to be correct its 16,384 channels
of course adding a second etherdongle with a slave board and then you can have 32,768
of course you can keep adding more etherdongles and slave boards but… The sequence software now becomes the problem.
Rick R.
I don't think sequencing gets any harder for the slave configurations... yes, programming a slave is another 16,384 channels... and that is definitely work. adding yet another slave is another 16, 384 channels to do.
BUT... in the past you had to worry about the ability of the software to scale to these increasingly large pixel counts... or the power of your computer to do larger sequences... or your show computer.
With the separation out into multiple EtDs with slave or conductors, the same software and the same workstations are used no matter how large your show becomes. Each time, you are working on the sequences for a max of 16,384 channels.
You join it all together by sequencing to the same song and timings. that is how it all comes together.