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UK - In March, Black Light turned two of Edinburgh's most famous landmarks yellow to help one of Britain's leading charities launch its most important annual fund-raising campaign.

To publicise the launch of Marie Curie Cancer Care's 2011 Great Daffodil Appeal, Black Light's events team lit the columns of the National Monument on Calton Hill and Queen Victoria's statue on the Royal Scottish Academy at the foot of the Mound. The assignment used Robe CitySkape 48's and highlighted Black Light's expertise at this kind of work, gained on projects such as Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations.

The Marie Curie illuminations generated a lot of publicity for its appeal, including a photograph in The Scotsman newspaper captioned 'Golden fun: Monument lit up for charity launch'.

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Finland - Michael Monroe, born as Matti Fagerholm in 1962 in Helsinki, is a Finnish rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who rose to fame as the vocalist for the glam punk band Hanoi Rocks. Monroe also served as the frontman for all-star projects such as Demolition 23. and Jerusalem Slim. During his Sensory Overdrive world tour 2011 Michael Monroe played two gigs in Helsinki's Tavastia Club.

Mikki Kunttu worked as lighting designer, programmer and operator for the shows with the assistance of his grandMA2 light. Kunttu commented, "I have my own grandMA2 console that I have not really used for rock concerts so far, as I've felt more comfortable with using series one console for these type of shows. Doing Michael Monroe on a grandMA2 has turned my head around completely.

"I think it's especially the positioning of executors and executor buttons, this simply a

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Highlighted on TMB's stand will be the DVI Parrot, the unique accessory for video professionals for which TMB is the exclusive global distributor. The product allows user-configurable EDID management, comes with Parrot Trainer software included (for Mac/Windows) and provides precise USB control and/or analysis of EDID settings.

A standard EDID library is supplied or, alternatively, the user can capture, edit or create their own EDID profiles from scratch. Profiles can then be permanently saved as computer files which can be copied, emailed, archived, etc. Libraries can be imported and exported to share and manage EDID settings. Multiple Parrots are supported for devices with multiple outputs. The product is dual-link DVI-I compatible for high bandwidth digital and analogue functionality, says TMB.

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - 40 thousand LED pixels on a ceiling!!! Indochine's whirlwind tour transports fans to another level of the live experience - immersing them from floor to ceiling with PixMob's X4 wristbands, and an LED ceiling made entirely of its NOVA Minis! With the vision of Indochine's creative team, PixMob used its LED fan-technology to turn attendees and venues into an ocean of effects, and a starry sky of LED magic. Très très cool!

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Robe UK will show the newly launched MMX Spot moving light, the new ROBIN 600 LEDWash and the ROBIN 600 Series of Spot, Wash and Beam luminaires.

The new ROBIN MMX Spot is the first in a new generation of 1200 Series fixtures offering a neater, smaller, lighter and brighter more energy efficient package. Using the innovative Phillips MSR Platinum 35 lamp combined with a sophisticated optical system, the MMX Spot is billed as "a true equivalent of any 1200W spotlight moving head on the market today". In some features, the MMX is as bright as a 1500W spotlight and simultaneously energy saving - consuming about 30% less power than the current 1200W products.

The super-slim ROBIN 600 LEDWash is Robe's fastest selling fixture in the last 10 years. It features 37 x 10 Watt RGBW multichip LEDs each individually controllable. These are arranged in 3 concentric rings designed for cr

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Christie has announced that PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011 will see the UK launch of Nitro Solutions, its new modular motorised moving yokes range which can provide up to 20,000 ANSI lumens of video projection, creating high brightness imagery on any surface from anywhere.

Christie Nitro Solutions now offer further motorised yoke options: a dual-arm yoke for larger video projectors ranging from 12,000 to 20,000 ANSI lumens, and a single-arm yoke for projectors ranging from 5,700 to 15,000 ANSI lumens.

The company says the modular approach of Nitro Solutions expands the effectiveness of the moving yoke platform by allowing the user to deploy the yoke with either a video projector or light head. Other features include DMX512 control and a quick lock attachment system for easy set up and take down.

