I particularly like the piece on Vista that's at least trying to change old fashioned control board paradigms. Lightboards seem to've have made little real progress in the last quarter century A new intermediary - the moving lights programmer - has been added because there has been no really successful attempt to simplify moving light controls. With Tharon's death last week we should remember that she single handedly forced Broadway to change from multiple operators on piano boards to a single memory board operator for "A Chorus Line". There's not even a moving light board out there yet that doesn't need skilled MSDOS/RS232 type programming and programmers. Hrmpf.
I particularly like the piece on Vista that's at least trying to change old fashioned control board paradigms. Lightboards seem to've have made little real progress in the last quarter century A new intermediary - the moving lights programmer - has been added because there has been no really successful attempt to simplify moving light controls. With Tharon's death last week we should remember that she single handedly forced Broadway to change from multiple operators on piano boards to a single memory board operator for "A Chorus Line". There's not even a moving light board out there yet that doesn't need skilled MSDOS/RS232 type programming and programmers. Hrmpf.