Gio

With regards pronunciation - 'jee-oh'.

As far as learning more about it goes, you can find various discussions on some well known industry forums which may give you some insight, or see if you can find someone who was at the ETC CUE event this week.

I'll leave it to someone in the marketing department to give you an official answer ;-)

I was @ CUE so hopefully I can help elaborate on Gio.

1. It has dual, multi-touch, built-in screens that are articulating so you can set them at any viewing angle or completely flat for traveling in a road case. This should significantly reduce the size of the case as compared to the Eos.

2. The profile of the console is approximately 26" x 30", again reducing size and weight, especially when traveling.

3. As I said, the screens are multi-touch and this should have some very interesting implications (specifically zooming in a out similar to an IPad or IPhone) for programming in the 2.0 software that should be released this fall.

4. The keys are back-lit and the console lights are LEDs...both dimmable.

5. It has the same number of motorized faders that Eos does and like Eos, will support 3 external touch-screens in addition to the 2 that are built in.

I have attached a couple of pictures as well. I hope this helps and let me know if you have any other questions.

Hi all.  Look for "official" launch information on the web the first week of September. 

Thanks much!

a

OK, so it is spelled a little different...but what's with all the products in this line being named the same as cars?  So far the ETC products have been cooler looking then the automobile, in my opinion.  How about a lighting board named after a good old indian and endangered animal like our cars used to be... (OK, I'll stop now)

From a post Anne made in the ControlBooth forums last month:

What drives the names of the products in the Eos family? For the most part, names that can't be shortened to something else. Having dealt with products like Obsession and Virtuoso, which were shortened to Obs and Vert - a prime directive was a name short enough that it didn't need to be truncated verbally!

Yes, the entire family has some relation to names of autos (incidental by the way), we've stopped short of replacing the level wheel with a steering wheel! But there are also television networks, cameras, and a now defunct airline all sharing names with the family as well. Virtually impossible these days to find a name that hasn't been used for something. You have all (mostly) correctly identified the genesis of the names.

Eos - Greek goddess of the dawn (also a car and airline).
Ion - relates to our legacy product lines, as Steve points out, and has a Greek sort of thing going on.
Element - not three letters like the rest of the family to differentiate it from a feature standpoint, containing the functional DNA of the product line.
:-)

Anne Valentino said:

Hi all.  Look for "official" launch information on the web the first week of September. 

Thanks much!

a

 

So does the "official" launch mean that it is available for sale now?

-Steve Martin

Steve, yes, we are taking orders.  Shipping will begin next month.

:-)

a

Gosh, that is a great looking board....it looks so slick maybe we can get it to make a cameo in the next Star Trek movie!