Emulation for me?

This system you described is called a palette system. Our new program Compu Show. does just that. It lets you program a position palette and you then use that palette in a scene or cue and say you make 30 cues that use that palette. But you have to move the position back like 10 feet. Well with most other lighting programs you would have to go and edit all the scenes that use that position. not anymore with Compu Show. All you do is go into your palette editor and update the fixtures positions on that palette and AUTOMATICALLY every SINGLE scene that had that palette used in it is updated to those new positions. you can create a palette for pretty much anything. I have created focus and positions and color palettes that I used live and they all helped speed up my programming time and editing time. Here is the one caveat for you though. compu Show is a PC only program. However if you were to use boot camp that would work just aswell.
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Thanks for the info. In terms of usability is CompuPro pretty user friendly? The interface seems a bit "typical" - not like the Emulation ? I mean if there is no diff from Light Jockey - I would stay there? also - does CompuPro come with a visualizer? And lastly would it work with the Midicon?
thanks again

The UI takes a little getting used too but it is not that hard. Just got to wrap your brain around it. And yes it is completely different from Emulation. It does come with a 3D visualizer that is very useful when offline programming. And yes the midi con works beautifully with Compu Show. If your thinking about compu show you will need either compu cue basic, Compu cue, compu show SD. any one of those interfaces can run the compu Show program. The older model interfaces 1024EC 2048Fc will not be able to run compu show. hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions.
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