Avolites, the lighting control experts, launched the live control-focused “Arena’ console and revealed the full feature set of Titan V9 at Prolight + Sound 2015 in Frankfurt.
Arena console
The Avolites Arena is ideal console for festivals, theatres and anywhere that a larger control surface is required. It combines the popular interface of the Tiger Touch II with 30 additional Playback faders and expanded live control options and features.
Alongside the vibrant main display, a second touch screen provides an additional workspace window, also labelling the adjacent macro buttons and rotary pots. These fully assignable playback encoder pots allow intuitive control of channels and effects. The six LCD screens display electronic legends for 30 faders, for speedy access to all your playbacks, fixtures and palettes.
A brand new optical output means the Arena is equipped for fibre connections, with no signal loss over long distances, from front of house to the stage – essential in large and outdoor venues.
Offering seamless Multi User compatibility, the Arena can be used as master, back-up or extra programming surface, considerably cutting your programming time by allowing multiple Titan programmers to work simultaneously, before the main console takes charge.
Arena is capable of processing 16 DMX universes, with eight physical DMX outputs, and this can be further expanded with Titan Net Processors for up to 64 universes.
Both the new Arena and Quartz consoles offer MIDI in and headphone out on the console as well as a seven band Audio Trigger functionality.
Titan V9
Arena was running the incredible “hot-off-the-press’ Titan V9 software, in which you can expect to see a multitude of new features, including the amazing new Key Frame Shapes, providing the capability to create spectacular effects from scratch; Align – effortlessly copy values from existing fixtures to new fixture groups, either in a recurring pattern or a smooth fade; RGBW and ARGB colour mixing and Pixel Mapping – get maximum punch and more accurate colours from your LED fixtures, thanks to new, four-channel pixel mapping and colour mixing; New Theatrical Functions – Titan now supports MIDI Show Control, and many more useful options.
Autoblend distinctly sets Ai apart from the competition by allowing blending of large projection surfaces using multiple projectors. In addition, there is a brand 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.
