Compulite Releases V3.18R01 Vector Console Software Update
Compulite has announced a new software update for their series of Vector lighting consoles. V3.18R01 adds a number of new features and enhancements to Vector consoles, including: – A major GUI overhaul adding new and improved look and feel to the screen views – New look buttons with the ability to design and set up [...]
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Barco Starts Shipping New intellaspot XT-1 Moving Light
Not to long ago, Barco/High End Systems announced their latest moving light, the intellaspot XT-1. Good news, Barco/High End Systems has just begun shipping the fixture to customers. Here’s more info from Barco’s updated press release: Digital and automated lighting pioneer Barco/High End Systems announced today that it is now shipping the intellaspot XT-1, an [...]
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Vectorworks & Lightwright 5 Webinar Video Now Available
Back on May 18th, I wrote about a Vectorworks Spotlight and Lightwright webinar about how to exchange data between the two applications. The webinar happened back on May 25, yes, over a month away! Since I was at the Broadway Lighting Master Classes in New York, I was not able to get online to watch [...]
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West Side Systems Updates All Their iPhone Apps for iOS4
Looks like West Side Systems is leading the pack in the lighting apps with updating most of their iPhone apps for iOS4 and multitasking. So all of you iPhone and iPod touch users that have taken time time to update your devices with Apple’s latest iOS update, head over to iTunes or the app store [...]
Read More ...ETC Updates iRFR iPhone App to v1.1.33 with iPad Support
Mid last week, ETC’s, (Electronic Theatre Controls), iRFR iPhone App was approved through the Apple iTunes App store for release of version 1.1.33. The most significant change from pervious versions of the iRFR app is the support to run the app natively on the iPad. ETC has taken full use of the larger screen and added more [...]
Read More ...ShowTool LD iPhone App Updated for iPad
Daniel Murfin, the iPhone lighting app developer of such apps as ShowTool Sm and ShowTool LD recently hinted about an update of his app, ShowTool LD getting an update. I just got word this morning that Apple has approved the update, (V2.2) and has released it into the iTunes App Store. The update brings a [...]
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Update: Martin M1 Lighting Control Desk with Photo
FINALLY, a name has been announced about Martin’s new control desk, it’s called the M1. Martin has even added the M1 to there web site well before the desk unveiling at ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt Germany next week. Looking over the “manual” that Martin has made available, it looks as though development or at [...]
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Update: Martin’s Offerings at ProLight + Sound
All I can say is ask, and you shall receive! From the Martin Press Release: On display in Hall 9.0 stand B91 will be all new LED moving heads including a hard edge LED luminaire that surpasses anything that has come before it. Other top innovations include a new generation indoor/outdoor LED screen, a high-output [...]
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Update: ADB Lighting HATHOR Desk PHOTO
I got a lovely little surprise in my inbox after coming back from lunch. Looks like a reader has seen the HATHOR console or possibly knows some one at ADB lighting to be sending this along. What can we tell from this photo? It seems as though the codenamed HATHOR desk coming from ADB Lighting [...]
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ETC Releases Congo V6… Again
I swear that I have written about this before… oh wait I DID! If you did not notice, ETC un-released Congo V6. ETC found just a couple of things that made version 6.0.2 not hold up to ETC’s high standards. Have no fear, ETC has fixed the problem and has just re-released Congo V6. Here [...]
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ShowTool LD iPhone App Updated to Version 2.0
I just received a note from Daniel Murfin the iPhone developer and creator of ShowTool LD iPhone app, that he has just released an update to the app to version 2.0. The app has been redesigned from the ground up for speed and ease of use and sports a brand new user interface making it [...]
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So Long, Good Bye #LDI2009, See you at #LDI2010
It is 4pm on the est and that means that the 2009 LDI Show Floor in Orlando Florida has come to a close. It has been an exciting three days with TONS of great things announced and shown off on the floor. I keep getting asked, what was your favorite new thing on the show [...]
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