Marquee ILC with Horizon

Robert Bell was showing the new Marquee ILC (Intelligent Lighting Control) console, which received a good reception on the ET stand. The Marquee line - consisting of the 24/48, 48/96 and now the ILC - brings a theatre-friendly hardware interface to the power of the Horizon lighting control software which has previously found favour in architectural and worship markets. ILC features four attribute encoders, a dedicated level wheel and 14 pageable hardware playbacks. Many visitors made positive comments on the 'Century Array' - a panel of 100 buttons for fixture selection that serves as group and palette select: usually a feature of more expensive consoles, this is an inexpensive add-on option to ILC.

ILC also features what ET call a 'Flat' fixture model, presenting all moving lights (of whatever make or model) to the user in the same way, e.g. strobe values are shown in hertz and gobo rotation speeds are represented in RPM, rather than as DMX values - allowing for easy copying of attributes between different fixture types. ILC goes into beta test early in 2004.

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