Alongside the main display, a second touch screen provides an additional workspace window, also labelling the adjacent macro buttons and rotary pots. These fully assignable playback encoder pots allow intuitive control of channels and effects. The six LCD screens display electronic legends for 30 faders, for speedy access to all your playbacks, fixtures and palettes.
A new optical output means the Arena is equipped for fibre connections, with no signal loss over long distances, from front of house to the stage - essential in large and outdoor venues. Offering seamless multi user compatibility, the Arena can be used as master, back-up or extra programming surface, considerably cutting programming time by allowing multiple Titan programmers to work simultaneously, before the main console takes charge.
Arena is capable of processing 16 DMX universes, with eight physical DMX outputs, and this can be further expanded with Titan Net Processors for up to 64 universes.
Both the new Arena and Quartz consoles offer MIDI in and headphone out on the console as well as a 7-band Audio Trigger functionality.
Avolites' MD Steve Warren and sales director Koy Neminathan will officially introduce the Arena console on the Avolites stand on Wednesday 15 April at 3pm. It will also be on-stand throughout the show for hands-on demos.
Arena will be running the 'hot-off-the-press' Titan V9 software, which includes a multitude of new features.
Steve Warren comments: "The Avolites Arena has created much excitement and received excited reviews from our targeted lighting designer focus group. Arena takes Avolites' live control to even higher levels, following on from industry successes and milestones like the Pearl and Expert consoles. Arena guarantees that Lighting Designers are given all the live control that they need and deserve. We are all looking forward to showing the Arena's awesome capabilities off at Frankfurt."
(Jim Evans)
