Patrick Woolcocks, European sales manager for Smart AV, commented: "We chose For-Tune not only for its reputation and knowledge of the market and technology, but also for the company's great energy and enthusiasm. I am very pleased to be working with For-Tune."
The Smart Console is the first audio control surface incorporating patented ARC technology, which uses a physical arc located above the controls and within arm's reach of the sound engineer to represent all the channels on a traditional long console. With a simple touch of the arc at any location, the desired channel and the channels surrounding it immediately appear in front of the sound engineer, as though he or she had instantaneously moved in front of those channels on a traditional long console. With this single touch, 800 previously out-of-reach controls snap to within reach. Even the hand-written channel description is transferred to the digital scribble strip in front of the user. Alternatively, the sound engineer can access individual channels in any order as easily and as quickly as a musical director can point to his players. The Smart Console is the first audio console design to reduce both the number of knobs on a panel and the number of actions required in order to gain access to out-of-reach controls.
Smart AV's development and management teams boast more than 100 years of cumulative, award-winning experience designing consoles for some of the world's most famous products, producing sound for many first-run films and recording and mixing some of the world's best-known hit music. Individual members of Smart AV's design team have earned a host of industry awards, including a Technical Oscar in 2004 and an Australian Design award in 2002.
(Lee Baldock)
