Compulite Vibe unveiled at PLASA London 2013

	Computlite Vibe lighting console

The PLASA London 2013 show saw the launch of the new Compulite Vibe lighting console.

The company says Vibe is a completely new concept in lighting control integrating conventional buttons and wheels with an innovative and dynamic touch screen-based graphical user interface incorporating the latest computer and touch-screen technology in an ergonomic and adjustable control surface.

Users are familiar with the touch-screen environment on our smart phones and tablets and Vibe brings this kind of intuitive interface to the lighting control market. A uses doesn't have to read a manual to learn how to use their phone; neither should users with their lighting console. Vibe is syntax free and will prompt the user to enter any information he/she has missed.

Vibe has the minimum amount physical buttons with the touch screen environment giving the user the flexibility to layout the desktop exactly how he/she wants it with buttons, display windows, and playbacks wherever the user wants them. Different desktops can be configured for different parts of the show or for different users. There are no theoretical limits to the number of playbacks of desktop layouts, the user is not constrained by conventional physical hardware, and he can design his own control surface to suit the needs of the show and his creativity.

Compulite's CEO Yehuda Shukrun commented: "It's been 35 years when Compulite launched her first lighting console based on microcontroller and few years after her first moving light console in the world. Our products' innovations always served and will continue to serve the market needs technology and performances wise. With the Vibe we didn't want to develop just another console; we wanted to break new ground developing a completely new control surface based on what the modern user is familiar with -- revolution, not evolution. The console received unanimous acclaim at the show, with users convinced that the time is right for this kind of interactive and adaptable approach to lighting control."

Compulite's products are available in the US through Creative Stage Lighting.