Electronic Theater Controls

LDI 2006 Product of the Year for a new lighting product !!

Elegant

Original

Sophisticated

The touchscreen-versus-mechanical-controls debate stops here. Eos provides touchscreen flexibility with the tactile response of buttons, so you can keep your eyes on the stage, not the desk. And we’ve got buttons. No mouse needed when you access commonly used programming functions. We don’t bury necessary features under layers either. What you need is right within reach.

Each device on the system has a discrete workspace: designers no longer have to sacrifice their needs for those of programmers. Partitioned control provides a safe and effective method for multiple programmers to build content into a show file.

Designers, programmers and electricians must work across venue types with equal ease, and your desk must too.   Eos – Complete Control – from ETC.

• 5000 channels (devices)
• 4000 and 8000 outputs/parameters
• Dedicated master playback fader pair
• 10 definable motorized faders, with 30 pages of control
• 99 cue lists
• 200 submasters
• 3 programmable grand masters
• Dedicated pan/tilt or XYZ encoders, 4 pageable encoders
• 2 15” LCD touchscreens
• High-density live and blind displays
• Electronic magic sheets
• ACN and ETCNet2 native
• MIDI and SMPTE In
• Synchronized backup
• Offline programming
• Data-laundering from Obsession, Expression and Emphasis show files
• 12 discrete on-line users
• Import Lightwright™ files

For 30 years ETC has been known for revolutionary lighting control design.

For 30 years Avab products have been known for a spirit of bold innovation. 

Now those great minds have met, in Congo.

Melding together the engineering brilliance and experience of ETC and Avab systems, Congo maintains the simplicity of classic systems with the feature-rich functionality of a dedicated moving lights console. Clean functions for everyday theater work with conventional lights, plus advanced control of hundreds of moving lights, without mouse operations or computer menus. Like today's sophisticated but deadline-driven productions, Congo is high energy -- with short commands for fast results.

With Congo, you can move independent channels such as worklights, conductor lights, followspot and smoke machine control to a special section that isn't affected by the rest of the system. You have somewhere to put your screens without blocking your view of the stage. You see the important information, at any time, on the screens or in the console displays. And you can even have remote control of your rig with your own cordless phone. Simple, intuitive and innovative lighting control with a big brain for complexity wherever it arises. Congo handles the future without forgetting the past. Congo is designed for theater, broadcast, club systems, concert and special-event lighting. At the Eurovision Song Contest broadcast in Kyiv, Ukraine, Congo consoles controlled 300+ moving lights, 200+ conventionals and 16 media servers, among other devices. Complete with a theatrical-style main playback fader pair, 40 multipurpose Masters for group, submaster, effect and additional sequence control, 40 Direct Selects and a dedicated moving lights control section, Congo's hardware is suitable for any kind of playback situation. Over 200 moving-light templates and 30+ Dynamic Effects are provided within the console, with the ability to build and edit your own on the fly.

Software:

• Multiple Formats for all channel views including graphical channel layouts
• Channel purpose database with auto groups
• Special Jam Mode for busking with moving devices
• Direct Channel Mode
• Client/server networking & synchronized backup
• Electronic manual with User Profiles

Hardware:

• Supports up to three monitors starting at 1024 x 768 resolution
• Four graphical master displays 572 x 90
• LCD programming display
• Number Input and Channel Info displays
• Up to 3072 devices/channels and 6144 outputs/parameters
• 2 x DMX512 direct outputs, RDM ready
• Ethernet (Avab protocols, ETCNet2, ACN Draft 2.0)
• USB memory stick
• Hard disk memory
• Show import via ASCII
• MIDI In/Out
• Contact closure triggers
• 4 x USB multipurpose bus (memory, pointing device)
• APN Connector (Avab Peripheral Network)
• Audio In/Out Radio, pocket pc and phone remote control

ETC Congo jr

Congo jr is high energy -- with short commands for fast results

As with Congo, Congo jr lets you move independent channels such as worklights, conductor lights, followspot and smoke machine control to a special section that isn't affected by the rest of the system. You then see the important information, at any time, on the screens or in the console displays. And you can control your rig remotely, with your own cordless phone.

With Congo jr’s unique optional Master Playback Wing, you gain full access of the 40 Master Playbacks and the Direct Selects. The Master Playback Wing can be connected directly to either side of the console, or it may be used independently via a USB cable, giving you the freedom to configure your control area any way you like.

