Electronic Theatre Controls

Hi All, I saw and trained on the ION on Wednesday and ran it on Thursday and Friday. It went alright enough, but not a fast as I could on the trusty expression. I think in time it will make programming even faster, just as soon as I get past the learning curve. Is there a thesaurus to help us learn the new syntax? If not can we start one? For ...

Many of you may have heard that we had to abruptly stop taking orders for Express and Expression consoles a couple of weeks ago. With the dust having settled a bit I wanted to offer a clear (we'll see how clear!) explanation of what is up with these products. This may be the longest post ever on a blog. But I am also revealing a lot to you all in ...

Hello All,  I'm running an Expres 24/48 with software v3.1.  We have two moving lights and a couple scrollers. We are running a few effects cues with the scrollers, but not the moving lights. While stepping back and forth during tech, the moving light channels seem to get stuck in some kind of loop running up ad down although they are ...

I've run tons of one-off, no rehearsal, shows just from the 24 submasters of the Exp3, or the 20 executor faders+40 executor buttons of the grandMA, or even the 8 faders+virtual masters of the HogII.  I cannot fathom running even an I-Cue from a multi-scene preset console.  Put the two-scene preset desks in the Lighting Museum next to ...

I would like to create a personality for the Elektralite MY250i.  The problem is that the channel assignments in the fixture put Pan Course on 5 and Pan Fine on 14 and the same goes with Tilt Course(6), Tilt Fine(15).  Since the editor only allows 16bit channels to be consecutive, is there a way around this?  I prefer to use a ...

I will add that I have personal experience where a cell phone, placed on top of a fire alarm panel and receiving an incoming call, set the alarms a ringing and a flashing and all sorts of things that I’m glad it was a service call, and not a show call.   I can hear through my car radio whenever my cell is logging in/out of a tower.  ...

Hello everyone,                       I just have a quick question about the ETC consoles...I jus recently purchased the Express 250 and would like to know if there is a site to dnwld fixture protocols or attributes onto a disk to upload in ...

Hello, I'm sorry you're having this issue. I've tried to mock it up here based on your post but I'm finding that my next cue is ready to go each time. What version of software are you running? You can find that out by hitting the setup key. The version will display in the bottom right hand corner of the setup page. Current software version is ...

Hi Mark-  In case it wasn't clear in the earlier posts, I am a student.  I'm a senior at the Hamilton Academy of Music in Los Angeles, CA.  We do 6 major productions (2 dance, 2 drama, and 2 musicals) each season, as well as many concerts and various jobs for organizations that rent out our theater.  All of the ...

Hi everyone-  I'm a senior at the Hamilton High School Academy of Music in Los Angeles, CA.  The Colortran board in our 600 seat house died over the summer.  We've ordered a Congo Jr., which should be here in a couple months.  I first learned to program on ETC boards in the Express/Expression family and still do ...