UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies, an authorised UK distributor for German Lighting Products (GLP), has added the new Impression XL 5-colour version and Volkslicht LED models to its line-up of the innovative moving heads range.

A variation of the original Impression XL model, which utilises 240 K2 LEDs to deliver high light output and brilliant colour performance, the new 'RGBWW' version features five colours rather than the previous three. Adding to the red, green and blue diodes are two circuits of white - one rated at 3200K and the other at 7200K.

Adding two white channels to the existing RGB format gives designers more shades of colour than was achievable before, particularly with pastel ranges, and the ability to use single white LEDs for powerful and clean open white beams.

Also new is the Volkslicht fixture, which brings affordability without compromise to those wa

USA - Audio-Technica has announced updates to its 3000 Series Frequency-agile True Diversity UHF Wireless Systems. Now offering up to 1001 selectable UHF frequencies in 25kHz spacing in three available frequency bands (including the US's new I Band), Audio-Technica's upgraded 3000 Series delivers outstanding professional performance. Nine new pre-coordinated frequency scan groups simplify selection of usable frequencies in a multi-channel wireless system, the company says.

The UniPak body-pack transmitter features a backlit screen for easy reading in low-light situations and a locking battery door for added security. A three-position sliding cover on the transmitter's control panel prevents accidental shutoff or channel-switching.

The 3000 Series is available with either a dynamic or condenser handheld transmitter featuring robust metal construction and slim ergonomic design.

The Netherlands - Alcons reports another very successful participation in the ISE show. This year's highlights on the Alcons stand were the CRMS three-way reference cinema sound system and the LR7 micro pro-ribbon line-array system.

As a result of the increasing interest in Alcons pro-ribbon sound systems for sound-for-picture applications, Alcons Audio showed the CRMS system. The Cinema Ribbon Monitor System is a reference-quality sound reproduction system, with fully matched loudspeaker, processing and amplifier components.

The three-way reference system is designed for A/V projects, high quality screening rooms, post-production rooms and high quality home theatre installations.

The LR7 micro pro-ribbon line-array saw its first appearance at ISE in final finished mode, including the LR7B micro line-array bass.

Alcons MD Tom Back comments: "Again, the ISE show was ab

UK - LED specialists i-Pix has developed a new four and six lamp Power Bar, to which it's new BB1 LED fixtures can be fitted.

This is suitable for all types of portable applications from film & TV shoots and location work to small stages live concerts and performances, site-specific theatre, exhibitions and conferences.

The BB1 is a sealed, low voltage, self-contained fixture, requiring only power and data, offering completely homogenised optics for the smoothest of output and available in either 20 or 35 degree beam angles. Its powerful customised RGB LED light engine has iextensive colour mixing capabilities including the effortless sourcing of tungsten and daylight colour temperatures. The BB1 is fully RDM/DMX enabled, with remote address mode and detailed fixture feedback.

The Power Bar provides low voltage to the BB1 and is equipped with an onboard user interface. This

Germany - The upcoming ProLight+Sound Show in Frankfurt sees the world premiere of Camco's new V8 high-performance Class H amplifer, delivering 8800 Watts of power whether in two Ohm or four Ohm mode. The first of three planned additions to the celebrated Camco Vortex Series, the V8 shows off a new design aesthetic and streamlined user interface, says the company.

There are no control knobs or switches, front or back. In this new format, the control of all parameters is via screen display and gain sliders.

"The new V8 is much beefier than its distinguished stablemate the Vortex 6, because the industry across-the-board is asking for more power from its amplifiers," explains Camco international sales director Mick Anderson. "This unit will give you 4400 watts of peak power per channel whether you use two Ohm or four Ohm mode; being able to sustain the same power o

Germany - The Madrix 2.8 will be officially launched at Prolight + Sound 2010. The upcoming version of the LED control software includes many new features.

Two fresh and creative effects called SCE Metaballs and SCE Drops as well as the much-improved Sound2Light effect S2L Equalizer extend the possibilities. In addition, reorganizing effects by using drag & drop is now possible.

Combining effects has been enhanced by adding new features to layers, such as Copy, Paste, and Insert. The Patch was completely rebuilt and is as user-friendly and fast as never before, says the company.

