Stardraw/Midas Conquer with Eddy
The Heritage Theatre software, developed by Stardraw for Midas, was one of just
five outstanding new products to be singled out for an EDDY award for major technical
advancement in the field of professional audio.
David Snipp, Managing Director of Stardraw, described the system. “The Heritage
Theatre software sits on top of the Stardraw platform and enables offline editing of
any scenes and settings for the Heritage 1000 console. For this system we use MIDI
and RS232 to communicate with the desk, but the Stardraw engine is a totally flexible,
componentised, fully customisable platform – it can communicate with any other
hardware or software using any protocol.”
Snipp continued “We provided Midas with an SDK [software development kit – ed.]
which can be used by any manufacturer to develop add-ins for their specific products.
This architecture is very powerful and offers a cost-effective solution for
manufacturers developing control applications because they don't have to touch the
engine: they simply write the add-in for their product (or have us do it for them)
and all the hard work is done by the Stardraw engine. In practice it means that Midas
now have an award-winning application produced at a fraction of the expense of
traditional development. We're delighted for them.”
The same system is used throughout the Klark Teknik Group for all their
software-controlled products.
When asked to comment on the Eddy award, MD of Midas, Bob Doyle, commented, “This
is a milestone award for Midas and the Heritage Theatre software under Stardraw. They
say software is never finished and it can be difficult for judges to make an award.
In this case the Stardraw team worked very hard in conjunction with Midas to deliver
the system on time and I hope everyone has as much fun using it as we did developing it.”
The EDDY was presented in New York on December 7th 2001. More information on
Stardraw can be found at www.stardraw.com.
Notes to Editor
Since 1995 Stardraw.com has been a leading provider of software solutions to the
entertainment technology sector, offering a range of award-winning system design,
documentation and control applications as well as providing OEM software solutions
for corporate customers. With offices in London and New York, regional partners
and an installed customer base of almost 30,000 users spanning 82 countries,
Stardraw.com is focussed on serving the international marketplace, and delivers
leading-edge solutions that exploit the very latest in software technologies.
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Rob Robinson, Stardraw.com Ltd. 78 York Street London, W1H 1DP England
T: +44 (0)207 692 7117 F: +44 (0)207 692 7118 e: rob.robinson@stardraw.com
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Kiera Leeming, KLPR Ltd.
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