The award was presented to Orbital Sound's Richard Carter, part of the Nemesis design team, at a joint ceremony hosted by The Association of British Theatre Technicians and The Stage Management Association, at the end of the first day of the show.
Orbital MD Chris Headlam commented, "This is a great achievement for the team behind Nemesis - representing two years' research and development to create something that has long been missing in the theatre market. The objective is to remove the complexity and often random nature of computer playback systems - something that has plagued us all at some time! The Nemesis CCS-2 switcher, for example, is a real breakthrough.
"I honestly don't think there is anything else on the market to match it for its versatility and programmability, working with anything from QLab to CSC, SCS, SFX, Mac or PC. With regards to the ABTT award-winning Nemesis UMT-2D, it is a very clever passive box that solves some age-old problems. It is fantastic to receive industry recognition at Nemesis' very first debut - we are all delighted."
Designed to address the challenging requirements of the theatre and live entertainment environments, the Nemesis hardware range comprises the core components required to achieve seamlessly integrated performances with the ultimate degree of control.
At the heart of the Nemesis line-up is the highly flexible CCS-2 Computer Control Switch, designed to allow two computer systems to share a keyboard, mouse, monitor, distribution of GPI data and MIDI messages - providing an essential degree of system resilience and invisible audio transition, should a problem arise with the Mac or PC-based sound playback system, typically running QLab, CSC or similar playback software.
(Jim Evans)