(Jim Evans)

The Netherlands - Alcons has introduced a reference-quality sound reproduction system with fully matched loudspeaker, processing and amplifier components. It is designed to offer the most realistic (surround) sound-for-picture reproduction possible, making it the ideal choice for high-end home theatre theatres, Digital Cinema mix/screening rooms, post-production facilities, dubbing stages and quality-conscious cinemas with less than 100 seats or room depth less than 15m/45ft.

The CRMS, Cinema Ribbon Monitor System is a hybrid three-way main- /two-way surround-system.

Each system consists of a separate mid-high frequency (MHF) section, featuring one RBN401 pro-ribbon driver HF with non-vented 8" MF and a low frequency 15" (LF) section, with low power-compression 4" voice-coil.

The MHF section is specifically designed to act both as MHF section for the main/fron

Germany - This year's ProLight&Sound show will see GDS (Global Design Solutions) add a number of new, innovative products to its portfolio, including additions to its successful LiteWare and CueSystem ranges.

GDS will showcase the newest addition to the LiteWare range, LiteWare HO (High Output). Following the success of LiteWare wireless RGB uplighter, launched in 2009, LiteWare HO is a high output version offering 80Watts of LED power. Designed to be completely compatible with the existing LiteWare range, the LiteWare HO product is the same footprint as the standard version and is calibrated to deliver colour-matched output.

Andy Duffield, European sales manager, GDS commented: "LiteWare has achieved enormous success since its launch in February 2009, with over 20 of the leading live events companies in the UK holding inventory and many more units sold worldwide. Buildin

The Netherlands - Optical screen manufacturers, dnp Denmark, reports an overwhelming response to their portfolio of displays at the recent ISE 2010 in Amsterdam, where German distributors, COMM-TEC and Paradigm AV from the UK demonstrated their technology.

Global sales manager, S°ren Kraemmergaard, described the decision to allow their key resellers to represent the company's range in their own specialist sectors as a complete success. "We noticed the favourable response, not only at these booths but also those of OEM partners such as Christie and Eyevis," he said.

Kraemmergaard added that although the general traffic appeared reduced this year, dnp were excited by the quality of visitor, and the potential of the follow-ups that this has generated.

While the market was clearly getting more competitive, dnp seemed largely unaffected. "Generally we saw more

The Netherlands - DMi D&M Installation (Europe) reports record visitor numbers and business activity at this year's Integrated Systems Europe exhibition. With the DMi stand inundated with visitors on all three days of the show, the dedicated D&M CI distribution channel signed up a record number of new installers to its accreditation and training programmes.

A major incentive in attracting new installers to DMi was the new Escient Zone product offerings, enabling the streaming and playout of HD video, and the bidirectional control integration of leading Blu-ray players, universal disc players and AV receivers from Denon and Marantz.

DMi brand director, Bert Kiggen, commented: "It has been a very successful show for us with plenty of new installers and distributors signing up for DMi 'membership' and training. Feedback from installers was especially positive to our offering

Germany - Italian loudspeaker manufacturer dBTechnologies is ensuring it has a strong presence at this year's Pro Light & Sound exhibition with 780sq.m of booth space to showcase its many new products and multi-media updates to be beamed from MesseFrankfurt around the world during the four-day event.

The considerably larger booth is in a new location in Hall 8, G70 where dBTechnologies, together with cousin brands RCF and recently acquired SGM Lighting will be launching an array of new products from under the RCF Group umbrella.

dBTechnologies will also be uploading daily video blogs to their newly designed website, featuring news and product information direct from the stand. "We want all clients, distributors and dealers to be fully informed. Whether they can't be at the show, or are tied up with other responsibilities, it's important that they don't miss anything,"

UK - Waves Audio has announced the upcoming release of its SoundGrid technology which gives users the ability to run large numbers of Waves' audio processors using standard PCs via Ethernet.

SoundGrid offers super low latency performance, which means users can take advantage of even more audio processors and CPU-intensive processors than ever before, says the company. Waves says it is leveraging the recent advances in both Ethernet and CPU technologies to provide better, more cost-effective performance for the pro audio and live sound markets.

(Jim Evans)

Germany - Allen & Heath, will be showing a cross-section of its latest products at the forthcoming ProLight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt.

A highlight on the stand will be the newly launched iDR-16 3U MixRack and iLive-R72 rackmountable control surface, which together provide a space saving, lightweight digital live mixing system, bringing the same power, sonic performance and flexibility of the larger touring iLive systems to a significantly lower price point. The company will also be demonstrating new features in the latest version of its iLive software v1.6.

