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"We've evolved a lot over the past decade, both in terms of the way we use the available technology and our understanding of what our customers really want and need," says DiGiCo's managing director, James Gordon. "SD5 is the culmination of that combined knowledge, so we want to make it the next generation D5 Live."

The SD5's worksurface is a low noise, heat dissipation worksurface benefiting from Hidden-til-lit (HTL) technology, yet its five digitally driven full colour TFT LCD screens, three of which are touch sensitive, have a new configuration that allows easy access

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"Nuendo Live is your devoted recording software application for professionals in the live recording industry," said Timo Wildenhain, product marketing manager for Nuendo. "Ushering in a new product era with Nuendo Live, we at Steinberg continue to pursue our goal to conceive and design tools and technologies tailored to the specific requirements of our customers."

Nuendo Live features an efficient user interface that observes the single-window concept without unnecessary options to avoid clutter and streamlin

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Eric Rondolat joins Philips from Schneider Electric. "I am very pleased that we have been able to attract Eric to lead our Lighting sector," said Frans van Houten, CEO of Royal Philips Electronics. "Eric has an impressive international career in the technology industry covering both established and fast growing emerging markets, most recently Asia Pacific based in China. He is a real entrepreneur with a clear strategic vision who will be able to lead the industry transformation to energy efficient LED based lighting solutions. Eric has a strong track record in delivering results and is a great addit

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"As an industry, we are accustomed to subwoofers carrying a distinct harmonic tone. This 'sound' of any subwoofer becomes part of how a product is evaluated," says John Meyer, CEO of Meyer Sound. "Linear loudspeakers lack this enhancement, and are measured by their ability to precisely reproduce the electronic signals without altering the sonic characteristics. Bringing Meyer Sound's linear technology and our advances in loudspeaker headroom and peak lev

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The REAC Driver Kit is sold separately from SONAR X1 Producer and is intended for use with the Roland V-Mixer Consoles M-480, M-380, M-400, and M-300. It is also compatible with Roland S-4000 and S-1608 Digital Snake Systems.

This integrated and cost effective solution is designed for recording live performances with the V-Mixing System components. Using the REAC Driver Kit with the mixing, mastering and delivery power of SONAR X1 Producer gives live audio professionals the ability to deliver a polished, quality recording, says the company.

(Jim Evans)

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Loudness is one of the hottest topics of today. With the CALM Act and similar legislation in numerous other countries throughout the world, many broadcasters find themselves in a state of transition. To meet the legislative demands, it is necessary to comply with various international broadcast standards. The most important of these will be covered in detail at this Loudness Seminar focused on facts, not products.

The seminar will be divided into four sessions. Each of the three speakers will present, culminating in a roundtable discussion. Each presenter will speak for 45 minutes, and there will be a short break in between sessions, making it possible for attendees to pick and ch

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The Theatre has been part of the fabric of Newcastle city centre since 1837. A Grade 1 Listed Building, it features what is generally regarded as the finest theatre façade in the UK combined with a fine 1901 auditorium designed by one of the great theatre architects, Frank Matcham, after the original interior had been destroyed by fire in 1899. This cultural legacy must have presented quite a daunting task to the team.

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In addition to general enhancements, including optimization for Windows 7 and improved performance for large system networks, Version 6 will include support for the forthcoming Yamaha MY8-LAKE card, bringing Lake Processing to Yamaha's extensive line of digital audio mixing desks.

Perhaps more significantly for Lake's existing user base however, is the advent of new integration potential with real-time acoustical spectrum analysis software; with Version 6 supporting full integration with both Smaart 7 and WaveCapture's Live-Capture.

(Jim Evans)

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"Due to the historic nature of the Allen Theatre, the recent transformation entailed building a shell inside the existing building, while still maintaining the original architecture," says Raymond Kent, CTS LEED AP director of the Innovative Technology Design Group at Westlake Reed Leskosky (WRL), an associate principal with WRL and the lead audiovisual systems designer for the project.

Home to CPH, America's first regional theatre company and Cleveland State University's Department of Theatre and Dance, Playhouse Square is second

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XGX Productions, commissioned by Vic Vaid and Lee Govender, were the technical suppliers of sound, lighting, audio visual, structure and special effects.

The lighting design was by XGX's Gert Smit, who had free rein to create something special for the up-beat young audience. Colleague Martin Vermeulen took care of the programming on their Avolites Tiger Touch console.

XGX had recently purchased Robin 300s, and were pleased with the fixtures. "It was very nice to work with the Robin 300s," commented Gert Smit. "They worked perfectly as both a colourwash and made great eye-candy for the massive crowd. To round off the sensational event we added four CO2 Canons, four green lasers and one colour laser."

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For the fifth consecutive year, Mauritz Jacobs from Dream Sets oversaw the project and was also the lighting designer of this spectacular event which included 20 fashion shows, over 25 designers and elaborate set changes on two fashion ramps.

