[LCtalk] Will it do what I want?

[Patrick Neame]

Dear LanBox list,

This is really a very basic question. I do lighting design in a fairly 
well equipped amateur theatre, we have very little in the way of moving 
lights, just 12 DMX colour scrollers, the dimmers are Strand LD90s in 
the main house and some ancient analogue Strand things in the studio.  
There's some sort of box that converts the digital output from the desk 
in the studio into an analogue signal.

Now, I've had a go with the Lanbox demo version but it's difficult to 
get a feel for something when you can't see the lights going up or down.  
So I guess I'll just have to take the plunge, buy the kit and see 
(literally) how I get on with it. Before I do that I just want to know 
this: does this software allow you to build a lighting state (scene) 
that can then cross fade over 2, 5, or 180 seconds into another lighting 
state and, ultimately, create a show with multiple lighting states that 
can be cross-faded one to the other on a "Go" button? That, with a few 
refinements, is the essence of what we do.

Please help because, I swear to God, if I have to do another show with 
the wretched Strand 520i software, I'm going to put my sledgehammer 
through the desk.

Patrick Neame
www.incamera.co.uk  - 07 957 463 933