Phantos is a show-control console for macOS — lights, media and cameras through one merge. Before it ships, a small group of people run it on real rigs. If you work shows and you are willing to tell us what breaks, apply below.
Read these four before you fill anything in. If any of them is a problem, this is not the right time to join — and that is a perfectly good answer.
Pre-release software with known and unknown defects. It will misbehave. Never put it in front of an audience without a tested fallback you can switch to.
No rigging, hoists, automation, flying, pyro, lasers or life-safety systems — ever, and that is a condition of using it, not advice.
Testing sends us a log of the commands you issue — including ones you speak aloud. It is how the beta works, so it is not optional. You can see exactly what would be sent before it goes.
Tell people you are a Phantos beta tester if you like. What stays private is the software itself — builds, screenshots, video, defects, roadmap and pricing.
Five steps. Nothing is automatic — a person reads every application.
Accept the agreements below and send us your details.
We read it and decide. You will hear back either way.
Approved testers get a licence key by email, and an invitation to a private folder with the build in it. There is no download link on this site — the folder is how the build reaches you, and how your reports come back.
Up to three machines. Enter the same key on each. Phantos Launcher goes on every Mac you use.
A beta key is a full licence for one month. Phantos warns you in good time before it lapses; press Request renewal in the Launcher and we issue a new one. If it does lapse, Phantos won’t start a new session until a current key is installed — anything already running keeps running, untouched.
Both apply. Read each one to the end — the checkbox unlocks when you reach the bottom. They are not long, and they are written to be read.
Version: 0.1 · Effective: the date the Recipient accepts it electronically (§14).
Discloser — jointly and together:
Each is an owner of, or holds rights in, the Confidential Information described below. They act together as one "Discloser" for this Agreement. Either may enforce it alone, and an obligation owed to "the Discloser" is owed to both.
Recipient — the individual identified in the acceptance record (§14): legal name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
The Discloser is developing Phantos, a modular show-control system for lighting, video and camera. The Discloser wishes to give the Recipient access to pre-release software and materials so the Recipient can evaluate and test them and give feedback (the "Purpose"). This Agreement governs that access. It grants no other rights.
"Confidential Information" means anything the Discloser makes available to the Recipient in connection with the Purpose, in any form, whether or not marked confidential, including:
Notwithstanding §2 and §4, the Recipient may state publicly that they are a Phantos beta tester, and may state their own opinion of the Software in general terms (for example, that they like it).
That permission does not extend to anything else. The Recipient may not disclose, and this permission does not cover: builds or access to them; features, designs, protocols or architecture; defects, crashes or limitations; screenshots, video, screen-sharing or live demonstration; roadmaps, release timing or pricing; the fixture, gobo/media or corpus libraries; or the terms of this Agreement.
If in doubt, the Recipient asks first. A statement that goes beyond this section is a disclosure and §4 applies to it.
Confidential Information does not include information the Recipient can show:
Compelled disclosure. If law, subpoena or court order requires disclosure, the Recipient may disclose only what is required, and — unless legally prohibited — shall notify the Discloser promptly and in advance so the Discloser can seek protection.
The Recipient shall:
The Recipient signs this Agreement once, as a person. The Software is then installed on every Mac in the Recipient's rig, because Phantos Launcher must be present on each machine for the rig to start together.
The Software is licensed, not sold. This Agreement grants the Recipient a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable permission to install and use the pre-release Software solely for the Purpose, for the term, and nothing more. All right, title and interest in the Software and the Confidential Information remain with the Discloser. The Discloser has no obligation to release any product, to keep any feature, to continue the beta, or to enter any further agreement.
The Recipient may give feedback, bug reports, suggestions and ideas ("Feedback"). The Recipient assigns to HTD all right, title and interest in Feedback, and waives any claim to compensation, attribution or ownership in it. The Discloser may use Feedback for any purpose without restriction. Feedback is Confidential Information until the Discloser makes it public.