The Christie MicroTiles will also feature on the stand, in relevant configurations. Christie M

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Exhibiting its growing range of stage lighting control products, Avolites will introduce the Sapphire Touch control console and preview Titan V5. Also in place will be

the Titan Mobile, a firm LD favourite since its production launch. The Sapphire Touch is targeted for full production launch from PLASA 2011 along with V6 of Avolites' signature Titan operating system. As the next generation in the Titan brand, it is equipped with the latest technology and numerous special features that make it fit for festivals, theatre and show touring. The Sapphire Touch, adds the company, harnesses the power of 45 motorised and automated faders, massive dual touch wide screens, tricolour tracker ball with Z axis control, plus the Avo 'Quicksketch' tool to create custom palettes.

Avolites' Sales Director Steve Warren says: "We're taking the largest Avolites team to demonstrate the new version 5

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Adam Hall will host the UK début of its newly developed Wave 28, a compact, active and modular 'all-in-one' PA and monitoring system...

Because no cables and stands are required, this 'plug-and-play' system is designed to be quickly and easily set up and dismantled. By combining a PA and monitoring system in one, Adam Hall aim to provide the same sound experience for both audience and musician.

Andrew Richardson, Managing Director of Adam Hall UK, comments: "With its outstanding features, the exciting new Wave 28 is sure to be a winning solution for all performers. It is extremely portable and given its amazing price, represents one of the most exciting products we have released to date."

Frequency-response-based 4.1 five-way amping results, adds the company, in a clear, dynamic and balanced sound throughout the system's frequency range. The array configuration is

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Highlite International BV (Dap Audio, DMT and Showtec Lighting) will be launching a range of new products at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2011, including four new luminaires from Showtec.

The Showtec Indigo 6500 is an LED moving spot head with a 120W LED chip light source, which the company says gives similar light output to a 400W discharge lamp. The fixture features two gobo wheels, two colour wheels (one fixed and one rotating and indexable, along with iris, rotating prism, shutter and strobe functions.

An LED RGB single colour wash light, the Showtec Expression 5500 employs 38 3W RGB LEDs, giving a tight 10 degree beam with fast smooth movement. The unit also offers Dim4 technology to provide a dimming curve like that of a halogen lamp, and includes pre-programmed colour temperatures.

The Expression 550's big brother, the Expression 33000 Zoom has a wide zoom function from 8 degree to 40

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LMC Audio Systems is to showcase - for the first time anywhere in the UK this year - a selection of speakers from Radian Audio.

On display will be the latest Apex NEO XD wedges from Radian, including the Apex NEO 1200XD & 1500XD. These two-way monitors use Radian high-powered Neodymium coaxial 12" & 15" speakers respectively, with 3"diaphragms and 2" exit compression drivers. Including new XD technology, LMC says the new monitors yield a very high quality frequency response, adding that they are designed for live and installed sound applications that require a high performance, portable monitor system solution.

In addition, a selection of Radian Audio diaphragms will be on display. Designed and manufactured to have equivalent or better performance than the original, state LMC, these diaphragms are available for a wide variety of JBL compression drivers.

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Sound Technology, the exclusive UK distributor of the Harman Pro brands in the UK and Eire, have announced they will be using the PLASA Focus exhibition to showcase the new Soundcraft Si Compact digital mixing consoles.

The stand (S-A11) will have multiple Si Compact consoles for visitors to experience with specialists from both Sound Technology and Soundcraft on hand to demonstrate the desks.

The Vi1 console, now well established in venues and the hire stock of the UK's leading PA rental companies, will also feature on the stand.

Positioned as the digital mixing solution for all sizes of sound company or user, the Si Compact Series brings all the experience of Soundcraft's digital mixing platforms to a very affordable price level for tour sound, corporate event, house of worship and theatre applications, amongst others.

With full DSP functionality built-in to a small-footprint c

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World - ETC has started the application process for its acclaimed LDI Student Sponsorship. Six students will be selected from around the world for the all expenses paid trip to LDI 2011 in Orlando, Florida, in October.

