Photo by Steve Bright – show lighting designer Paul de Villiers using the new Avolites Titan Remote App at the Temple Stage during the 2024 Glastonbury Festival

Lighting and visual control manufacturer Avolites has announced the eagerly awaited update to its Titan Remote App, seriously boosting performance and functionality. It is a significant upgrade to the last Titan remote app (released several years ago) and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.

The Titan remote app works alongside Avolites lighting consoles running Titan software, to provide moving light control from a mobile phone or tablet.

Using the Avolites Remote app on a mobile device, with the addition of an external Wireless Access Point, any Avolites lighting console can be remote-controlled using Wi-Fi from an Android or iOS mobile device like a smartphone or tablet. The remote app also enables running and storing Palettes and running playbacks which is invaluable to lighting designers, directors and operators when rigging, testing and focusing fixtures.

Furthermore, multiple remote devices can be connected to the console, and the console itself remains functional while the remotes are connected. Each remote has a separate programmer, allowing an operator to continue working on the console while another user programs or updates palettes via the remote.

This is particularly useful when the front of house view is obscured or a significant distance away from the lighting rig or stage.

With this new release of the Titan remote app, a local emulator can be used to test or demonstrate the remote when no real console is connected. This app will not be version specific, and will be compatible with V16, V17 and V18. As new Titan versions are released, compatibility will be added to the remote app as updates rather than a separate app.
Using this latest App version, users can now connect to a console and carry out the following functions: select and control fixtures, change or modify fixture attributes e.g. pan / tilt, update and create palettes, apply palettes, record and play cues, command style fixture selection and intensity control, quick Sketch Legends and view DMX address patch.

Paul de Villiers of Devill Productions Ltd has been using the upgrade remote app for several months and commented: “This is a hugely useful app! Since learning all the new features, I have found it really handy, not just for my TV and film studio jobs, but also all the outdoor projects I have been working on. Especially when in tricky locations where it is challenging to get a console up high or on sloping surfaces – the remote app was a total lifesaver in these situations!”

Paul Wong, Managing Director of Avolites, added: “We’ve really focused on delivering a great experience for our users with this update, and are committed to continuing development of the best control software in the market, which is fast, intuitive and fully featured.”

For more information on this app release, read the release notes in FAQ 10035 here to connect successfully to your console.

FAQs:

• What is it?
  ◦ A major update to the existing Titan Remote App, which will greatly improve the lighting designer’s ability to program shows without being behind a console.
  ◦ In essence, the Remote App gives condensed functionality of the lighting console, to create position palettes, looks, making groups, selecting fixtures.
• Why I need it?
  ◦ Use the Remote App to create the building blocks for your show.
  ◦ Get a highly accurate position of fixtures on stage by moving around on stage with a tablet. Then program the show around the key building blocks.
  ◦ An obscured view from the front of house position means you cannot accurately position fixtures on the stage for key blocks e.g. Drums or Keyboard positions.
  ◦ Touring shows, where the rig is continuously changing and makes moving large consoles around to front of stage each day impractical.
  ◦ Being able to be in two places at once, with your console at front of house and you connected to it from the stage.
  ◦ Gives the flexibility of programming looks on the fly, without having to keep going back and forth from the stage to the console.
• What does the new remote app allow you to do when connected to your Avolites console?
  ◦ Select and control fixtures
  ◦ Change or modify fixture attributes such as Pan or Tilt
  ◦ Update and create Palettes
  ◦ Apply Palettes
  ◦ Record and Play Cues
  ◦ Command style fixture selection and intensity control
  ◦ Quick Sketch Legends
  ◦ View DMX Address Patch
• What features are different for this version of the Titan Remote App?
  ◦ Added functionality – set legend on handles, new scribble editor, different screen views e.g. quad layouts to have all the workspaces open at once. All you need on one screen, touch scrolling.
  ◦ Now more tablet friendly:
  – Optimised layouts
  – Optimised for a tablet screen.
  ◦ Light and dark mode.
  ◦ Discovering the console manually using the console IP Address
  ◦ Record and Store groups
  ◦ Record playbacks
  ◦ Pattern selection – Choosing fixtures by holding down All button
  ◦ Using pan to manipulate fixtures – pinch and zoom gesture control

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