This Agreement starts on the Effective Date and the beta access continues until the Discloser ends it, which the Discloser may do at any time, for any reason, without notice.
The confidentiality obligations in §4 survive for three (3) years after the beta access ends — except for anything that is a trade secret, for which they survive as long as it remains a trade secret under applicable law.
On the Discloser's request, or when beta access ends, the Recipient shall promptly stop using and delete or destroy all Confidential Information in their possession, including every copy of the Software, and confirm in writing that they have done so. The Recipient may retain one copy to the extent required by law or by an automatic backup system, which remains subject to §4 for as long as it is retained.
This section exists because the Phantos website states that the shipping product performs no automatic telemetry. The beta is a named exception: joining it is a deliberate act, and this section is what the Recipient agrees to when they join — which is what makes both statements true at once.
a-bis. It is still never silent. The Recipient switches it on knowingly, having read this section, and the Software continues to show what it would send (§9(f)). "Required" means the Recipient cannot participate without it — it does not mean collection happens without the Recipient's knowledge, and the Discloser will not make it so.
Deleting the acceptance record on the telemetry clock would destroy the proof of the agreement while the confidentiality obligations in §7 are still running — the record must outlive the data it authorises.
The Software is pre-release, unfinished, and expected to contain defects. It is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
The Recipient must not rely on the Software for any live event, paid engagement, or production of value without an independent, tested fallback.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Discloser is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost bookings, lost data, or business interruption, arising from the Software or this Agreement — and the Discloser's total aggregate liability shall not exceed US $100. Nothing in this Agreement limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
Phantos is a lighting, video and camera control tool. It must NOT be used for rigging, hoists, stage automation, moving scenery, performer flying, pyrotechnics, life-safety or emergency systems, or ANY task where a failure could endanger a person or damage property. It is not safety-rated and has no emergency stop. This is a condition of the Recipient's permission to use the Software, and it applies with more force to a pre-release build than to a released one.
The Recipient shall not connect the Software to any such system, and shall be responsible for ensuring the rigs on which they test it are safe to operate under the control of unfinished software.
The Recipient agrees that a breach of §4 would cause the Discloser harm that money cannot adequately repair, and that the Discloser is entitled to seek injunctive relief in addition to any other remedy, without needing to post a bond.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its conflict of law rules. The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Burlington County, New Jersey.
The Recipient accepts this Agreement electronically, by entering their details and affirmatively indicating acceptance. That act is the Recipient's signature and has the same effect as a handwritten one.
The Discloser records, and the Recipient agrees is accurate evidence of acceptance: the Recipient's legal name, postal address, email address and telephone number; the version of this Agreement accepted; the date and time; and the IP address from which acceptance was made.
Notices to the Discloser go to support@rocshopav.com. Notices to the Recipient go to the email address in the acceptance record (§14).
DISCLOSER
Roswell King, individually _______________________________ Date: ____________
Harmonious Technical Designs LLC By: Roswell King, [Managing Member] _______________________________ Date: ____________
RECIPIENT
Legal name: ______________________________________ Postal address: __________________________________ Email: ___________________________________________ Telephone: _______________________________________
☐ I have read and agree to this Non-Disclosure Agreement (v0.1). ☐ I understand the Software is pre-release, is provided AS IS, and must never control rigging, pyrotechnics, or any life-safety system (§11). ☐ I understand that data sharing is REQUIRED to take part, and that the reports include a log of the commands I issue — including commands I speak aloud (§9).
_______________________________ Date: ____________
Clauses marked ★ NDI-REQUIRED are mandated by the NDI SDK licence and may not be removed or weakened.
What is new in v0.2 (the "deep" pass). v0.1 covered licence, safety, warranty, liability and refunds well. It was silent on everything that makes this product unusual, and each of those is a real exposure: §7 AI features · §8 voice capture · §9 cameras and video · §10 fixture profiles · §11 your network and other people's equipment · §12 generated gobo content · §13 data. Those are the sections to read first if you are re-reading a document you have seen before.
