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Caleb Franke uses Obsidian Onyx platform for award-winning Elation booth at LDI

Working alongside creative director Melody Tseng, lighting designer Caleb Franke took Elation’s LDI 2025 booth and performance to the next level with Obsidian Control Systems’ Onyx platform. Within a couple of months, Franke went from limited experience with Onyx to designing, programming, and operating a booth that earned the tradeshow’s “Most Creative Use of Light” award.

“Winning the award was an incredible honor. The show exceeded expectations, with huge crowds at every presentation”, he says, noting that he has typically done much of his programming on MA consoles. “Doing a high-profile show on Onyx proved to me that professional-level design isn’t restricted to a single platform.”

Although familiar with Obsidian hardware, Franke didn’t start learning Onyx in more depth until this past September, just months before the LDI show. Initially programming on Obsidian’s NX4 console, he transitioned to the NX W PC control wing after its release, pairing it with the NX P motorized fader wing.

“The NX W was faster, cleaner, just a better process and workflow for me - you can put whatever computer you want behind it which gave me more processing power”, Franke explains. “The buttons on the NX W have a softer touch, and the NX P gave me an extra set of motorized faders. I combined those with two touchscreen monitors side by side.”

The setup, which featured nearly 400 Elation lights and Obsidian Netron nodes for signal distribution, including 10-button touch stations at product displays, allowed him to handle nearly ninety DMX Universes, with a dongle capable of up to 128 Universes.

Franke used Dylos video and pixel mapping to showcase complex pixel content. “We had a lot of pixel fixtures - Pulse and SOL and the new Rebel Lines - in a relatively small space, and Dylos just made sense there”, he says.

(Photos: Amilcar Navarro/Obsidian Control Systems)

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