Allen & Heath will also be launching a new club installation product, the Xone:PB. The Xone patchbay is a 1U rack size, passive interface box, designed to simplify the task of connecting encoded vinyl replay systems to installed mixers, without the need to re-patch.

Also from the Xone DJ range, A&H will be launching

Germany - Ateis International will address a problem that has long plagued teleconferencing with its latest product showcased at ProLight + Sound, Frankfurt next month.

The ECS-Teleconference unit is an echo cancellation system (ESC) that is designed to produce clear audio for teleconferences, with no delays or doubletalk.

At the heart of the system is a digital signal processor using Dynamic Automatic Echo Cancellation, based on a wideband acoustic echo cancelling algorithm developed by Ateis' R&D department.

This technology enables the ECS to produce natural, full duplex speech with a bandwidth of 20Hz to 27kHz, which brings benefits during conversations involving large numbers of people.

The ECS range currently comprises eight units, which provide a range of tools for producing clear, successful teleconferences. The system features integrated compressor-limiters, equali

Japan / Europe - Yamaha's ongoing programme of software updates to its digital audio products continues, with February seeing the launch of the M7CL V3 upgrade. Available as a free download from the Yamaha web site, the V3 operating system adds several features requested by M7CL users.

Direct Sends on Fader access from the mix send encoders in Sends on Fader mode gives the operator more options for a smoother, more efficient workflow and frees up the console's user-defined controls to be used for other functions.

Another key development is that Sends on Fader functionality in the M7CL V3 Editor software now provides remote, console-independent Sends on Fader operation. This means that, for example, an engineer can make stage monitor adjustments from a tablet PC while standing on stage.

Further enhancing the M7CL's setup flexibility and control, additional Recall Safe functio

Israel - Waves has launched a mini-YGDAI interface card which will allow users of Yamaha digital mixing consoles to process up to 32 channels of audio with Waves plug-ins, via the company's proprietary SoundGrid Server system.

With SoundGrid bringing the worlds of studio and live sound closer than ever before, the introduction of the WSG-Y16 sees Waves bringing the networking and processing capabilities of SoundGrid functionality to the live sound realm for the first time.

Announced at the Winter NAMM show in January, the WSG-Y16 card will be available from mid-March and follows on from the existing Waves Y96K, eight in eight out, plug-in DSP card for Yamaha digital consoles.

Using a SoundGrid-compatible PC as the plug-in host and Ethernet connectivity, the system allows users to run large numbers of Waves plug-ins with ultra-low latency. The WSG-Y16 card allows users of Yam

UK - Artistic Licence reports a very successful experience exhibiting at the ARC 2010 show at Earls Court earlier this month and has already booked its place to return to the event in 2011.

Artistic Licence managing director Simon Hobday, says, "We laid our stand out to illustrate some of the key technology prevalent in today's lighting control market and reflected this concept in our new Technical Focus brochure.

"Technologies covered included DALI & DMX, RDM & Art-Net, Colour-Tramp and Interfacing solutions. DALI is a relatively new protocol and there are a lot of technical complications surrounding it as people get to grips with how it works. Our Technical Focus brochure gives more information about DALI and how to avoid common pitfalls when using it, and our customers say the brochure has already proved a useful tool.

"The show proved to us that the

Germany - When Meyer Sound returns to ProLight&Sound this March, a new self-powered loudspeaker will be unveiled with features that will attract installation, corporate AV, and theatre professionals, says the company. Meyer Sound will also show off two recently debuted loudspeaker products, the CAL steerable column array loudspeaker and the JM-1P arrayable loudspeaker, along with an expanding line of low-voltage installation solutions.