Licensor: Harmonious Technical Designs LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company ("HTD", "we", "us"), 33 White Street, Mount Holly, New Jersey 08060. Version: 2.0 · Last updated: 21 August 2026 · Effective: on installation or use.
By installing or using Phantos you agree to this Agreement. If you do not agree, do not install or use it. If you are agreeing on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.
Subject to payment of the applicable fee (if any) and to this Agreement, HTD grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence, granted to one (1) named person (a "Seat"), to install and use the Software on up to three (3) machines, for that person's production use, for the term of §16.
The three machines need not be one rig. A Seat may run several rigs — a venue console, a touring renderer, a Mac at home for pre-programming — and may spread the three installs across them however suits. The licence follows the person, not the room.
Phantos Launcher must be installed on every Mac you use, because the Launcher is what starts and coordinates the suite on each machine — a node without it cannot be brought up with the rest of a rig. That is why the licence counts machines rather than rigs: a modular rig is several Macs, and each one needs the Launcher.
Under one Seat you may:
Each installation presents this Agreement and must be accepted on that machine. One person, one signed agreement — but acceptance is recorded per installation, because that is where the Software is actually being installed and run.
★ A Seat is one person. It is not a company, a department, or a rig that several people use in turn. If more than one person operates Phantos, each needs a Seat.
b-bis. ★ One Key covers up to three (3) machines. If you need more, tell us and we will licence them — we would rather size it correctly than have you working around a limit.
⚠️ How the limit is handled, stated honestly. There is no activation server (§2.2d), and your three machines may sit in different rigs on different networks that never meet — so the Software cannot see them all, and does not pretend to. It counts what it can actually account for, and undercounts rather than accuse you. Exceeding the number never stops the Software, never affects your output, and never touches your show — at most it shows a message asking you to get in touch. We are relying on you here, deliberately.
You may not, and may not permit others to:
If you make the Software available to any third-party developer or integrator, you must impose these same obligations on them. ★ NDI-REQUIRED (flow-down)
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. HTD does not warrant that the Software will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will operate correctly with any particular hardware, network, fixture, camera, switcher, or third-party system.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE SOFTWARE CONTROLS STAGE LIGHTING, VIDEO AND CAMERA EQUIPMENT IN LIVE PRODUCTION, WHERE FAILURE CAN CAUSE A SHOW TO STOP, EQUIPMENT TO BEHAVE UNEXPECTEDLY, OR A VENUE TO GO DARK. You are solely responsible for:
Warranty disclaimers extend to HTD's licensors, including NDI, on their behalf. ★ NDI-REQUIRED
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties; there, the exclusions apply to the maximum extent permitted and any implied warranty is limited to thirty (30) days from purchase.
THE SOFTWARE MUST NOT BE USED TO CONTROL, TRIGGER, SEQUENCE, MONITOR, INTERLOCK, OR INFLUENCE — DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, ALONE OR AS PART OF ANY LARGER SYSTEM — ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
Phantos is not safety-rated, not fail-safe, not redundant, and carries no functional-safety certification. It has no certified watchdog, no guaranteed timing, no emergency-stop function, and no assurance that a command will arrive, arrive once, or arrive in order. Equipment that can move, lift, burn or fall must be operated by systems designed and certified for that purpose, with independent emergency stop and physical safeguards that do not depend on this Software.
THIS PROHIBITION IS A CONDITION OF THE LICENCE, NOT A RECOMMENDATION. Any use within §5.1 is outside the scope of the licence granted in §2, terminates it immediately under §16, is entirely at your own risk, and you indemnify HTD for it under §15.
The Software can produce strobing, rapid intensity changes, and flashing output. You are solely responsible for compliance with venue rules, applicable guidance on photosensitive epilepsy, and audience warnings. Do not use strobe or rapid-flash effects without appropriate assessment.
