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CTR is actively involved in the theatrical and live sound industry providing much needed research into automating and controlling many aspects of the ever increasing complexity of live sound production.
CTR is the author of award-winning CSC, one of the most powerful sound control software solutions available to todays sound designers and systems engineers. The application is consistently evolving through the research of the real needs of theatrical and live sound designers and exploring new and exciting ways of delivering inspiring audio designs, trouble free, night after night.
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Worlds Longest Running show has refit with CSC
Now in its 60th year, the Mousetrap is the longest running show, of any kind, in the world. And for the last 34 years the show has lived in its current home at the St Martins theatre in Londons West End. Since then the show has seen many changes, not just actors, but even the set and technical aspects of the show have changed. Starting life using mechanical sound effects, then later phonograph, then reel to reel, then CD, and now finally computer, the show is consistently brought up to date. For this refit a new CSC playback system has been installed, and all the original sound effects cleaned up, as well as all-new atmospheres and music cues. Read the full story here: http://www.orbitalsound.co.uk/pressarticle.asp?AID=283
Its 1963 and theres an Ice Cream Van and a US Air Force Base...
Its back to the 60s for another helping of nostalgic, feel good Rock n Roll classics, from the same team that brought Dreamboats and Petticoats to the West End and UK Touring venues. Following two teenage sisters through the summer of 1963 in the traditional seaside town of Lowestoft, everything changes for the girls when they are invited to a nearby US Air Force base for a dance, and soon young love and holiday romance is the backdrop for the non stop hits of Pomus and Shuman, among others, from this unique era of music. Aboard the trip is a dual CSC system replaying sound effects and click tracks throughout the production.
Sister Act opens in Milan and Tours the UK with CSC
Touring the UK from September 2011, Sister Act tells the story of disco diva Deloris Van Cartier who witnesses a murder and is placed in police protection in the one place the cops are sure she wont be found - a convent. The show follows Deloris and her antics as she tranforms the Convent choir, upsets the Mother Superior, and forms longlasting bonds with her newfound friends. Packed with funk, soul and disco style songs the show has proved a feel good outing for individuals and families alike. Sound designer Gareth Owen specc'ed a dual CSC system for the show, in a design replicated on both the UK tour and in Milan.
Mixing Coal and Art: The Evening Classes to change their Life
Following celebrated seasons at Newcastle Live Theatre, the National Theatre and on Broadway, Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters is now enjoying a West End season running in London's Duchess Theatre. The show is a humorous, deeply moving and timely look at art, class and politics, following a group of miners who hired a professor to teach an art appreciation evening class. Emerging as the best value playback solution for the production, Sound designer Martin Hogdson moved the current show to CSC and was impressed, with the new Timeline view and how quickly multitrack surround sound cues could be edited and manipulated on the fly, giving the audience a true sense of the miners day to day life before reverting back to their escape in art. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/pitmen
Was Giving up ever an option?
Warren Clarke returns to the stage for the first time in over a decade as Winston Churchill in the World Premiere of Ben Brown’s thrilling political drama. Now running at the Trafalgar Studios in Londons West End, Trafalgar Studios 1 is situated on Whitehall and in close proximity to both No.10 and the Cabinet War Room – right at the heart of where the action of the play took place, 70 years ago. Ben Brown’s gripping and fascinating portrayal takes us behind the doors of Number Ten during three of the most pivotal days in British history when, extraordinarily, giving in to Hitler was considered by some to be a viable option. Adding a slightly more modern element to the show, CSC is in place for Sound Effects, Scene Change music and atmospheres all easily controlled by the DSM.
I'll Never Let You Go!
Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the stage version of Jekyll and Hyde opened on Broadway in 1997. Various tours have run since then, and the show is back for a 2011 tour featuring singer Marti Pellow. Sound design by Ben Harrison, includes a PM1D mixing console and a dual CSC system running Sound FX and Click Track Stems, many of which have as many as 16 audio tracks per song. Carefully designed machines with SSD drives ensure near-instant start of all tracks by the MD. The show’s production engineer, Dan Samson, commented “CSC has given us far more creative flexibility and reliability with Click Tracks and Sound FX than we ever had before, which, when coupled with its comprehensive, yet easy to use show control, has well and truly made this a product that will become as standard in theatre projects as the SM58 is to sound engineering.”
Where Music and Dancing has been banned!
