MULTIFORM ARE OMNIPOTENT

Multiform Technology Group will show for the first time at PLASA the Omni Control System, from American company Meteor Light & Sound, for which they are the distributors.

Meteor have provided integrated control of a myriad of different fixtures in a wide range of environments  by offering a cost-effective and user-friendly system. Developed to serve many different users, the Omni offers one of the most flexible ways of creating and saving DMX-controlled shows, from basic movements to complex scenes and chases.

Omni has the power to orchestrate a show with four separate timelines of events running simultaneously. Each of the 20 shows can have a total of 112 events used over the four-track timeline, made up of 240 static scenes or 48 chases of up to 64 steps each. Once the scenes and chases are established, the show is created by placing them on the timelines. Any of these can be moved back and forth in time to an accuracy of one twelfth of a second. Steps can last anywhere from one twelfth of a second to 85 minutes, while chases can be set to last as long as 48 hours.

Lighting designers can use any of the built-in templates for some of the most popular fixtures from various manufacturers, saving the time it would take to programme the specifics of each unit again and again. Fixtures using more than ten DMX channels can be separated into different objects - such as color mixing, mirrors, effects, etc - and grouped together with similar 'section' objects from multiple fixtures, allowing them to all move at the same time in perfect unison.

The Omni-Pad was added to give the Omni user live control of up to 56 Omni events via MIDI, while the Omni PC Link software was developed to allow for easy storage and retrieval of all data in the Omni, including all information relevant to objects, scenes, chases, and shows.

The system to its fullest extent comprises an Omni, a PC Link, and an Omni-Pad. The Omni can be programmed and the data stored on a PC using Omni PC Link. A different Omni-Pad overlay can then be used for each major show and simply changed for each respective programme reloaded into the system.