Also…irrelevant, but was a slightly more interesting tag line than “Post-PLASA 2010”.
The show was very good this year – we had a prime spot thanks to Polar Audio, right at the entrance on their natty stand where we commandeered a disproportionate number of meeting tables and general space due to our very enthusiastic staff presence (or should that be due to our very extensive staff presence)…
The DP548 went down a storm – more so than I expected – the view that it was more than a sum of its parts was neatly highlighted by one customer who explained how he would use one when they were available – his plan was to use inputs A&B feeding outputs 1&2 as insert processing on his master vocal channels, leaving him with the equivalent of a super-powered DP226 on inputs C&D feeding outputs 3-8.
There were a few good suggestions about alternative uses for the unit as well, which mainly focussed on the idea that it needn’t be thought of as a 448 with dynamics, but more as the main parts of a channel of SiDD, so maybe we should look into doing a 4 in – 4 out version for people to use it like that…any comments would be appreciated.
The other star of the show was the new version of iCore which now includes full 4 Series support, so presets can be pulled in from any unit and reused in the DC1048. The ability to design custom panels has now also been implemented, and for anyone who didn’t see our demo at the show, we had a little 10″ resistive touch screen monitor (a snip at £160 from amazon!) wired up to a laptop with a nifty panel set up to control various devices on a system on the stand – channels of amplifiers, Ti1048, Breakout box gains etc, all neatly combined on a single panel.
iCore version 2.0 will be released later this month – we are just giving it one last check over and getting some documentation finished explaining the new features, including wireless support using the “Walkabout Kit” hardware.
I met up with Andi Zeh, the man responsible for the iPod apps for the 4 Series (the new 4 Series mini one is now in the app store – see previous posts for more info) and he showed me his prototype iPad 4 Series app – it looks good so far and it’s only just been started so keep up the good work Andi – sorry I couldn’t make it out for a drink 🙁
On a different topic entirely, I unearthed this video from Frankfurt a few years ago (before MC2 merged with us) of Carol opening Ian’s wallet at a restaurant – enjoy!
https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5181904228534132152#
