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Lighting • Dimming • Curtains • Rigging • Make-Up • Special Effects • Scenic Materials

	Welcome! Welcome to Grand Stage Company's updated web site. Things are constantly changing here. We look forward to continuing our strong relationships with both our customers and vendors to provide the best in theatrical supplies. This month find out how to create dramatic three dimensional lighting effects on a budget!

Palette, Palette or Palette? New Palette Family Control Consoles from Strand Lighting.

Prepare to be blown away. Strand 's new Palette consoles build on the most successful lighting control operating system to bring you PaletteOS TM , a high-resolution point/click graphic environment to unleash your creativity and speed up workflow. PaletteOS harnesses the power of Unix to run offline in Windows or Mac OSX and native in Linux Palette consoles.

Palette is powerful up to 500 channels and 1000 moving light attributes, with amazing automatic focus group controls that will slash your programming time. And most Palettes come with WYSIWYG CE and a full fixture library as standard, for seamless visualization over your ShowNet TM network.

Palette has a powerful web browser that lets you configure and monitor your network and interact directly with Strand 's award-winning C21 dimming systems. Right there on the console screen and Palette is an elegant and highly functional lighting console, leveraging industry-standard technologies to make it robust and future-safe. Data structures are built on SQL, dramatically simplifying the challenges of new feature enhancements. Screen layouts and network communications use XML, making it easy to communicate with other cool products (and not just ours) over the network.

And Palette's brain is a rugged industrial PC that could be swapped in seconds if you ever needed to. Which you most likely wouldn't.

Palette has a 40 gigabyte hard drive, or you can save your shows anywhere on the network. You even get a USB key for show storage over sneakernet. On us. How cool is that?

PaletteOffline TM runs in Windows or Mac OSX and reads and writes Strand 300 and 500 series show files, so you can mix, match and swap to your heart's content. You can even network PaletteOS with existing Strand 300 and 500 series consoles, so no-one gets left behind!

There's so much that's new with Palette. And so much that you already know. You'll want to get a demo and see for yourself

►Great Gift Ideas

Grand Stage has all kinds of Graduation and Birthday ideas for the techie in your family. Grand Stage carries the full line of Setwear Brand products. These quality gloves, bags, and clothes are both stylish and utilitarian at the same time.
We also have a full line of theatrical tools, including the popular MicroTech from Interactive Technologies. This tiny DMX tool allows you to display and check levels, snapshot up to 30 scenes, check data for errors, calculate the console's update rate and generate levels.