The Software controls fixtures and lasers-adjacent equipment that can emit intense light. You are responsible for safe beam angles, focus, and eye-safety distances in your venue.
The Software is licensed, not sold. HTD and its licensors retain all right, title and interest, including all intellectual property rights. Nothing here transfers ownership.
Your Content remains yours. We claim no ownership of your show files, patches, presets, cues, or media. You grant us only the limited rights needed to provide the Software and any support you request.
The Software includes features that use artificial intelligence and language models to interpret instructions, propose actions, describe what a camera or renderer sees, generate content, or assist with configuration.
If you enable voice control or voice notes, the Software listens to a microphone and converts speech to text, locally and/or via a third-party service.
The Software ships and generates fixture profiles — channel maps and attribute definitions describing how a given fixture responds. These come from manufacturer documentation, public libraries, and in some cases from measurement or automated discovery on your own rig.
Where the Software generates images or other content (for example gobos or textures) using generative models:
b-bis. The model is not part of the Software and we do not supply it. Generation requires a separate, user-installed tool and a model you download yourself; where that is absent the feature simply reports it is unavailable. Your use of that tool and model is governed by their own licences, which are listed in the NOTICES file.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HTD AND ITS LICENSORS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST BOOKINGS, CANCELLED OR DISRUPTED PERFORMANCES, LOST OR CORRUPTED DATA, OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS, SERVICES OR PERSONNEL, however caused and on any theory of liability, even if advised of the possibility.
HTD's total aggregate liability will not exceed the amount you actually paid for the Software in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
These limits apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose and are a fundamental basis of the bargain — the price reflects this allocation of risk. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
You will indemnify and hold harmless HTD, its members, and its licensors from any claim, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from: your use of the Software in breach of this Agreement; any use within §5.1; your Content; your use of Controlled Equipment or networks; your compliance obligations under §8(b) and §9(b); or your use of generated content under §12.
Effective until terminated. It terminates automatically on material breach, including any use within §5.1. On termination you must stop using the Software and remove all copies, except as §17.3 allows.
Survival: §§1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7(a)–(c), 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17.3, 19, 20, 21, 22.
Fees are as stated at purchase. All sales are final and licence fees are non-refundable, except where a refund is required by applicable law.
Maintenance and bug-fix updates for your licensed major version are included. New major versions may require a paid upgrade. Support is [describe: channel, hours, response target] and is provided on a commercially reasonable basis; it is not a guarantee of a fix or of availability during your show.
Your licence is perpetual for the version you purchased. If HTD ceases distribution, support or operations:
HTD will not remotely disable, expire or revoke a validly purchased licence for any reason other than material breach.
[Time-limited, full-function trial — recommended; state the period once decided.]
The Software includes third-party components governed by their own terms, listed in the NOTICES file supplied with the Software. This includes NDI®, and you agree to the NDI-related obligations in §§3, 4 and 9. ★ NDI-REQUIRED
Where a third-party component is licensed under an open-source licence that grants you rights beyond this Agreement, that licence governs that component.
PHANTOS and the Phantos logo are trademarks of HTD. This Agreement grants no right to use them, except to state factually that you use the Software. All other marks belong to their owners.
Any build identified as beta, alpha, preview or pre-release is provided for evaluation only, is expected to contain defects, and is licensed under §4 and §14 with no support obligation. Where you have also accepted a beta agreement or NDA, that agreement prevails over this one for pre-release software (see §22(b)).
No fee is charged for a pre-release build, and none of §17 (fees, refunds, upgrades) applies to it. The consideration is not money: the tester receives the Software and gives feedback and confidentiality in return, under the beta agreement. So:
You represent that you are not located in, and will not use or export the Software into, any country or to any party subject to United States export restrictions or sanctions, and that you will comply with all applicable export laws.
US Government end users: the Software is "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation" and is provided with only the rights granted here.
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