We have a Colortran Innovator 48/96 as our lighting control at work. It's been around for a couple years and after reading here and hearing others speak....it is a annoyingly quirky board. If ours keeps it's attitude going...it's moving toward paperweight status real quick.
Anyway, we occasionally relocate it outside our auditorium for different events. Every time we have moved it this year, we have either lost programming from submasters to actual channels or they have been altered in some way. I shouldn't even get started on our movers. Our saved groups for our VariLites never come back true. Crazy zoom settings, frames settings, etc. Has anybody else experienced this?? or is it time to move on from this crazy thing??
I've already planted the seed with administration for next fiscal year and a new board. I just have to decide what to recommend when they come asking how much money I need. Not being super deep in the lighting industry, three main players seem to be High End, MA and ETC. The Ion has certainly received it's fair share of discussion here and seems a good bang/buck board. The idea of adding fader wings for a more "manual" control is appealing from a teaching standpoint to have a more concrete example. Maybe that's off base. I'm continuing to read more on here, but other suggestions are always welcome.
Brian
Anyway, we occasionally relocate it outside our auditorium for different events. Every time we have moved it this year, we have either lost programming from submasters to actual channels or they have been altered in some way. I shouldn't even get started on our movers. Our saved groups for our VariLites never come back true. Crazy zoom settings, frames settings, etc. Has anybody else experienced this?? or is it time to move on from this crazy thing??
I've already planted the seed with administration for next fiscal year and a new board. I just have to decide what to recommend when they come asking how much money I need. Not being super deep in the lighting industry, three main players seem to be High End, MA and ETC. The Ion has certainly received it's fair share of discussion here and seems a good bang/buck board. The idea of adding fader wings for a more "manual" control is appealing from a teaching standpoint to have a more concrete example. Maybe that's off base. I'm continuing to read more on here, but other suggestions are always welcome.
Brian