Dataton's True MultiMedia Machine Control

The term multimedia has come to mean a lot of different things in today's audio-visual arena. In the computer world, where the term emphasizes the use of more than one external medium (i.e. CD-ROM, audio, slides and/or video) delivering audio, visual and data information through a single presentation device - the computer.

Dataton, with it's true multimedia product line, has developed a system which instead allows producers to use the best presentation device (or devices) for the job by enabling them to control a multitude of such devices from a single platform. Consisting of a series of modular hardware control units (PAX for slide projectors, TRANSPAX for time coded synchronization, and SMARTPAX for all serial devices) driven by TRAX3 software, the Dataton system emphasizes the computer as a managing tool to program, synchronize and control the multimedia presentation. The devices of that presentation always remain outside of the computer and can be just about anything including 35mm slides, analog and digital tape recorders, laser disc players, CD players, video players, MIDI, lighting and sound consoles - even lasers, robots and other computers.