Recent content by Ben Franco

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    Creating Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis with limited resources

    It is a four circuit, so I have fairly good flexibility in that sense. I have a bunch of dimmers and plenty of circuits to power them. For control I'm using an Express 250, which I'm relatively familiar with.I'm thinking of doing dark and light blues, the idea being that the dark blue will...
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    Creating Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis with limited resources

    Hello,I am helping a small community theater with their production of Almost, Maine and they are doing a very scaled-down version of the Northern Lights effect. The effect only needs to be on an 8 foot section of the stage left proscenium wall. Right now the fixtures at my disposal are an 8'...
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    MIDI controller as Ion XE fader wing

    Hello!My community theatre group recently acquired and ETC Ion XE. I am looking for an inexpensive way to have physical faders, as the virtual fader display is a little inconvenient, even with touchscreen monitors. Is it possible to connect a MIDI controller directly into the console via USB...
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