Final year undergraduates (ie, in the final year of their first degree) and postgraduates (those studying a master's or a PhD) studying lighting design, theatre technology or a related field are eligible to apply.

ETC has made it even easier to apply this year, putting the application online at www.etcconnect.com/LDI-2011. The form can be completed electronically, or printed and posted to ETC. The deadline to apply is 6 May.

The sponsorship is a great way to gain experience, see the inner workings of the lighting industry and do some networking. ETC covers the airfare, hotel accommodations, meals, conference passes, and will give you some exclusive swag.

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UK - Prolyte Products UK Limited (formerly Litestructures) has announced the appointment of Miles Marsden as head of UK sales. Formerly sales director and shareholder of Bradford based The Music Company, Marsden brings with him a raft of experience in all sectors of the entertainment business allied to an intuitive commercial approach.

One of his first tasks was to integrate a hugely increased product portfolio, and this was coordinated directly with support from the technical team at Prolyte Leek. Also joining at the turn of the year was Debbie Powell as a new and valued addition to the customer services team.

Following the merger of Prolyte Products and Litestructures in September 2010, the newly formed Prolyte UK Limited (based at the former Litestructures HQ in Wakefield) has been a hive of activity. The new company is designed specifically to manage and develop UK sales f

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UK - DiGiCo has appointed Ian Staddon as vice-president of sales. Staddon's lengthy tenure with the Harman Group included working for Soundcraft, and more recently as VP sales for Studer.

"In our industry, it's good to watch what others are doing," he says. "DiGiCo has always been an interesting company and, with the arrival of the SD Range and Stealth Digital Processing you really couldn't help but notice them.

"Since the introduction of the SD7, in late 2007, they have consistently launched products that meet the market's requirements. At PLASA 2010, the SD-Rack, with its phenomenal audio quality, multiple sample rates and hot swappable cards, combined with the SD7's ability to have dual processing engines, clearly indicated the direction the company was moving in."

"As DiGiCo has grown over the last few years, it was logical we would need to

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UK - Jands has announced that its entire range of Vista consoles are now shipping with version 2 of the software. After three years of intense development, extensive testing and finally, use on several major shows and events by beta-testers worldwide - including the opening ceremony of Turku, Finland as joint European Capital of Culture in 2011; the Fifth Gear Live Action Arena at the Autosport International 2011 show in Birmingham, UK; and the BURDA event at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE - the software is now factory-standard with new Vista consoles and available as a free upgrade to existing users.

Jands recently demonstrated the Vista v2 (code named 'Byron') at the 2010 PLASA and LDI trade shows, generating a huge amount of interest in the new capabilities the software brings to the revolutionary Vista console.

The Vista v2 will receive its official launch

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Germany - Prolight + Sound 2011 will see the launch of Proel's HPX, a series that is meant to offer high-end power amplifiers that combine quality, affordability and style.

The four models HPX 900, HPX1200, HPX2400, HPX2800 with output ranging from 900 W to 2800 W using power stages in Class AB and Class H and switching power supplies, maintain clarity and definition in the high frequency range and impressive dynamics in the low end, says the company.

All of these models are capable of providing their maximum rated power on a two-ohm load, making them a very convenient source of power in even the most demanding sound reinforcement applications.

Light-weight and easily manageable, the HPX series amplifiers offer practicality as one of their primary features. Their switching mode power supplies and efficient cooling systems make them particularly suited for use in compact and

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Germany - MADRIX V2.12 is the latest update for the LED lighting control software. Again, this is a free update for every user of MADRIX. The new MADRIX version 2.12 will be officially presented at Prolight+Sound 2011 this week.

With the new DVI Patch feature users can simply add rotation, flipping, and spacing to any DVI-based LED installation independently of the hardware controller. This is a substantial improvement over the current situation, says the company. Whereas DMX512 can be configured quite freely, DVI hardware controllers by themselves allowed only very static ways to position the DVI fixtures. In short, projects using the DVI signal can now be handled with the same ease that DMX fixtures offer.

