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    MagicQ Question

    MagicQ PC has a dedicated touchscreen configuration with larger buttons and all the most common control buttons replicated onscreen. It turns the screen into basically what you would see on the LCD panel in one of their desks (they all use the same underlying software as the pc version)I can...
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    Control/Dimming Motorised faders for a scratch build lighting control system

    I can't actually see an answer to the original question - does anyone know of a supplier for motorised faders at a reasonable cost? I have a large range of desks (including Fat Frogs, ETC SmartFade and MagicQ with a PC wing) at my disposal that I can use, but as an electronics graduate I...
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    Mixing 3-Pin & 5-Pin DMX

    Rather than adapt each individual unit it is probably easier to put the 3-pin dimmers together in the chain if possible and just adapt the first and last unit to 5-pin. I'm regularly forced to mix 3 and 5-pin equipment (isn't it nice that we have the DMX 'standard' now!) and the only issue...
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    A Good Play for Set Design Class

    By the sound of it you want a play that can show off your creativity with a minimum of resources - try taking a look at some of the John Godber works like Bouncers or Shakers - uses a large number of scenes but they all run into each other (with characters all being played by 4 actors doubling)...
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    Greetings All!

    Hi all, I'm Paul based in Lancashire in the UK, high school teacher by day and roaming lampy for evenings and weekends. Tour around 5 regular am-dram theatre societies plus pulled onto various high school and dance school projects, averaging a show every 2-3 weeks. Work varies from...
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