ETC’s Cobalt 10 lighting console shares some of the same features as the company’s larger Cobalt 20 desk, including short commands and on-the-fly lighting control. But as ETC notes of its more compact Cobalt 10, those features can now be accessed in a road-ready, portable package. Those compact dimensions are also a boon for fitting the Cobalt 10 into control rooms with limited space.
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The short commands and on-the-fly lighting controls of ETC’s Cobalt family are now packaged to take on tour. The new Cobalt 10 lighting desk features the same capacity and functions of the larger Cobalt 20 desk, but is compact enough to take on the road or fit into control rooms with limited space.
“Cobalt 10 is the sporty member of the Cobalt family,” says ETC Cobalt Product Manager Sarah Clausen. “It has high-resolution, 12-inch multi-touch displays that articulate, so programmers can easily pack it into a road case for a touring show or adjust the screens to better see the stage in a small theater.” Cobalt 10 also has a smaller master playback area than Cobalt 20, with 10 motorized faders and 10 backlit, color-coded endless pots. It has 5,000 channels to control dimmers, LEDs, moving lights, media servers and more, on up to 32 universes of output, without the need for additional processing hardware.
The entire Cobalt line of controls was designed to rid the lighting process of unnecessary keystrokes and complicated syntax. Direct-access tools like Device Encoders and a touch-based Device Controls dock mean the most hands-on controls in the fastest programming environment ever. With innovative tools like direct selects with built-in intensity control and Expanded Masters modes, the Cobalt system offers a new level of hands-on control for live playback, without losing any of the finesse required for intricately-cued shows.
Cobalt 10 will officially make its debut at the Prolight + Sound tradeshow in Frankfurt, Germany, March 12th to 15th. Visitors to ETC’s stand (#B62 in Hall 9.0) are invited to ‘touch the light’ and demo the new desk to see how quickly the Cobalt family can take a design from thought into reality.
