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Canvix Matrix Server
From the makers of VisualDMX and Matrix Mania! comes the software lighting controller of the future: Visual Productions presents Canvix the dedicated Matrix Server.
Visual Productions have decided to allow their future generation of lighting control software to be led by the current market developments in lighting: namely LED technology. This technology calls for an exciting approach to lighting design which can bridge the gap between lighting and video with the use of matrixes. This in turn requires a specialised form of control; Canvix has been designed for the exclusive use with LED matrixes.
Working with the established hardware available from Visual Productions Canvix tackles the control of matrixes with a unique concept: instead of controlling the LEDs individually, Canvix bundles together all fixtures to form one whole canvas; a 2-dimensional area on which effects and graphics can be applied. This powerful approach allows for sophisticated video-alike visuals, as well as fast pixel painting for the easy creation of graphics.
By reusing control concepts from traditional lighting boards and media servers, Canvix is designed with an advanced graphical user interface that will immediately make you feel at home. For full compatibility with traditional controllers Canvix features a DMX Input and is supplied with personality files for all popular lighting desks.
To view this new product please visit us this month at Prolight+Sound 2007 in Frankfurt at Hall 8.0 C80 or alternatively we welcome you to our website: www.canvix.com
Prolight+Sound 2007
Frankfurt, Germany - For the third year in succession Visual Productions will be exhibiting on their own stand at Prolight + Sound 2007. Alongside demonstrations of the latest version of VisualDMX we will be launching an exciting and innovative new product – ideal for use with the current trend of lighting products; LED fixtures.
To find out more please visit us on stand number: Hall 8 C80
Prolight + Sound is held in Frankfurt during 28, 29, 30 & 31 March 2007. For more information go to: www.prolight-sound.com
AFIAL 2007
Madrid, Spain - Visual Productions has been invited by our new Spanish dealer to accompany them on their stand at the Professional Lighting and Sound Fair AFIAL in Madrid to launch our products onto the Spanish market. HC Technologies approached Visual Productions about dealership in September 2006. Technical Manager, Javier Herrero de la Cal first encountered VisualDMX when he was living in Netherlands earlier that year. So impressed he decided to ask for dealership of the product and has not looked back since.
AFIAL runs from 8th till 10th February 2007 in the Pabellón de Cristal in Madrid.
HC Technologies with VisualDMX will be at stand No. 2
Toys "R" Us
Almere, NL - VisualDMX lighting control software has been used to great effect for a commercial installation in a Toys "R" Us retail store in Almere, Netherlands.
Dutch manufacturer Multileds used the VisualDMX matrix lighting controller, Matrix Mania! to programme and control a matrix set-up of 12 tiles of 50cm x 50cm each made to custom fit a metal frame sunk into the floor and flush to the stone floor tiles.
Joost Woreel from Multileds was approached by Toys "R" Us to provide a complete solution that would attract visitors to the escalators leading to their store located on the top floor of a shopping centre. Joost says he choose to use VisualDMX with an Elite interface as VisualDMX at the moment is the product for Multileds. It is easy and really great to work with Visual to control our LED tiles.
The VisualDMX Elite interface was programmed with consecutive sequences running at random to provide an ever changing eye-catching motif. The design incorporates 3 paths running to the escalators giving Toys "R" Us what they have said is the brilliant and unique solution that they were hoping for.
For further information on Multileds please go to: www.multileds.nl
Mystery Land 2006
Haarlemmermeer, NL - During the summer months VisualDMX was used in a diversity of festivals around Benelux. From Wesley in Concert at the IJssportcentrum in Tilburg to the ID&T Sensation VIP rooms at the Amsterdam Arena, VisualDMX is becoming the preferred choice of software controller for many freelance programmers, especially when requiring a Matrix controller.
At the open-air Mystery Land festival VisualDMX came into its own with the ingenious programming of Allard de Jaager to control a large matrix of Parcans hanging over the Q Dance Stage. De Jaager uses VisualDMX regularly, sighting price and user friendliness as key reasons: it's cheap and relatively easy to operate. When you use it with a keyboard you can generate some really nice effects. For Mystery Land he chose VisualDMX because of the easy to use Matrix Controller, Matrix Mania!.
VisualDMX at Mile 2006
At the end of October VisualDMX will be exhibiting at the Dutch tradeshow Mile 2006. We have been invited by QMAXZ Lighting to join them on the stand of their partner PHD Professional. The Dutch company QMAXZ Lighting; manufacturer of moving lights - "provide a unique solution for design and development" invited us to programme and control their fixtures on the stand which also allows for an area where visitors can come along and experience the new features of VisualDMX, such as VisualTouch firsthand.
We hope to see you there!
Mile 2006
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 October
Nieuwegein Business Centre, NL
For details of the exhibition please go to www.mile2006.nl
For more information about the QMAXZ products please go to www.qmaxz.com
To download the latest version of VisualDMX or the VisualTouch feature please follow this link www.visualdmx.com/downloads
ID&T Sensation and TMF Awards
Amsterdam, NL - Tom van den Heuvel used VisualDMX and Matrix Mania! not only at ID&T Sensation VIP rooms at the Amsterdam Arena where he used 74 Pulsar Chroma panels ( 94 x 2 pixels matrix) but also to great effect at the TMF Awards VIP after show party on a LED dance floor.
Tom felt compelled to use VisualDMX because according to him Matrix Mania! is "powerful and very easy to patch and make into a matrix: doesn't matter if its small or big as you can adapt easily and quickly the size and the patterns of the programmed images too".
Party with Bacardi
Rotterdam, NL - During the summer an interactive campaign - “Join the Party with Bacardi”- was launched in Dutch cinemas to promote the Bacardi drink.
The advertisement was filmed in the “Now & Wow” Club in Rotterdam. The recognisable theme of girls and boys partying with Bacardi was used to accompany the additional storyline of the DJ wowing the girl.
VisualDMX was specified as controller for the DJ Booth which boasted a LED wall and thus the necessity of a Matrix controller with the versatility and strengths that are offered by Matrix Mania, the specialised Matrix controller within VisualDMX.
Matrix Mania’s ability to quickly adapt all inbuilt matrix patterns to the red, Bacardi style, colour theme proved very useful and saved the crew valuable time when programming on site.
The LED and VisualDMX equipment was supplied by Amsterdam based rental company PartyTime.