MADRIX offers various possibilities of remote control. Two of which just have been widely improved for the user - DMX-IN and Art-Net Remote. Both are especially interestin

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Germany - Carlsbro is launching its new NlightN, NXT driven, flat panel sound reinforcement speakers at this year's Musikmesse. The result of a two year development project, which sees the new professional reinforcement panel speakers assembled at the company's Ningbo factory near Shanghai, the NlightN flat panel speakers offer " significant performance advantages in portable PA, AV installation, commercial audio and architectural applications".

NlightN flat panel speakers use six small, mathematically positioned exciters to generate bending waves across the entire surface of a stiff panel membrane. The exciters used in the NlightN speakers are based on conventional moving voice coils. The movement of the panel creates a diffuse soundfield that provides an unparalleled, immersive audio experience: the dispersion from an NlightN speaker is almost omnidirectional across

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Ukraine - Now available, the Lightconverse 3D Show Platform Release 51 continues to provide a powerful photo-realistic solution for integrating and visualizing multiple show related disciplines in real-time, including lighting, video (in and out), laser, pyro, water effects and moving objects.

Among the most anticipated features in this latest release of the ESTA Award-Winning (2009 & 2010) software are its highly accurate pixel-mapping capabilities for precise and realistic visualization of LED walls and other LED objects.

In addition to its long list of unique and powerful features, Release 51 also offers new solutions for common video projection problems with the 3D Mapping Engine and new 3D modes for use with 3D Glasses" to really blow your client away".

On the hardware side, the new Lightconverse Server-1536 and Server-Studio offer a formidable way to visualis

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UK - Artistic Licence Engineering is exhibiting a selection of its range of lighting control products at PLASA Focus. These include test equipment, data distribution and LED lighting which incorporate the protocols of DMX, RDM, Ethernet, Art-Net, DALI and MIDI.

Visitors to the stand (S-D13) can discover more about recent product releases including Multichrome-Flex, Flexed-Up and Two-Play XT, as well as Rail-DMX-DSI, LMX6, DMX-Buffer and the latest release, Rail-Pipe HC.

Artistic Licence Engineering Training Days, initiated and sponsored by Wayne Howell, are also being promoted. These have been developed with the intention of sharing the company's extensive knowledge of current control protocols with the industry at large. The courses cover topics such as DALI, Art-Net and Colour-Tramp, and aim to give an understanding of how each one works, how to get the best results and matt

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UK - Light Bureau has announced the recent completion of the first project with shoe retailer Kurt Geiger in the Portobello Road area of Notting Hill, London. The store includes over 500sq.ft of retail space and is designed to impart a sense of upmarket boutique. Glass shelves adorn mirrored walls whilst bespoke glass tables and consoles provide central display areas. This carefully selected pallet of finishes provides high reflection and affords continual views of merchandise throughout the store.

Tasked to provide architectural lighting consultancy for the store Light Bureau director Paul Nulty explains the philosophy behind the lighting solution, "We really wanted to maintain focus on merchandise, creating contrast between the vertical surfaces, display tables and circulation zone. The skill has been to control the light in the way we have. With so many mirrors it would

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Belarus - PR Lighting's Belarus distributors, FE Belimlight, needed to draw on almost their entire inventory of PR fixtures recently to meet an extravagant lighting design created by Siarhei Koltsov (from FE's production company, Blackout Studio).

The set was for a concert by Russian rock stars Vyacheslav Butusov and Jupiter in front of 7,000 people at the Minsk Sports Palace - and no fewer than 136 fixtures from the Chinese manufacturer were on duty. These were made up of 48 each of PR Lighting's XL 1500 Spot and Wash Lights and 20 each of the XL 700 Spot and Wash.

The 1500W short-arc discharge fixture is PR Lighting's most powerful head. Its power output and versatility are enhanced by the high quality, super efficient optical system making them among the brightest projectors in the market.

Blackout Studio have a long-standing relationship with the artist's management, and

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