# ColourSpace Remote Control  A simple-to-use app that you can use to send colour patch sequences to ColourSpace through the remote control interface. Including Cubes, Ramps, Gamut Rings and a standard HDR production patch set. Available for both Windows and macOS. **[Available now for USD $5 tap to buy CS Remote](https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_06D26kW2ifGZj5ORkoIMQnHqcR9B4GPnmFCHh0Req7Q)** **[Buy Both CS Remote and CS Patch Translator at 10% off](https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_cKJE6D0X11bmtOYKiSqTRD6w3OiKM2j3GzhWN0eaY5o)** *Prices are not including sales tax (VAT) as the rates vary but will be applied at checkout!* *When you buy the app it is yours, no recurring or update fees.* ## How it works While researching the potential to build the [[CS Patch Translator]] I reviewed the ColourSpace remote interface and was intrigued to see how it could be put to use. The first part is connecting to the remote interface and driving colour patch generation, with a surprising degree of control over the patches. This is done over an IP network and works best when in the same subnet. The next part is to generate the colour patches. As ColourSpace allows a wide range of bit depths, the patches are calculated as values from 0 to 1 and then converted into the correct bit depth triplet for the required video range. Those values are then sent to ColourSpace to be sent to the actively configured patch generator. I have tested this with FSI BoxIO, PGen and obviously with DaVinci Resolve. ## The Patch sets These are the common patch sets I mostly use to do production monitor calibrations, so they are based on my work. - **Cube**: This is a simple version of the cube based model in ColourSpace PRO regular calibration platform. It offers from 3 to 33 nodes in odd steps, so there is always a middle point. The patches can either be sent in sequence or in anisometric (or unsymmetrical) order. - **Gamut Rings**: Created at NHK this is 602 patches the mark the edge of the 3D colour volume, you can get the same volume by measuring a cube, which has the advantage of profiling the monitor. [NHK - A New Method of Representing Color Gamut](https://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/english/publica/giken_dayori/205/1.html) - **Ramp**: This is a simple stepped measurement from minimum to maximum luminance with the number of steps defined in the selected colours (Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and White). It is useful when evaluating screens to see the tone response in detail, I have seen monitors with flat areas in the EOTF curve, not a good look. - Mastering: This set was designed by a major production company to evaluate and approve monitors for accuracy. The test requires test frames to be loaded and then measured, so full pipeline. I use this set to profile the monitor to ensure when loading the TIFFs the result is what is expected. You can also export each set as a simple CSV file. --- ## help/support - [[CS Remote - Install Windows]] - [[CS Remote - Install Windows]] - [[CS Remote guide]] - [[CS Remote Saving the Patch List]] - [[CS Remote Networking Technical Guide]] - [[Terms and Conditions of Sale of Digital Product and Software License]] --- **[Available now USD $15 tap to buy CS Patch Translator](https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_lNPnj5zT9mobObqIIrKrD6L8nB6d9lmhNxaWr1raYuL)** **[Buy Both CS Remote and CS Patch Translator at 10% off](https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_cKJE6D0X11bmtOYKiSqTRD6w3OiKM2j3GzhWN0eaY5o)** *Prices are not including sales tax (VAT) as the rates vary but will be applied at checkout!* *When you buy the app it is yours, no recurring or update fees.*