Series 100 Controller (1981 - 1985)
Vari*Lite
Vari*Lite Series 100 Controller (from Cue, 1985)
From CUE (1985):
Vari-Lite's microprocessor control desk, for up to 96 channels, has manual controls for plotting the positioning of the lamps and their colours, intensities and beam sizes. There is storage capacity for 255 cues and the memory can be transferred to micro-disc for library storage. There are four playback modes:
- Direct Cue giving immediate access to any cue state and allowing rapid stepping between sequential scenes.
- Cross Fade providing intensity cross fades between instruments, and movement cross fades of instruments from one position to another.
- Chase allowing timed or manual stepping through programmable sequences of cue states.
- Matrix permitting instruments to be grouped for intensity control into sixteen matrix scenes with eight faders per scene.
See also:
Documents
PLSN: The Genesis of Vari-Lite (September 2021)
[External Website]
From PLSN - Projection Lights Staging News
Vari*Lite Promo from the 1980s
[Video: Click on thumbnail]
Catalogue & Journal Entries for Series 100 Controller in the Backstage Heritage Collection
Back to Control - Memory (Vari*Lite)
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