Based on the 80s movie starring Kevin Bacon and Sarah Jessica Parker, the musical stage version of Footloose is back on tour for 2011. With anthems such as "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Lets Hear it for the Boy", as well as "Footloose", the show promises to be a great night full of singing and dancing. Sound System, designed by Gareth Owen, is based on a Digidesign Venue system, and for this production the Akai Samplers are retired in favour of a dual CSC3 System, running Click Track and Sound Effects. 2 MOTU 2408 audio interfaces are used to link into the Venue FOH rack, with MIDI generated via an F8 to fire click tracks from the pit. CSC is also used to recall the numerous desk patch changes. http://footloosethemusical.co.uk/
Dancing on the Road for 2011
Back out on the road for 2011, the hugely popular Stictly Come Dancing format is once again giving live audiences the chance to add their votes to those of the celebrity judges in this fourth UK arena tour. The sound lineup involves a live band, click tracks, live microphones as well as various stings and pre-recorded beds. 2 Dual CSC3 systems have been specified for the tour - one at FOH for live effects and voice overs and one on stage to allow the MD to fire additional multi channel click tracks, complimenting the live musicians. A tracking system has been implemented to ensure the MD is always able to fire the tracks, even in the event of a computer failure. Sound system is supplied by Sonalyst. http://www.strictlycomedancinglive.com/
Its Still behind you!
From Glasgow to Bristol, and Liverpool to Brighton - In its first major mass-outing, CSC3 was deployed on over 20 of the UKs major cities at the end of 2010 for the usual "Its behind you" season. With increased reliance on multi-channel click tracks, and faster integration of sound effects within the shows, CSC3 was a major bonus to those working on the shows. The beta timeline view and new default routing options allowed click tracks to be pieced together in a matter of seconds and start/stop and looping abilities allowed sound effects to be manipulated at speed without the need of jumping in and out of external editors, and even allowed for previously hard to craft cues such as Aladins heart speeding up on cue in the cave, with dripping water and voices all thrown into the mix for good measure....
New Technology for the Woman still scaring audiences since 1989
With over 20 years in the West End, the Woman In Black has become one of Londons most sucessful and long running plays. In that time the sound system has seen many changes, with playback ranging from Vinyl to Reel to Reel to MiniDisc and now the transition to a computer based system. Replacing the 6 MiniDisc players is a dual CSC based computer system and an 01V96 mixing console. Originally redesigned for the UK tour earlier this year, the system now installed at the Fortune Theatre in the West End allows for consistent playback and more exciting surround sound effects, as well as an opportunity to clean up some of the original (and unique) sound effects. Other changes include new Tannoy V300 and EAW surround speakers as well as the shift to a DSM controlled show. Redesign by Gareth Owen, www.garethowensound.com
Helping the Leader of the People
Bill Kenwright's production of Evita continues to tour this year on to countries such as Greece, Italy and Germany as part of planned tour dates. The sound system has been redesigned for this leg of the journey and now includes a fully redundant CSC sound effect and click track playback system. Although touring a large band, the show still includes a large amount of click track material, all of which is triggered by the software's External Trigger List by the MD. Sound effects are fired by the sound operator using recessed buttons mounted in the shows Yamaha CS1D control surface. Touring a dual computer system vastly cuts down touring equipment requirements whilst retaining the backup and redundancy required by professional productions.
The 60s are back and the hair is big!
No stranger to working alongside the Digidesign Venue consoles, CSC is back on the road with the West End Production of Hairspray, having left its previous home on Shaftesbury Avenue earlier this year. Touring as a fully redundant system, CSC is in use controlling scenes on the desk using CSCs unique intelligent bank-program change control method allowing scenes greater than 128 to be recalled instantly using Program Changes as well as contributing to sound effects and click tracks.
CSC - Great for Train Control Too!
The well known musical Starlight Express featuring singing and dancing racing trains has become a national tour in New Zealand. Featuring numerous voice overs by the young "Voice of Control", designers are always looking for a fast and simple method of programming and delivering these lines night after night. Designed primarily by Oceania audio in NZ, the team have adopted CSC to run on a dual computer system with a single custom built button for the operator to trigger the voice and associated sound effects. The rest of the system includes Yamaha PM5D consoles, Shure microphones and EV X-Line.
CSC Show Control
Ever wondered what controls the big shows? How the sound effects are replayed reliably night after night to audiences all over the world? How the entire sound system is pulled together and automated at the touch of a button? Well the answer is using a Show Control System. And CSC is one such system used nightly on prestigious West End musicals and touring shows alike worldwide.
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