Abstraction is what the super computer "The Abstractor" does, when not solving the worlds problems, answering all the questions of the universe and everything it tries the impossible and create fixture files. In my mind this beast is in a room on top of a mountain, it has valves and a low fog machine for ambience where data sheets are presented in the hope of acceptance into the library of enlightenment and within a time frame of two week be sent out to the churches of light where priests will baptise these files and insert them into the bellies of the Hogs. It may look half green and pink but it is red, you are an unbeliever.
This summer I ran 3 festival systems, all with RH4's . This country has a number of festivals where the same bands will crop up again and again. The systems are all 48 moving heads, 12 strobes, some 2 lites and front. The fixtures in the system are different, so Viper, VL300, Clay Paky Alpha Beam, Mac 700 wash, Atomic, X-5. I programmed on Mac 700 wash and Clay Paky, then fixture swapped to the other 2 systems. The Robe's zoom was inverted and as its rotating gobo wheel is on the second wheel updating that palette had no effect in programming, no biggy as its just six scenes to deal with and the zoom effects seem to look better that way. From using an M Series and a Chamsys I would say the process is not quicker or slower to lets say have a quick butchers at the results as you would surely do.
Cutting to the incoming LDs who seemed split between MA, Chamsys and Hog, I would say the Chamsys lads won the quickest up and running, by that from the time I give them a patch sheet to the look of smugness. The MA's are truly mystical beasts that arrive FOH via a sea of Angels, take up to much room and seem to get on with life and I am quite sure they will reveal the answers to life, the universe and everything when V4 comes out. The incoming Hogs are fine. The Chamsys had a problem with a fixture, very quick to sort out and within 10 days that was in a fixture update drop, I liked that when the request was made via bug tracker that we saw its progress at all stages, very good system. The Hog didn't get on with Robes zoom inversion which was more of a problem for the incoming chaps, the palettes in one show where updated, but the LD felt the playback of the show did not reflected that, also non of the Hog guys managed to get any rotating gobo action, again updating the palette seem to not make any difference.
Abstraction is what the super computer "The Abstractor" does, when not solving the worlds problems, answering all the questions of the universe and everything it tries the impossible and create fixture files. In my mind this beast is in a room on top of a mountain, it has valves and a low fog machine for ambience where data sheets are presented in the hope of acceptance into the library of enlightenment and within a time frame of two week be sent out to the churches of light where priests will baptise these files and insert them into the bellies of the Hogs. It may look half green and pink but it is red, you are an unbeliever.
This summer I ran 3 festival systems, all with RH4's . This country has a number of festivals where the same bands will crop up again and again. The systems are all 48 moving heads, 12 strobes, some 2 lites and front. The fixtures in the system are different, so Viper, VL300, Clay Paky Alpha Beam, Mac 700 wash, Atomic, X-5. I programmed on Mac 700 wash and Clay Paky, then fixture swapped to the other 2 systems. The Robe's zoom was inverted and as its rotating gobo wheel is on the second wheel updating that palette had no effect in programming, no biggy as its just six scenes to deal with and the zoom effects seem to look better that way. From using an M Series and a Chamsys I would say the process is not quicker or slower to lets say have a quick butchers at the results as you would surely do.
Cutting to the incoming LDs who seemed split between MA, Chamsys and Hog, I would say the Chamsys lads won the quickest up and running, by that from the time I give them a patch sheet to the look of smugness. The MA's are truly mystical beasts that arrive FOH via a sea of Angels, take up to much room and seem to get on with life and I am quite sure they will reveal the answers to life, the universe and everything when V4 comes out. The incoming Hogs are fine. The Chamsys had a problem with a fixture, very quick to sort out and within 10 days that was in a fixture update drop, I liked that when the request was made via bug tracker that we saw its progress at all stages, very good system. The Hog didn't get on with Robes zoom inversion which was more of a problem for the incoming chaps, the palettes in one show where updated, but the LD felt the playback of the show did not reflected that, also non of the Hog guys managed to get any rotating gobo action, again updating the palette seem to not make any difference.
