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Spain - The Gran Casino Aranjuez, 40km south of the Spanish capital Madrid, is the latest venture by Spain's leading casino operator Comar. Situated at the heart of a huge residential and leisure development, the casino is, its operator boasts, one of the finest in Europe.

The main contractor for the entertainment aspects of the venue was Stonex, one of Spain's leading specialists in the field. Given equal footing with construction company Ferrovial and architectural specialist Sigarci, Stonex completed the entire €3million contract in just four-and-a-half months, under the guidance of joint project managers Carlos Garcia-Diéguez and Javier Latorre.

Stonex's involvement included interior and exterior lighting, audio, electrical installation and stage engineering. The mai

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Harlequin Floors showed Hi-Shine, its high-gloss, wet-look floor for various applications, especially those that require quick load-ins and breakdowns.

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Ocean Optics showed its Sea Changer, which adds CMY to any ETC Source Four. Its patented "extreme green" filter technology, which allows for deeper reds, greens, and blues than traditional CYM, drew much attention.
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Mexico - Ricky Martin's new album, "Life," features collaborations with some of today's hottest producers, including George Noriega, Danny Lopez, Sean Garrett, will.i.am, and The Matrix, and the opening dates of his month-long tour of Mexico, Central and South America in support of the album have garnered rave reviews.

Martin recently stopped at the Arena Monterrey in Mexico's Nuevo Leon region, a 17,500-seat arena that plays host to over 150 sporting and cultural events annually. The venue is known for high-quality sound, courtesy of its Meyer Sound system, which is built around MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers Additional audio gear and assistance was provided by three of the country's leading rental companies, Musica Moderna, Audio Concepto and Azprotek.

The system's main cluster is comprised of 16 MILO cabinets and two MILO 120 high-power expanded co

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UK - Pioneer GB has unveiled its new compact 2-channel mixer, the DJM-400, which offers a host of beat effects and an in-loop sampler that offers a new level of flair for creative remixing. Built around the same digital processing technology and components used in Pioneer's DJM-1000, the new unit is "a reliable and robust performer with exceptional audio quality" say the company.

Although the smallest mixer in Pioneer's range, the DJM-400 packs a wide variety of effects for creative mixing. The effects, which automatically detect the BPM and sync' to the beats, include Delay, Echo, Filter, Flanger, Phaser, Robot and Roll, all of which are processed at 24bits. In addition, by using the newly-adopted Beat Select Button, the DJM-400 automatically sets the effect time linked to the BPM for more intuitive play and responsive remixing, say Pioneer.

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Video content creators Blue Pony Digital, an offshoot of Apollo Design, promoted V2 of its website, which will include both the ability to purchase and download clips and support additional formats and content loops.

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High End Systems' newly debuted Studio Command wash fixture - a moving version of the Color Command dichroic colour-mixing fixture - drew large crowds. Making its official debut was the new Catalyst V4, with full support for high-definition (HD) content and LED fixtures, as well as a new GUI and a stand-alone playback option.

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Sharing a stand with A.C.T Lighting was MA Lighting, showing the release version of its media server for the grandMA console - grandMA Video. A reasonably priced product that uses standard PC hardware, it has support for four USB camera inputs and blind programming. grandMA Video also shares content details with any connected grandMA console.

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Compulite's Yehuda Shukrun explained that the latest Vector Orange control console, launched successfully (with orders taken) at PLASA in London in September, has completed the Vector range, which now includes the Red, Blue, Green, Orange (or 'Lite') and a playback wing - offering a flexible, expandable suite of control options. The company will now concentrate on complementing the range with accessories, such as nodes and additional universes. The Vector Orange, the compact console in the range, offers control of four DMX512 universes (2048 attributes).

Also on show was the company's lower-cost Dlite range of consoles. Shukrun said that Compulite now has around 20 different consoles in full production, including the Vector, Dlite, 4D and Spark products, and stressed the importance that the company places on developing products that will be expandable and offer value for money to the p

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Klark Teknik made one of the only high-profile product launches of the show with the introduction of its Square One range of processors, which aims to bring the renowned KT audio quality at a lower price point to a whole new user base. Dave Wiggins explained that the more accessible pricing has been achieved by stripping back on features - not quality.

Featured in our last issue's New Technology pages, the range consists of the Square One graphic equaliser and the Square One dynamics. The graphic features 45mm faders with integral dust guards; signal present and clip LED indicators; fully balanced inputs and outputs; relay activated bypass; PROportional Q filters; high pass and low pass filters; universal power supply and a rugged 3U steel chassis.

Also from KT was Show Command, a new, integrated system of hardware, software and Ethernet technology offering full control of audio syst

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Design and Drafting showed the latest version of its award-winning LD Assistant software, which allows you to quickly create comprehensive lighting, sound, and video plots in 2D and 3D and now has an advanced visual library.

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The main news at the show from Goboland, the Belgian gobo specialist, was that its recently established London office now has a familiar British face at its helm - that of Vicky Fairall, until recently of DHA Lighting. Fairall said she was relishing the opportunity that Goboland presented.