"This is probably one of the hardest weeks of the year," commented Jacobs. "There are set changes between every show and these are major changes! The one show will be white and an hour later the ramp will be red." The shows are about 20minutes long and there's a show every hour.

The set-up started on 4

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The highlight of the company's presence at the show is a completely new product group, the R-Series, which takes Alcons' pro-ribbon cylindrical projection and coupling behaviour in new and different directions and brings the benefits of this technology to applications not previously served.

Another innovation is the Q-series QR24 model. A completely new pro-ribbon transducer platform has been developed specifically for this system, which will bring the modular line-source column concept to acoustically challenging rooms in a new form.

The production version of the BC332 self-contained cardioid subwoofer system is on show, which features newly designed woofers - direct-radiating 18" fr

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This interactive event, part of the Institute's comprehensive career's support service provided to all students, will provide a major opportunity for students to explore all manner of career development and showcasing opportunities both during and after their time at the Institute.

In attendance will be a comprehensive set of guests and speakers, from a wide spectrum of the music industry including artist management, music publishers, A&Rs, events promoters, music solicitors and Industry representatives

Confirmed participants include: Angus Blue, Riverman artist management (Placebo); Ed Poston, BMI; Kwame Kwaten, ATC Management; Jonny Dawson, ATC Management;

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By moving the Nuendo family of products to Yamaha's sales and distribution network, Steinberg and Yamaha are now able to offer a broader range of hardware and software system solutions to the commercial audio segment than ever before. This in turn achieves a clearer focus on precisely meeting the end customer's needs.

"We at Steinberg are happy that the continuing collaboration with Yamaha now also brings the well-established Nuendo range to further fruition," said Andreas Stelling, Steinberg's managing director. "Steinberg takes this opportunity to thank its customers for their support of Nuendo and is confident that the new partnership with Yamaha will help grow the business even further.&quo

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"We have been very happy with our VL500 fixtures which have proven to be rock-solid," commented Troy Everett, manager performing arts at GEC. "I love the colour that you can only get out of a tungsten unit and the unique VL500 colour system. However when deciding on the new fixtures I had a look at a wide variety of lighting fixtures but the VL3500 Spot was the clear winner for me.

"I love that all Vari*Lite fixtures seem to deliver beautiful colours and that the gobos are always sharp and crisp," he added. "In fact the colour mixing in Vari*Lite fixtures is so good there really is n

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Retaining essential features and functionality that have become standards over the past quarter of a century, Yamaha's new CL Series of digital mixing consoles offers "an evolved experience in accessible mixing", the company says. "Combined with sonic purity and advanced sound shaping capabilities, the CL Series gives the most imaginative artists and engineers unprecedented creative freedom".

Three models were launched - the CL1, CL3 and CL5, ranging in scale from 48 to 72 mono + eight stereo inputs. All feature 16 DCAs and 24 mix / eight matrix output busses.

Founded on the proven Centralogic interface, the advanced CL Series incorpora

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This new partnership was announced on the High End Systems stand at the Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, which debuted the new TechnoArc fully featured, soft edged, competitively priced moving light, amongst several recent innovations from the manufacturer.

Says Brad Schiller, High End Systems' product marketing manager, "High End Systems is very excited to be partnering with A.C. Entertainment Technologies to provide UK and Irish customers with a local distributor. Their excellence in customer support, combined with an impressive sales force, will offer High End Systems products to a broad range of customers. With new products like the DLV, trackspot Bolt, Tec

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The stand took on a very distinctive appearance. No-one could miss the giant set of Newton Balls suspended above the reception area. Nathan Wan's vibrant and lively lighting design for the booth utilised nearly 300 of the latest Robe fixtures and featured a 'wall of death' effect, with some serious metalwork in the roof and serious impact on anyone walking Hall 11 - who could not fail to catch the action. Over 60 Robe representatives were present on the stand from all over the world.

The five new LED-based innovations in the Robin series all received serious interest, sa

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Fortunately the lighting team at Channel 7 had an ETC Desire XT LED fixture on order to replace a broken HMI fixture and they took delivery of it the day before departing for Antarctica.

"It's an all-encompassing, weather-proof light that enables us to dial in different colour temperatures, whether it's daylight or tungsten lighting," remarked Slater. "You also have full dim control; to have all those features in a light without the need for a ball

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Working closely with lighting designer Nigel Catmur, ELP took delivery of 26 of the Alpha Spot HPE 1500s which Catmur specified first on S4C's Rhydian shows and the Only Men Allowed TV special. He subsequently featured them on the lighting rig for the Royal Variety Performance.

"Having first seen the impact of the Alpha Spot HPE 1500 on Eurovision last year, I knew it was a light I wanted to work with," says Catmur. "Simultaneously ELP had the same idea and so we collaborated and made it happen on the projects we were working on together at the time."

"We recognised that we needed a