The brilliant people at USC in Los Angeles just bought an Ion to run the shows in one of their live concert venues. Because of the nature of their shows, they needed to be able to have at least 4 direct selects open all the time. Their solution? The downloaded the offline software to a desktop computer sitting next to the Ion. They connected one of their 2 touchscreen monitors to it. With their free client dongle, they logged this computer into the Ion as an Eos client under "User 1"(same user as the primary console). They then opened a tab of direct selects on the client.
So they have 3 monitors now- one is a touchscreen that has 4 sets of direct selects on it connected to the client. Another is a touchscreen connected to their Ion displaying all their patched channels and 2 sets of direct selects. The third is a regular monitor connected to their Ion displaying the cuelist and the CIA.
They could also attach a 4th monitor to this. I would personally use this as a second channel display to either have channels in the table format, or I'd flexi it to see just my 'active' channels.
David Hilton
Field Project Coordinator
ETC West
