Mexico - Hi Tech Audio is exhibiting at sound:check Xpo and representing d&b audiotechnik in room Salon Tarasco when the show returns to Mexico City from 26-28 April.

Hi Tech Audio sales director, Fernando Roch says, "We have been working hard to build the d&b brand in Latin America and we welcome the opportunity to meet new and existing customers. It's the most important audio event in our region, it brings together the best in our industry and d&b is at the heart of that.

"Hi Tech Audio plans to enhance d&b market visibility during the show by targeting, theatres, permanent installations, and rental companies are areas in which d&b will continue to strengthen its position as market leader," explains Roch. "I look forward to being a part of this development, supporting the growth strategy and contributing to the further success of the company."

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Germany - Three international entertainment technology brands - Altman Lighting, Core Lighting, and Interactive Technologies will team up to showcase the latest in lighting and wireless control solutions at the Prolight & Sound exhibition in Frankfurt from 15-18 April. Visitors will find products from all three manufacturers located on Hall 9.0 Stand A65.

Core Lighting, the UK manufacturer known for its innovative, wirelessly controlled LED products, will debut its new LED batten - the StripPoint. Featuring 18 RGBW LEDs, the W-DMX controlled StripPoint delivers 4000 lumens of output and is powered by a lithium ion battery. Available in 1m lengths, the fixture also features individual pixel control and an IP65 outdoor rating. Also a first for Prolight & Sound, CORE Lighting will display the new PinPoint wireless LED pinspot complete with Bluetooth and W-DMX control. Joining these

Germany - Martin Audio has released a teaser print image and an accompanying video for a new product launch under the banner of The shape of things to come.

The print image features a striking icon which is said to represent the driver of this yet unnamed product. The video is a little more revealing showing an 'old' loudspeaker exploding and the words scrolling on the screen, 'Time to break with convention, time to evolve, time for a new breed, a breed that delivers sound like never before' before revealing the shadowing outline of the new product and a driver echoing the icon from the print image.

Luke Ireland, managing director, said, "This new product range will feature groundbreaking technology that will further Martin Audio's credentials as the true innovator in the marketplace and will deliver our customers a clear competitive advantage. We are extremely exc

Germany - Zero 88 is set to launch a new lighting console, FLX at Frankfurt. Says the company, "FLX creates more time to be imaginative, inventive and efficient ...Its clean, straightforward, intuitive user interface offers tools like Patch Wizard and Auto Palettes to take care of all the prep work, so LDs and operators can be free to work faster and more harmoniously."

The FLX will offer straightforward three-step programming - what, how and where - you want it, streamlining time and the operational process.

Further, "Even when working with fixtures that colour mix using different methods, the software will work everything out so all the fixtures respond correctly and accordingly.

"The simple yet sophisticated philosophy of FLX enables operators of all backgrounds and experience levels to feel instantly comfortable, due to familiar industry standard synt

Germany - The latest in LED dimming solutions and new additions to the groundbreaking Rogue series of moving heads are among the highlights to be expected from Chauvet Professional at Prolight+Sound 2015, Frankfurt in Hall 11.0, Stand D30.

The show marks the European debut of new fixtures from Chauvet Professional's Ovation line, created especially for stage and theatre. Among these will be the new Ovation ED-190WW ellipsoidal and the Ovation FD-165WW Fresnel wash. Both feature breakthrough technology, which allows them to be controlled by DMX or by traditional dimming systems, so that they can work with the dimmable incandescent fixtures already on an existing rig.

The new Rogue RH1 Hybrid combines a beam and spot effect in one unit that can produce a beam angle of 1° to 4.5° in the beam mode and a zoom angle of 5° to 19° in spot mode. The fixture emits 111,00

Germany - Avolites is powering up its latest consoles, dimmers and media servers for possibly the company's biggest ever presence at Prolight + Sound Frankfurt, on stand D40, Level 0, Hall 11.

On stand, visitors can experience the capabilities of Avolites Titan V9, new networking functionality, and display of the revolutionary Autoblend feature of Ai.

Autoblend allows blending of large projection surfaces using multiple projectors. In addition, there is a new Surface Modelling page for the creation of editable 3D sets, and performance is hugely improved, with render engine optimisation offering 50% increased video throughput. Compositing high-resolution background layers with low-resolution foreground layers is also much improved.

