The launch of the Pearl Tiger at PLASA2007 brought the “Avolites way” within reach of smaller shows and budgets.
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The Pearl is known for it’s versatility and good “hands on” interface with faders, buttons plus the world famous Rolacue – all ready to be played like a Steinway. Perhaps that’s a bit harsh, but the well loved Avo desk seems to inhabit more FOH control positions than any other. It has been said in the UK that if you can’t use an Avolites Pearl, you’re not a real lampie.
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I programmed a show in the Titan Simulator and almost instantly decided that 10 buttons simply isn't enough, but 20 would be fine. In my mind, I would have a wider tool set if I had a Quartz and Arena vs Tiger Touch II and Arena. any advice?Īlso, I'm thinking that down the road I would pick up an Arena as well, so it would make more sense to get the Quartz because the Arena is basically just a Tiger Touch II + expansion wing strapped together with an extra small touch screen and 10 more buttons. I know that both the Quartz and Tiger Touch II have excellent touch screens, thus removing the need for so many buttons, but I'm not sure which I would be more comfortable with. I'm in the mindset thinking that I need all those buttons because I need to map them to colors, movements, chases, flashes, etc. My current midi controller is an Akai APC Mini which has 81 buttons and 8 faders. Additionally, the Quartz is smaller, lighter, and cheaper.Ĭoming from ShowXpress, I'm used to having loads and loads of buttons. However, I'm really leaning towards the Quartz because I love how small it is and I'd prefer having 20 executor buttons over just 10. I want to lean more towards the Tiger Touch II because I'm a big fan of the expansion wing, and the aesthetic form factor looks a bit nicer in my opinion. My two main interests are the Quartz and the Tiger Touch II. The Sapphire Touch is of course brilliant, but I know that is too heavy. The Arena looks amazing in terms of functionality, but I'm sure that will be too heavy. I'm looking for something scalable, great for busking, but also small enough to make sense to bring to small events. Some colleagues of mine highly recommended I check out Avolites, so I have, and I've basically completely decided that I would much rather run Avolites over the Dot2 and basically anything else. I was aware that the Dot2 had much less functionality compared to GMA2, but the big selling point for me was how light weight it was. When it was first announced, I was particularly interested in the MA Lighting Dot2 because I'm familiar with GrandMA2. However, my clients have been getting in the upper range, and I'm also starting to do many more "real" lighting gigs rather than mobile events. I do a lot of mobile gigs, so I don't want to have to carry around a 100lb console to something with 200 people. Something where I can easily just pick up one flight case and go.
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Not to mention, it's not that fun to have to carry a laptop, and a midi controller, and a USB dongle, everywhere I go.įor the past few months, I've really been looking for a full featured standalone console, with the key feature being something light weight. I can still achieve all the effects I want, but it's a huge pain to program, it's pretty sticky to run live, and lately it's been getting really unreliable. Needless to say, I outgrew that pretty quick. For the past 2 years, I've been running shows with Chauvet ShowXpress.