Simple, intuitive and innovative lighting control with a big brain for complexity wherever it arises. Congo jr – like its parent Congo -- handles the future without forgetting the past. Congo and Congo jr are ideal solutions for theater, house-of-worship, broadcast, club-system, concert and special-event lighting.

Software:

• Multiple formats for all channel views, including graphical channel layouts
• Channel purpose database with auto groups
• Special Jam mode for busking with moving devices (with optional Master Playback Wing)
• Direct Channel mode (with optional Master Playback Wing)
• Client/server networking and synchronized backup
• Electronic manual with User Profiles

Hardware:

• Supports up to two monitors, DVI or SVGA
• Built-In LCD display for softkeys and moving light control
• Up to 3072 devices/channels and 6144 outputs/parameters
• 2 x DMX512 direct outputs, RDM ready
• Ethernet (Avab protocols, ETCNet2, Net3/ACN, ArtNet)
• USB memory stick
• Hard disk memory
• Show import via ASCII
• MIDI In/Out
• Contact closure triggers
• USB multipurpose bus (memory, pointing device)
• Audio In/Out
• Phone remote control

• Preset-style operation
• 400, 800, or 1200 channels, 1,536 dimmers
• Six pages of five moving light attribute encoders
• Mouse or trackball control
• 16-bit fades for moving light control
• Ten pages of 24 submasters
• 600 cues, 500 groups
• Rate and Level fader wheels
• Supports two VGA monitors
• Supports Dimmer Doubling™
• Supports ETCNet, ETCLink, MIDI, and SMPTE
• Expression 3 Console is UL approved, CE marked

Why do so many people pick Express?

It's due to the fact that Expression-line consoles come with the easy, smart operational style that Expression users swear by. And it's an economical console that can do virtually everything - professional lighting control and power in the reach of any budget. Its versatile combination of fader-familiar two-scene presets with sophisticated pushbutton programmability means it's accessible to anyone, especially those being initiated into the world of board operation. No learning curve here. Once you know Express, you're ready for Expression and Broadway-level lighting control.

Express uses Expression 3 software, giving your venue the moving light control and 16-bit resolution you'd only expect to find from a higher-end console.

And there are five different Express consoles to choose from - one to suit every venue's needs. Whether you're an academic institution, church, community theater, TV studio, or beyond - Express offers you total lighting-control value. Any Express console can be upgraded to part of an Emphasis Control System.

Express 24/48

• Preset-style operation
• 600 cues, 500 groups
• X/Y trackpad controller
• Moving Light Patch
• LTP Channels
• Preset Focus
• 16-bit fades
• Ten Pages of 24 submasters
• Two timed/manual fader pairs
• Supports a single VGA monitor
• Supports Dimmer Doubling™
• Supports ETCNet, ETCLink, and MIDI
• 96 Channels, 1,024 dimmers
• 24 channel two-scene operation
• 48 channel single-scene operation

• Preset-style operation
• 600 cues, 500 groups
• X/Y trackpad controller
• Moving Light Patch
• LTP Channels
• Preset Focus
• 16-bit fades
• Ten Pages of 24 submasters
• Two timed/manual fader pairs
• Supports a single VGA monitor
• Supports Dimmer Doubling™
• Supports ETCNet, ETCLink, and MIDI
• 96 Channels, 1,024 dimmers
• 48 channel two-scene operation
• 96 channel single-scene operation

• Preset-style operation
• 600 cues, 500 groups
• X/Y trackpad controller
• Moving Light Patch
• LTP Channels
• Preset Focus
• 16-bit fades
• Ten Pages of 24 submasters
• Two timed/manual fader pairs
• Supports a single VGA monitor
• Supports Dimmer Doubling™
• Supports ETCNet, ETCLink, and MIDI
• Express 125: 125 channels, Express 250: 250 channels
• 1,024 dimmers
• All Express Consoles are UL approved, and CE marked.

Way more than a two-scene preset board. A compact console with serious power under the hood. Take it to a gig or make it your back-up board in a DMX system. Smartfade gives you big ETC lighting control quality at a compact price. Easy to use, powerful to play with, including a rich special-feature set when you need it.

• 48 24-step sequences
• 99-step Stack sequence
• Manual or timed fades
• "Magic” button for random output
• "Snapshot” temporary memory storage
• Master fader and Black out button
• Bumps master, fader, and solo
• DMX in and DMX out
• MIDI in and MIDI out
• USB
• SD card slot
• English, French, German & Spanish LCD support
• CE compliant and UL tested