> Vista consoles now shipping with v2 software as standard

Jands has announ­ced that its entire range of Vista consoles are now ship­ping with ver­sion 2 of the soft­ware. After three years of intense deve­lop­ment, exten­sive tes­ting and finally, use on seve­ral major shows and events by beta-testers world­wide — inclu­ding the ope­ning cere­mony of Turku, Fin­land as joint Euro­pean Capi­tal of Culture in 2011; the Fifth Gear Live Action Arena at the Auto­sport Inter­na­tio­nal 2011 show in Bir­min­gham, UK; and the BURDA event at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE — the soft­ware is now factory-standard with new Vista consoles and avai­lable as a free upgrade to exis­ting users.

Jands recently demons­tra­ted the Vista v2 (code named ‘Byron’) at the 2010 PLASA and LDI trade shows, gene­ra­ting a huge amount of inter­est in the new capa­bi­li­ties the soft­ware brings to the revo­lu­tio­nary Vista console. The Vista v2 will receive its offi­cial launch at the Pro­light & Sound 2011 trade show, Frank­furt this week (6th-9th April).

“The Vista was a huge hit with its basic prin­ciple of ‘think visually, work visually’”, said Paul Mul­hol­land, Mana­ging Direc­tor of Jands, “and ver­sion 2 takes that to a whole new level. We’ve re-designed the whole user inter­face around this concept and it’s already revo­lu­tio­ni­sed the way a lot of our Vista cus­to­mers work.”

As well as a revam­ped visual inter­face, Vista v2 intro­duces a host of fea­tures, including:

tra­cking backup – ins­tantly switches control to a syn­chro­ni­sed second console or PC if the main console fails for any reason

inte­gra­ted media ser­ver control – inclu­ding auto­ma­tic thumb­nail import of content from most indus­try stan­dard mediaservers

matrix and video effects – runs inten­sity, colour, move­ment, even video files across LEDs or other fix­ture types arran­ged in columns and rows

default and split fade times – pro­vides a quick and easy way to set and edit cue timing, inclu­ding sepa­rate up and down times for intensity.

And just in case you want to stick with ver­sion 1 while you get used to ver­sion 2, the Vista 2 consoles also offer a dual-boot func­tion.

“We took eve­ry­thing we lear­ned from our cus­to­mers’ expe­riences with ver­sion 1 and com­ple­tely ove­rhau­led the plat­form from the ground up,” said Paul Mulholland.”

“The new ver­sion pro­vides sim­pler and fas­ter ways to do exis­ting func­tions, and at the same time intro­duces a host of power­ful new fea­tures all pre­sen­ted in an intui­tive visual interface.”

> Find out more about the Vista v2 at www.jandsvista.com, or

> Contact Iny­tium SA for Pri­cing or Demo

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