In This Issue

New Products: DMXIS 1.1, Clips and Cables

Case Study: BBC Cambridge

Case Study: 110 Tower

Look for us at USITT : Lighting Software Pavilion

Editor's Note

Is it just me or did they make February even shorter since it's not a leap year? I'm fairly certain one or two days on the calendar must have slipped out the back door when I wasn't looking. There's no other way to account for how fast it's gone by. Could it be the strangeness of the latitude I've been visiting, compared to home? I thought I was used to it here, I grew up in this place. South Florida is where I have been touring our dealers during the week building up to the newsletter release. But there's a disorientation I'm feeling because it's all different, even if the names of the roads are the same.

Well, that's a theme -- everything old is new again. We have new accessories to tell you about for the Aleph Strips, and a new version of DMXIS that's close to launching, so we'll preview it for you in our New Products page.

Speaking of the Aleph Strips, we have a case study for you that's actually a story about the news , which takes us to Cambridge, England.

It was long ago, but that town's name is derived from a bridge over the River Cam. And then recently I had lunch on the banks of the New River, in Ft. Lauderdale, and interviewed John DiDomenico of MPS Light and Sound, inc. about a project he recently completed for the 110 Tower. We could see the top of the building from our table and, in fact, he told me that he had on occasion programmed looks remotely from this very location during that phase of the project. How he did it, and what the results were make for good reading, but I can also recommend the Blackened Grouper Sandwich.

My trip to Florida coincided with (or you can think of it as the cause for, if you prefer) a revamp of most of our product literature that is in brochure format. We added new pictures, and even some new documents to cover new products. These are marketing-oriented; they aren't as fact-filled as our datasheets, but if you want to show a customer you're designing a system for what you'd like them to buy, this glitzy cutsheet is the thing to hand out. And now you can get them from us more easily than ever. We've added a place on our website for literature requests.

If printed literature leaves you flat, but you like to touch a three-dimensional product and put it through its paces, maybe you should plan to drop in on us at the next exhibition we'll be attending. To hear more about what we've got in store for USITT, click here . This story is actually something pretty special, representing some true innovation in how we show off what we do. In it you'll learn about three software developers we are partnered with whose newest offerings support our hardware, GarageCube, Synthe-FX and West Side Systems. The article may entice you based solely on wanting to learn more about their titles and which of our hardware devices they play together with. (It's different for all three!) Even if you can't attend USITT you might want to read about the new pavilion we're assembling and think about it for the next time our paths might cross.

Jeremy Kumin,
Editor