In Titan V9, expect to see a multitude of new features, including the amazing new Key Frame Shapes, providing the capability to create spectacular

The Netherlands - The latest version of Vivien Virtual Event Designer from CAST Software has recently enabled one of Holland's leading events producers to design bigger, better and higher-impact events. This is all thanks to Vivien's 3D pre-visualisation, planning, design and powerful sales tools.

Event producer Joey Wijnen started his company JOW Event Design & Production two years ago and has been using Vivien to successfully win new business and design a range of increasingly ambitious events and product launches, including major new building unveilings and a large-scale All American Christmas Dinner.

"As soon as I decided to invest in Vivien, I started to get more and more projects," says Wijnen. "We design and produce events in Holland, mostly business to business but also in the private sector.

"Our clients, such as caterers and event agencies hire

Germany - Elation Professional has never headed to a trade show with such a complete line-up of professional lighting and video products as it has for this year's Prolight + Sound show. The number of new technologies optimized for professional stage applications to be shown at Stand D50 in Hall 11 is a testament to the company's R&D prowess and position as a major player in the professional lighting market, says the company.

From flexible hybrid moving heads to a raft of new LED spots, battens, wash lights, strobes and LED panels, not to mention the award-winning Sniper hybrid multi-effect light, Elation is "set for a record setting show".

New luminaires in the company's Platinum range of professional moving heads will feature including the world premiere of the Platinum WFX, a new wash effects luminaire with full range zoom; and the European premiere of the hybrid P

UK / Germany - Prolight+Sound 2015 (15-18 April) will see a raft of new product launches from Inspired Audio. A year ago the company previewed its intention to broaden its offer from a live sound based range to encompass products for portable sound and fixed installation. The 2015 show will deliver the production-ready products that will deliver on that promise, the company says.

Portable products aimed at all aspects of live performance will be represented in the form of the MQ series, which features three full range enclosures. The MQ12 and MQ15 enclosures feature mid/bass cone drivers, with 3.5" aluminium voice coils for improved transient response, and neodymium magnet structures for reduced weight, combined with 1.4" exit compression drivers mounted on CD waveguides. The enclosures have a front trapezoid section, combined with a rear wedge angle to enable them to

Germany - This year at Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt, lighting control specialist Visual Productions will officially launch the availability of three new products. The Dutch manufacturer will be located on its own stand in Hall 11 within the show area of the company's German distributor, LMP. These new products will also be highlighted in the LMP "New Product" area and available from their stock after the show.

Showing will be the QuadCore - a new solid-state lighting controller in the CueCore family. It features 2,048 DMX channels across 4 DMX outputs. The on-board flash memory allows for storing DMX shows. Playback can be fully automated and triggered by various IP based protocols.

The QuadCore is bundled with the CueluxPro software-based lighting control desk and includes a 4-universe license of CueluxPro. Larger universe numbers are achieved by stacking

Germany - Keeping digital music files safe is the focus of a special panel being hosted by the Music Producers Guild at this year's Musikmesse/Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt.

Producers Tony Platt, Gareth Jones and Stevan Krakovic will take part in the event which aims to highlight the care that should be taken of recordings and session information, especially when an entire album's worth of creativity can now be contained on one memory stick.

"In the days of analogue recording, the tape box and track sheet logged all the important information, "Stevan Krakovic says "In this new digital age we have become very casual. Too many sessions are badly labelled and too much information goes unreported. Some people even entrust their valuable music to cheap hard drives without paying any attention to how accurately it has been copied. We really need to up our game and get

Germany - Lawo will present IP-based audio, video and network solutions for theatre and live applications in Frankfurt (Hall 8.0 / Booth B50). On show will be numerous Lawo products natively equipped with SMPTE 2022 and Ravenna/AES67 demonstrated in a fully operational setup, including the new mc²36 console designed for live performance applications utilizing RAVENNA and MADI, as well as both V-line and A-line video and audio processing and routing devices.

The new mc²36 is a Ravenna-based all-in-one mixing desk with a comprehensive feature set that covers theatre, house of worship, live and install applications. It delivers Lawo's high quality and reliability along with extensive routing options and flexible performance capabilities. Since it is natively equipped with Ravenna/AES67 technology, the mc²36 integrates seamlessly into IP infrastructures, which is indispensable fo

Germany - Movecat is bringing a wealth of new products in the fields of control, load measuring, chain hoists and services to this year's Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt. "The increasing demands of today's stage and show productions in terms of networking, flexibility and safety in the field of kinetics have really challenged our engineers," reports Andrew Abele, the company's CEO. "We are presenting the results of these engineering processes at our booth, Stand D84 in Hall 9, and are already looking forward to hearing the opinions of planners and users."

