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The development of new networking technologies has radically transformed the lighting control console market. S&S takes a look at the best lighting consoles from four of the industry's leading manufacturers.

Jands Vista T4

Australian lighting console manufacturer Jands is one of a new breed of companies making an impact on the professional stage lighting design market.

The flagship of the company's lighting console range is the impressive Vista T4, which Jands claims offers users a "fundamentally different" experience compared to rival consoles.

Jands attributes this bold claim to three key features inherent to the console's design: the inclusion of timeline-based programming, a simplified user-interface and a generic fixture model that automatically recognises replacement lighting fixtures and adapts the overall programming set-up accordingly.

Jands claims Vista is the first lighting console on the market to feature timeline-based programming, enabling users to make changes on the fly using the console's Windows-based interface and a digital marker instead of a keypad.

Jands claims the marker works in much the same way as a mouse, allowing users to ‘draw' on the screen and drag and drop presets as and when required.

The Vista is also ideally suited to live performance applications, allowing users to pre-assign tasks and create shortcuts for specific design parameters.

Users can split fader banks to double playback or combine them to ensure dedicated control of timing, chase speed and a host of other features.

Encoder wheels can be used to set timing and chase speed, and to move through the timelines of clips as required.

Vista's generic fixture technology works by recording the colour, beam and other key details of individual lighting fixtures. So, when a fixture is replaced, the console automatically performs programming changes where necessary on the fly to ensure the new fixture best combines with the existing set-up.

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