D-PRO, a short way of saying DMXIS-PRO, was born out of the successful collaboration between ENTTEC and db Audioware on DMXIS, the 2009 ESTA Rock Our World Award-winning lighting control product.
"D-PRO is comparably easy to use, but it also contains the features that lighting professionals demand from their day-to-day tool kits," said Jeremy Kumin, general manager of ENTTEC Americas, LLC.
A version of D-PRO is immediately available for the Datagate MK2 - ENTTEC's powerful, simplified Ethernet-DMX networking tool - and soon on a new standalone USB-based product.
The D-PRO software has an intuitive graphical user interface that transforms your computer into a lighting console with the use of a mouse, in command-line mode or with a touch screen. Using an app like iDisplay, D-PRO's Show Control window can run on an iPad.
It supports virtually unlimited cues, palettes and groups, a multi-layered cuelist playback engine, scripting and effects. D-PRO works natively in both Mac and Windows environments and has some novel features, including a Device Browser that creates live visual feedback with renderings of beams to show dimmers, color values and mover positions. The audio track on a timeline allows users to drag and drop audio files for synchronized audio playback alongside the cuelist.
D-PRO will support all manner of different ENTTEC hardware for input and output, be they wings, DMX to USB nodes, or devices such as the ODE and the Datagate MK2, which use Art-Net.
(Jim Evans)