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The atmosphere on the stand of Czech manufacturer Robe Show Lighting was upbeat, not just with their presence at the LDI show, but with the general level of acceptance its products have achieved, both in the US and globally. Harry Von Den Stemmen was very pleased to report that designers were now coming onto the company's booth especially to talk about Robe's fixtures as serious lighting tools - demonstrating a gratifying awareness and acceptance of the company's products in the marketplace.

The main new product focus at LDI was the LEDBlinder148, which was launched at PLASA in September. The LEDBlinder 196 and 148 units are Robe's first LED-based products aimed at entertainment applications. Fitted into industry-standard 8-lite and 4-lite casings, they bring the advantages of LED technology to an old stage lighting mainstay. Each two or four pairs of the 4- or 8-lite modules are separ

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The award-winner at Altman Lighting was the Smart Track lighting system, a three-circuit track with DMX control built in. It allows the user to control Altman's Smart IQseries luminaires without cabling and remote dimmers, and mix and match source types on this track, even on the same circuit. With its DMX Adapter, you can break out DMX for controlling automated lights and other DMX-based lighting products. Also, the ODEC outdoor framing projector is a 70/150W CDM unit with 15-35° zoom focus, framing shutters, and glass/steel gobo capabilities.

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Cast Lighting's Real World Scenery System hopes to do for automated scenery programming what WYSIWYG has done for moving light programming. Also, with a direct WYSIWYG connection to UK company Green Hippo's Hippotizer media software already working and video input via a capture card, Cast is tackling the challenges of media servers.

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Special effects innovator CITC showed the Santa Snow Machine; the Polar Controller, for low-ground fog; a new bubble machine, The Bubble Monster; and the Star Hazer II haze machine.

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Strand Lighting picked up the Lighting Product of the Year Award for its C21 sine wave dimming module. The C21 brings the ability to install ninety-six 2.4kW sine wave dimmers in one single rack. Users can also mix sinewave and conventional dimmers within the same rack, while a new Quad dimmer module allows SCR-based systems to achieve a density of 192 dimmers in a single rack. The new dimming system is fully networkable, and features a 16/32-bit RISC main processor running embedded Linux, an integrated Ethernet port, and Web-based configuration and dimmer status-reporting system. The first all-sinewave installation is at the Nashville Symphony Hall, where 1,000 C21 modules have been installed.

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Italy - Datemi Tre Caravelle, an extravagant musical inspired by the life of Genovese explorer and mariner, Christopher Columbus, is an ambitious and accomplished production from Oscar award-winning designer Gianni Quaranta. Starring Alessandro Preziosi and Niki Nicolai with music by acclaimed Italian Bluenote jazz musician, Stefano Di Battista.

The production has made a spectacular debut in Italy where it is currently playing all major Italian cities before heading to New York and Broadway in October. Italian rental company and theatre specialists, Fox Sound Service, furnished all the audio and lighting equipment for the show, including an InnovaSON Sy48 compact digital console for monitoring requirements.

The show actually started with an analogue console on monitors, but for a number of reasons the decision was made to move over to digital. Monitor engineer Stefano del Vecc

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USA - The American DJ Group of Companies has announced the appointment of Eric Loader to director of sales for its Elation Professional and Acclaim Lighting divisions. A 20-year lighting industry veteran, Loader joins the American DJ Group after spending more than a decade at Martin Professional Inc, where he most recently held the position of vice-president of sales and marketing.

In addition to his two decades with lighting manufacturers, Loader worked as a DJ in high school and college, giving him hands-on experience as an end-user of the products. "There are few people who have such vast knowledge and experience in all phases of the lighting business as Eric Loader," says Scott Davies, general manager of the American DJ Group of Companies. "We are honored and delighted to welcome Eric on board, and we believe he will be a terrific asset to our company."

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Close cooperation between theatre specialist Orbital Sound and the California-based live team at Digidesign has ensured that the Venue digitalconsole was up to the task on its first UK provincial theatre tour with the Irving Berlin musical,Annie Get Your Gun.

Sound designer Gareth Owen, and FOH engineer HannahReymes-Cole (pictured above), have now selected the Venue foruse on Footloose and Anything Goes, touring from January 2006.

Orbital have pushed the limits of Venue's snapshot and MIDI capability, for the Annie Get Your Gun production (based on the1999 Tony Award winning Broadway production).

The tour has also seen the first use of Digidesign's new Personal Q system, with all eight pit musicians being given the facility to fine tune their individual monitor mixes, using PQ Controllers.

Each PQ mix comprises 12 fully adjustable sources, with

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Wybron announced the implementation of Remote Device Management (RDM) into a number of products. The company is adding the LX nomenclature to all RDM-compatible products. Also shown was the Dogbone interface, which makes non-RDM compatible products RDM-compatible by plugging it into the DMX512 port of the product. Then there's the BP-2 beam luminaire, which the company says produces an intense soft-edge, narrow (10°) beam of light several times more intense than an ordinary spotlight of similar wattage.
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