Robe Brings GigaPointe Power to ULTRA Europe 2026

	ULTRA Europe presents one of the industry's toughest environments for lighting technology, demanding long operating hours, changeable weather conditions, and broadcast-quality performance across multiple stages Photo: @justfabi

Over 250 Robe moving lights -- 264 to be precise, including 54 of the brand's new laser-source GigaPointes -- took center stage at the EDM festival ULTRA Europe 2026 in Split, Croatia in July.

A star-studded lineup matched the intensity of the hot weather and included Calvin Harris, John Summit, Martin Garrix, Hardwell, DJ Snake, Armin van Buuren, Afrojack, CamelPhat, Jamie Jones, Adam Beyer, Oliver Heldens, Nico Moreno, Subtronics, Maddix, and more.

ULTRA Europe's Main Stage production design is created by Richard Milstein and Ray Steinman, with Steinman also serving as production manager and executive producer, working closely with MOJO Rental Southeast Europe, led by Zoran Biskupic and Sven Grbec, who were responsible for the festival's overall technical production and infrastructure.

MOJO supplied the equipment, crew, and technical support, including an extensive selection of Robe fixtures, and for both Main and RESISTANCE Stage lighting, received significant support from its project partner, Event Lighting from Slovenia, led on site by Uros Faganelj.

The Main Stage house lighting rig this year included 12 Robe GigaPointes, 52 FORTES -- comprising 44 standard FORTES and eight iFORTES, 60 Spiiders and 98 MegaPointes.

The house lighting is designed, programmed, and co-ordinated by Alex "Junior" Cerio of JuniorCorp. He also co-ordinates all the front-of-house logistics and guest lighting designers.

RESISTANCE featured 42 GigaPointes on a rig designed by Serafin Gonzalez, scattered around the over-audience trusses traversing the length of the room and helped keep the rhythms pumping and the energy surging from front to back.

As one of Europe's largest electronic music festivals, ULTRA Europe presents one of the industry's toughest environments for lighting technology, demanding long operating hours, changeable weather conditions, and broadcast-quality performance across multiple stages.

The show's visual design featured 600 sq. m. of screen comprising diamond shapes, diagonal slices and chevrons on the Main Stage. The screen, trussing and rigging, together with crew for all related technical disciplines, were supplied by MOJO.

The Main Stage was divided into three sections -- center plus left and right wings -- with the DJ booth in the middle, surrounded by all the LED and lighting which helped move the energy off the stage and right to the back of the field.

The 12 Main Stage GigaPointes were placed along the low corners of the two wings, on the bottom edges of the lowest segments of the LED screen. This made sense for the wide camera shots from the booms in the field, which were positioned just in front of each side, so each time the cranes swung by, a combined force of GigaPointe and MegaPointe beams punched through the shots.

ULTRA has its own local media team as well as a live broadcast team, because the event is streamed, so cameras are critical from all perspectives, including the fact that in reality everyone in the audience has a smartphone.

Serafin Gonzalez, global LD for RESISTANCE, notes how "well balanced and uniform the output is across multiple fixtures, including at low intensities," also noting how well the colors blend and mix. "Even in the darker shades, they are capable of well-defined movements, particularly at high speeds."

The GigaPointes were also used for cutting through the 200 sq. m. of LED screen in RESISTANCE.

This year, Robe's FORTE was chosen for all the Main Stage key lights and specials -- with a concentration of them on five chevron-shaped trusses in the middle of the central section. Four units were placed upstage on flight cases, with the other four rigged high in mirroring positions on a downstage center truss for direct keys / DJ specials. This position was also one of the most exposed positions to the elements, so the IP-rated fixture was essential there.

Completing the Robe products on the 2026 Main Stage were 98 MegaPointes, which served as the spot/profile fixture covering all the left- and right-wing sections this year.

"People still love MegaPointes and always will," Cerio says, adding that from his festival lighting designer perspective, they are also robust and rarely break or need any maintenance time, which is exactly what you need.