At the AVnu Alliance panel on 26 March, Meyer Sound digital products executive director John McMahon and other industry heavyweights will discuss the emerging AVB audio/video bridging networking standards. The D-Mitri digital audio platform - the first Meyer Sound product to leverage the AVB technology - will be featured on the booth. Attendees can also learn more about D-Mitri at the Manufacturers' Forum on 24 March and the CAL steerable column a

UK / Germany - Power amplifier specialist Chevin Research returns to the ProLight&Sound show in Frankfurt this year with a renewed focus on its sales and marketing efforts and with some new additions to their product range.With all international sales and marketing now handled by Andy Simmons at Audio Marketing Services, Chevin is looking at reinforcing their distribution network in preparation for the new products and technologies that will be introduced through the coming year. Martin Clinch, MD at Chevin Research, commented: "With the product plans that we have for this year we needed to 'up' our game on the sales and marketing front and Andy was the perfect fit. He brings his experience of the pro audio market to Chevin which is invaluable to us and we look forward to an exciting year."On the product front the Frankfurt show will see updates to the well known Q Serie

USA / Germany - Chauvet will bring five new products for production as well as clubs and DJs to ProLight&Sound in Frankfurt next month.

The COLORado 1 Tour is designed for touring professionals, features RGBW colour mixing from 42 1W LEDs. Colour temperature presets range from 3,200 K to 10,000 K. It responds to three, four, five, six or 11 channels of DMX control. Five distinct dimming curves provide smooth dimming to closely match conventional sources. PowerCon connectors as well as direct DMX in and out provide faster and easier connections.

The COLORado 2 Tour, also directed at touring professionals, boasts more and higher powered LEDs (48 2W and 3-watt RGBW LEDs with 15° or optional 30° lenses) than the COLORado 1 Tour, while offering the same improved dimming capability.

The COLORado Batten 72 Tour is a 39-inch long linear wash fixture equipped with 72 1W RGBWA

USA - Zinman Software has announced the release of PocketLD v2.0 which allows lighting professionals in theatre, film and TV to calculate the FC/LUX and beam/field Diameters for over 2000 fixtures and lamps.

V2.0 adds the functionality for users to edit the existing library, create their own fixtures and organize these fixtures into an improved Favorites List. New fixtures included in the library include Dedolight, K5600 and Kobold.

Developer Michael Zinman says: "This is our most ambitious update for PocketLD since it was released two years ago. I'm so happy with these changes and I'm confident our world-wide user base will find the new functions a great add."

(Jim Evans)

Germany - At Frankfurt this year, Trantec's focus will be on the Channel 38 ready, S6 wireless system which builds on the success of the S6000 range, taking the 19", 8-way concept to a higher level. Trantec has now incorporated a comprehensive user interface on the front panel allowing the user to configure and monitor all channels, with or without an external PC. The internal circuitry of the S6 beltpack and handheld transmitter has been redesigned and upgraded, extending the frequency capability to a massive 80MHz.

Trantec will also be exhibiting S-D7000 - the world's first professional fully digital wireless microphone system that is already in use at GMTV for their presenters and guests. Features include 24 bit audio resolution, network monitoring for over 60 channels, and users can now benefit from over 20 user channels in an 8MHz TV band.

Other products on show incl

USA / Germany - At the forthcoming ProLight&Sound exhibition (Frankfurt, 23-27 March) Furman will show its latest technologies for voltage regulation, power protection, and AC noise filtration for musicians and AV professionals.Furman's 'P-6900 AR E' and 'P-1400 AR E' utilise Furman's exclusive True RMS Voltage Regulation Technology to provide stable voltage to connected equipment, along with the company's Series Multi-Stage Protection (SMP), automatic Extreme Voltage Shutdown (EVS), and Linear Filtering (LiFT) technologies. Both models provide stable voltage output (selectable between 230V and 240V) at 6A (P-1400 AR E) or 30A (P-6900 AR E) capacity. Furman's True RMS Voltage Regulation Technology utilises an ultra-low-noise, microprocessor-controlled eight-tap toroidal autoformer. This, Furman says, assures quiet operation for critical listening and recording applications, with m

UK - Boasting the same form factor as Denon's twin CD controllers for mobile DJs, the new Denon DN-HC5000 is billed as the world's first professional controller for Serato ITCH(TM). The DN-HC5000 provides the same control and performance capabilities as the company's long time market leading twin DJCD systems, with dedicated hardware control of Serato's leading DJ software for digital music files.

The DN-HC5000 is a turnkey digital DJ system; an integrated hardware / software solution, designed to give mobile DJs ultimate control of MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF digital music libraries. Connection to a PC or Mac with a single USB cable, provides full control of digital music files from the included Serato ITCH software which is quickly and easily installed.

The control layout of the DN-HC5000S is immediately familiar to anyone who has ever used Denon's twin DJCD controllers.

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