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From:Alan Buxey
Date:26 Sep 2000 at 11:22:57
Subject:Re: Amigas in action

hi,
>
>
> I've just spent a few days putting "The Blue Room" into the Theatre Royal,
> Haymarket here in London, and I had a look at the sound gear today. All the music and
> sound effects are played back from a sampler using MIDI triggers, and as far
> as I could see, the sound desk is automated too.
>
> The system is run on an A1200 running Stage Manager 3000 by Richmond Sound
> Design through a Pro-MIDI interface from Hisoft.
>
> Apparently they're quite common "because the OS is stable and easy to use, and
> the software is reliable"
>
> Miss Saigon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane used custom software and hardware to run a couple of lighting changes
> because the main desk couldn't output smooth enough movement data.
>
> A1200 vs £14000 lighting desk. For that task A1200 won hands down.

you reckon we could have an article on this in AA ? :-)

alan

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