Jands Vista L5 Provides Simple Control for Bring Me the Horizon at WembleyLighting designer, Ben Inskip selected Jands' flagship Vista L5 console to control his technically ambitious design for British metalcore band, Bring Me the Horizon, who recently played London's iconic SSE Arena, Wembley. Inskip has had success for some time touring on Bring Me the Horizon's (BMTH) shows with a portable Vista setup consisting of S1 and M1 wings, combined with a Macbook Air, but selected the Jands Vista L5 for this particular arena performance, which was the band's biggest show to date. The company says in addition to having plenty of computing power to deal with the demands of today's largest shows, the Vista L5's sleek design is dominated by a stunning 21" high-definition Wacom tablet that provides a crisp, detailed image of the same Vista v2 software that is used across the entire Vista console family. "Having used an L5 on some previous Australian shows, I really got to experience how quickly and comfortably you can program with it," says Inskip. "I chose it for Wembley because I knew the bigger screen and extra faders would be really useful when dealing with a show of this scale. Having the 21" screen meant I could fit my entire rig in a single layout and have absolutely everything I needed right in front of me." "Furthermore, I also really like being able to lean into the Wacom tablet and use the stylus without accidently selecting things, or my arms starting to ache. I think it's a much better solution for controlling lights than sensitive touch screens or other alternatives." In addition to this, Inskip says he is impressed with Vista's simple approach to lighting control whilst still enabling programming of complex shows, commenting: "BMTH's music is very fast-paced most of the time, so I needed a way to make complex cue lists easier to program and trigger in a live show environment -- Vista's 'learn timing' feature was perfect for this." Learn timing enables a whole number of cues, or cue lists, to be triggered from a single button press after the sequence has been played through once by the programmer. "Having the ability to build quick but complex looks, set precise timings in Vista's timeline feature, and then fire them from a much simpler action opened up a new, faster way of programming for me. I found myself creating hundreds of events for even the smallest little inflections in songs, simply because Vista allowed me the time and creative freedom to do so. Vista has definitely made a difference to the final look of the show." In addition to playing the show back on the L5, Inskip used his existing S1 and M1 combination to pre-program the show offline. "Hopping between Jands' Vista consoles couldn't be easier. The way you can organize your entire show and use 'virtual consoles' means that 90% of my programming was done in advance on a laptop, and everything was already set up for the L5's fader layout exactly as I wanted it, when I eventually loaded the show into the L5," says Inskip. "All of this is made even better by the fact that the software runs on a Mac -- having access to my show files literally anywhere at any time means I can be editing show files long before I set foot near a console." For this show, Inskip ran the L5 as his master console, with an M1 wing connected for additional hands on control. Inskip's S1 and Macbook then provided a fully tracked backup system. "All in all, the L5 is a really intuitive and enjoyable console to use," Inskip concludes. "I think the community around Vista is fantastic: reading the forums and noting how many suggested features actually get added into the software -- and a steady stream of interesting new features being released -- is really cool." The Vista range includes a choice of portable, flexible, control surfaces and self-contained consoles all running the same Vista v2 software. Recent shows featuring lighting or media control by Vista include international concert tours by Queen + Adam Lambert, Kylie Minogue, Peter Gabriel, Dierks Bentley, Thompson Square, Fall Out Boy, Bloc Party, Deftones, and Little Big Town. 
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