Now there’s a headline you never thought you’d read. On first glance, there would appear to be a good reason for that. It makes little sense. So permit me to enlighten you. Firstly, this post relates somewhat loosely to last month’s Plasa festival of fun – we were there with Polar Audio , our UK distributor, and had a couple of great spots thanks to their very very stand being right at the entrance to the show.
I was down in the big smoke for four days, and we stayed at the Holiday Inn, Kensington. Stay with me – there is a reason for this amount of seemingly unnecessary detail. Each morning we walked from the hotel though some lovely leafy, not at all expensive, squares, past many not at all expensive cars to Earl’s Court. Being creatures of habit, certain things always happen on this journey. One of these things is to call at a little newsagents/grocers on the last leg of the journey for chewing gum/mints/bananas/pills (previous evening dependant!). It was here that I spotted this sign in the window:
It's all about the "illusion of cornice" bottom right.
This handyman does all the usual things – painting, flooring, wallpapering, and then his services get a little more arcane. You’ll need to click on this and look closely at the service offered in the bottom right hand corner. That’s right – “illusion of cornice”. Not being entirely sure what this mysterious entity might be (was it a force for good or evil?) I took the photo so I could look it up when I got back. Soon, all was revealed – it’s no mere illusion, dear readers, it’s real – REAL!
- But it’s not just an illusion – it’s real!
It’s also somewhat less exciting than its mystical tag line suggested, but it certainly kept us amused for many hours at the show with the tantalising hint of DIY magic 😉 Good luck to gingellfixit and thanks for keeping us entertained!
So back to the show…
This year, Plasa felt a little less well attended overall, by manufacturers as well as punters, but it was still a good show and it’s always good to catch up with a people who you otherwise only communicate with by email or speak to on the phone. I was glad to talk to Alex Hadjigeorgiou from Wigwam who has been singing the praises of the DP548s and put his money where his mouth is by getting a bunch (that is the correct collective noun for several DP548s ;)) of them on tour with Coldplay – cheers mate!. More on that on the website at a later date…
I also was pleased to be able to spend a proper amount of time with Andi Zeh – my German buddy who has written the iPad and iPod apps. He was showing me the continuing work he’s been doing to improve the capabilities and features of the apps, in particular the ability to connect to a network of devices and allow full copy and paste facilities. This really does add a whole new dimension to the system and makes it a much more powerful tool. It’s still in beta, but I have a couple of screenshots to give a flavour of how it will look and it’s every bit as intuitive and stylish as the rest of the app:
- See a rack of units with real time meters and click on one to get in for editing…
You’ll get a rack of connected units and real time metering along with basic info about each unit – tapping on any device will open it for editing. He also showed me a full screen mode for EQ editing on the iPad which is a great improvement on the previous version and makes much better use of the extra screen estate:
- EQ editing can now take full advantage of the bigger are on the iPad and run full screen so you can pinch your ‘Q’ and drag your nodes about with even greater abandon…
When this is ready for release, if you already have the app, you’ll be notified, and if not – buy it! I’ll post about it when it goes live in the appstore.
