ETC have introduced the Cobalt family of consoles to their ever expanding range of lighting desks. ETC claim that Cobalt is designed from the ground up to get you from thought to reality as quickly as possible. Using short commands coupled with direct-access touchscreen tools makes it easier to do what you want faster than ever.
There are three options announced:
Cobolt 20
Cobalt 20 offers the largest work surface in the Cobalt family, with built-in articulating 17” high-resolution multi-touch monitors and support for three additional external monitors, which may also be single or multi-touch, and 40 master playbacks with 20 motorised faders and 20 backlit colour-coded endless pots. Cobalt 20 controls up to 5000 devices (dimmers, LEDs, moving lights or media servers) on up to 32 universes of output (16,384 parameters) without the need for additional processing hardware.
Product Features
- Two 17” articulating multi-touch displaysBacklit command keypad
- 40 Master playbacks – 20 motorised faders, 20 backlit colour-coded endless pots – with full colour touch displays
- Solid-state hard drive
- Supports three external DVI/SVGA monitors starting at 1280×1024 resolution with optional touchscreen control
- Dual PoE Ethernet ports
- From 4,096 up to 16,384 Outputs/parameters
- 5000 Control Channels (nameable to 9999)
Cobolt Nomad
Sometimes you can’t take your console with you. Sometimes you don’t want a console at all. You need an affordable backup solution or you’re touring with minimal gear in tow. You need Cobalt Nomad – a PC version of the Cobalt lighting control system.
What if you could reach out and touch the light – craft it, colour it, move it – directly and without feeling like there’s a machine between you and your design? You see the light in your head and with minimal keystrokes see that creation on stage. Cobalt is designed from the ground up to get you from thought to reality as quickly as possible.
The tools you need to manage data with speed and precision are all in there – thousands of devices in the library, customizable by you so they fit your way of working; groups, palettes, presets as building blocks of your show; effect playbacks for completely configurable effects on conventionals, movers, LEDs and more. All with interactive controls available on the screens – these tools let you break free of syntax and work with light directly.
The Masters are the heart of the system. With unlimited content possibilities, the masters let you customize the console so that every playback, every button, fits the way you build or play back your show. Available on screen or with optional fader wings from ETC or USB-MIDI panels by others, there are many options for getting your hands on your show.
Cobalt works way with options for how your looks are stored and played back. Put information and controls where need them. Build your own channel displays using channel icons or fixture symbols, and mix channels with other selection tools for direct access to groups and palettes.
Cobolt Light Server
all the functionality of ETC’s Cobalt lighting control system, but in a purpose-built, rack-mounted enclosure!
The Cobalt Light Server’s 19” design packs identical features and channel/output capacities into a stand-alone enclosure suitable for permanently installed applications. Running the powerful Cobalt operating software, the Cobalt Light Server is a fully independent lighting playback controller or a convenient backup option.
Software features
- Multiple formats for all channel views, including graphical channel layouts
- Multiple Sequences (Cue Lists)
- Trigger/Action Event system for automating playback functions
- OSC Open Sound Control
- UDP triggers via Ethernet
- MIDI, MIDI Time Code and MIDI Show Control supported
- Contact closure interface for GO, PAUSE, BACK and Master 40 execution
- MIDI and SMPTE input via Net3 Show Control Gateway
- Contact closure (12 analog inputs, 12 SPDT contact outputs, RS-232) through Gateway
- Client/server networking and synchronised backup
- Show import via ASCII
Overall product features
- Three female IEC connectors
- Three video connectors support DVI/SVGA external displays (1280×1024) with optional single-touch or multi-touch screen control
- Up to 5000 devices/channels and 16,384 outputs/parameters
- 2 x DMX512A/RDM direct outputs
- Two individually configurable ethernet ports, 802.3af compliant PoE
- ETCNet2, Net3/ACN, sACN, ArtNet output protocols
- SSD memory
- MIDI In/Out
- Contact closure triggers
- USB multipurpose bus (memory, pointing device)
- Radio Focus Remote (RFR) and Phone remote control
- aRFR for Android devices and iRFR for Apple iOS devices
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