Load measuring products on show will include the LoCo R3 load measuring controller with analogue, digital and wireless inputs, a 4.3" touchscreen and web server functions as well as the only integrated load-measuring system for combined single- and dual-chain-fall operation without loss of installation heig

UK - CLD Distribution is co-hosting a stand with parent company Penn Elcom at the ever-popular PLASA Focus Leeds 2015 (11-12 May, Leeds Royal Armouries). Showcased will be the group's vast range of 19" racking and accessories and world-renowned flightcase hardware.

CLD will also have available its exclusive COMUS audio and power cable solutions on show. COMUS Cable is now available to all Penn Elcom Group customers along with the full ranges from GIG, Studio and Stealth Series Leads as shown on the CLD Website (www.cld-dist.co.uk) samples of which will be on display throughout the show.

Germany - Robe goes Large at the 2015 Prolight+Sound expo in Frankfurt with an expanded booth and lots of action, showcasing 10 new products on Stands B51 and B61 in Hall 11.0.

These include the BMFL Blade - the next fixture in Robe's new signature Bright Multi-Functional Luminaire (BMFL) range, which joins the successful BMFL Spot, launched six months ago.

The latest additions to the DL range include the DL7S Profile, DL4X Spot, DL4S Profile and the DL4F Wash; there are two new versions of Robe's ParFect LED PAR fixture, a new LED batten fixture, the CycBar 15 as well as a brand new LED moving light spot fixture - VIVA.

Robe prepares to rock the LED strobe market with its innovative and powerful Strobe (pronounced stro-bay to rhyme with Robe). The Strobe from Robe brings the ultimate flash factor to any show or event!

In addition to these 10 exciting and diverse products,

UK - The 2015 Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) has launched and submissions are already coming in for Television and Concert Touring and Events.

This year marks the eighth KOI Awards, which celebrates the creative talents of international lighting and digital content designers working in the UK in the sectors of TV, Theatre and Concert Touring and Events.

With a new award category in Concert Touring and Events for smaller club venues, this year's KOI will widen its reach to celebrate LDs from all stages and scales of touring. Concert Touring and Events is also welcoming a new member of the judging panel in the form of Total Production International magazine editor, Kelly Murray.

Submissions are open for the Television and Concert Touring and Events categories and shows performed or broadcast between 1 August 2014 and 31 July 2015 in the UK are eligible. As with pre

Germany - At Frankfurt this year, Pan Acoustics will feature the Dante option for Pan Beam series, Pan Speaker series and Pan Powerline.

The Dante option offers some interesting features: for example, Pan Beam columns can be operated with two independent audio streams with a sampling frequency of up to 192 kHz. The priority circuit in the Pan Beam columns allows automatic switchover of the audio source, for instance switching between programme and announcement signals.

Pan Acoustics' Dante option provides a primary and secondary port, which can be used in redundant or daisy-chain mode. The latter enables other compatible Dante devices, such as a digital stagebox, to be added into the network. Pan Beam models can be set and monitored via the Dante audio network (directivity, EQ, delay, etc) Switching presets, saved in the Pan Beam column speakers, is also possible.

The Pan Sp

Germany - Panasonic will present a 3D video mapping, on a scale model of the Bucharest Palace of Parliament, at Prolight+Sound 2015 in Frankfurt.

Using the newly launched DZ21K Evo series and the all new PT-DZ780, Panasonic will recreate a 3D video mapping projection used to celebrate the 555th anniversary of Bucharest, on the façade of Ceausescu's People's Palace.

The DZ21K2 Evo maintains the 20,000 lumens brightness of the original DZ21K, but features extended lamp life, lower operating noise, improved image clarity and connection, thanks to DIGITAL LINKTM compatibility and two 3G-SDI inputs.

"The projection mapping we'll have on our stand, delivered by our new flagship projector is incredibly impressive. It illustrates perfectly how scalable our projection solutions for rental and staging are," said Jan Markus Jahn, European director of visual system solutions

UK - Stage Electrics' hire department has announced a Product Showcase at its Bristol headquarters to give customers an opportunity to try out some of the latest in professional audio, lighting and video technology.

