the display device is minimal. And since the Media

Server does all the work, your video can play at a smooth 60 FPS.

A REVOLUTIONARY PLUG-AND-PLAY

PROTOCOL FOR LED DEVICES

ArKaos has designed the Kling-Net protocol to allow the distribution

of real-time video data to remote display devices, such as LEDs or LED

panels, over Ethernet.

KLING-NET


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