wish list for future versions

1. I tend to agree with everyone else on this. If I want something at full in a snap I just program my LEVEL button at full.

2. I wish the board was web-enabled. You could email yourself the show file if you wanted to, download updates or even check your stock portfolio. If you don't like haveing your EOS online, then don't connect the ethernet cable and do the updating the old fashion way with a USB KEY. It could also be made so you have to enable the web abilities softly in the board. That way you can control when you are connected and when you are not connected. - Make it MACRO if you want!

3. YES to back lit keys. This is the one thing I really miss on the EOS from our Strand 520. The GO button needs to be lit. Between looking past the bright screens to see the stage then onto the desk into the black hole where the GO button has been placed leaves me wondering if the testers where doing a lot of live dance show "mixing" behind glass at the back of the house. While we are on the GO button why is there no little sheild around it? I loved the GO button on the 520 because you could actually rest your finger on/over the sheild, then quickly hit GO when called for. Much better for those tight cues. I also HATE how close the STOP/BACK button is to the GO Button. I wish the STOP/BACK button was about an inch higher on the console. Sometimes (due to the lack of a sheild) when I hit the GO button I accidently hit the edge of the STOP/BACK button as well thus causing chaos - I know that makes me a bit of a butterfingers but you have all done it at somepoint!

I Love the way groups work off the EOS compared to other consoles in the past where you would asign a group at a Level. Good thinking EOS programers on getting rid of the level.

I hope that in future software releases that ETC drops the "sausage" at the bottom of the cue playback screen. That long sausage tells me nothing! I would much rather see a seperate count remaining for INTENSITY, BEAM, FOCUS and COLOUR (Color for all the americans) in that space with no food products represented.

And finally the last thing.... I would like ETC to drop the number on the label for all the soft keys. I don't care if it is group 20 or whatever, I only want to see the text label I have programed for that soft key and not a number and my label. If I wanted to know what the "Centre Special" group number is, I can easily go into the group screen or the focus palette screen or whatever may apply. Please ETC give us more room for the Label.

When we first recieved the EOS I was none to sure about it (trapped by guilt of the loss of our Strand 520 after all those years), but now after using it for a few months for a variety of show types (programed shows and on the fly shows) the EOS can't be beat for speed, control and adaptability. Anyone in the market for a console needs to try the EOS to experiance it's full capabilities and be sure you also try it with a hand full of moving fixtures so you can really get a sense of how quick and easy it is to program.

-Clayton

clayton.rodney:

2. I wish the board was web-enabled. You could email yourself the show file if you wanted to, download updates or even check your stock portfolio. If you don't like haveing your EOS online, then don't connect the ethernet cable and do the updating the old fashion way with a USB KEY. It could also be made so you have to enable the web abilities softly in the board. That way you can control when you are connected and when you are not connected. - Make it MACRO if you want!

Hey Clayton, while I agree that I hope to one day see web access for the EOS - you must unterstand that we can't just not connect the ethernet cable because this is just not a connection for the internet, that many people use this connection to connect to their lighting system - backup pc's, client laptop's, fileservers, other lighting consoles, and mainly to the dmx gateways that control the fixtures.

clayton.rodney:

2. I wish the board was web-enabled. You could email yourself the show file if you wanted to, download updates or even check your stock portfolio. If you don't like haveing your EOS online, then don't connect the ethernet cable and do the updating the old fashion way with a USB KEY. It could also be made so you have to enable the web abilities softly in the board. That way you can control when you are connected and when you are not connected. - Make it MACRO if you want!

Hey Clayton, while I agree that I hope to one day see web access for the EOS - you must unterstand that we can't just not connect the ethernet cable because this is just not a connection for the internet, that many people use this connection to connect to their lighting system - backup pc's, client laptop's, fileservers, other lighting consoles, and mainly to the dmx gateways that control the fixtures.