The Sonic Boom Plus Smoke Jet fixtures combine fog with RGBA LED lights. The Standard Fixture ID for this fixture in Finale 3D is 062.
Figure 1 – Sonic Boom Plus Smoke Jet
The fixtures have various DMX personalities. Finale 3D supports the 14-channel DMX personality, which provides RGB control over the LED lights. If you want to use the 11-channel DMX personality, please use the Sonic Boom X fixture definition in Finale 3D, Standard Fixture ID 070.
Table 1 – DMX personality choices
| DMX personality (“DMX Channel Mode”) | Supported in Finale 3D |
| 1CH | NO |
| 11CH | NO (Please use the Sonic Boom X fixture [070] for 11CH option) |
| 14CH | YES |
Instructions
To design a show for Sonic Boom Plus Smoke Jet fixtures, please follow the steps in DMX basic instructions and Light fixtures basic instructions. If you don’t already have a compatible firing system or controller capable exporting a DMX script, please refer to Supported firing systems and controllers (DMX) for the list of available hardware options.
Choosing the DMX channel ranges for fixtures
Each fixture requires multiple channels, so if you are putting multiple fixtures in the same DMX Universe, you need to set the Start Address on the fixture in the real world and the corresponding DMX Channel Base on the fixture in Finale 3D to a range of channels that doesn’t overlap with others. A DMX universe has channels 1-512. If you want to pack as many fixtures into the 512 channels of a DMX universe as you can, back-to-back ranges are the most efficient. Table 2 shows an example for 14-channel fixtures. Some DMX firing systems and controllers only support 50 or 100 channels, so you may not have all 512 channels to work with.
Table 2 – Example channel ranges for 14-channel fixtures in a DMX universe
| Fixture | DMX Channel Base | Channels Used |
| 1 | 1 | 1-14 |
| 2 | 15 | 15-28 |
| 3 | 29 | 29-43 |
| 4 | 44 | 44-67 |
| 5 | 68 | 68-81 |
| … | ||
| 15 | 491 | 491-504 |
Technical details
The following tables show the technical specifications of the fixtures, as tested by the Finale support team.
Table 3 – DMX channels for 14CH personality
| DMX Channel | Meaning |
| Channel 1 (DMX Channel Base + 0) | Fog (0-9 = OFF; 10-2555 = ON) |
| Channel 2 (DMX Channel Base + 1) | Inner Red |
| Channel 3 (DMX Channel Base + 2) | Inner Green |
| Channel 4 (DMX Channel Base + 3) | Inner Blue |
| Channel 5 (DMX Channel Base + 4) | Inner Amber |
| Channel 6 (DMX Channel Base + 5) | Outer Red |
| Channel 7 (DMX Channel Base + 6) | Outer Green |
| Channel 8 (DMX Channel Base + 7) | Outer Blue |
| Channel 9 (DMX Channel Base + 8) | Outer Amber |
| Channel 10 (DMX Channel Base + 9) | LED Random (0-9 = OFF; 10-255 = Random) |
| Channel 11 (DMX Channel Base + 10) | LED Inner Random (0-9 = OFF; 10-255 = Random) |
| Channel 12 (DMX Channel Base + 11) | LED Color Change Speed |
| Channel 13 (DMX Channel Base + 12) | Strobe (0-9 = OFF; 10-255 = Slow To Fast) |
| Channel 14 (DMX Channel Base + 13) | Dimmer (0-9 = OFF; 10-255 = Low To High) |
Table 4 – Example files and downloads
| Download link | Explanation |
| SONICBOOM PLUS SMOKEJET.pdf | Sonic Boom Plus Smoke Jet User Manual |