Lighting designer Marcus Krömer specified 330 Chroma-Q™ Color Block 2™ LED fixtures to provide stage scenic elements backlighting for a large corporate event featuring some of Germany’s most popular bands.

The event was held at Cologne’s state of the art LANXESS arena, one of Europe’s largest

all-purpose venues and host to concerts by an impressive range of international music stars.

Production management for the event was by Placet Die Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH. Stage lighting, audio and video supply was by PRG Cologne, with set design by John Stillwell. For the third year running, Marcus Krömer and Marcus Bossdorf provided the lighting and video content design for the all-day event, which featured a conference in the morning, an awards show in the afternoon and a concert in the evening. Splitting into two teams, programming was 24/7 for a whole week in the arena.

Robe launches a major new green initiative - "Think of the Future - Consider Nature" - at PLASA 2010 to underline its ongoing commitment to developing and producing genuinely cutting-edge, innovative and energy saving products.

Using Robe's latest products, the renowned booth lightshow will consume 30% less power than before, and look equally impressive.

There will also be no less than 7 newly launched environmentally friendly moving light and LED products on stand 1-F47 from the Czech Republic based manufacturer (full details to follow in separate press release).

Says MD Josef Valchar, "Robe has already been operating a strong green policy for several years, we are not just jumping onboard a current trend, and now is the time to push this philosophy to the next level". He adds that Robe intends to keep at the forefront of developing sustainable technologies and encouraging everyone to think seriously and imaginatively about their application in our industry, with "Our collective futures in mind".

Eurolite's new Pixel Panel with tricolor LEDs makes its first appearance at this years PLASA in London.

A combination which is everything but common – Eurolite's new Pixel Panel combines the latest technology, solid, elegant workmanship and a fair price. At London's Plasa the chic, black light effect with tricolor LEDs makes if first appearance on the market.

Right at first glance one difference to many LED displays or walls becomes quite obvious. In contrast to widespread bar systems, where the LEDs are placed on small strips with emptiness in between, the Pixel Panel presents an alternative. Eurolite deliberately opted for a fully covered housing. The tricolor LEDs are fixed at little openings, only a few millimeters in size. In so doing, the light can exit unhindered and produce its full power. Thanks to the large black surface area, the panel is an eye-catcher, even without illumination.

Martin Professional has now made it possible to easily convert two of the most advanced wash lights on the market - the Martin MAC 2000 Wash XB and MAC 2000 Wash - into a powerful beam fixture with an inexpensive conversion kit that installs in minutes.

Ideal for any large scale event where both beam and wash effects are required such as stadium and arena shows, the conversion kit gets the most out of existing lighting gear, eliminating the need to invest in a completely new fixture.

Simple, inexpensive upgrade 

The MAC 2000 Beam XB upgrade kit consists of a new front lens module with micro-Fresnel lens and a set of four beam effect gobos/apertures. The kit installs in less than 5 minutes and also works with the MAC 2000 Wash. Components can be easily uninstalled and the fixture returned to a standard Wash configuration at any time.

Denon DJ has announced a major performance enhancement to its market leading DN-S3700 direct drive digital media turntable. The firmware upgrade, to both new and existing units, implements MIDI Hybrid mode, enabling the DN-S3700 to also fully control DJ computer software, like Serato^™ Scratch Live, from its control surface, including its unique 9” direct drive vinyl control platter.

The upgrade, implemented on all new production models, is be available to existing users as a free download from the Denon DJ website (late September 2010). By internally generating relative mode timecode (output via the phono audio outs) the DN-S3700 now provides direct spinning platter control of various supported DVS applications (on PC or Mac^®) such as Serato Scratch Live; the MIDI hybrid mode is supplied with a default setting and mapping of the DN-S3700 controls to Scratch Live, but controls can be mapped to control any mappable MIDI software program.

Denon has announced that the same upgrade will also be available for its popular DN-S1200 Media / Controller (late September 2010).