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Tea With grandMA at White Light
White Light and The Moving Light Company held a successful open day recently introducing electricians, programmers and lighting designers to the grandMA range of consoles.
On Wednesday 28th April, White Light and The Moving Light Company plus a selection of guests took part in something of an English tradition: afternoon tea with grandma. In fact, not just tea, but tea, sandwiches, cakes and other snacks. And not just one grandMA, but most of MA Lighting's grandMA range of lighting consoles.
"The grandMA range has been on our 'radar' for some time now," comments White Light's technical director, Dave Isherwood, "having proved itself on a range of rock-and-roll and corporate projects for others over the last few years. Having now supplied two systems to theatrical productions - Thoroughly Modern Millie in London and Mamma Mia in Holland - we found that many of our regular customers were asking about the console. We decided that the easiest way to let them find out more was to set up the consoles here and let people play with them, with our staff and those who look after the console for AC Lighting, its distributor, here to answer questions."
To demonstrate that grandMA is now a versatile family of consoles rather than just one product, Glyn O'Donoghue and Neil Vann from AC Lighting set up a networked system of consoles at White Light. These included the full-size grandMA console with its three colour touch screens and motorised faders, the compact grandMA Light console, and PCs running both the grandMA off-line software and grandMA 3D, the freely downloadable 3D visualisation software that fully integrates with the consoles. The networked system allowed visitors to explore consoles individually or to try the multi-user set-ups where multiple operators can use multiple consoles to divide the workload when programming a large lighting rig before returning control to a single console for show running. The consoles were running the latest release of grandMA software - version 5 - which adds some functionality theatre users have been requesting, particularly the ability to load parts of a show rather than just whole shows.
"The afternoon was a success," said White Light's general manager Bryan Raven. Visitors took time to explore the consoles in some depth between drinking tea and eating cake! All seemed impressed with the
console and, particularly, the new features that MA Lighting have been adding in response to user requests. We suspect that we may be seeing grandMA consoles on more shows before too long..."
Further information about the grandMA range can be found at MA Lighting's website, http://www.malighting.com.
Further information about White Light and The Moving Light Company can be found at http://www.whitelight.ltd.uk.
13th May 2004
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