I am lucky to be on a last minute gig programming a new musical tour.  (Shoutout to Alex Michaels for the hookup and Jason Lyons for taking me on!)  I’ve gotten to spend time on the Apex 10 now which I’m starting to love.  The encoders are incredibly satisfying and there’s so much screen real estate.  The thing that continues to baffle me is the new key layout.  Moving the Undo button is an act of violence.  Anyway, as I’m teaching my hands to go new places, I’ve had a couple unintentional button presses.  One of them lead to a pleasant surprise.  I accidentally double tapped Sneak and saw the command line switch to Sneak All NPs, with the command terminated.

If you’re not already familiar, AllNPs stand for All Non-intensity Parameters.  If you are “shopping” ideas with a mover and you head in one direction only to realize this isn’t the right angle perhaps, using Sneak AllNPs is a great way to take the light back to a known point while leaving it on.  Not something I’m going to use all the time, but very nice to know it’s there for the occasions it’s useful.

The best consoles (and in my opinion, Eos is one of the very best) have such extensive software that learning them is like trying to memorize an encyclopedia.  I guess I shouldn’t be surprised I didn’t already know.

What little surprises in Eos are your favorites?  Hit me in the comments.

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Mark LaPierre is a programmer in film and television based out of Albuquerque.  He grew up in live entertainment and has been a designer/programmer for musicals, concert dance, live music, circus and corporate.  Mark is a proud member of IATSE, an ETC Eos trainer and an enthusiastic trainer of many other platforms and subjects.  He offers Zoom console training as well as in person.  If you enjoy his content, please consider commenting on his posts on the website to appease the Algorithm.