The ubiquitous colour changing was supplied in the form of eight fixtures, each featuring eight Optopod 30 LED Par 36-tyle lamps, making a total of 64 colour changing heads surrounding the dancefloor. By utilizing all of Artist's built-in effect generators, powerful scenes were quickly put together which would have taken significantly longer with many other desks.
Norwich also saw the first UK installation of ShowCAD's new 1U rack-mount PC unit, which integrates the system within a single box with standard PC connections and DMX outputs, all built into a ruggedized industrial PC case. Combined with a touchscreen and an Edirol PCR-50 MIDI keyboard, this provided a powerful system for the in-house lightjockeys to perform on. Output is via three DMX512 streams, driving the effects lighting and house lighting, as well as triggering a Laser Electronics Zion Laser controller, which synchronises the lightshow to the four-head diode laser show.
(Lee Baldock)
