Consider a digital light with an onboard media server such as the DL2. Suddenly we’ve gone to 170 channels per fixture, and each channel has a number of individual functions. All told, there are almost 1,000 individual functions within those 170 channels. That’s a lot of information by any measure. How does that affect me, Joe Lighting Designer? I submit that such complexity in luminaires makes console selection all the more important. Fixture libraries, that ingenious creation of the late second millennium is going to be more important than ever, and those console developers who are extremely careful about creating detailed and accurate fixture libraries are the ones who will be most successful.
– From Richard Cadena’s Focus on Technology column in the December issue of PLSN
