1 industry professional stage lighting equipment headquarters london united kingdom 2 key people ric salzedo managing director 3 steve warren business development director 3 meena varatharajan finance director 3 jb toby technical director 4 koy neminathan sales director 4 products art 2000 art 2000 powercube titan one titan mobile tiger touch arena sapphire touch titan net processor quartz website avolites.com avolites ltd is a british manufacturing company based in park royal london . avolites manufactures lighting control consoles and stage dimming equipment for use in the entertainments lighting industry . in 2011 the company expanded into the media server sector of the entertainments technology market by acquiring software developed by immersive ltd supplying control systems used in the 2012 olympics opening ceremony and the 2014 winter sochi olympics ceremonies . contents 1 history 1.1 avolites media 2 products 2.1 former 2.1.1 dimmers 2.1.2 control consoles 2.2 current 2.2.1 dimmers 2.2.2 control consoles 2.2.3 avolites media products 2.2.4 avolites hybrid products 3 references 4 external links history edit avolites started as a lighting production company in 1976 when a group of touring road crew formed a company to manufacture their designs for a touring dimmer rack the avolites fd dimmer . 5 6 the company then expanded into manufacturing lighting control consoles initially releasing the 8100 series before creating the qm500 series in 1983 . during the 1980s the reputation of the brand grew 7 and by the late 1980s the company was purchased by carlton television . 8 the company was returned to private ownership as part of a management buy out in 1991 . eventually the lighting production work was discontinued and the company focused on equipment manufacturing only . 3 8 during the 1990s the company introduced several new products designed to control the range of intelligent lighting products that were emerging onto the market at the time releasing the rolacue sapphire pearl 2000 released 1995 sapphire 2000 released 1998 and diamond ii iii consoles . most of these consoles were based on motorola 68000 family processors . in 1996 the company also updated the fd dimmer replacing it with the art 4000 . during the 2000s the dimmer product range was redesigned again resulting in the art 2000 series of racks ; the art 2000i installation racks and in the later part of the decade the powercube dimmer distribution units . 5 in 2001 avolites launched the diamond 4 range of control consoles 9 which was based on a conventional pc motherboard instead of custom made hardware reliant on motorola processors . although the custom hardware consoles were still sold and updated in stages during the 2000s the company gradually moved software development towards the windows os running on conventional pc motherboards . this move allowed the company to re write its lighting control software resulting in the release of the titan software series in the late 2000s . since the introduction of titan the company has designed a range of consoles specifically to run the software including the titan one usb dmx dongle titan mobile tiger touch and sapphire touch consoles which were all introduced between 2009 and 2012 . avolites media edit david green mark calvert and ralph lambert formed a vj collective known as inside us all initially working on visual effects for the rave and party scene . the trio decided to expand into more corporate work and took on a new staff member john munro forming the pixel addicts company at the time . pixel addicts was later renamed to immersive and it was within immersive that the addict media server software was developed . 10 in june 2011 avolites acquired the rights to the addict media server software developed by immersive 11 3 12 rebranded it as ai and formed a spin off company called avolites media . 10 the media server products were used in the olympic opening and closing ceremonies of 2012 to perform video mapping across the audience seats . 13 14 products edit avolites has manufactured a wide range of lighting control products accessories and software but is best known for its range of control consoles and dimmer racks . former edit the following products are no longer manufactured and are listed with their launch year 5 dimmers edit fd dimmer rack 1975 5 art 4000 dimmer rack 1996 5 fd dimmers were manufactured from 1980 . they were designed by paul ollett . control consoles edit qm500 1983 5 rolacue sapphire sapphire 2000 1998 5 diamond diamond ii diamond iii diamond 4 2001 5 diamond 4 elite diamond 4 vision pearl 2000 1995 5 pearl 2004 2002 15 pearl 2008 2006 16 azure 2000 azure 2000 shadow 5 the qm500 and rolacue and derivatives were all designed by paul ollett current edit dimmers edit art 2000 dimmer rack . powercube dimmer and distribution unit . art 2000 dimmer rack 5 art 2000i installation dimmers 17 art 2000 powercube 17 control consoles edit the pearl 2010 and pearl tiger consoles are based on a motorola 68000 family processor . all other current lighting consoles are based on modern pc hardware and run control software known as titan . 17 pearl expert console with additional touchwing . tiger touch console . pearl 2010 2010 pearl tiger 17 discontinued sapphire touch 2011 18 pearl expert 2006 19 discontinued tiger touch 17 titan mobile 17 titan mobile wing 2013 titan one 2012 17 tiger touch pro discontinued tiger touch ii 2013 titan net processor 2013 expert pro discontinued expert touch discontinued arena 2015 avolites media products edit ai server infinity 4 8 2012 20 ai server t4 8 21 msc 1 controller based on titan mobile hardware 21 sapphire media controller 2012 based on sapphire touch hardware 22 sapphire media wing 2013 software dongles 21 avolites hybrid products edit quartz 2014 references edit companies house webcheck company number 02578003 . web check . companies house . retrieved 7 may 2013 . contact us . avolites website . avolites ltd. 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avolites ltd. retrieved 17 may 2013 . evans jim . avolites media gear up for ldi . lsi online . plasa media . retrieved 17 may 2013 . a b c products . avolites media website . avolites media . retrieved 16 july 2013 . evans jim . plasa 2012 avolites media showcases sapphire . lsi online . plasa media . retrieved 17 may 2013 . external links edit find more about avolites at wikipedia s sister projects definitions from wiktionary media from commons news from wikinews quotations from wikiquote texts from wikisource textbooks from wikibooks learning resources from wikiversity official website avolites media immersive productions retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title avolites & oldid 731280771 categories electronics companies of the united kingdomstage lightingstagecraft softwarecompanies based in london navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main 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