Robe Gets to The Pointe at Prolight + Sound 2013

	Robe Robin Cyclone

Czech Republic-based moving light manufacturer Robe Lighting launches six exciting new products at the 2013 Prolight + Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, April 10-14.

Topping the list is The Pointe. This and four other innovations are from Robe's multi award-winning Robin range and also new is the latest in Robe's DigitalSpot series -- the DigitalSpot 7100DT.

The Robin Pointe is a dynamic beam, spot, and wash fixture from Robe -- a small, super-bright, and very fast unit with an intense and sharp parallel beam. Plus, the company notes, The Pointe includes a host of features making it a truly unique and versatile lightsource.

These features include a 5- to 20-degree zoom with full focus control, variable frost, two separate prism effects, a rotating and a static gobo wheel, and inbuilt color wheel.

The lightsource is a 280W Osram discharge lamp making The Pointe a dynamic, fixture to create on a large and small scale while also embracing Robe's "smaller, lighter, brighter" and more eco-friendly philosophy.

Special characteristics include speed and an impressive list of additional creative features like the zoom, linear and circular rotating prisms, and rotating and static gobo wheels.

A custom-developed homogenizer works with the rotating gobos to spread the light evenly and achieve optimum projection quality. A variable frost effect instantly transforms the output into that of an efficient wash light.

Robe's The Pointe delivers a robustly built, reliable fixture weighing just 15.2Kgs.

Bar, club, and retail lighting has taken another step into the digital future. The Robin MiniMe is an effects lighting luminaire with the addition of full video output. This small, neat, fast moving fixture is LED-driven with 20,000 hour lifetime source. Colors, gobos, and beam shapes are all digitally generated by the on-board micro media server. Custom artwork, still photographs, and video can also be simply uploaded for projection, while live video can be streamed through the HDMI input.

Robe presents the Robin MMX Blade -- an amazingly bright 1200-series equivalent lightsource utiliszing its popular MMX optical technology, complete with a framing shutter system of four fast blades which can be individually positioned and angled plus or minus 45-degrees, with the whole blade module capable of plus / minus 90-degree rotation.

This allows precise shaping and fine-spotting of specific areas on a stage, set, or performer. The company notes this is a crucial feature for all types of theatre and television productions.

The Blade system can also produce fast, aerial effects by being programmed into quick-movement chases and sequences. An animation wheel enables the projection of dramatic fire, water, flame, and other theatrical / environmental effects. It has further innovative Robin technology features like hot-spot control, rotating gobos, CMY color mixing, variable CTO, iris, rotating prism, etc.

The Robin CycFX is a one-metre linear strip that can be tilted 270-degree featuring an array of high powered RGBW LEDs for smooth color mixing, with a zoom option that opens the spread out from 8- to 53-degrees. The fast, motorized tilt movement allows the creation of wave effects along a line of fixtures.

Individual control of each LED makes the fixture map-able, and enables multiple CycFXs to be built in to a variety of matrix designs. The unit is supplied with many inbuilt pixel effects and pre-programmed sequences. Pre-selected color macros also make it a quick and easy unit to set up and integrate into any light show.

Integrated tungsten whites are set at 2,700K and 3,200K and the CycFX comes complete with Robe's tungsten emulation, including theatrical grade dimming and red-shift effect. Wireless control is an optional accessory.

The Robin Cyclone is an effects moving head product has an integrated fan in the center of the head, surrounded by a ring of 24 RGBW multichip LEDs. There is a zoom of 8- to 63-degrees on the LEDs -- and a strong central airflow that can be combined with fog and haze to assist with creating quality atmospheric effects.

The vari-speed fan can be independently DMX controlled, starting from a very low RPM and is a complement to fog and hazers in any live environment -- from clubs to concerts -- needing fine-tuned fog / haze flows, from a mere wisp of smoke to a full-on immersive low cloud coverage.

Each LED is individually controlled and can be pixel mapped for the creation of eye-catching color, rainbow, strobe, etc. effects. The Cyclone can also light and cool performers from a "footlights" position and can also produce dramatic hair-blowing and smoke-through-the-fan effects.

The unit also benefits from all the features from Robe's LEDWash series.

Robe will have a brand new booth design this year at Prolight + Sound incorporating a dynamic and adaptable environment optimized to illustrate both theatrical and rock 'n' roll live stage applications -- in context -- of all its new products. A large hospitality area outside will feature the Cardion AB Motoracing Czech MotoGP team hospitality marquee, and, as always, there will be plenty of action throughout the exhibition.

On Thursday at 10:00am a special press event is scheduled with racing star Karel Abraham and his MotoGP team -- of which Robe is a 2013 season sponsor. This will be followed by a press presentation of the new products.

See Robe at PLASA Focus: Orlando, May 15-16.