The event is being held on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th April. Products being put through their paces include: Clay Paky Mythos & Sharpy Wash, Martin Professional MAC Quantum Profile &

MAC Aura XB, the Roland V-800HD vision mixer, L'Acoustics ARCS Wide & Focus system, as well Yamaha and DiGiCo audio consoles plus two new lighting consoles; the Zero 88 FLX and the MA dot2.

Business development manager Mark Burnett commented: "We have made some significant investments in the Stage Electrics hire inventory in the last few months and customers have been asking for an opportunity to get their hands on the equipment and really put it through its paces. The aim of

Germany - ArKaos PROwill exhibit at Prolight+Sound, Frankfurt in Hall 11.0 Stand A49 and will introduce and demonstrate the latest version of its successful professional MediaMaster software.

MediaMaster 4.2 now adds an integrated cue player and 4K support to the many tools already offered by this ever-popular software.

The new Cue Player is an important addition for users who require reliable, accurate playback of visual sequences, for example, on shows or installations requiring repeated automated playback. The Cue Player is built on top of MediaMaster's Theater Mode interface and can also be driven by Time Code as required. MediaMaster 4.2 is available as a free upgrade to MediaMaster 3.x or 4.x

ArKaos PRO's complete range of media servers will be exhibited. Comprising the Stage, Studio and Stadium servers, this range offers up to two-, four- and six-outputs respectively

Germany - Robert Juliat will be out in full force at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, where the company will exhibit alongside its German partners, Lightpower GmbH, in Hall 11 Stand D76.

Robert Juliat will celebrate the official launch of Roxie, its new 300W LED followspot. Roxie was previewed at JTSE 2014 and LDI 2014 and is the first LED followspot in the Robert Juliat portfolio.

At the opposite end of the scale, the rugged Merlin 2500W HMI touring spot - launched at PLASA 2014 - will be shown for the first time at Prolight + Sound. The first shipments of Merlin will soon be delivered to customers across the world through RJ's international distributor network.

Robert Juliat will extend its popular ZEP Fresnel range with the presentation of the new 360LF 300W LED Fresnel, a complement to its 150W little sister, the 340LF.

Finally, Robert Juliat will introduce a completely

Germany - MDG, manufacturer of fog, haze and low fog generators, will celebrate its 35th anniversary at Prolight+Sound.

Serving entertainment, industrial, fire-fighting and military customers since 1980, MDG will mark the occasion with the release of limited edition models of a new product line.

Throughout its history, MDG has developed the MAX Series of fog generators, the world-famous Atmosphere haze generator, winner of LDI's Best Lighting Product in 1997, and the award-winning theONE digital atmospheric generator, LDI's Best Debuting Product in 2010. These were followed in 2013 by the e-series which brought increased efficiency and total electronic control to the product range. Now, Prolight+Sound 2015 will see the launch of three new products, the latest in MDG's evolution of fog which will expand the range still further.

MDG's anniversary will also be marked by the lau

Germany - Ayrton will be "pushing the envelope once again at Prolight+Sound 2015" with the release of "a truly new innovation in LED luminaire design".

Code-named the A61 Project, the details of this new product are a tightly kept secret until the first day of the show when all will be revealed to visitors to Ayrton's stand (Hall 11.0 Stand D67).

A foretaste has just been released by Ayrton and can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/123426064. More details will follow soon.

"We are enjoying the speculation around our latest development and will be very excited to hear the reaction of our customers when we finally spring this surprise on them at the show," says Ayrton's Valère Huart-Gyors. "We believe that it is destined to be a real inspiration to lighting designers."

Following its successful launch at PLASA 2014, Ayrton's NandoBeam S9

Germany - UK-based automation and motion control specialist Kinesys launches a major system of new products at this year's Prolight+Sound - The Pathfinder System - which has been designed specifically for 3D path flying.

Kinesys exhibits at 2015's Prolight+Sound after a highly successful first time at last year's show which boosted its international business within the entertainment technology sector.

Kinesys is also highlighting its existing systems; the Velocity 2 SIL3 winch controller, the EVO and Elevation variable speed hoist systems, the DigiHoist fixed speed digital chain hoist controller and the Libra range of load measurement products.

Pathfinder uses the latest technology to provide a robust, customisable entertainment solution for the flying of performers, cameras and other objects in 3D. The system is designed with versatility in mind so that it can be used in an

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